DeSoto supervisors plan to review ordinance to cover rest of county

The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors has set a public hearing on Monday at 10:30 a.m. during its regular meeting in Hernando to review adopting an ordinance banning sales of synthetic drugs.

"It's consistent with what the municipalities have been doing," County Administrator Michael Garriga said Friday. "The ordinance would affect merchants in the unincorporated areas of the county," and close any gap, he said.

Southaven, Hernando, Horn Lake and Olive Branch already have passed ordinances outlawing possession and sale of synthetic marijuana and cocaine that are popular with teenagers and college students. The products have been deemed hazardous after reports surfaced of people getting sick after smoking the herbs.

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