Crime & Safety
Man Calls Fire Department for Help After Using Bath Salts
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
The was called out to a home at the 2300 block of Graham Road because a man needed medical assistance after using bath salts Oct. 13.
Police officers came to the home and later arrested and charged the man with abusing harmful intoxicants, a fifth-degree felony.
A state law was passed this summer and making it a felony to use, sell or make the drug.
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The state's law Controlled Substance Law makes posession of the six types of chemicals in the synthetic drug a felony, "therefore as a city we are prevented from passing a ordinance or making what the state says is a felony, a misdemeanor," Law Director Brian Reali .
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