Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem - USATODAY.com FULTON, Miss. (AP) ? 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 Snow, 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.
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You are so dumb. You are really dumb - for real - if you think you can stop me from taking your Epsom salts. I'm climbin' in your window, gurl. :lol::wub:
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Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, hide yo Epsom salts, cuz they're comin for them.:clap::wave:
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Why keep it with a ban on bath salts? :sarc:
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Why keep it with a ban on bath salts? :sarc:
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Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an emergency order Wednesday afternoon, making it a felony to sell or possess the salts.
Please tell me there are some specific brands and it isn't all bathsalts! 😱
SoWal Expert
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."
beats on hood
Who came up with this???? Aww bath salts, let's sniff it and see what happens, strange people.I just sniffed some sea salt. It didn't make me high -- just made me obsessed with getting to the beach.
I tried Kosher salt too. It made me crave matzah ball soup.
Just kidding.
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I just sniffed some sea salt. It didn't make me high -- just made me obsessed with getting to the beach.
I tried Kosher salt too. It made me crave matzah ball soup.
Just kidding.
:lolabove: So should I assume the Margarita salt is next?
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Whew. I'm okay, I don't drink my 'ritas with salt...
beats on hood
:lolabove: So should I assume the Margarita salt is next?:lol: I do have some Tequila if the urge hits.;-)
BTW I don't want to minimize the seriousness of the bath salts abuse. That is really scary.
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I hope they don't ban ICE CREAM SALT ............Summer is just around the corner.😱
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:lol: I do have some Tequila if the urge hits.;-)
BTW I don't want to minimize the seriousness of the bath salts abuse. That is really scary.
I totally agree BR... but aside from the scariness of the bath salts issue, this is a very, very funny thread.
SoWal Expert
Now that I know the Feds aren't after my bath products, why the hell are mall stores selling drugs?
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