'Bath Salts' A Growing Drug Problem, Officials Say

[irishspirit]

FULTON, Miss. — 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.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/23/bath-salts-a-growing-drug-problem_n_812693.html?ref=fb&src=sp

BANNED no doubt. Next Up, a ban on Breathing.

[irishspirit]

Florida makes sales and possession of bath salts illegal

Tallahassee-- Bath salts that go by the names Route 69, White Rush, Bolivian Bath, Vanilla Sky and many others were banned Wednesday by the state.

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an emergency order Wednesday afternoon, making it a felony to sell or possess the salts.
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Bondi called a news conference late this afternoon where she announced the filing of an emergency rule that will add substances containing MDVP, which is the ingredient in "bath salts" to the schedule of controlled substances.
Bondi was joined by Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen and other law enforcement officials, FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey, and Representatives Jimmy Patronis, Marti Coley and Brad Drake.
Together, they announced that due to the violent nature of the side effects involved with substances containing MDVP, the state is filing the emergency rule.

Bondi says this will provide law enforcement with the tools necessary to take the dangerous substance off the shelves and protect the abusers from themselves and others.

She went on to say these drugs are dangerous and should not be confused with any type of common bath product.

http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Florida_makes_sales_and_possession_of_bath_salts_illegal_114681959.html

[Carmody]

The reason the bath salts are going to be banned, is quite possibly that they are, for the larger part... the unactivated form of PMG monatomics in the 'salt' state. If the salts come from the dead sea, or any of the other similar salt lake and old ocean/sea salt flats....that is, IMO, a potential reason to get them out of the public's hands. Solomon's temple was by the dead sea and Solomon was the guy who made the manna, the food of the gods, for the Egyptians. The western power brokers associated with the Vatican have flat out stated their desire to rebuild Solomon's temple and occupy the exact location. The dead Sea sea-salt has the highest level of calculated PMG monatomic salts, at 35%. i can't remember where I came across that (%) figure, so don't hold me to it.

Like getting MMS off the shelves, it may turn out to be the same fabrication. I've been watching for this to happen for about 5 years.

[Necromancer]

The reason these "bath salts" and similar products sold as "incense" are being banned is because they are actually synthetic forms of drugs that are already illegal in the states that are banning them. The "bath salts" are synthetic forms of the drug esctasy and cocaine. The "incense" is common burnable plants sprayed with synthetic THC (the active ingredient in marijuana).

Because individual state drug laws were written before these synthetic drugs where developed, the sellers of these products have found a "loop-hole" in the legal system. Many of these products are sold by on-line retailers and also available at gas stations and convenience stores.