AG orders seizure of plant food used as drug

The Tennessee attorney general has filed lawsuits against two men for making and selling a product called plant food but that is reportedly used as a recreational drug.
Attorney General Bob Cooper announced a statewide seizure of the product called Molly’s Plant Food on March 11. Nashville police served seizure and restraining orders against Eric Ronnell Alexander and Joshua Covell at their homes and at a shop called Toke-N-Roll.
No criminal charges have been filed, but the state has cited civil law violations because the product has not been properly registered and labeled.
Cooper said in a news release that the product is referred to on the Internet as “legal ecstasy’’ and contains mephedrone, a substance known to produce effects similar to ecstasy and cocaine when ingested.