Herbal Incense Compliance

Herbal Incense Compliance Law

Herbal Incense - Is it legal?

Having represented individuals and businesses in South Florida for many years for their criminal, civil and real estate needs, Siegel Siegel & Wright has now created a new Herbal Incense Testing & Compliance division of the firm in conjunction with Marc Kurzman of counsel, of the Kurzman Grant Law Firm.

What is herbal incense?

What does it mean to be compliant?

The ongoing creation of new designer chemicals used in the manufacture of herbal incense also known as “legal marijuana”, “synthetic pot” and similar products has created a billion dollar industry nationwide. Products such as K2, Spice, Mary Joy, Mr. Nice Guy, Black Mamba and others have received national attention due to an emergency temporary ban initiated by the DEA which went into effect on March 1, 2011 on jwh based products and others. Nonetheless, these products, and others, which are now manufactured, distributed and compliant with current laws, still remain on the fringe of “legal products” due to ever-changing legislation.

While lawmakers scramble to deal with this booming industry,  scientists continually create new compounds; law firms such as Siegel Siegel & Wright in Boca Raton have become a valuable asset – we are able  to assist manufacturers, distributors and retailers of herbal incense products so that they can conduct their business with a clear conscience and a lab report that their products are compliant with the law.

What we do

Herbal incense manufacture and sales require the highest level of testing and compliance to avoid improper prosecution for drug trafficking by state or federal authorities. There is no assurance which type of testing will be used should a product be seized by the authorities, so it is important to use the most comprehensive legal strategies and the most accurate and reliable testing methods available to ensure that our clients are compliant with both state and federal herbal incense law.

Our strategy for compliance services is simple, yet crucial

Recent lab reports from some of our clients  suggest improper and/or inaccurate testing methods are used by some labs and the presence of masking agents by some chemical manufacturers. This means that your product may contain illegal chemicals without your knowledge.

Our firm has developed a strategy of testing and compliance methods to give both manufacturers and retailers of herbal incense the utmost assurance that they remain compliant with state and federal laws. Our goal is to give our customers piece of mind, not only that testing reports indicate the absence of illegal chemicals but that their products are, in fact, legal to sell.

I am a retailer / manufacturer. Why should I hire Siegel Siegel & Wright?

• We allow our clients to test their herbal incense anonymously with the benefit of attorney client privilege and carefully guard each clients formula as a trade secret.
• We keep track of suppliers of chemicals used in the manufacture of herbal incense products to assure our clients use the highest quality products which are free of unknown illegal chemicals or masking agents.
• We make it our mission to stay on top of both state and federal legislation as it develops so that we can assist our clients with compliance now, and moving forward as laws change.
• We track laboratories and their results; certain laboratories and methods of testing have become highly suspect and have failed to accurately detect tainted chemical samples which contain illegal chemicals such as jwh 018.
• In addition to batch tracking and anonymous sample submission to testing companies, we use other cutting-edge defense techniques such as polygraph services.
• We provide both manufacturers and retailers with certification documents and maintain lab reports indicating that their products are in compliance with both federal law and their local laws and maintain those records for each client for the duration of their relationship with our firm.
• Siegel Siegel & Wright is at the forefront of active litigation nationwide, giving you, the client, assurance that your business is being monitored at the highest standards possible.

Cutting-Edge Attorneys

At Siegel Siegel & Wright we keep track of the most current changes to state and federal laws to ensure that our clients can continue conducting business while remaining compliant with the law. Attorney Marc Kurzman, who is now working of counsel with Siegel Siegel & Wright, individually represents retailers, distributors and manufacturers, in various states, at the extreme cutting-edge of herbal incense law and is at the very forefront of active litigation in both state and federal courts against the temporary ban (and State and local bans)  of chemicals used to make herbal incense products . He is currently challenging the Constitutionality of “Synthetic ” laws, and he utilizes advanced techniques such as the  Polygraph to reinforce the proof of his clients’ lack of knowledge that a particular substance in their possession and/or which they distributed/sold was “illegal” under whatever state, and federal law applies relative to any accusations.

Mr. Kurzman was formerly a pharmacist  involved in synthesis of organic medicinal chemicals/drugs, and has initiated litigation in both state and federal courts in order to defeat the temporary ban by the DEA on March 1, 2011 which made the following chemicals illegal: JWH-018, JWH-073, CP-47,497, JWH-200, and cannabicyclohexanol.

Copies of many of Mr. Kurzman’s filings in federal and state Courts are available on this website.

Pharmacological properties of cannabinoids identified in synthetic cannabis, with THC for comparison

Name	Structure	Binding affinity  for the CB1 receptor	Binding affinity for the CB2 receptor
THC		Ki = 40.7±1.7 nm[23]	Ki = 36.4±10 nm[23]
Cannabicyclohexanol		Ki = unknown. Reported to be 5 times more potent than THC, based on physiological responses in rats[24]
HU-210		Ki = 234 pM (100–800 times more potent)[25]
JWH-018		Ki = 9.00±5.00 nm[23]	Ki = 2.94±2.65 nm[23]
JWH-073		Ki = 8.90±1.80 nm[23]	Ki = 38.0±24.0 nm[23]
AM-2201		Ki = 1.0 nM[26]