Senator calls for bath salts ban due to hallucinogenic effects
So, you’ve been dissolving bath salts in your hot baths for a relaxing bathing experience?
It would appear that you are, in fact, doing it wrong, as calls to ban the substance because it can get you super-high are increasing rapidly. New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, seems to have inadvertently induced teenagers everywhere to attempt snorting bath salts with his hyperbolic description:
“The so-called ‘bath salts’ are nothing more than deadly narcotics and they are being sold cheaply to all comers no questions asked, at store counters around the country…we want to nip this drug in the bud before it becomes an epidemic.”
Sen. Schumer says the bad bath salts, containing mephedrone and MDPV, are not the same as regular bath salts and are being covertly peddled on purpose to drug users over the internet as the relaxation aid or plant food. (Unlike the getting high off nutmeg phenomenon, as that substance has several legitimate, delicious uses.) The Drug Enforcement Administration is currently investigating the rogue bath salts, and say that in addition to a lavender-scented bath and softer skin, the substance can precipitate “an intense high, euphoria, extreme energy, hallucinations, insomnia and [easily provoked anger]” when snorted, smoked, injected or used with a vaporizer.
Tags : bath salts, bath salts ban, bath salts drug, getting high, kids these days, nanny state, nutmeg, nutmeg high, plant food drug, scares, stoners, things that can kill you
Posted: February 1, 2011
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Jun 27, 2012
It is so sad to read this I been married for 15years have two precious baby the youngest only a couple of months old. My partner a very smart individual who I loved and looked up to decided to try Amped other wise known as bath salts. He started being very aggressive, moody , paranoid and became a monster to live with. He started stalking my every move calling his family saying he saw a man come out of our house. He would say there was cameras hidden in the air filters. He really shamed me I know it was not him he used to be my best friend the person I felt safe with. Now I do not even known him. In May he went on a crazy binge insulting me , not sleeping and just terrorizing me and my children. I learned bath salts took over him we were in the middle of moving he came home and got on top of me and bit my face. I was very scared I told his family they were in denial and said he was fine on the meds that he was on. Nobody knows the monster I have lived with my son became my bodyguard. I finally decided to leave him and had him picked up by paramedics he did not want to go to a mental facility he was petitioned and is now to be there for 72hrs or more depending on his evaluation. I hope he gets better the last time he used was a month ago but the side effects were still there. They did find bath salts unsealed in his hand when I called the paramedics. I am glad I was there and able to get him help. I now realize I kept fighting a fight and defending myself with someone who has been in the right state of mind for a while. My emotions are all over the places I am hurt, angry and disappointed I never thought this would happened to a well educated person with so much potential. I need to heal and keep being the best mom in the world.