A drug advisory committee that helped launch legislation to ban spice and a drug-laden product marketed as bath salts is questioning an amendment to the bill.
And that’s not all the advisory committee, largely a group of Utah doctors, is wondering about. Another bill that would outlaw a plant called kratom is getting the thumbs down from the group.
Members of the controlled substances advisory committee met with lawmakers Friday to voice their concerns, particularly about chemicals or plants included in the bills that committee members feel might not have been researched enough.
The committee was formed last year by lawmakers to advise them on drug issues. But the amended spice bill and the kratom bill were not vetted by committee experts, who include the state medical examiner, a leading drug researcher and others.
