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<\/a>“Anyone found selling or purchasing these compounds in Ohio is breaking the law, and you will face the consequences,” said Attorney General DeWine.\u00a0 “Drugs, whether they are synthetic drugs or street drugs like heroin, are wreaking havoc on Ohio families.\u00a0 This is just one example of the ongoing efforts by my office to prevent further devastation due to drug abuse.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThese substances pose a serious threat to public safety and have no medicinal value,\u201d said Ohio State Board of Pharmacy Executive Director Parker. \u201cThe Ohio State Board of Pharmacy is proud that these new rules will put Ohio at the forefront of the fight against synthetic drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n
PB-22 and 5F-PB-22 began surfacing in the Ohio Attorney General’s\u00a0Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) Laboratory in the first five months of 2013.\u00a0 The emergence of the drugs directly followed the passage of House Bill 334 in December 2012, which banned all synthetic drugs that existed at the time.\u00a0 Under Ohio law, the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy has the authority to classify compounds as controlled substances through the administrative rule process if the substances have a high potential for abuse.\u00a0 The process eliminates the need to go through the General Assembly each time a new synthetic drug is created.<\/p>\n
The chemicals, which are often sprayed on plant material in order to mimic the effects of marijuana, are typically sold in head shops\u00a0in small, brightly colored packets and marketed as herbal incense products.<\/p>\n
“We are grateful for the help of the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy and their willingness to partner with us in the goal to permanently ban newly created synthetic drugs,”\u00a0 said Attorney General DeWine.\u00a0“The standard process for banning these substances, however, takes far too long, which is why we are asking the legislature to give the Attorney General’s Office emergency authority to ban new synthetic drugs as soon as new chemicals of concern come into our lab.”<\/p>\n
DeWine has been working with State Representative Robert Sprague (R-Findlay) on developing the legislation, which would give the Ohio Attorney General temporary emergency scheduling authority for any compound believed to be an imminent hazard to public safety.\u00a0 The emergency bans would last for at least one year, allowing the administrative rule process or legislative process to proceed at its standard pace to determine if the ban should be made permanent.<\/p>\n
Documented symptoms of synthetic drug use include agitation, paranoia, confusion, violence, convulsions, unconsciousness, lethargy, nervousness, erratic behavior, driving as if intoxicated, inability to stand, and slurred speech.<\/p>\n
DeWine has made the fight against synthetic drugs a priority in Ohio, filing multiple consumer protection lawsuits against business owners selling the drugs as legal products. The lawsuits have resulted in multiple business owners being ordered to pay a combined total of $45,000 in fines to be used for the prevention and investigation of synthetic drug use in the state.\u00a0\u00a0Attorney General DeWine has also filed nuisance abatement action against multiple businesses, resulting in the temporary closure of several stores. \u00a0The Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Special Prosecutions Section have also been actively involved in multiple synthetic drug criminal cases statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Ohio State Board of Pharmacy Executive Director Kyle Parker have announced that an administrative rule developed to permanently ban two new chemicals being abused as synthetic drugs is now in effect. The rule classifies the chemical compounds known as PB-22 and 5F-PB-22 as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:36:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}