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K2 drug task force targets two local businesses
BY ANNIE VANGSNES
anniev@kansan.com
Two stores in northeast Kansas that sell the herbal blend drug K2 were served with federal warrants Thursday and one store owner was arrested.
The Sacred Journey, 1103 Massachusetts St., had its doors closed Thursday and wasn't letting customers inside. Eye-witnesses confirmed seeing people inside the store putting items in boxes.
Lydia Shontz, an employee at The
Sacred Journey, said she arrived to open the store at about 10 a.m. and found the clo
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round the alarms going off and officers with the Food and Drug Administration and police in the store with a search warrant.
Shontz said it looked like they had been there for around two years.
her and another employee to the Lawrence Police Department to
"It sucks. I knew that this would happen and I knew it would happen to me.
LYDIA SHONTZ
The Sacred Journey Employee
several hours before she arrived. Shontz told the officers took
e Department to inquire about K2, how much K2 the store sells and employees at the store. She also said the officers asked about whether the store was selling salvia divinorum, a hallucinogen outlawed in the state in April 2008. A bill banning K2 is currently
Shontz said the police told her the search warrant allowed the FDA to confiscate anything that the organization deems as being sold as a drug in the store. She said the FDA saw K2 as a drug, rather than the herbal blend it's sold as in the store.
circulating through the state, but the drug has not yet been banned.
Shontz said she was expecting the police involvement, but not federal involvement. And not this soon.
"It sucks," Shontz said. "I knew
See a KUJH-TV story and extended interview online at kansan.com/videos
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A Johnson County sheriff enters The Sacred Journey, 1103 Massachusetts St. Thursday afternoon. Authorities served federal warrants at The Sacred Journey and Bouncing Bear Botanicals.
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN
SCIENCE
KU professor of ecology and evolution-ary biology Larry Martin stands with a microrapar Thursday morning. A team led by KU assistant professor of biology David Alexander hypothesized that bird flight began with gliding.
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Dinosaur research advances theory
BY NANCY WOLENS
nwolens@kansan.com
Gliding Microraptor
Last week, a group of researchers with the University of Kansas' Natural History Museum gained national attention with its development of a new dino-theory
that trumps
the widely-
believed
Microraptor was an effective glider, which led the team to the conclusion that flight began in the trees, rather than on the ground. The new theory is one of several paleontology findings at the University that tests traditional beliefs within the scientific community.
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Larry Martin, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University's Natural History
theory about dinosaur flight. It is one of many dis coveries in paleontology that have come out of KU.
With the help of Enpu Gong, a professor in the geology department at Northeastern University in Shenyang, China, a KU team created a flight test model of a four-winged gliding raptor, called a Microraptor.
Researchers David Burnham, Larry Martin, David Alexander and Amanda Falk built the model using model airplane techniques. The successful test glides done in Anschutz Sports Pavilion proved that the
Museum, said the ground-up origin of bird flight argues that smaller dinosaurs gained enough speed running on the ground that it facilitated their ascent into the air. But, the four-winged glider couldn't have developed from a runner, he said.
"Iimagine a small turkey or a large chicken with feathers com-
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Two-time world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman laughs during Thursday night's symposium on the sport of boxing in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Foreman told stories of his boxing career as well as his life outside of the ring.
George Foreman visits KU
Stop was part of KU boxing symposium
BY JENNY TERRELL jterrellkansan.com
As applause greeted George Foreman onto the stage, Nate Behncke, a graduate student from Jefferson, Wisc., held up his George Foreman grill.
"My mom is a huge George
"My mom is Foreman fan. I think I owed it to her to come 'I'll probably give her this grill," Behncke said while waiting in line to have it autographed.
the McNair Scholars Program and lecturer in Latin American studies, presenting George Foreman's life story. Foreman smiled and chuckled as Rodriguez showed a YouTube video of Foreman's first world championship fight.
More than 400 KU students and people from the Lawrence community came to Thursday night's boxing symposium featuring boxing world champion and salesman George Foreman, along with boxing journalist and KU alumnus George Kimball.
After Kimbala shared his views of boxing heroes from his book,
GEORGE FOREMAN Former boxer, entrepreneur
"If any of you have an idea on how to get rich, don't let anyone talk you out of it."
The event began with Dr. Robert Rodriguez, associate director of
"Four Kings",
Foreman stood at the podium to answer questions.
George Foreman speaks about his life Thursday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Foreman's appearance was a part of a boxing symposium and also featured journalist George Kimball and KU lecturer and associate director of the McNair scholars program. Robert Rodriguez.
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Foreman told stories of his life from his pre-boxing days as a teenager when he was a thief, to his more recent
He also recalled his devastation after losing to Muhammad Ali in October 1974.
"I remember thinking to myself,
'If the police don't get me, I'm going to make something of myself,'"
Foreman said.
"I thought I'd lost my life," he said. "You got five million dollars in the bank now, and you're so depressed you don't even know how to enjoy it."
days as a grill salesman.
Not only is Foreman a two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, he is also an ordained minister and successful entrepreneur.
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He concluded the evening by giving the crowd some words of advice.
"If any of you have an idea on how to get rich, don't let anyone talk you out of it," he said.
Rodriguez, who planned the event, said everything went as he hoped.
"We had something for everyone," Rodriguez said. "Some history and some laughter."
Edited by Cory Bunting
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