(MOBILE, Ala.) - Four men have been busted by narcotics officers for allegedly selling newly-illegal drugs meant to simulate marijuana.
It happened Monday night around 6:30 p.m. Officers stormed two Mobile convenience stores on Springhill Avenue: the Pride station and the BP station.
Khaled and Khalil Al Mashini, Ihsah Aydah, and Scotty Gray have been charged for distributing packets of "K2" or "spice."
In total, over $12,000 dollars worth of the marijuana alternative drug found at the two stores.
Officers also confiscated thousands of dollars in cash and a couple of firearms.
Late last year, Governor Robert Bentley issued an executive order making the drugs illegal. Now lawmakers are working on a new law that would prevent manufacturers from finding any way of getting around the ban by making new forms of the same drug.
