PLEASE NOTE: Legislative Information cannot perform research, provide legal advice, or interpret Maine law. For legal assistance, please contact a qualified attorney.
An Act To Prohibit the Sale or Possession of So-called Bath Salts Containing Dangerous Synthetic Drugs
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1102, sub-§1, ¶O, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 419, §6, is amended to read:
 
O. Unless listed or described in another schedule, the following hallucinogenic drugs or their salts, isomers and salts of isomers whenever the existence of the salts, isomers and salts of isomers is possible within the chemical designation:
 
(1) 3, 4 - methylenedioxy amphetamine, MDA;
 
(2) 5 methoxy - 3, 4 methylenedioxy amphetamine, MMDA;
 
(3) 3, 4, 5 - trimethoxy amphetamine, TMA;
 
(4) 4 - methyl - 2, 5 - dimethoxyamphetamine, DOM;
 
(5) 2, - 3 methylenedioxyamphetamine;
 
(6) 2, 5 - dimethoxyamphetamine, DMA;
 
(7) 4 - bromo - 2, 5 - dimethoxyamphetamine, DOB;
 
(8) 4 methoxyamphetamine;
 
(9) 3, 4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA;
 
(10) 4 - bromo - 2, 5 - dimethoxyphenethylamine, NEXUS;
 
(11) 3, 4 - methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine, MDE;
 
(12) Paramethoxymethamphetamine, PMMA;
 
(13) Paramethoxyamphetamine, PMA; and
 
(14) Paramethoxyethylamphetamine, PMEA.;
 
(15) 3, 4 - methylenedioxymethcathinone, MDMC;
 
(16) 3, 4 - methylenedioxypyrovalerone, MDPV;
 
(17) 4 - methylmethcathinone, 4-MMC;
 
(18) 4 - methoxymethcathinone, bk-PMMA, PMMC;
 
(19) 3, 4 - fluoromethcathinone, FMC;
 
(20) Napthylpyrovalerone, NRG-1; and
 
(21) Beta-keto-N-methylbenzodioxolylpropylamine.
 
SUMMARY
This bill adds to the list of Schedule W drugs certain dangerous synthetic hallucinogenic chemicals that are sometimes marketed as "bath salts."