A. Do this? 
Or B. Do this?
Or C. Both?
Answer: The state can't take the risk.
Posted on 01/26/2011 8:01:28 PM PST by Libloather
Florida bans 'bath salt' drugs after violent outbursts
By Alexia Campbell and Aaron Deslatte, Sun Sentinel
7:26 p.m. EST, January 26, 2011
TALLAHASSEE — Disturbing reports of violent drug users "with superhuman strength," pushed Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday to ban drugs sold as "bath salts." Florida is the second state, after Louisiana, to outlaw the so-called fake cocaine.
The white powder, sold at gas stations and specialty shops around the state, has sent dozens of users to emergency rooms and mental hospitals in recent months, according to authorities.
**SNIP**
"To put it in perspective, that's right up there with cocaine and heroin," Bondi said in a news conference held at the Capitol in Tallahassee.
Poison control centers in Florida have reported 61 calls about abuse of the product — the state with the second-highest volume of related calls after Louisiana. Most of the state's cases came from Central and Northern Florida, but disoriented users have arrived at Broward County hospitals with high blood pressure and hallucinations, said Nabil El Sanadi, chief of emergency medicine at Broward Health.
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A. Do this?
Or B. Do this?
Or C. Both?
Answer: The state can't take the risk.
Bump
...a new trend MTV will be pushing soon.......
We still have "Mental Hospitals"? Seriously, I did not know that. Thank ya!
The children!
I’m sure there’s no hysteria involved here!
Gosh, those 80s crack babies are causing so much trouble! /sarc
I have a relative who was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago, infection from injecting the “bath salts”. Wouldn’t be enough salts to soak a pinky finger. I am glad they have done this.
Where can I buy some?
LOL.
Utopia will only be achieved when everything has been banned, because everything is capable of being misused. There are some who say freedom gives people the opportunity to make mistakes, but the alternative is worse. I guess you’re not one of them.
I wonder who the brain dead idiot was that first tried to snort salts. Darwin awards candidate..
With all the potential hallucinogens found growing wild in nature and all the potential hallucinogens found in valid and useful products sold at retail, this is a foolish and losing battle, banning anything that people might abuse.
The problem is the desire to abuse their bodies for a high. It’s a moral problem, in other words, not a legal one. Somebody’s going to get arrested because of their flower beds one of these days, when some dolt steals salvia or any number of other ornamentals out of it, if this idiocy doesn’t stop.
The government should just ban Utopia.
This gives a whole new meaning to the old commercial slogan, “Calgon take me away!”
So what’s the next naughty injectable — cocoa? coffee?
I was told by a police officer that another way kids are trying to get high is by huffing human feces that has been sealed in a bag for a while. Kids are defecating in the bag, and when the “party” is in full gear, they will huff the bag. He said they have taken these kids to the hospital that “literally smell like sh**.”
Niiiiice.
(So I guess we’ll all have to stop pooping. For the children.)
Does anyone know what these bath salts are made of? I saw some pretty flowers growing in front of an apartment occupied primarily by hispanics. I looked up the flowers and discivered they were datura stramonium (sp?). Datura has been used for thousands of years as a hallucinogen. Did the planters of those flowers know this?
It isn’t bath salts. It’s some kind of chemical concoction like meth or coke sold in very tiny amounts for big money. They also sell “incense” which is pot sprayed with something to fool drug tests for 200.00 an ounce at the tobacco shops here, that was made illegal a month ago.
The “incense” you are talking about is not pot. It is flowers and herbs sprayed with a chemical that is very similar to THC but is missing the molecule that causes it to bind to the fat in the body, which makes it not show up on a drug test. I think the “bath salts” are a similar chemical in its pure powder or crystal form. These “incense and bath salts” were never intended to be used as their name implies, they were made knowing to get “high” and cleverly packaged and labeled so they could be sold anywhere.
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