A community alliance in Livingston County is asking store owners to remove all forms of K2, the synthetic marijuana, from the shelves.
But at this point, the group can't do much more than ask since some legal forms are still available and it seems some store aren't willing to comply
Call it what you want.@
Terry Murray, Livingston County Community Alliance: "K2, LOL, IDK, K9, K3"
Most of it is illegal but not all of it.@
Murray: "Law enforcement, they cant, their hands are tied right now."
That's because only some specific ingredients are illegal and the only way to tell what's in it, is to test it.
Bob Bezotte, Livingston County Sheriff: "We'd have to go to every place and we've had to purchase the products and send them in."
But legal or not the Livingston County Community Alliance says the ingredients are dangerous when smoked and its time to get them off the shelves.
Murray: "Its been a never-ending battle with them, I've been into the same stores more than once and asked them to remove it."
Bezotte: "Some of them have taken them out of their stores but some of them refuse to."
Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte says one of the places still selling it is a Mobil station in Howell.@
Bezotte: "I went in in uniform the other day and they did have it at the 96 and Pinkney road Mobil station."
We went to the store but an employee told us they were no longer selling it.
Amanda Mullins, Store Employee: "No, nope we have completely taken it off our shelves and we have no intentions on bringing it back."
Bezotte says that's simply not true.
Bezotte: "Now they've moved it behind the counter and they're only giving it to some of their clients that come in all the time."
The Sheriff says he isn't sure if what they're selling there is a legal mix or not but Murray says either way, the community doesn't want it.
Murray: "They've had enough and they want it gone."
And they want it to start with the stores.@
Murray: "They're putting profit over life."
And he says it's time to put kids first and take the drugs, by any name, off the shelves.
The sheriff says law enforcement is waiting on a senate bill that would make other forms of the drug illegal as well.
