As if we needed more proof that bath salts (the drug, not the bath soaking stuff) is bad, bad, bad, here comes yet another bath salts insanity story. Police say a 20-year-old Los Angeles man was on bath salts (definitely on bath salts, not rumored to be or thought to be or speculated to be) when he attacked his elderly neighbor, saying, "I hate you and want to kill you today," after the 77-year-old woman scolded him for trying to harm some birds by throwing a tool at them. High on bath salts, he allegedly bludgeoned her over the head with a shovel. But there's some good news!
The woman was taken to a local hospital, but it is reported that she was NOT seriously injured. Thank goodness! I can relate to this poor woman. Not because anyone on bath salts has ever attacked me (yet!), but because I've spoken up when I've seen people (usually children) kicking or throwing rocks or trying to harm birds -- usually pigeons, since I live in the city. And, yes, the parents are right there, watching blankly. Hey, if a parent isn't going to teach a child not to hurt animals, then I'm going to do it, and too bad if they don't like it.
But back to bath salts. This drug is officially out of control. I have no idea why anyone uses it. WHY would someone take a drug that causes such aggressiveness? WHY would you take a drug that, when you come down off it, might have caused you to commit a crime -- maybe even killing someone or eating their face off?! I'm dumbfounded. But I suppose the people who take this drug aren't exactly clear-thinking Mensa members.
What is the solution here? Banning the ingredients to the drug needs to be tops. Yes, people can always get their hands on whatever they want, but let's make it as difficult as possible for them, okay? Yes, drug addicts can always get ahold of a different kind of drug. However, this particular combination of chemicals is what sounds disastrous. It seems to unleash a devil in the brain.
What solution do you see to the "bath salts crisis"?
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Since banning these crazy chemicals isn't working, the government should offer an incentive or bonus for stores NOT to sell these dangerous products. And fine the crap out of those who don't comply.
The formulas get changed often, which changes the chemical make-up.
Then, the government has to start all over to have the new chemical outlawed.
Although it sucks that there are usually victims in bath salt freak-outs, alcohol is just as violent of a drug. Perscription drugs kill more people than any other drug.
Bath salts are just new and interesting. They are no worse than other drugs, legal or illegal.
Thank you for not calling 'bath salts' something that you can purchase from a store- people need to realize (particularly after a LOT of poorly written stories on the subject, many from the Stir) that the drug and the bath products are not the same thing. Just like meth or similar drugs... this is a product that people make and sell, and they do so with many common ingredients. Hard to stop the purchase of legitimate products that people use for normal day to day jobs...
It is also sold as "shoe deodorizer".
@A, Not everyone knows that "bath salts" is just a nickname for a drug. Many of the people that I work with had no clue why anyone would want to smoke the stuff they soak in at night. I explained that it's not that type of bath salts and that it was a new "drug." One woman said "Now why didn't you tell me that before I went and bought 15 things of bath salts cause they was banning it?"