Are bath salts a good dietary supplement? (take)

[Oleg Bach]

At least you know if you drink - what the side effects are...If you smoke pot there are side effects that most with common sense can see. Even the recreational coke snorter..knows that there will be bad after effects- well............for a while they know and then they know nothing, because the ultimate results of long term use causes severe mental illness.

Of all the people that I have seen experiment with substances over the years..most are intelligent enough to survive..those with less natural brain power ruin their lives and most die- sadly they may take others with them..For instance, there decades ago I remember in my old hick hilly billy like community- The locals discovered Methadrine...a horrifically destructive substance.


These hicks who never bothered with any gate way drugs went directly to the most corrosive poison. I saw young healthy men and woman become crazed..Men who were tough hardy country boys weighing 200 pounds whither down to skeletons ..open sores - tooth loss...Some would go on "runs" that lasted two weeks...They were so hyper they could not sit down- they did not sleep..or eat...or take fluids..There was a price for this temporary superman existence...DEATH - counting them...of the 17 people that I knew who were user 16 of them died.

There people were not my peers..but I knew them and their families..It was as if half of the young men in this rural hood simply shrank and disappeared...AS I mentioned..this was a long time ago...Speed Freaks were despised and loathed even within the drug culture- They were the lowest of the low....

Now in today's world when I hear media reports about 'meth labs' and new users...it irks me..They do not fully understand that this drug is not some new designer drug used in the dance clubs...It has a history that most do not remember or did not know or have forgotten. For God's sake they would cut the stuff with drain cleaner- and I watched one addict inject this...not knowing if it would kill him or not and not caring....

All substances that alter the human mind and spirit are bad. It is all of a degree of badness. Even typical pot smokers are not doing themselves any real good. I have said this before - being a man of experience and observation...If I could go back in time - I would have never taken that first cigarette. Would have never bothered with alcohol..never would have toyed with a sedative or hallucinatory drug....I survived due to strong genetics and a strong sense of personal preservation...some ethic and spiritual believes...Many many others did not and will not survive.


You would think that the war on drugs would have some effect by now..Frankly I believe that the powers that be have no will to curb drug use. They quietly like the idea of a population that is in a constant stupor..having continual mindless sex...a debased population is easy to rule. Seeing that most leaders are inept..and they can only successfully rule over a populace that is also made inept...They don't want you to be aware..or keen of mind...they go for generating a low quality population rather than a healthy population that would be unruly when faced with corruption and institutionalized criminality.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by cry_havoc

Ive heard that people are taking bath salts a s a dietary supplement. Anyone have experience with this?

Did you miss the batch of cannibalism threads we had a couple of weeks ago? It was about people ingesting bath salts. IIRC, one of the articles said they'd been taken off the market recently. In some parts of the US, at least. I don't know about Canada.

[sheena12]

Originally Posted by cry_havoc

So they are not healthy?

NO! They are not healthy!

[Oleg Bach]

Every time I have a nice soak in the tub..I always get out feeling real hungry..for chicken- or anything tastes like chicken. Then I forget about it and take a walk....and I compliment everyone I see..."You have a very nice face" .....in fact people look so nice right after my bath - I could just eat them....okay....so I can't spell fava beans...is it faba beens? I don't know..

[8635angelvalley]

Originally Posted by thatdurncat13

What will people think of next??

It isn't the actual stuff that makes your bath water all pink and sweet smelling. That is just the haha "street name". It is a real scum drug.

[old_cold]

Originally Posted by Oleg Bach

This is a really bad little trend- I just wish the media would stop advertising this stuff...I thought that a Meth addict who drops 6o pounds in weight in a month- does not sleep for 10 days at a time- loses their teeth- steals and cheats- Is so paranoid because of dehydration and starvation..that they may as well be hopelessly insane.....was bad- Now we have a drug that has horrific effects with every use...Just yesterday a cop suffered a broken nose and the other had his wrist fractured by some lunatic that drank the bath water rather than bathe in it...What's next....maybe a chemical that causes you too run around eating dog poo and chant Walmart slogans?


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Well, yeah, but if you can lose weight easily, what's a few side effects?

[Wembley]

Could you be possibly getting bath salts the new designer drug mixed up with something like Dead Sea salt which yes is good to soak in as it allows magnesium to absorb in the skin? There is a difference though Dead Sea salt comes from the ocean and is just highly mineralized salt. It is sorta a supplement, but its not the stuff that has the crazy chemicals added to it that make people go insane.

[hiknapster]

My guess is the question was done in jest.

[nightbird47]

I'm betting the doctor didn't mean the street drug. Why steal a perfectly good name? A reputable store which sells real supliments will sell the real sea salt.

But sadly, we seem utterly bent on finding new ways of getting high. In OKC a month or so ago, a fourteen year old was found dead by his father lying on the air conditioners control outside. He was breathing in the gasses it gives off and had taken off the safety. His friends had told him it was a safe way to get high.

They talked about how to lock down the safety so it isn't so easy. But my guess is as long as its more important to escape than it is to face life, the race will be on to find the next cheap legal high which kills you.

[AnonChick]

Originally Posted by nightbird47

I'm betting the doctor didn't mean the street drug. Why steal a perfectly good name? A reputable store which sells real supliments will sell the real sea salt.

But sadly, we seem utterly bent on finding new ways of getting high. In OKC a month or so ago, a fourteen year old was found dead by his father lying on the air conditioners control outside. He was breathing in the gasses it gives off and had taken off the safety. His friends had told him it was a safe way to get high.

They talked about how to lock down the safety so it isn't so easy. But my guess is as long as its more important to escape than it is to face life, the race will be on to find the next cheap legal high which kills you.

Sea salts are also not a "dietary supplement." No doctor would prescribe salt as a dietary supplement. A person who is planning on working outside for many hours in heat and humidity, might benefit from "a salt tablet" and plenty of water. But that isn't taken as a "dietary supplement." It isn't something you'd take every morning before breakfast, or just before bed, or twice a day, or whatever. People don't take salt pills as dietary supplements. They take them as precautions for specific events (we had to take them in camp when I was a kid, on days when the temperature climbed over 90 and the humidity was over 40%).

My guess, is that the OP is making this all up as a way to stir up emotional responses. In other words, one of those little monsters you find beneath bridges.