Video: 'Bath Salts' on the Today Show

All these legal highs tend to be more harmful than the drugs they are meant to replace. Think synthetic cannabinoids vs. cannabis or mephedrone vs. amphetamines. That's how prohibition works. So it surprise me if those "bath salts" are quite bad shit. Snorting a substance with colorings - I've even heard of people who take this kind of drugs IV - also must mean some risks...
Anyway, I don't like the way these substances are called. Anyway, there are "real" bath salts which probably aren't psychoactive and aren't sold as grey-market drugs. Don't they - now, in this late phase of development of a legal-high market - have any clue what kind of substances these are? I also don't think they all work the same. Using the silly name puts a stigma on all those innocent cosmetic stores (not that I use bath salts myself, my skin doesn't tolerate such things ;)) and also perpetuates the harmful myth that DRUGS ARE (just) DRUGS and that knowing too much about them (such as distinguishing they don't have the same effects...) makes you suspicious.

PS. A little comment to mentalpyro's comment - a quote I like. From a MAPS forum discussion on the definition of LSD in a dictionary: "Based on the definition, you would never have guessed people took it voluntarily".

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Flying Monsters YAY!

To be fair, my wife works in a psych ward here in Missouri and they have had several people come in thwacked out specifically on bath salts, like with full blown psychotic episodes. Not that I think a blanket ban is the best way to address that kind of situation, but the substances do seem to be kind of "unpredictable," at best.

won't somebody PLEASE think of the children????

SNORT SMOKE, OR EVEN EAT

monsters and flying.. WOW
honest to god, I thought I was watching the onion news network for a second. what a soundbite

People are so damn eager to have their freedom taken away.

"guns don't kill people" (who shoot themselves in the head). No, its the bath salts they snorted 5 days before. Obviously.

yes, because people only take drugs that do terrible terrible things to them, and for no reason. there is no way that anyone is experiencing any inkling of a pleasurable experience out of these and they are snorting them because they are simply possessed...

BY DRUGS

Monsters! I can fly!