03/16/2009 01:30 PM Senate JUDICIARY

        SB  52-SALVIA DIVINORUM AS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:40:17 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR FRENCH announced the consideration  of SB 52. The committee                                                               
heard the bill last week and public testimony was taken.                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
1:40:28 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR THERRIAULT,  speaking as  sponsor, said someone  from the                                                               
Interior contacted him  and suggested it would  be appropriate to                                                               
assess a  fine and  place an age  limit on use  of the  drug. But                                                               
when he  looked at the drugs  on the current schedule  he decided                                                               
that  adopting that  stance would  likely  result in  subsequent.                                                               
legislation to remove  drugs from the schedule.  He doesn't sense                                                               
that the  public wants to do  that so he is  comfortable with the                                                               
bill as proposed.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  THERRIAULT moved  to report  SB 52  from committee  with                                                               
individual  recommendations and  attached  fiscal note(s).  There                                                               
being  no  objection,  SB  52 moved  from  the  Senate  Judiciary                                                               
Standing Committee.