PYRO, synthetic drug soon to spread across America

You want to die? You will with PYRO

A Synthetic Opioid That Is 15x Stronger Than Fentanyl

A new drug that is stronger than the high-risk narcotic fentanyl, has been circulating in Colorado and recently reportedly killed at least one person in Denver.

N-pyrrolidino Etonitazene, known by its street name “PYRO,” is a high-potency synthetic opioid with a molecular structure that resembles Etonitazene, a synthetic opioid classified as a controlled substance.

The new drug is reportedly 1,000 and 1,500 times stronger than morphine, while fentanyl is only around 100 times stronger than morphine, local news station KKCO reported on Thursday.

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I agree with Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. PBSO should not be carrying Narcan; the paramedics do that. And just think, our "leader" has opened the borders and drugs are pouring into our country and Democrats don't say a word! The United States government has allowed the cartels to control our border. Time to Imeach.

Addiction - The Heroin Epidemic

"...the Mexican drug cartels dominating heroin sales in the United States are mixing another narcotic, fentanyl, into heroin. At the street level, dealers can order fentanyl online from China and mix it themselves. Some don't bother mixing. They add any powdery, non-narcotic substance and pass it off as heroin."

Read the article... by Pat Beall of the Palm Beach Post.

Build the wall and enact laws making the purchase of fentanyl illegal. 50 to 100 times more potent, fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine.

Lake Worth shop owners arrested

A couple was arrested for selling synthetic drugs at their business on Dixie Highway and 4th Avenue South.

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Convicted Felon speaks before Lake Worth Commission on Homeless who he says aren't homeless

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Dylan Harrison

Marketeur extraordinaire

When a guy who has been convicted of manufacturing synthetic drugs in his warehouse, Kratom Labs, that were illegal and he was charged with  unlawful distribution of controlled substance analogues (synthetic cannabinoids) and was sentenced to prison for one year and a day...

we know that we are in big do do about our growing and uncontrollable homeless problem. Many of these people are drug addicts.

Actually, and for the most part, I agreed with Mr. Harrison and what he had to say. Where I did not agree was when he said that those homeless who hang out at the Cultural Plaza were not homeless. He went on to say, "If any anarchist or any psychos are ok with this, as he raised a plastic bag full of used drug needles...if any one of you nut jobs is ok with this...sociopaths...they don't really care about the park, they just want to get their guy in office."

Now really.  Why does he think there are candidates willing to run to stop this behavior in our city parks? It has not been caused by anarchists. This problem has tripled since this trio of incumbents  has been in office. He should have been directing his outrage to them.

Veterans Day parade with Dylan Harrison

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Shirtless Harrison

"Being a drug addict, I know the pain drugs cause," said Harrison, who acknowledged at a previous court hearing that he had received past treatment for heroin and steroid addictions...Harrison agreed to forfeit more than $2 million in assets, including the $850,000 home he bought on the Intracoastal Waterway. Just a little over two years ago, he was sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison.

Harrison followed up the REAR (a prefect place for him) in this Veterans' Day Parade with himself using a bullhorn (calling out my name), two of his Kavasutra trucks and the other advertising his Green Vape store in downtown Lake Worth.

Using our tribute to Veterans who served their country in order to advertise his two businesses is a special affront to Vets but why would we be surprised...he did have on a patriotic hat.

Dylan Harrison on the right side of the law?

UPDATE:  Kavasutra truck has now been moved off the city street
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Dylan Harrison is forever marketing his businesses. His truck is in front of our library across from the Cultural Plaza taking up two parking spaces. Why hasn't he been coded?

Today Dylan Harrison, business owner of several businesses located on Lake Avenue in Lake Worth, is back in the news.  We just can't get rid of this guy even though he went to prison for selling synthetic marijuana and conspiracy to defraud the United States plus he managed to blow up a building. He still sells "Mr. Nice Guy" (synthetic marijuana) in a can. "It just gets people drowsy," he says. Have you ever walked by that place? Everyone seems to be in a twilight zone.

While he was in prison, his truck was in the possession of the DEA. It was totally ransacked and severely damaged. Now he claims to be on the right side of the law charging theft by the West Palm Beach police, the DEA, and a mechanic's removal of an expensive part from his impounded vehicle worth $430 and installed on a WPB cop's personal car.

Harrison is having no part of the policeman who offered to give back the part.  He wants the cop fired for life.

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A new $5 dollar insanity

"One man tried to have sex with a tree, another told police he was Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Another ran nude down a busy city street in broad daylight, convinced a pack of German shepherds was pursuing. And three years ago, Miami police shot and killed a man who tried to eat another’s face.  Read more...

We don't know if the synthetic drug flakka, also known as "gravel," is being sold here in Lake Worth but nothing would surprise me. It is snorted, injected, smoked in an e-cigarette or a joint, or poured into capsules and ingested. We already had two Lake Worth business men go to prison for selling, manufacturing and distributing synthetic drugs and one owns the GreenVape e-cigarette business on Lake Avenue. PBSO knows all about this drug.

SB 224 (c) “Electronic cigarette” means a device or product that 48 produces a vapor that delivers nicotine or other substances to a 49 person inhaling from the device to simulate smoking and that is 50 offered to or purchased by consumers as an electronic cigarette, 51 electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or 52 other similar device or product.

Only $48 a high

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but it will eat you alive!

A designer street drug made in Russia has hit the Chicago area according to a drug rehab doctor in Joliet, Illinois. The doctor has said that he’s seen as many as three patients who are suffering extreme effects of the drug.
Those effects include scaly lesions, rotting flesh, gangrene and, eventually, death. Some reckon the life expectancy of chronic users at two years.

Read more... on this flesh eating drug at Townhall Finance.

The Lake Worth Entrepreneur

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The latest alternative to smoking cigarettes is marketed as a safe way to get a nicotine fix. So are e-cigarettes really safe or just another gimmick... a gimmick that will allow the seller to live the American dream?

The entrepreneurial spirit flourishes once again in Lake Worth with another store all bright, light and green opened by a guy who is in love with synthetics. The owner of this new store in our downtown located next to Rooney's is no other than the infamous Dylan Harrison. He was sentenced to one year and a day and is scheduled to report to federal prison this month for the manufacture and distribution of synthetic, marijuana. He and his partner, John Shealey who got an 18 months sentence, each turned over $2 million in assets to the federal government.

They make smoke, just not real smoke.
 Usually where there's smoke, there's fire.

"What is happening right now is FDA has reviewed several e-cigarettes, e-cigars, and e-pipes, and have refused entry of these products into the country. We acted because these products appear to require FDA approval for marketing, and have not been reviewed by the agency." Last month, Canada's health agency banned the importation or sale of e-cigarette products. Go to WebMD.

The device looked something like this:

Cannabis Energy Drink

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 Being sold at my local gas station for $2 a can

Here's one for all of you pot heads-- Good old American ingenuity:

CANNABIS ENERGY DRINK COMBINES HIGH QUALITY ENERGY DRINK INGREDIENTS WITH A UNIQUE TWIST: ITS SWEET FLAVOR IS COMPLEMENTED WITH HEMP SEED EXTRACT. CONTAINING CAFFEINE, TAURINE AND A BUNCH OF B VITAMINS, THE CANNABIS ENERGY DRINK DOES WHAT IT DOES WELL, AND TASTES GOOD WHILE DOING IT! GET A BURST OF ENERGY WITH EVERY CAN! CANNABIS ENERGY DRINK CONTAINS NO THC AND SO CAUSES NO NARCOTICS EFFECT!

Not suitable for children, diabetics, pregnant women or anyone sensitive to caffeine.

Hemp (species Cannabis sativa): plant of the family Cannabaceae and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. The plant is also grown for its seed, which contains about 30 percent oil, and for the narcotic drugs marijuana and hashish derived from its leaves and blossoms.

Well, we finally got rid of  Mr. Nice Guy and Spice, synthetic marijuana.  Will this be next or is the Lobby too strong?

A pot enthusiast gives a review 
We have a few of them down on the Avenue

Legalizing Marijuana gaining ground

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You pot heads are going to love this--maybe soon, we will have little shops set up right on Lake Avenue for marijuana smoking instead of kava sipping. Thanks to Obama, the Justice Department has told federal prosecutors to focus their resources on eight specific areas of marijuana enforcement, rather than targeting individual marijuana users, which even President Obama has acknowledged is not the best use of federal manpower. Jails are over crowded and the government, unless you are a big dealer, is giving up on those smoking the funny stuff. Instead they will be focusing on--

• preventing distribution of marijuana to minors

• preventing the sale of pot to cartels and gangs

• preventing sales to other states where the drug remains illegal under state law

• stopping the growing of marijuana on public lands.

Jeff Clemens (D-Lake Worth) and Rep. Katie Edwards (D-District 98) filed Legislation in 2013 that would have exempted seriously ill Floridians from criminal penalties for using marijuana with their doctors’ recommendations. It was never voted on this past year. Legislation can take years to pass. In the meantime there is a petition to legalize medical marijuana. To win a state constitutional amendment, it takes 60 percent voter approval — If approved, Florida would be the 21st state to decriminalize marijuana.

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MARIJUANA IS NOT MEDICINE

The FDA, which must approve all medicines, has reviewed scientific studies of marijuana for over 50 years and concludes it is not a safe or effective medicine, has the potential for harm and is addictive. It cannot be legally prescribed by any doctor. National medical associations for cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and others oppose using marijuana as a medicine, other than synthetic marijuana called Marinol, which is FDA approved and available in pill form.  Read more...

Mr. Nice Guys, Dylan Harrison and John Shealey, sentenced in Federal Court today

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Florida Southern District Court (flsd)
Docket Number: 9:12-cr-80218

The Federal courthouse was packed today with friends of Mr. Nice Guys, Dylan Harrison, 32, and John Shealey, 40. This is the day that they both got sentenced in the first-ever nation-wide crack down on synthetic drugs. Judge Kenneth Marra presided.

In the testimony it was stated that in the beginning they did not know that what they were doing was illegal.  But after they knew, they continued with the manufacture and distribution and false branding of their fake drugs selling it to whomever wanted to get high. Even a warehouse blew up in West Palm Beach. Synthetic marijuana or what they call analogues, were manufactured and then distributed to gas stations, over the Internet and over the counter. Besides Mr. Nice Guy,  other popular brands are Spice and K-2.

The Federal government recommended  37 to 46 months. They got a whole lot less. The judge stated lack of clarity and that there were different opinions as to what was and what wasn't legal. Because they had no real criminal background prior to this arrest, the court was lenient.

Dylan Harrison, a manufacturer and distributor of the illegal substances was given one year plus one day. His early cooperation took a big part in the sentence reduction. Harrison admitted that he was wrong and that he was guilty. He humbly requested leniency and the court listened.

John Shealey, Harrison's partner, got 18 months. They both have until October 18 to get their affairs settled before they must surrender to the U.S. Marshals office in Miami.

Dylan Harrison

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Dylan Harrison

Infamous co-owner of Kavasutra,

 a downtown Lake Worth business

A Reminder
The Dylan Harrison case--


U.S. v. Harrison, et. al.
In a separate criminal complaint filed on July 24, 2012 three West Palm Beach residents were also charged with the unlawful distribution of controlled substance analogues (synthetic cannabinoids). The defendants are expected to make their initial appearances in federal court in West Palm Beach on July 26, 2012.

Charged in the complaint are defendants Dylan Harrison, 31, John Shealy, 39, and Michael Bryant, 29, all of West Palm Beach. According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, the defendants were involved in the manufacture of synthetic cannabinoids under the brand name “Mr. Nice Guy.” The product was distributed throughout the United States. The defendants allegedly operated from several different warehouses in West Palm Beach, including one which exploded on May 21, 2012. No one was injured in the blast.

During this investigation, a total of 12 federal and state search warrants were executed, resulting in the seizure of approximately 600,000 packets of synthetic cannabinoid, 20 kilograms of raw synthetic cannabinoid, approximately 4,000 kilograms of untreated plant material, $185,000 in cash, 12 firearms (including a 50 caliber rifle), and approximately 6,000 rounds of ammo. In addition, law enforcement also seized 9 vehicles, valued at approximately $280,000, 23 luxury watches, 6 cement mixers and 32 Mylar packaging sealers.

If convicted, the defendants face a maximum possible statutory penalty of up to 30 years in prison.

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UPDATE:
Reporter, Jon Burstein of the Sun Sentinel, has informed me that the trial of this case has been pushed back again. The new date is August 14, 2013, 3:30pm, Judge Kenneth Marra presiding.

Mr. Nice Guy Pleads Guilty

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Dylan Harrison, one of the owners of the Kavasutra on Lake Avenue in Lake Worth, and the one who said he never entered the synthetic marijuana business to break the law, was found guilty yesterday in Federal Court. He could get up to 5 years for conspiracy to defraud the United States by distributing a controlled substance.

Read more... about Dylan Harrison, the guy who just keeps smiling.

Kava and Kratom - artificial highs

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Those using Kava and Kratom are not worried about the fiscal cliff or much of anything.  They are those "groovy" people who hang out and want an inexpensive way to get legally high, momentarily forgetting all of their problems and personal "cliffs."

While Dylan Harrison of Lantana and John Shealy of Royal Palm Beach await trial for a federal charge of defrauding the United States in connection with selling and manufacturing synthetic drugs across the country, they continue to work at their second source of employment, the kava bars. Shealy is part owner in the Melbourne kava bar. Harrison is part owner in the Lake Worth and Delray Beach bars. We get to view these kava users up close and personal right in our downtown.

And what can you expect?  Even Obama is lenient on drugs that get you high when he said prosecuting pot users in states that have legalized the drug won't be a top priority for his administration even though it is a federal offense. As Kava is not illegal, it definitely is not a top priority.

Read more... on how kava and kratom, unregulated and unmonitored, are driving everyone a little bit "crazy" especially the DEA while some are using it as a substitute for cocaine. Learn that law enforcement just doesn't have enough information about it to make it all illegal...yet.

Synthetic marijuana manufacturer charged

And speaking about "getting the bad guys," the last of three men allegedly involved in the production and distribution of a well-known synthetic marijuana product has been charged by information in federal court.

John Shealy, 39, of Royal Palm Beach was charged this morning by a superseding information for conspiracy to defraud the United States, an indication that he is working with the prosecution.

Read more... about Dylan Harrison's partner and Operation Log Jam.

Alleged Drug Kingpin seen on Lake Avenue

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Remember John Shealy, partner of Dylan Harrison of the Kava bar in downtown Lake Worth?  To refresh your memory on Mr. Shealy-- the Judge ordered a $500,000, 10 percent bond and a $500,000 corporate surety bond on what the news had reported him as being--an "alleged synthetic drug kingpin." He was arraigned separately from Harrison because of a previous weapons charge.

A source has told me that he was just spotted this morning in front of Commissioner Amoroso's store on Lake Avenue having a chat with our commish.  I am sure that they were just talking about the weather or the trials and tribulations of being a small business owner.

Synthetic marijuana distributor sentenced

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Criminal "rats out" friends; one is Dylan Harrison.

In June, Joel Lester of Boca pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute and admitted he delivered at least 22 pounds of the controlled substance between April 2011 and March 2012 from his Boca Raton businesses, Atlas Restoration Inc. and Nature and Health.

He got sentenced to 5 months served. Authorities have bigger fish to fry.

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Mr. Nice Guy might get out on bail

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A federal judge Friday morning ordered that Dylan Harrison, one of the men arrested for producing and nationally distributing synthetic marijuana under the name Mr. Nice Guy, and also charged with putting the community in danger and misbranding the product, will be released from jail once his family helps him post $600,000 bond.

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Lake Worth Drug Kingpin Update

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Judge ordered a $500,000, 10 percent bond and a $500,000 corporate surety bond on alleged synthetic drug kingpin, John Shealy, who is the partner of Dylan Harrison who is being arraigned separately because of a previous weapons charge.

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