Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- South Carolina's House of Representatives is close to taking action against synthetic drugs.
A proposed bill would make chemicals and substances found in various synthetic drugs schedule one drugs, including things found in bath salts and K-2, or synthetic marijuana.
The measure has bi-partisan support with nearly 80 lawmakers signed on as co-sponsors.
Representative Anne Thayer, the bill's sponsor, says the bill has been sent to the Department of Environmental Control, the State Law Enforcement Division, and other groups to make sure it will withstand changes to the drugs. The updated bill needs to clear one more reading in the House before heading to the Senate.
"If one little ingredient is changed, this will combat that as well. The way that we have it figured it puts us out 5 years ahead of the street pharmacists we hope," she said. "We've tried to get everything that's out there now and anything that's potentially coming should be in this bill."
Thayer first introduced the bill last year. She says the summer hold up gave time to make the bill stronger.