I saw this articleand was intrigued. I’m wondering what all the fuss is about. Is this stuff dangerous?
It’s drugs in bath salts. There are articles about people that do some nasty stuff when high on it, and often someone is dead.
Mmmm. Could be.
Given that it’s sold under the guise of bath salts not intended for human consumption and not subject to any standards or testing, yet people are either smoking or snorting it, I’d say that use is dangerous. Hell, I wouldn’t even want to use that stuff as an actual bath salt.
Bath Salts–keep it away from kids!
Here’s a story about a guy who makes and sells real, honest-to-goodness bath salts who says the confusion is killing his business.
The “bath salts” that people are smoking are designer drugs that are packaged and sold as a product with little regulation. The intent is to sell illegal drugs under a false label. These products have nothing to do with bathing.
Like if you wanted to sell black tar heroin and labeled and marketed it as denture cream.
Well, strictly speaking they weren’t illegal in the United States, to start with. That’s in the process of changing now, state by state.
Yep, PA just passed a statewide ban on “bath salts” after individual cities and counties were imposing their own bans.
There was kind of an epidemic of it around here in the early spring, two cases I remember were one guy who broke into a rectory and beat up a priest with a chair leg, and a couple who were stabbing the walls of their houses with knives to kill the people who were hiding in them.
It’s one of those concepts, like the K2/Spice “fake pot” products, that one can quickly divine will not last terribly long nor end well. The primary ingredient in “bath salts” is MDPV, and while I haven’t personally had the pleasure, anecdotal reports suggest that it offers an hour or two of “legal” stimulant goodness followed by a fiendish urge to redose in search of a high you’ll never get back. (And apparently a particularly nasty crash whose misery quotient grows the longer you keep ingesting the stuff.)
I’m all for novel advances in recreational chemistry, but this product sounds like a lemon… and it only damages the overall chances of drug legalization when shit like this is sold indiscriminately to teenagers and other idiots.