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AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW CHAPTER 25 (PROHIBITION OF KRATOM, NOVEL SYNTHETIC AND PSYCHOACTIVE DRUG BUSINESSES), OF TITLE 7 (BUSINESS AND LICENSE), OF THE ORLAND PARK VILLAGE CODE
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WHEREAS, the Village of Orland Park is a home rule municipality as defined by Article VII, § 6 of the Illinois Constitution of 1970; and
WHEREAS, the Village of Orland Park has the authority to adopt ordinances and to promulgate rules and regulations that pertain to its government and affairs and that protect the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, Novel Synthetic Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Drugs have been documented to cause effects such as hallucinations, agitation, psychosis, aggression, suicidal ideations and death, a significant increase in medical aid emergencies, and may also lead to an increase in associated criminal activity. Some of these drugs are commonly known as “spice,” “bath salts,” or “gas station heroin”; and
WHEREAS, numerous incidences have occurred and been observed of businesses in the Village of Orland Park offering for sale compounds labeled as “Kratom” and others claiming that these substances are legal and unregulated, despite advertising psychoactive and intoxicating effects; and
WHEREAS, although state and federal laws prohibit some synthetic drugs, drug makers continually alter the composition of the compounds in their products so as to escape the purview of the law; and
WHEREAS, the sale of these products, including to minors, is a danger to public health as these products may cause hallucination, vomiting, tremors, anxiety, dizziness, confusion, erratic behavior, aggression, suicidal ideation, psychosis and loss of consciousness, as well as negatively affecting cognitive functioning and even possibly causing death; and
WHEREAS, to the extent not pre-empted by existing state or federal law, the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Orland Park desire to abolish the manufacture, sale and dis...
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