On the same day that the D.C. Council was approving a ban on the sale of synthetic marijuana in the city, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was doing her own theatrical part in stopping local retailers from selling the designer drug.

According to a press release from her office and a Roll Call dispatch from the scene, on Tuesday Norton joined a protest across from a gas station on Benning Road NE known to sell synthetic marijuana, a chemically enhanced product marketed as potpourri but often smoked. During the protest, one of her aides was able to buy a variant of the drug sold under the brand “Scooby Snax”:

The designer drug, colloquially known as “K2,” showed up on the scene several years ago but was officially banned by federal law this summer. Norton told HOH the substance popped up on her radar about six months ago, though Tuesday’s sting was actually hatched by activists who insisted the shopkeeper was selling the weed substitute on the side.

After one protester was turned away from a potential buy, Norton dispatched one of her more youthful aides to try to score some smoke.

“When he said he got some ‘Scooby Snax,’” I said, ‘I’m on my way,’” Norton relayed of her rush to confront the opportunistic salesman.

Norton said the store manager pleaded ignorance to any wrongdoing, handing over a now-outdated list of localities still allowed to sell the scientifically created hallucinogen. Norton told him that Congress and the White House had since weighed in and that the die had been cast against him.

The store owner promised Norton that he would stop selling the product, which the D.C. Council has now moved to ban anyhow.

“The primary purpose of the law is to stop the sale of K2 to kids as young as 13 at gas stations, corner stores, and other locations,” Norton said in a press release. “As long as K2 was legal to buy and sell under District law, many of the city’s most vulnerable young people were in danger of the many effects of the drug, which have been compared to LSD and have caused psychotic episodes or other serious problems that are sending youngsters to emergency rooms.”

This isn’t the first time that a local official has taken fighting the drug war into their own hands, though. Earlier this year Mayor Vince Gray walked into a shop in Southeast and asked an employee to stop selling drug paraphernalia.