Bath Salts Drug: Life At Risk
By Tias, Gaea News NetworkSunday, January 23, 2011
FULTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Imagine people slitting themselves up with a knife, after they inhaled a good amount of bath salt. This is exactly what had happened when Neil Brown, a Mississippi resident got high after he inhaled bath salts drug. What are considered to be bath salts, often do not turn out to be so. These are sometimes drugs, which come under the wrappings of bath salts. The man in question is supposed to have had the experience of all sorts of drugs, and he told a leading newspaper about the terrible hallucinations which occurred to him after he inhaled these.
Methamphetamine is one dangerous drug that has the ability of causing terrible hallucinations. These bath salts drug have equal effects like that of abusing methamphetamine, as reported by a few law enforcement agents. There have been reports where people could not resist the effects of these drugs after smoking or injecting them. These drugs come under a number of names like Bliss, Ivory Wave, Hurricane Charlie and White Lightning. The chemicals used in these salts could cause paranoia, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and rapid heart rates. These chemicals are also used in plant foods and bath salts, which are sold over the Internet at affordable prices. The advertisement of bath salts having a complex chemical name are considered to be extremely harmful as reported by the Poison Control Centers and the law enforcement gents of the place. Talks are going on to ban their sale in the country.
Mississippi is the first state to take up the issue of bath salts drug seriously, followed by Kentucky. the lawmakers of these two states are considering a proposal to ban the sale of these powders in the state. These stimulants are facing federal scrutiny. According to the law officers of the place, these stimulants are being shipped from Europe, although their original origin is not yet clear.