Unlike pot, these things should be taken off the street. I've heard these things are basically just one small step below meth.
So, could they be actually used as bath salts if you bought some accidently?
Why would merchants let them be sold accidentally? Wouldn't they make sure that the customer was looking for drugs, just so that someone who discovered that they were soaking in heroin wouldn't go to the police?
I think they only sold it in certain small stores so...the store owners might have know.
Whatever they could be used as real bath salts or not is the Paranoia Fuel part.
Why would merchants let them be sold accidentally? Wouldn't they make sure that the customer was looking for drugs, just so that someone who discovered that they were soaking in heroin wouldn't go to the police? Not really. You just buy them at the corner store, give the clerk your money, and yo go about your business. You won't be interrogated by the clerk. These aren't under the table deals, it's openly sold to anybody who wants some.
This is basically like spice/incense/potpouri (or legal marijuana for those who didn't know), but harder.
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I take it you get these mainly at the ghetto "corner store" or "bodega"?
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Unless you drink the contents of your bathtub once you're finished in there, the "salts" are extremely unlikely to have any psychoactive effects on anyone who unwittingly uses them as such.
Unlike pot, these things should be taken off the street. I've heard these things are basically just one small step below meth.
I could have sworn that one of the big three could be absorbed through the skin, or else fumed when it came in contact with water...
Possibly, but a gram of the drug in 50 litres of water would lead to an insignificant amount of the drug being absorbed that way. Certainly not enough to get you high.
I'm guessing what tipped the cops off was the bath salt named "Scarface".
Why would someone name a "bath salt" Scarface?
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Movie tie-in?
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Here is just one of the articles about this issue: http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Bath-salts-now-illegal-113015794.html
Apparently, some people had been selling illegal drugs as bath salts for 25-50 dollars. They are under names like Bliss, Cloud Nine, Ivory Wave, and White Dove (the latter two names are similar to two companies who sell soap). Right now there's a crack-down on these "bath salts" by the government?
Paranoia Fuel, anyone?
In my opinion, this is a very clever way of evading the law. However, there had been many cases of injury, side effects, and suicides, and the fact that drugs are being selled as something as innocent as bath salts is scary.
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