Bath Salts Summer

[marmar]

BOSTON - It's a drug so dangerous the Drug Enforcement Administration has made some of the chemicals its made from illegal.

But "bath salts" are a growing problem in Massachusetts and across the country.

So far efforts to ban the designer drug have failed, while police are starting to see the impact of bath salts in their communities, and emergency rooms are dealing with the disturbing effects of the drug.

Miami is set to ban the sale of the synthetic drug known as bath salts, after a bizarre case last month. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.wcvb.com/health/-Bath-Salts-drug-problem-on-the-rise/-/9848730/15214030/-/6l0lwtz/-/index.html#ixzz1yerMClZo

[opihimoimoi]

1. couldn't come soon enough...the effects have been known for a long time...too long...

[nobodyspecial]

2. They really need to ban this crap

And I can't fathom what would possess a person to take this crap.

[wandy]

3. OK, forgive me for being out of date...

Never one to turn down a good shot of wiskey, even as kids we knew that airplane glue was a bad thing and should be avoided.
But Bath Salts? What's up whith that?

[steve2470]

6. here ya go:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/tagblogsfindlawcom2012-blotter-idUS282502007420120531

[wandy]

8. Cripes, and I thought airplane glue was a bad thing.......

Sad that people do this.

[gregoire]

4. Funny how Republicans will support dangerous drugs...

but fight tooth and nail against safe drugs.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Wow. If only there were a relatively benign plant that doesn't kill people, that is enjoyed

recreationally with little harm by millions of people worldwide, that could be legal, regulated, and taxed... that people could smoke instead?

Hmmm.

Hmmmmm.

[Aerows]

7. Well...

We've had a few cases of people freaking out on them and then eating people. Frankly, measures that attempt to keep people from wigging out, getting naked and eating people seem sane and sound to me.

That's just my opinion.