Bathsalts???????? (1 Viewer)

[Gideon]

Bathsalts are being outlawed in PA because some idiots figured out that they are potent drugs.

If they're "salts" then why are they potent if smoked or snorted? What the heck is in these things that makes them "potent" and how the heck does anybody look at that stuff and say "I think I'm going to grind that stuff up and smoke it"?

 

[theBaron]

Bathsalts are being outlawed in PA because some idiots figured out that they are potent drugs.

If they're "salts" then why are they potent if smoked or snorted? What the heck is in these things that makes them "potent" and how the heck does anybody look at that stuff and say "I think I'm going to grind that stuff up and smoke it"?

Hi, Gideon, if I may offer a clarification. They aren't those compounds traditionally known as bath salts, such have been sold in finer stores for years. These are hallucinogens that are marketed as "bath salts". It's the name that was hijacked for the use, not the actual minerals themselves. I don't think anyone has gotten stoned off Epsom salts, for example.

Prost!
Brad

 

[4th Hussar]

They have been outlawed in Washington State and good riddance. We had an incident where a man smoked his salts then killed his wife, infant child and himself. No indication of prior mental issues, other than stupidity..

 

[Gideon]

ah, ok, i feel silly now. i thought these were actually bathsalts. didn't realize it was the name of a drug.

 

[Scott]

ah, ok, i feel silly now. i thought these were actually bathsalts. didn't realize it was the name of a drug.

^&grin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patellar_reflex

 

[uksubs]

ah, ok, i feel silly now. i thought these were actually bathsalts. didn't realize it was the name of a drug.

ROFL. That made my d^&grinay

 

[theBaron]

Gid, there's a law pending now here in PA to ban them, also. It passed the General Assembly this week, I think, and has been sent to the Governor for his signature. I think it covers several compounds, all sold as "bath salts", plus some marijuana subsitutes.

By the way, the kid who leapt to his death from the parking deck at the Willow Tree Mall in Willow Grove yesterday is said to have smoked a legal herbal marijuana substitute beforehand. I haven't seen any updates yet that indicate whether he smoked it with his three buddies in the car before getting and jumping, or if he had before they met up.

This reminds me of the controversies about steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in sports. A drug is used, a governing body bans it, and then substitutes are found, and since they're not banned, they're used till they get banned, and the cycle continues.