lmao @ idiots getting high on bath salt.

[Ricky]

Source - http://www.newser.com/article/d9kts...old-as-bath-salts-causing-hallucinations.html

When Neil Brown got high on dangerous chemicals sold as 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 Wave, 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 advertised 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 products sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet as bath salts and even plant foods. 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 advertised bath salts.

"I couldn't tell you why I did it," Brown said, pointing to his scars. "The psychological effects are still there."

While Brown survived, sheriff's authorities in one Mississippi county say they believe one woman overdosed on the powders there. In southern Louisiana, the family of a 21-year-old man says he cut his throat and ended his life with a gunshot. Authorities are investigating whether a man charged with capital murder in the December death of a Tippah County, Miss., sheriff's deputy was under the influence of the bath salts.

The stimulants aren't regulated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, but are facing federal scrutiny. Law officers say some of the substances are being shipped from Europe, but origins are still unclear.

Gary Boggs, an executive assistant at the DEA, said there's a lengthy process to restrict these types of designer chemicals, including reviewing the abuse data. But it's a process that can take years.

Dr. Mark Ryan, director of Louisiana's poison control center, said he thinks state bans on the chemicals can be effective. He said calls about the chemicals have dropped sharply since Louisiana banned their sale in January.

Ryan said cathinone, the parent substance of the drugs, comes from a plant grown in Africa and is regulated. He said MDPV and mephedrone are made in a lab, and they aren't regulated because they're not marketed for human consumption. The stimulants affect neurotransmitters in the brain, he said.

"It causes intense cravings for it. They'll binge on it three or four days before they show up in an ER. Even though it's a horrible trip, they want to do it again and again," Ryan said.

Ryan said at least 25 states have received calls about exposure, including Nevada and California. He said Louisiana leads with the greatest number of cases at 165, or 48 percent of the U.S. total, followed by Florida with at least 38 calls to its poison center.

Dr. Rick Gellar, medical director for the California Poison Control System, said the first call about the substances came in Oct. 5, and a handful of calls have followed since. But he warned: "The only way this won't become a problem in California is if federal regulatory agencies get ahead of the curve. This is a brand new thing." In the Midwest, the Missouri Poison Center at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center received at least 12 calls in the first two weeks of January about teenagers and young adults abusing such chemicals, said Julie Weber, the center's director. The center received eight calls about the powders all of last year.

Dr. Richard Sanders, a general practitioner working in Covington, La., said his son, Dickie, snorted some of the chemicals and endured three days of intermittent delirium. Dickie Sanders missed major arteries when he cut his throat. As he continued to have visions, his physician father tried to calm him. But the elder Sanders said that as he slept, his son went into another room and shot himself.

"If you could see the contortions on his face. It just made him crazy," said Sanders. He added that the coroner's office confirmed the chemicals were detected in his son's blood and urine.

Sanders warns the substances are far more dangerous than some of their brand names imply.

"I think everybody is taking this extremely lightly. As much as we outlawed it in Louisiana, all these kids cross over to Mississippi and buy whatever they want," he said.

A small packet of the chemicals typically costs as little as $20.

In northern Mississippi's Itawamba County, Sheriff Chris Dickinson said his office has handled about 30 encounters with users of the advertised bath salts in the past two months alone. He said the problem grew last year in his rural area after a Mississippi law began restricting the sale of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in making methamphetamine.

Dickinson said most of the bath salt users there have been meth addicts and can be dangerous when using them.

"We had a deputy injured a week ago. They were fighting with a guy who thought they were two devils. That's what makes this drug so dangerous," he said.

But Dickinson said the chemicals are legal for now, leaving him no choice but to slap users with a charge of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.

Kentucky state lawmaker John Tilley said he's moving to block the drug's sale there, preparing a bill for consideration when his legislature convenes shortly. Angry that the powders can be bought legally, he said: "If my 12-year-old can go in a store and buy it, that concerns me."

 

[Gonzo Joe]

Lol, you don't actually think it's sold for bath salt right? I've seen the exact same stuff sold as plant food (edit: I need to learn to read the article haha).

Mephedrone is a research chemical, basically an illegal drug has been changed slightly to avoid the drug laws in the UK, in America however you guys have the Anologue Act which means anything like that is instantly illegal. The difference between the UK and American laws is that in the UK each drug has to be classified individually, but that doesn't mean they're not sold in the USA. I've seen people shove 10 grams of the stuff up their nose in a night, fuck I've probably done that myself before.

Also read a report about a kid who ripped his own nuts off, haha. But trust me, I bet 95% of that article is bullshit. Mephedrone got so big in the UK that everyone who was as young as ten was trying it, and I mean everyone. I can't even begin to describe how insane it got, the sheer amount of people who would do it, and I don't know a single person who didn't enjoy it. When you're on it all you do is feel amazing empathy, and you talk so much and so fast that it's hilarious for sober people. No way could you go crazy and fight on it, you'd end up just talking to the person because it feels too good to talk.

I don't understand how people can hallucinate on it, they obviously were sold something else and probably did a huge line (you can take loads of Mephedrone, the LD50 is quite high) and then tripped the fuck out.

 

[RmcStudios]

Hahaha that shit made my day! Thanks for sharing that, lmfao.

 

[Picnore]

Lmao "Slit himself" Off bath salt! xD

 

[angus07]

rofl, that is so funny. he just started stabbing himself? sweet high man lol

 

Wow this is ridiculous haha they deserve to get fucked up if they thought using bath salt would be a good idea

 

[oblivion9032]

All I can say is wow. The things people do to get high nowadays is ridiculous.

 

[capper4lyf]

Reading through some of that makes me sick to the stomach i kinda feel sorry for them but then again i hate those kind of idiots =s

im kind of curious what it feels like but i know id never try it really it just messes you up.

 

[hey guys]

First white-out, now bath salt. Getting high inst even that fun -_-

They really need better stuff to do in life

 

[Loyal 2 da game]

All I read was the first paragraph, and that's all I had to. People these days are fucking retarded.

 

[wr3ck3d]

Anything to get that "high"... Fuck sakes, stick to weed. lol

 

[Gonzo Joe]

It's funnier that you guys think it's actually bath salt, it's marketed like that to avoid the law.

 

[Chase]

Sounds about as dumb as getting high on catnip.

 

[GhostedOUT]

Mephedrone is sold as "bath salt" to keep it legal longer. It's only a matter of time before they outlaw it though

 

[Gonzo Joe]

Sounds about as dumb as getting high on catnip.

It's NOT bath salt, anyone who is in the know is aware that it's being sold like that to avoid the analogue law.

I've put tons of this stuff up my nose and I'm fine, it's all bullshit that you're reading - complete lies. Mephedrone has NO hallucinogenic or delirious effects, NONE AT ALL.

 

[GhostedOUT]

Gonzo Joe the effects of Mephedrone are still very well unknown. It's a shulgin drug and therefore a non experimented on one. Although it's direct effects of non-hallucinogenic is obvious, the possible effects on the mind and chemical reactions are still widely unknown. For you to just mindlessly put all of these in your nose doesn't make you very intelligent in my book.