Yet another WTF? Bath Salts...Really?

[PegLeg45]

Another in a seemingly long list of WTF stories lately...... (or from the "You gotta be sh!tting me!!" files), I submit:

Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem

ULTON, Miss. – When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.

Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamine. Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several U.S. states where authorities talk of banning their sale.

From the Deep South to California, emergency calls are being reported over exposure to the stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV.

Sold under such names as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning and Hurricane Charlie, the chemicals can cause hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts, authorities say. The chemicals are in bath salts and even plant foods that are sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet. However, they aren't necessarily being used for the purposes on the label.

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In Brown's case, he said he had tried every drug from heroin to crack and was so shaken by terrifying hallucinations that he wrote one Mississippi paper urging people to stay away from the bath salts.

"I couldn't tell you why I did it," Brown said, pointing to his scars. "The psychological effects are still there."

While Brown survived, sheriff's authorities in one Mississippi county say they believe one woman overdosed on bath salts there. In southern Louisiana, the family of a 21-year-old man says he cut his throat and ended his life with a gunshot. Authorities are investigating whether a man charged with capital murder in the December death of a Tippah County, Miss., sheriff's deputy was under the influence of the bath salts.

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A small packet of the chemicals typically costs as little as $20.

In northern Mississippi's Itawamba County, Sheriff Chris Dickinson said his office has handled about 30 encounters with bath salt users in the past two months alone. He said the problem grew last year in his rural area after a Mississippi law began restricting the sale of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in making methamphetamine.

Dickinson said most of the bath salt users there have been meth addicts and can be dangerous when using them.

"We had a deputy injured a week ago. They were fighting with a guy who thought they were two devils. That's what makes this drug so dangerous," he said.

But Dickinson said the chemicals are legal for now, leaving him no choice but to slap users with a charge of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.

Full story here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110123/ap_on_re_us/us_dangerous_bath_salts

If there's a way, folks will find it...what's next?

[mkm]

Yet another reason for me to carry everyday.  There's some strange folks in MS.

If folks want to get high, sadly they'll find a way.

[sledgemeister]

Thought batch salts was supposed to calm one down, not freak the bejesus out of ya.
Gotta wonder though, what made the first person go "oh I think I will sniff bath salts to see if it gets me high"
Pity they didnt try it with chlorine

[tombogan03884]

"Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem"


Again they ignore the true problem.
 Blame the inanimate object, otherwise they might have to start holding PEOPLE responsible for their own actions and that would undermine the Socialist agenda.
The problem is not bath salts, or drugs, or guns,or violent political rhetoric, or any of the other popular bugaboo's.
The problem is people who are f*cking stupid, mental, or have been raised in a culture where teachers are not allowed to use red to correct papers because that might hurt little Johnnies feelings.

[fightingquaker13]

Whoever wrote that article should be shot. I don't doubt that snorting bath salts is a bad idea (does that even need saying?), but the rhetoric and credulity of the reporter are a joke. That article could have been written in the twenties about booze, the fifties about dope, the sixties about LSD, the seventies about PCP, the eighties about crack, or currently about Meth. You wouldn't need to change a word except for the name of pharmacological menace. Summarized? "Evil substance makes people crazy, depraved and violent according to local cop! Government must do more! Its for the children! PS, These people are often armed with automatic assualt weapons with people killing clips. Ban them too!".
FQ13

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[jnevis]

The military has been cracking down on incense too.  Seems people figured out that certain ones, whether on purpose or accidentally, have similar affects as THC.  It was legal and available in teh Exchange as Spice or whatever brand name.  o many stoned Sailors and Airmen and they figured out what was going on and banned it.

Where there's a wil, or crackhead, there's a way.

[TAB]

The military has been cracking down on incense too.  Seems people figured out that certain ones, whether on purpose or accidentally, have similar affects as THC.  It was legal and available in teh Exchange as Spice or whatever brand name.  o many stoned Sailors and Airmen and they figured out what was going on and banned it.

Where there's a wil, or crackhead, there's a way.

CA had to ban the keeping of a frog that is found in the northern coastal range.  turns out that stoners found out you can lick them and get high...

how they figured that out I'm not so sure I want to know.

[JC5123]

CA had to ban the keeping of a frog that is found in the northern coastal range.  turns out that stoners found out you can lick them and get high...

how they figured that out I'm not so sure I want to know.

I'm starting to think legalizing pot is a good idea, it would keep them from trying to ban everything else. 

[PegLeg45]

CA had to ban the keeping of a frog that is found in the northern coastal range.  turns out that stoners found out you can lick them and get high...

how they figured that out I'm not so sure I want to know.

I remember a news story about several "old timers" at a retirement home in CA being arrested for distributing the frogs to residents at said home.

[Timothy]

CA had to ban the keeping of a frog that is found in the northern coastal range.  turns out that stoners found out you can lick them and get high...

how they figured that out I'm not so sure I want to know.

Probably the same guy that discovered that those nasty, snot looking, icky friggin things called steamers are edible...

"Steamers" are little clams that are steamed and served at clam bakes in the Northeast.  Think of the nastiest thing you ever augured out of your own nose as a kid...

 

To me, clams are something you use to catch REAL food...