KSP: Mom High On Bath Salts Drops Boy On Interstate

WLWT ^ | March 1, 2011 | WLWT

[TSgt]

CALVERT CITY, Ky. -- A mother charged with endangering her children said she was wandering along a western Kentucky interstate with them after snorting bath salts.

Kentucky State Police said they found a 2-year-old boy with a head injury lying on the inside edge of Interstate 24 in Marshall County and his mother carrying a 5-year-old child in the median.

Police said 29-year-old Cynthia Palmer told officers she had been snorting bath salts and began to hallucinate Monday night while driving from the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell.

Officers said she stopped and attempted to carry both children across the roadway, but dropped the younger child and left him.

The 2-year-old was taken to a hospital and the older child was taken into custody by Tennessee Social Services.

Palmer was charged with assault, wanton endangerment and public intoxication.

Court records do not list an attorney for her.

A Kentucky House committee approved a bill last month that would ban the sale or possession of the synthetic drug marketed as bath salts and sold under such brand names as “Ivory Wave” or “Purple Wave.”

Committee members were told that the substance can cause delusional behavior, confusion, agitation and paranoia.

[ResponseAbility]

And I should add that this helped to create a demand for meth that was not there before. This is not relevant to my basic point that drug use is a spiritual problem that has no government solution.

[TSgt]

I can assure you that if you make drugs more available it won’t help the problem.

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s a designer drug, usually MDVP, or mephadrone.

It is packaged under the name of “bath salts” so that it can be sold legally and quite openly.

It is not a bath salt in any legitimate sense of the word.

It is also a killer.

[TASMANIANRED]

Bath salts is a legal fiction.

It isn’t nor has it ever been intended to be used in a bath tub.

It’s for up your nose..

[TASMANIANRED]

You have to be 18 to buy Dust off in KY.

[r9etb]

How about the first person to Google, “Helen Thomas Nude” I mean why?

You bastard! Now I'm going to have to do that.

[TSgt]

I'll save you the Google

[r9etb]

lol!

[rarestia]

Understood, but I would say most FReepers are smarter than your run-of-the-mill convenience store bath salt seeker. Personally, I wouldn’t buy anything more than an overpriced 6-pack or a candy bar from a convenience store, so the idea of buying something like bath salts is ludicrous in my mind.

That being said, I don’t think we should dismiss the fact that they are being marketed as bath salts but clearly aren’t. The manufacturers are selling a product surreptitiously as bath salts but know full well that the product is intended to get someone high. If they sold them as “designer hallucinogen,” they’d have the DEA shut them down ASAP.

Again, I’m all for libertarian drug laws, but marketing something as one thing when it clearly isn’t is illegal. It would be like saying, “Hey, this is bread,” but in reality, it’s ground up peanuts formed into a bread loaf. Someone with a peanut allergy buys the stuff thinking it’s bread, makes a sandwich, eats it and dies from anaphylactic shock.

[Erasmus]

Or, “You see that hard white thing coming out of that chicken’s a$$? I think I’ll try breaking it open and eating it.”

[ResponseAbility]

I can assure you that drugs are available, and they are not the problem.

[patton]

LOL.

In Jackson, MI the county burns all the confiscated pot in a field next to the state prison. You can tell when they are about to light the fire, because all of the prisoners are lining the fence...