It isn't all bathsalts - it's drugs being sold as "bathsalts".
So unless you buy your bathsalts at a local head shop, you are probably okay.
With emergency order, Fla. Attorney General outlaws bath salt used as drug
"TALLAHASSEE ? Hoping to fend off a rash of overdoses in Florida during the upcoming spring break, Attorney General Pam Bondi has outlawed a synthetic drug cocktail masquerading as "bath salts" that apparently gives users super-human strength and has similar effects to LSD, heroin and cocaine.
Bondi issued an emergency order Wednesday banning the drug -- Methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV -- after Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen brought the dangerous concoction to her attention Friday.
Bondi's new ban, which took effect immediately, makes possession or distribution of the MPDV bath salts a schedule 1 felony, punishable by one to three years in prison.
"To put it in perspective, that's right up there with cocaine and heroin," Bondi said.
The drugs, sold under the name Vanilla Sky, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst and Bolivian Bath, are sold at convenience stores, head shops and other retail outlets in malls, Bondi said, for $30 and up.
Bondi said she wanted to get the stuff off the shelves before spring break in case users high on it think they can fly.
"There are a lot of balconies out there," she said.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal outlawed the bath salts by an emergency order after the state's poison center received more than 125 calls in the last three months of 2010.
Lawmakers in Mississippi and Kentucky are considering similar bans on the substance.
Bondi's emergency order will last 90 days, giving lawmakers time to criminalize the bath salts during the legislative session that begins March 8."
So unless you buy your bathsalts at a local head shop, you are probably okay.
With emergency order, Fla. Attorney General outlaws bath salt used as drug
"TALLAHASSEE ? Hoping to fend off a rash of overdoses in Florida during the upcoming spring break, Attorney General Pam Bondi has outlawed a synthetic drug cocktail masquerading as "bath salts" that apparently gives users super-human strength and has similar effects to LSD, heroin and cocaine.
Bondi issued an emergency order Wednesday banning the drug -- Methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV -- after Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen brought the dangerous concoction to her attention Friday.
Bondi's new ban, which took effect immediately, makes possession or distribution of the MPDV bath salts a schedule 1 felony, punishable by one to three years in prison.
"To put it in perspective, that's right up there with cocaine and heroin," Bondi said.
The drugs, sold under the name Vanilla Sky, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst and Bolivian Bath, are sold at convenience stores, head shops and other retail outlets in malls, Bondi said, for $30 and up.
Bondi said she wanted to get the stuff off the shelves before spring break in case users high on it think they can fly.
"There are a lot of balconies out there," she said.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal outlawed the bath salts by an emergency order after the state's poison center received more than 125 calls in the last three months of 2010.
Lawmakers in Mississippi and Kentucky are considering similar bans on the substance.
Bondi's emergency order will last 90 days, giving lawmakers time to criminalize the bath salts during the legislative session that begins March 8."
So should I assume the Margarita salt is next?
I do have some Tequila if the urge hits.;-)
