Bath-salts drug...

It's insane. I watched an episode of Intervention where the poor guy made devices using household items, like a flashlight with felt on it, to help him spot the demons in his house. He could see piles of dead bodies all over the place,and would climb the bookcases in his mom's house and walk across the tops of them to avoid the things only he could see in his head. He could just walk down to his local smoke shop and buy a vial of this stuff for $7. After the intervention, they took him in for testing. Even AFTER getting him off the drug, he was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder. Because he was so messed up, he broke out of his mental hospital, went back home, and continues to do the drug. It's BAD stuff. And it's legal!! The FDA haven't done enough testing to know the long term effects of this stuff. It's a sin what people do to themselves.

Let Darwin take it's course. Idiots. My mom died via her lifelong crack addiction. I simply do not see the appeal.

My dad died from heroin

I'll probably get slammed for this but to me, all the more reason to legalize "safer" drugs such as pot. Hell, even cocaine and LSD seem more safe to use than this new manufactured drugs that people keep coming up with.

What did the 20's teach us? Obviously nothing. Prohibition doesn't work, it just creates a bigger spectrum of crime, murder and death.

Drug use will NEVER go away. The more the government tries to restrict their use, the more dangerous alternatives will show up. People who want to use them will find a way regardless. We can allow it safely or keep digging deeper into this hole.

*sigh* outlawing is what drives these drugs in the first place.

If you ban something, people move on to a rawer, legal version of the drug.

That's why we get horribly dangerous drugs like bath salts and mephedrone, they give the same effect as real drugs but are a hundred times worse, but easier to get hold of cuz they're legal.

Banning things like ecstacy and lsd (which of course have their risks) seems like a good idea, but it just means that people move on to stuff which is still legal but far far far more damaging.

There is endless proof of this, Dr Nutt's drugs scale, this study showed that when presented with evidence, casual drug users choose the healthier options - such as ditching the tobacco but not the ecstacy http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/15/drugs-policy-survey-political-credibility. No one wants to take something that will harm them, if there is a safer option. If you're in the UK you can watch "our drugs war" on 4od, you might be able to find it in other countries, the very first episode (everyone's at it) specifically talks about how banning substances just leads to abuse of worse substances.

I'm not sayin we should start opening up heroin stands on street corners, but I do think the current policy of just banning everything is failing. It's failing horribly, while criminals make huge profits, victims of addiction are jailed and kids are taking harmful substances because the education about drugs is either totally false or greatly exaggerated, to the point when there doesn't seem to be a difference between smoking a joint and smoking heroin.

From my knowledge, it isn't in the southwestern ontario area. My husband is a cop and he said that he hasn't seen anything yet here. It's insane!!
It breaks my heart seeing so many people on drugs on facebook. Seriously! Who needs to wear sunglasses at night?!!! We aren't stupid and know what you are doing!
There was a big party here in Toronto (DEMF) and this girl thought that her hair was on fire and tried killing herself. Her hair was NOT on fire.

They are called bath salts and labelled with 'NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION' and this is a legal loophole. Alot of places have banned them but then they just call them something else, package them differently and put them back up for sale. The contents are not salt at all but granuals containing something similar to 'ecstasy' I've seen some tv documentaries about this stuff. It's lethal, stay away from it, whatever you do.

Let Darwin take it's course. Idiots. My mom died via her lifelong crack addiction. I simply do not see the appeal.

My dad died from heroin

The weird part about it is that as I watched her in ICU fading away, it wasn't all of the bull**** she put me through that I mourned for. It was for all the things that could have been, but would never be. My dad used to be on Heroin as well, but he stopped in the late 80s. I've only met him a couple times though.

I seriously want to hug you right now. I've struggled with addiction, and put my kids through some crap. Fortunately, I got my act together before they got too big, but the damage was done. I'm so sorry that your parents weren't there for you like they should have been.

I'll probably get slammed for this but to me, all the more reason to legalize "safer" drugs such as pot. Hell, even cocaine and LSD seem more safe to use than this new manufactured drugs that people keep coming up with.

What did the 20's teach us? Obviously nothing. Prohibition doesn't work, it just creates a bigger spectrum of crime, murder and death.

Drug use will NEVER go away. The more the government tries to restrict their use, the more dangerous alternatives will show up. People who want to use them will find a way regardless. We can allow it safely or keep digging deeper into this hole.

I'm with you Mandy. Also I'm officially old now because I truly don't get "kids these days". I mean this S is just dumb! I understand that kids are going to be kids and experimentation is part of that. I did it, many of us did.

But you sneak a few beers or try some pot! You'll get a hangover or eat too much junk food but (SO LONG AS YOU DO NOT DRIVE) you'll most likely survive and you sure as hell won't wake up chewing on a homeless guy's face. Where's that get fun?

These "bath salts" and spice (synthetic marijuana) are worse than the damn drugs they fight so hard to prohibit and half the time they're legal because the law still hasn't caught up with what's on the shelves.

Why do I see myself old and gray someday saying " when I was your age I had to go find a dealer on the street,and walk 2 miles uphill both ways to get to him!'

From my knowledge, it isn't in the southwestern ontario area. My husband is a cop and he said that he hasn't seen anything yet here. It's insane!!
It breaks my heart seeing so many people on drugs on facebook. Seriously! Who needs to wear sunglasses at night?!!! We aren't stupid and know what you are doing!
There was a big party here in Toronto (DEMF) and this girl thought that her hair was on fire and tried killing herself. Her hair was NOT on fire.

do you really stereotype those who wear their sunglasses at night, that they're doing drugs? Not always the case. No one really needs to they just do. And probably 80% aren't on drugs.