BP Becomes Latest to Ban Sale of Spice

BP has become the latest company to ask its gas stations to stop selling Spice and K2—, and the country.

In a letter sent Tuesday, Susan Hayden of BP asked local gas station owners to stop selling Spice and other products that are usually labeled as incense to "mask their intended purpose."

"Beginning immediately, all BP-branded sites are prohibited from displaying, using, storing, offering or selling illegal drugs, OR synthetic drugs produced to mimic illegal drugs, (including, but not limited to cannabinoids), or items that are intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise consuming an illegal drug," Hayden wrote in the letter.

"Prohibited items will include, but not be limited to, pipes, tubes, roach clips, instructions or descriptive materials, or containers for concealing illegal drugs or paraphernalia," Hayden said.

The letter stated that the company's reason for the request had to do both with complying with federal laws, and upholding BP's company image.

Last week, .

A bill has been put forward in the state Senate that would prohibit the sale of “synthetic cannabinoids,” and

In Troy alone, police have recently responded to a report of a after smoking K2, arrested a 19-year-old and discovered a teen .

Spice is also reportedly behind the recent found uncooperative and speaking incoherently on his lawn and the , whose body along the shore of Wing Lake in Bloomfield Township.

Most notably, , 19, of Farmington Hills is believed to have been high on synthetic marijuana in April when he attacked his family, .