Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/07/2010 8:58:10 AM PST by BBell
At least one young man in St. Tammany Parish and another in St. Martin Parish committed suicide shortly after getting high from ingesting a synthetic chemical sold as Cloud Nine High Quality Bath Salt and White Dove, law enforcement officials warned Monday.
A pack of the product costs no more than $20, and some people inject or snort it to experience a euphoria similar to the one associated with the amphetamine known on the streets as "speed." However, the psychotic side effects it produces are unusually severe, St. Tammany District Attorney Walter Reed and Sheriff Jack Strain said during a news conference called Monday to alert the community about the substance.
"Our purpose today is to warn parents," Reed said. "If you see this in your kids' room, please take it and call us. This stuff has the potential to get your kids to commit suicide."
Reed said white, wallet-sized "Cloud Nine" packets and black "White Dove" packets marketed as fragrant potpourri began surfacing on regional convenience store shelves not long after Aug. 15, the day a state law making it illegal to possess, sell or manufacture synthetic marijuana went into effect. Experts say the side effects of the chemical can last for days and resemble those of amphetamines -- anxiety, prolonged panic attacks and insomnia.
The bath salt packets drew special attention earlier this year from parish law enforcement after the son of a local physician snorted some, hallucinated that Army soldiers were marching on his home, and fatally shot himself with a rifle, Reed said.
After the suicide in St. Martin Parish, authorities there issued a public notice in November warning, "There have been reports of individuals overdosing on the product, and human consumption may be fatal."
Strain and Reed on Monday said investigators canvassed area convenience stores recently and asked
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***but I got several lungs full of gasoline vapor whilst siphoning gas back in my youth.***
That’s what you get for using a five foot long “Oklahoma Credit Card!” ;-D
As do all stimulants. Commonly referred to as the "crash".
You are correct!
However, this one works like cocaine in that it zaps serotonin. Not like Ephedra which does not.
Mark for later.
“I’ve only made it to 84 years old.”
Statement of fact by you.
“Would probably have been 110 by now if I hadn’t inhaled leaded gasoline.”
Only if you had been born 26 years earlier, assuming the “...by now” part means anything.
Unless you have a time machine.
;-)
“Try battery acid and rat poison, morons. “
Experiment with Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and both optical isomers of Thalidomide, Intellectually Challenged.”
;-)
Some people are just too stupid to live.
Has the gubment banned farts in the bathtub yet?
Now, there’s a real high...
Your post 25 was meant for Ole Okie in post 13.
And I think he meant it as a joke.
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