Law enforcement attitudes towards medical marijuana in California have been mixed. Generally, many law enforcement officials and associations have been hostile to medical marijuana, since California’s voters legalized it in 1996 and continuing today.

The legislation being proposed violates the constitution and imposes needless costs on taxpayers.

Overdose affects everyone. People from all walks of life are erroneously taking too much of a drug or combining one drug with alcohol and other drugs that increases the risk of overdose.10 Chronic pain patients, people suffering from temporary pain and individuals struggling with addiction are dying from overdose.

Currently, 22 states have criminalized Salvia divinorum, either by placing it into a Schedule I category or by prohibiting its consumption; several more state legislatures are considering legislation related to Salvia. However, some states have rejected criminalization and instead established age-control restrictions and other regulations such as marketing, branding and retail display limitations. Emerging scientific evidence demonstrates that Salvia has significant potential for medical applications and an extremely low risk for abuse.

Scheduling K2 as a controlled substance will have unintended detrimental consequences. If K2 were banned outright, young adults could face immediate, devastating and life-long legal barriers to education, employment, voting and government benefits for K2-related drug law violations, despite a lack of evidence of harm to themselves or others. The use of scarce government funds to enforce, prosecute and incarcerate people who use K2 would put a strain on criminal justice resources.