A recent KENS 5 story featuring the use of herbal incense in San Antonio has prompted the ban on "Mojo," "Spice" and "K2" at Lackland Air Force Base.
An admitted drug user featured in a story that aired on KENS 5 on March 1 claimed that a person can smoke "Mojo" or "Spice" and get a stronger high than marijuana without it showing up on a field drug test. Click here for the complete story.
According to Lackland's base public affairs office, the 502nd Air Wing Commander issued an order March 2 prohibiting the use of psychotrophic substances.
"Mojo" is an herbal incense that KENS 5 has found to be widely available at area head shops, gas stations and pharmacies.
"The use of these substances could seriously undermine the military mission and severely impact our nation's security," Commander Brig. Gen. Leonard Patrick said. "You are ordered not to possess, inhale, smoke, chew, consume, or otherwise introduce, or cause to introduce into your body or another's body, distribute or introduce onto a military installation the following substances: Salvia, Spice, K2 or any other derivative thereof regardless of form."
The Judge Advocate of Lackland says violation of the ban will result in disciplinary action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The Army and Navy already have service-wide bans in place on the substances.
An undercover KENS producer purchased the fake weed at about $40 a gram, a price the DEA reports as more expensive than illegal marijuana. "Mojo" is currently legal in Texas, but Kansas has outlawed it and a similar law is being considered in Missouri.
