The DEA used its emergency powers Wednesday to ban K2 and other "fake pot" products that mimic the effects of marijuana.

The action by the Drug Enforcement Administration makes it illegal to possess or sell the five chemicals used to make the products for at least one year. The agency and the Department of Health and Human Services will determine whether the chemicals should be permanently added to the federal list of controlled substances considered unsafe, highly abused and without medical use.

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The problem with this is that the federal regulation prohibits 5 explicitly identified substances currently used in the formulations. My understanding (thanks to the infinite patience of people like Dwain Fuller) is that there are *currently* over 200 similar substances that have been synthesized. The formulas will simply change from

We've really only gotten a 60-90 day reprieve, or about as long as it's going to take for people to buy up what's already stocked, and smoke what they've got.