Legal Opinion
United States v. Giggey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 14, 2017No. 16-2391PPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Controlled substances continue to cast a dark shadow over a large segment of American society. That situation is made even worse by the proliferation of new permutations of such substances. Synthetic cathinones, colloquially , known as bath salts, represent one of these, permutations, and we recently had occasion to warn that their illegal use was becoming a mounting problem in the District of Maine. See United States v. Coombs, 857 F.3d 439, 443 & n.1 (1st Cir. 2017).
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