Peeps are shooting up bath salts now. Yup.

[casey]

Here's the full article. Holy Jesus...

http://www.theledger.com/article/2011012....g-Ab use-Menace

Officials Say Bath Salts Are an Emerging Drug Abuse Menace

Presently legal, powders can cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts.

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FULTON, Miss. | When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Snow, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.

Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamine. Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several U.S. states, where authorities talk of banning their sale.

From the Deep South to California, emergency calls are being reported over exposure to the stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV.

Sold under such names as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning and Hurricane Charlie, the chemicals can cause hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts, authorities say. The chemicals are in bath salts and even plant foods that are sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet. However, they aren't necessarily being used for the purposes on the label.

Mississippi lawmakers this week began considering a proposal to ban the sale of the powders, and a similar step is being sought in Kentucky. In Louisiana, the bath salts were outlawed by an emergency order after the state's poison center received more than 125 calls in the last three months of 2010 involving exposure to the chemicals.

In Brown's case, he said he had tried every drug from heroin to crack and was so shaken by terrifying hallucinations that he wrote one Mississippi paper urging people to stay away from the bath salts.

[almightyseancore]

you just turned a bunch of record collectors into bath salt junkies.

great job.

[melvinscam]

welcome to rock bottom.

[pjaicomo]

I can't wait for some nanny to start banning bath salts now. Compound the stupidity.

[adamlikesmusic]

I read about this a few weeks ago. People are retarded.

[oakland]

When a junkie writes a letter to a newspaper urging everyone to please avoid something for their own sake, then you have on your hands a substance that should ABSOLUTELY not make it onto your "have to try list."

[cactusbot]

That article is fucking retarded. They aren't actually bath salts. They are just labeled as that so that they can be sold legally.

[saxamaphone]

This is why we need to legalize marijuana.

[oakland]

Did anyone see that story on the CNN site this morning about Afghani woman giving their four year olds opium? Apparently they do it to quiet the children down so they can work easier. I'm sure it works. Fuck.