Bath Salts....Synthetic Drugs Trying to Destroy Our Children

Bath Salts are the new synthetic drugs sweeping our nation like a firestorm!  I had no idea just 2 months ago that they existed and now it seems I can't turn my head or go one day without hearing about them or seeing them lining the shelves of a store.

A few months ago a friend in my area alerted me that BATH SALTS were being sold in a local store and available to kids.  Now if you're anything like me bath salts bring to mind the gift sets our mothers used to get and they are put in the tub for a luxurious bath.  YOU WOULD BE WRONG!

My friend sent me the following links and I urge you to watch them.  I was floored.

Please watch these videos.  You will be floored and angry just like I am!
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These "bath salts" are not intended for the tub at all.  They are intended to be snorted, melted down and shot into a vein or even mixed in a drink with the sole purpose of getting high.  Most are made of MDVP aka methylenedioxypyrovalerone.  Yeah...I know what you're thinking...what the heck is that?

By marketing these new designer drugs that come in many names as "bath salts" and labeling them "not for human consumption" they have avoided being made illegal in many states and cities.  That is beginning to change!

Now anyone who is selling them or making them knows 100% they are being purchased as a drug for the sole purpose of getting high.  These outlets have these drugs flying off the shelves and these manufacturers are making hundreds of thousands off kids and families and it's time to stop!

Effects of these drugs range from paranoia, hallucinations, suicide and so many more.  They are the "replacements" for things like esctasy, xanax, meth, cocaine and who knows what else and perfectly legal right now in many townships and cities. 

Lets not forget "incense."  Oh I know the picture somes to mind of those cone shaped smelly things we used to put in a dish way back in our youth or the sticks that we can put in a jar and light to give the room a nice aroma.  You would be wrong again!  With names like K2 and Spice this "incense" is one popular item.  It is the replacement for marijuana and the kids are buying it up and smoking it.  Why not?  It's legal and cheaper than good old weed. 

Now you might be thinking what's the harm.  The harm is it's not good old weed.  It's a chemical replacement that is made by fly by night manufacturers that has no set amount of chemicals involved.  The same batch can get different amounts of the chemicals and thus cause very different results from the same batch.

While I don't smoke weed a part of me wants to scream not to use this incense.  If you want to smoke weed then do it but smoke the natural stuff not this crap in a bag!

A friend alerted me that it was being sold in a gas station right near my home so I made it my business to march in and see for myself! I went it and they were clearly displayed behind the counter. I asked the clerk if those were Bath Salts and Incense and he assured me they were.  They range in price from $13 all the way up to over $70.  They were in packets shaped very much like the packets rubber bands come in from an orthodontist but they were foil.  Sitting on the shelves waiting for young and old alike to just come and get'em!

The clerk asked me which ones I wanted and I told him I wasn't a customer. I was one mad MOM!  I asked why they sold them when they knew the sole purpose was to get high and he agreed I was right but urged me to speak to the owner who stood outside.

I approached the owner and the clerk rushed out to explain in a language that escapes me.  I asked him why on earth he'd sell that stuff when he knows people are getting high from it and some are being critically harmed and he told me that it's a big seller and it's legal!  I asked him if he had any morals and values.  He declined to answer.  I bet I know the answer to that one!  He asked me why I care.  The answer is simple!  I care about kids, I care about people.  This crap is dangerous due to it's unknown reaction.  No 2 are the same!

I told everyone I knew, I sent out the call.  People were floored!  Most had no idea what Bath Salts were at all.  Most were supportive and rallied with me.  Some of course had something smart to say and I'd bet most of them were customers.  Some asked me why it's my business.  Drugs hurt everyone!  Drugs rip lives away.  Drugs like this....they destroy with no care and if I can get the word out and one person is saved...then it's a good day!

I went to our town meeting and proposed they do something!  I urged them this would snowball and cause a shitstorm they weren't ready for.  They agreed!  We now have an ordinace that make the sale or possession punishable with a fine and up to 90 days in jail.  Our state passed a law making this stuff the same offense as selling, using or purchasing hard core drugs!

The state law won't go into effect for 60 days until then I'll be telling the officers in my community where to write out those tickets!

Recently we had a young boy smoke the incense.  He hallucinated so badly he jumped out of a van and ran off the top of a parking garage!  He remembers nothing.  He's critical.  His friends say he was out of control and seeing things that weren't there. I'm sure he's be on my side.

Drugs hurt us all...believe me.  You don't have to use them to have them change your life!  Ask me...I know!