Police are continuing to wait on the test results of substances seized from My House Tobacco on 4th Street, Ellwood City, which have been sent to the state police crime laboratory in Greensburg, Pa.
According to Ellwood police, a search warrant was obtained after a man, who came forward and offered to help police after his son was hospitalized for smoking the substance, made a controlled purchase of the “tobacco.”
The man purchased a packet of what is called MJ Burny Aromatic Potpourri, and police believe that this substance, as well as numerous other packages in the store, is synthetic marijuana.
Ellwood City Lt. Dave Kingston said that if the test results show that the tobacco packets are a derivative of Salvia divinorum, then drug charges will be made on the store owner, whose name is not being released at this time.
Salvia divinorum is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of visions and other hallucinatory experiences. As of August of 2011, Salvia is illegal in Pennsylvania.
Lt. Kingston said that it could take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks for the test results to return.
Police seized a total of 53 packets of what is suspected to be synthetic marijuana – the packets have names such as “Burny,” “Puff,” “Xtreme” and “Voodoo.”
Bull… it’s not salvia it’s jwh-018 or 109 other jwh compounds that’s killing kids and it’s all illegal.
Wow u are def right about this man going to get off the hook. Look how they smeared and released the name of that poor guy that owned the funeral home but now they are protecting the owner of this scum shop. Maybe the FEDS should get involved in this bc it seems like the police are also misinformed bc the main chemicals in this are JWH. Salvia is not the problem!
If you look at other articles about store owners getting arrested for this same thing, you will notice that they automatically arrest and release the owners name. The problem with this town is that everybody is related or close family friends. Did they even mention in the article that the federal gov banned those tobacco machines? Wow another federal offense not even mentioned in the article??? What’s funny is that this store has been selling this stuff since march 2011 which was the ban date. It took this long for someone to try to stop it! I would finally like to say that I know many young children who have been hurt but this stuff sold from this store.
You said you didn’t have enough time to study. You had years to study and now ur going to say the main chemical in this is salvia. Lol salvia is a real plant, dugh……. They call it synthetic weed bc it’s a man made chemical that’s sold as a bonzi tree fertilizer.