Gas Pipe owners get 3 years in prison for mislabeling spice products that created 'zombie apocalypse

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Gas Pipe owners get 3 years in prison for mislabeling spice products that created 'zombie apocalypse' in Dallas


The father and daughter owners of the Dallas-based Gas Pipe smoke shop retail chain were each sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison for mislabeling a synthetic marijuana product they sold known as “spice” that authorities called a deadly poison.

Gerald “Jerry” Shults, 73, and Amy Herrig, 44, were found guilty in October 2018 of one felony count each -- conspiracy to defraud the U.S. -- for misbranding their spice products.

But a jury acquitted them during the trial of the more serious drug-trafficking charges, putting at risk future federal prosecutions of spice cases despite the product's recognized lethality. The Gas Pipe case exposed a major loophole in federal drug laws, which Chief District Judge Barbara Lynn acknowledged on Tuesday, saying the current regulations are "ineffective" at preventing the sale of such products.

As the Gas Pipe case showed, spice dealers can stay one step ahead of the DEA and avoid legal consequences as long as they continue to make small molecular changes to their products -- enough that they are not considered “substantially similar” to banned substances.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/08/gas-pipe-owners-get-3-years-prison-mislabeling-spiceproducts-created-zombie-apocalypse-dallas/

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1. They got off pretty easy

Considering they're basically murderers.