Bath Salts - Kids getting high on over-the-counter balt salt. (sale, purchase)
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Saw an article on the news and seemed pretty scary. Here's a quote from a doctor in the following article. "If you take the worst attributes of meth, coke, PCP, LSD and ecstasy and put them together.” he said, “that’s what we’re seeing sometimes.”
Looking at the quanitites and prices, it must be powerful stuff. Here's some more from the article. "sold for $25 to $50 per 50-milligram packet at convenience stores and head shops under names like Aura, Ivory Wave, Loco-Motion and Vanilla Sky."
That means if it's $25 for a 50 milligram packet you would need 20 of them to get a gram (equivilent to the stand quanity for cociane sold to younger adults) so that's $500/gram compared to $50/gram cociane.
I think the cost alone will keep it from being an epidemic or anything more than a hassle, until they put a ban and stop importing the stuff.
Just thought I'd share, as I thought it was interesting the affects and cost of this stuff.
Bath Salts, eh? How very odd. I'd read a little something about this, kids abusing it to get high, but I'd not read the particulars of it all. It sure does remind me of the PCP/Angel Dust days, the tales of manic strength & the frantic violent behavior of folks that used it.
Were these bath salts ever really used as... well, bath salts? (I'd imagine not) -Or were these particular types always intended to skirt around the law & be used as drugs? Did folks just find a way to abuse a legit substance, like sniffing glue or huffing compressed air, or are these bath salts custom made & aimed at drug users?
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Originally Posted by Gpsma
Jeez...what ever happened to that cheap bottle of Thunderbird
Mad Dog 20/20 was the choice for poorer kids in my youth. Jeebus, my throat tightens at just the memory of that nasty taste! Yuck doesn't quite cover it.
I guess sniffing cans of Duster are not the fad now???
No no no lubby, we must try to educate ourselves concerning drug abuser lingo & terminology...
Huffing is for duster & other abused aerosols
Sniffing is for glue & I've no clue what else
I probably go through more than avg. amounts of duster as I work on PCs a bit for friends/family. Nowadays I actually wonder if the clerk is wondering about me when I purchase an econo-package of cans. Gads, what a world, eh?
Experts say much of the supply is coming from China and India, where chemical manufacturers have less government oversight.
More cheap imports. Instead of costing us jobs, these will cost us lives.
nyliguy -- thank you for posting the link.
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