New York bans bath salts?

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nanette1985

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Watching the news after the Yankee game and heard that today NY banned bath salts. WTF? What's the problem with having a nice bath??

http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/05/24/health-commissioner-bans-sale-of-bath-salts-in-ny/

New York State health officials have banned the sale of bath salts containing dangerous amphetamine-type substances that has sent scores of substance abusers to hospitals nationwide.
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Oh. Containing Dangerous Amphetamine-type Substances. They didn't mention that in the tv news story.

Have you ever heard of "bath salts"?
 
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SlowSpyder

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princess ida said:
Watching the news after the Yankee game and heard that today NY banned bath salts. WTF? What's the problem with having a nice bath??

http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/05/24/health-commissioner-bans-sale-of-bath-salts-in-ny/



Oh. Containing Dangerous Amphetamine-type Substances. They didn't mention that in the tv news story.

Have you ever heard of "bath salts"?
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There is a gas station right down the road from me that sold K2, Spice, etc. Once that was outlawed the moved to bath salts. $45/gram.

I'm not one for stimulants, so it's not something I'll ever try. I know the owner pretty well, he says he can hardly keep it in stock. He has one regular customer that he claims comes in nearly every day and buys 2-3 grams worth. I guess he just likes relaxing baths. ;)
 
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"These chemicals marketed as bath salts are a growing and dangerous threat to the public health.."

I'm assuming that they're just banning those chemical bath salts and not regular bath salts.
 
EvilYoda

EvilYoda

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There was a 60-minutes (or some primetime news show) that talked about this stuff...I hadn't even heard about it til then. Illegal in a few states and a lot are working on passing such legislation.
 
Brigandier

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I have a friend(more of an ex-friend) that got heavy into these, ended up spending all his money, skipping work if he didn't have them and getting fired.

Fake drugs piss me off.
 
Fritzo

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It's basically like synthetic coke. They're called bath salts, but they're not used in bathing at all. Some of that crap goes for $80-$100 for a tiny container.
 
FallenHero

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The bath salts are really screwy. I've talked to a couple of coke-heads and Drs at the local hospital. It's basically the same high you get from cocaine/meth depending on the salt. The Hospital is having problems with it because it doesn't show up on a normal blood test and it presents all sorts of screwy ways. Massive respiratory problems and cardiac issues that they can't always find a solution to. They have had people found in the snow in the winter that were sweating uncontrollably because their body was so screwed up from the salts. Just dangerous shit.
 
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Rifter

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Who in there right mind would spend that much cash on fake coke when you can get the real stuff as cheap or cheaper? And The real stuff is probably not as harmful. This makes no sense to me.
 
PlasmaBomb

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Rifterut said:
Who in there right mind would spend that much cash on fake coke when you can get the real stuff as cheap or cheaper? And The real stuff is probably not as harmful. This makes no sense to me.
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but the real stuff is illegal...
 
gorcorps

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It's not REAL bath salts. People aren't walking into bed bath and beyond to get their fix. It's just a street name for a new chemical high that was legal, and now isn't.
 
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gorcorps said:
It's not REAL bath salts. People aren't walking into bed bath and beyond to get their fix. It's just a street name for a new chemical high that was legal, and now isn't.
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Yeah I don't know why it's still being discussed as actual bath salts in so many places. You guys know people don't smoke actual ice, right?
 
newParadigm

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Rifterut said:
Who in there right mind would spend that much cash on fake coke when you can get the real stuff as cheap or cheaper? And The real stuff is probably not as harmful. This makes no sense to me.
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People who are regularly drug tested and cannot afford to piss dirty for coke?
 
Saint Nick

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The problem is that this stuff is way more dangerous than real coke. I've never tried coke, or bath salts, but I don't think a side-effect of doing some coke is crazy delusions and murdering people (maybe it is, who the F knows?).

Anyways, I have tried Spice XXX and it was marketed as "potpourri". I was randomly drug tested at a previous job and I thought I would give this a shot. Spice tasted like shit, and made me feel like shit, nothing like the real MJ.

IMO, the "fake" alternatives to drugs are far more dangerous than their real counterparts. Thanks to the War on Drugs®, companies have come up with these wretched products that go untested...
 
brblx

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this isn't the cannibinoid 'spice' stuff.

that's bad enough, this shit...it really does look like salt, i can't imagine why anyone would snort that.
 
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Saint Nick said:
The problem is that this stuff is way more dangerous than real coke. I've never tried coke, or bath salts, but I don't think a side-effect of doing some coke is crazy delusions and murdering people (maybe it is, who the F knows?).

Anyways, I have tried Spice XXX and it was marketed as "potpourri". I was randomly drug tested at a previous job and I thought I would give this a shot. Spice tasted like shit, and made me feel like shit, nothing like the real MJ.

IMO, the "fake" alternatives to drugs are far more dangerous than their real counterparts. Thanks to the War on Drugs®, companies have come up with these wretched products that go untested...
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you probably smoked the shitty 'post ban' stuff. the 'labs' (some guy's basement) making this stuff keep switching to less and less effective research chemicals, as the govt also fights the war on 'legal' drugs. also, the gas station stuff is basically made of yard clippings, while the initial stuff was often made by people that were a bit more selective with their herbs.

yup, we have two failing wars on drugs.
 
Wyndru

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It appears that someone was recently searching the forum for threads on bath salts...:sneaky:
 
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