PA Legislators Back Law to Make ‘Bath Salts’ Illegal

WFMZ-TV:

The drug crackdown has begun, even though the targeted narcotic is still legal in Pennsylvania.

A drug nicknamed “bath salts” burst onto the headlines recently after reports of violent highs surfaced across the state.

“It’s not your run of the mill bath salt,” said Pa. Rep. Jerry Knowles, (R) Schuylkill/Berks counties.

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  • frankee47
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:34pm

    can you believe this. it sounds like something some libs made up to make us rebs look stupid

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  • BBomber66
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 6:15pm

    This is the first time I‘ve heard of this new drug or ’product.‘ I’ve read the posts, snippets and snipes. I’m not in favor of more restrictive laws or prohibitve actions; however, shouldn’t we as a civilized society want to promote safety and the general weal. Different past societies or civilizations have placed limits on its groups behavior for the sake of that group. Some of those would be questionable in today’s societies, but others should not have been so easily discarded.

    In this case the substance described is one from which our children, at least, should be protected. It should be because our childdren’s brains have not developed fully and they cannot make the choice for themselves. As for the adults–some of their brains have not fully developedf either–it is their choice, but so, too, is drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or having unproteced sex.

    I would like to draw attention to the results of one’s choice to smoke, ingest or absorb foreign chemicals into one’s body. When the experiment or test or I’ll-just-try-it-once lark goes awry, who pays. The hospital or my insurance rates? The police department or the guy down the streeet whose car was crashed into? The EMTs who responded to a mother’s frantic call about her son or daughter or the parent who has to mourn the loss of his or her child? (Okay, bad, enabling parenting aside, please) It is all about the children, isn’t it? I don’t want to pay for the adults behavior. Lock them away and protect me from them. They made a choice, however stupid or ill-conceived; it was a choice. Ah, let’s see: do I want to get high or get high and break a law doing it. For some the choice is: get high or get high. Society has the right to reject them and their choice. The brain is controlled by nature’s use of chemicals. It is easily altered by manmade chemiclas. Using man made chems to alter a brain that wasn’t functioning all that well to begin further exacerbates the problem, leading to more irrational behavior. Make attempts to help the child, teach them, of course–we want them as productive members; but when they reject joining the socitey in a constructive manner, then the society has the choice to remove them. Throw the switch.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 5:08pm

    Maybe they should just stamp, “not for human consumption” on each grain; that would solve the notification issue…

    If you use a product for something than its intended purpose and you die… sucks to be you!

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:24pm

    Hey I say lets keep the salts on the market. We all know that a high percentage of people who take drugs in general are of a specific voting block. I say let these “useful idiots” kill themselves. The less of them the less votes Obama has in Nov 2012. Keep up the good work.

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  • crackerone
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:27pm

    Does the stuff make you smart?

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:39pm

    Ugh… this busy body nonsense seems to impress some, but I believe there are bigger fish to fry than saving morons from themselves. It seems the “war on drugs” propaganda has been very effective. Take an action akin to ******* in the wind (i.e., assuming you will ever end or even control substance abuse), throw hundreds of billions of dollars at it, swell your jails and prisons (hmm… which lobby pushes for harsher drug laws and sentencing? Why, that would be those who build private prisons! Go figure!) and assume you’re doing something that matters. The left wants to take Happy Meals. The right has found its comparable bugaboo. Devote your private time and money as you see fit. I don’t like seeing my representatives play social engineer in trying to save stupid people from themselves. This is at best a red herring considering our overall state of well being. I don‘t understand how you can say you don’t want govt. telling you what you can’t eat or drink… but some moron sniffing bath salts suddenly fires up your willingness to have govt. act in loco parentis. Seems to be a muddled message to me….

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  • powhatan
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:24pm

    “Everything goes up his nose” Cheech and Chong

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  • critterbait
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:45am

    How about you say
    HEY DUMMIE THIS WILL KILL YOU !!!!!
    Cant you read the SIGN !!!!!
    Well 2nd thought maybe they cant…
    I am sure it has is use ,,,used properly, but because of a few many will suffer…
    But they’ll fix it for you,, they fix everything… HA HA HA HA

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  • FUSOCIALISTS
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:18am

    @The_Ancient

    “…a larger violation of natural law…” How old are you… 12? Go be Tarzan somewhere else.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:49pm

      I am old enough to understand the Reply buttons and how they work here… You not soo much…

      However I dont understand your problem with the snippet you extracted from my post

      Natural law vs Human Law is a common and philosophical topic. And has been a part of this country since our founding “i.e that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” These are Natural Laws/Right that can not be changed or modified by Human Law

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    • BidBerthaDotCom
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:13pm

      I will assume by your name that you like Thomas Jefferson, as he was not a socialist. Perhaps you should see what he says about Natural Law before you go spouting off the RINO talking points and think you’re advocating freedom. Libertarians are consistent regarding their concept of freedom, the republican party just thinks they are.

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:52am

    I wonder who manufactured it. Some no named company in China that put in whatever was on the shop floor in to the baggies.

    How easy if even able to manufacture it at home with off the shelf chemicals. Is the key ingredient only found in limited quantity from a plant unique to an location or a by-product another chemical reaction that is made by the ton and readily affordable to anyone without limit. Will there be any “salt labs” or is having a meth labs easier and more profitable. Will someone be caught with 100 lbs of MDPV (real name). If they are found they would get charged with possession of fake drug for sale. as the MDPV looks like anything and does not pass any tests.

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  • setusfree2012
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:48am

    “If you take the very worst of some of the other drugs — LSD and Ecstasy with their hallucinogenic-delusional type properties, PCP with extreme agitation, superhuman strength and combativeness, as well as the stimulant properties of cocaine and meth — if you take all the worst of those and put them all together this is what you get. It’s ugly,” added Ryan, who recounted some harrowing stories.

    The products have also been linked to suicides, not to mention hospitalizations, and on Tuesday investigators confirmed the presence of bath salt drugs in the blood of a man who KILLED A SHERIFFS DEPUTY in Tippah County, Miss., ABC News reported.

    Louisiana has already banned the products, via a decree from the governor’s office that recently made them a Schedule 1 substance, putting them in the same class as heroin. Now law enforcement officials in that state — and Florida, which enacted a similar decree — CAN DO MORE THAN JUST CHARGE PEOPLE WITH A MISDEMEANOR FOR USING OR SELLING the fake bath salts.

    —-> THIS IS WHY IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED!

    http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/649596.html

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  • psst
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:18am

    The police in Louisian made the rounds of retailers and confiscated these so-called bath salts.
    These things are drugs.
    The hot item now that bath-salts have been confiscated are the so called incense, sold in packets.
    These things are also drugs.
    I don’t know whether they are inhaled of smoked. I do know the younger generation are really into it.
    Some older adults as well.
    I’v come to the conclusion that we are not gonna stop people from using drugs. Lets legalize these drugs fo sale ,(this will stop the drug wars) then create special areas/buildings where these people can go and shoot up, smoke up, inhale up to their hearts content. If they are caught using outside of these designated areas, they go straight to jail.
    Post guards at the entrances that will detect if they have their senses about them when they leave. If not, they stay there until their head clears.It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than the billions spent on the waa on drugs.
    We will help these people and society at large.They will kill themselves much quicker (the country is over populated w/ idiots)and this will eventually save the taxpayers $$. Plus the billions trying to fight the waa on drugs wich can’t be won.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:49am

      The country is indeed over populated with idiots. It’s called the tea party, so please teatards for the sake of the country, DIE SOON!!!!

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Oldphoto678…
      Is that you, Alan Grayson? Sounds like what a lefty would consider a reasonable political plan. I’ve never wished death upon an American political figure or their zombie followers. Curious as to know how you would defend your stance.

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  • setusfree2012
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:16am

    For everyone that thinks this is merely a personal responsibility issue, why don’t we go ahead and allow crack, meth, and LSD to be sold at your neighborhood convenience stores too….because that’s what this is like.

    There ARE already restrictions on kids under 18 buying certain types of over the counter paint products, cough syrups, etc.

    I’m glad our state has banned this as well, and we are a republican majority. It’s not just the kids taking the stuff you have to worry about, it’s the other people that could be killed as a result.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:28am

      People like you are the reason I main time the “Republicans” or rather conservative are a larger threat to personal liberty than liberals. Liberal just want to steal all of my money, you want to control my behavior which is a larger violation of natural law since money is a human construct.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:30am

      [There really needs to be an edit button here]
      People like you are the reason I maintain the “Republicans” or rather conservative are a larger threat to personal liberty than liberals. Liberals just want to steal all of my money (limiting by economic freedom), you want to control my behavior which is a larger violation of natural law since money is a human construct.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:22pm

      To The Ancient:
      I’m with you ’til you start your rant about which party or ideology is more repressive. I believe it’s the left that has championed free speech zones, it’s the left that wants content control on the Internet (my state sentator, Jay Rockefeller, sure hates the Internet and satellite/cable TV), it’s the left that wants to attack soft targets like video games (e.g., Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman) or music. Are you old enought to remember the PMRC circus with Tipper Gore as its ring leader? The left says it champions free speech (when it’s our tax dollars funding provocateurs that are laughably called “artistes” for literally crapping on a picture or urinating in a jar) but just doesn’t like the private citizen deciding what he wants to play, see, hear or access. There are the religious busy bodies on the right (like the idiots who were playing recordings backwards and hearing the voice of Satan in rock music that caused murder and mayhem), but the organized, politicized push to limit freedom of speech is clearly from the left.
      The left tells people in CA they can’t burn brush on private property… so when a fire comes along the destrution of homes can apparently be assured. This can‘t be owned by any but environmentalists who know what’s best (sic) for you and your property.
      The left wants to tell people what they can and can’t eat. Find one conservative who supports the “don’t eat Happy Meals” nonsense.
      The left wants to tell you what kind of light bulb to use.
      The left believes I shouldn’t be armed. Throw a Nerf ball at any random gathering of Hollywood progressives; which ever one you hit in the head is likely going to utter “Guns are bad!” when that is the issue up for debate. Activists on the left want to tell me what I can buy (e.g., action and caliber), how many I can buy, how much ammo I can own, and what kind of ammo I can use (govt. approved, of course).
      My list goes on. I’d be curious to see you counter it.
      The busy bodies regarding substance abuse seem to be about evenly matched. On the left, charlatans embrace the disease model and claim they can cure you… if they just had a little more time and money. Keeping people in the criminal justice system means job security. On the right, the inability to let Lil’ Stinky fail keeps folks from letting self-destructive morons be true to their nature. If you just ban it all, that ends the problem, right?
      There are busy bodies on both ends of the spectrum, but your statement that the left wants you to be free is laughable. I’ve got a liberal buddy who grudgingly admittted the left is no friend to free speech. He recounted his epiphany to me… he kept trying to rationalize all the actions he saw the left taking against free speech into some argument as to how this was for the greater good and couldn’t bring himself to swallow it.
      Look at conmtemporary and historical leftist regimes. You can seriously still hold to your statement? In this country it is clear which side’s busy bodies are stepping on my ability to read, view, play, eat, manage, drink, smoke and generally live. Believe as you will. The busy bodies on the right tend to be annoying but relatively harmless in this country; the busy bodies on the left appear to be annoying and dangerous in this country and beyond.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:44pm

      @THE GOOCH

      Liberals and Conservatives have the same control issues, they only differ on the topics.

      Liberals == Bann Guns, Property Rights, and Individual Thought
      Conservatives == Bann Sex, Drugs, and Behavior deemed by them as “Immoral” or “Against Gods Words”

      Libertarian == Just want Liberals and Conservatives the leave us the hell alone and let us live our lives and spend our money however we damned well please with out either one of you preaching over us about the Environment, Sinning, Saving us, How we make too much money, how we dont pay enough taxes, how we should not use drugs, How we should not pay for sex or watch porn …. JUST LEAVE ME THE F ALONE!!!!!!

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:03pm

      To The Ancient:

      A-G-R-E-E!!!

      I find many busy bodies in my circle of awareness tend be diverting attention from something (e.g., I’ve met many an enabler who supports the idiotic substance abuse tx racket) or is engaged in some serious reaction-formation.
      I still find the left to be more repressive. There is a hard right out in the big, wide world, but it’s not what I see in this country. The religious right in this country just doesn’t seem that well organized to me. They babble, preach and lament, but there not the ones getting laws passed these days. Even Prohibition (i.e., the 18th Amendment) was largely driven by a left leaning crowd. Granted, the Bible thumpes own that stupidity, also, but it was a progressive wet dream more than anything.
      I’m all for helping the junkies who truly want to change. They are few and far between, but they will succeed. The simple fact is sometimes the world doesn’t wanna be saved… only left alone. But that doesn’t matter when there is a buck to be made.

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:34pm

      @Ancient Totally agree. Why in the world would a truly “free” people need political parties? You should be able to live as you want, do what you want, buy what you want, and in the world of ideas, to quote the Bard, “Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends”

      The need for control always boils down to fear. Let’s be the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE. K?

      Silversmith

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:38pm

      @THE GOOCH

      In a A/B Comparison the Left is ultimately more repressive due to their socialist leaning however one thing about the left is more and more they are open and honest about those socialist leanings, the Right however hide behind the mantel of “small government” and cloaks themselves in the fake support of the constitution while supporting the nanny state for their won goals

      So who is more dangerous, the enemy that is attacking it head on? or the enemy the comes in from the side, whispering sweat nothings in freedoms ear then stabs freedom in the back?

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:43pm

      Or a better analogy,

      Ask a Soldier, would you rather have the enemy across the battle field fighting you head on in clear conflict, or a hidden enemy in your own fox hole?

      Right now, Liberty loving libertarians are confused and fighting with and calling themselves “Conservatives” in a head to head battle with Liberals for individual freedom, and fail to see the knife that conservative have pointed at the backs of Libertarians

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:15pm

      To The Ancient:
      I had a lengthy response that apparently disappeared into the nether realms of The Blaze. I hope it makes it thru. I’m enjoying the back and forth. For now, I’m going to go burn some brush. I’ll check back later, If the post in question makes it thru, I’m curious to read your response; if not, farewell and keep up the good fight.

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  • bblack
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:24am

    Alabama banned this about a month ago.

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  • Fedupinpa
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:16am

    Once again, how can we keep ahead of the criminally insane who produce this stuff? Originally produced as a non-addicting substitute for cocaine, it was found to be more addicting, worse side effects & more deadly. Sold here in central PA for $50 @ gram, definitely NOT Calgon!

    I remember years ago, there 2 kids huffing gasoline in a project stairwell. Felt sooo good they decided to light up a congratulatory smoke! End of problem, except for fire department. I‘d be willing to allow Darwin’s law to be the final arbitrator, but that takes too long. There are some things that have to be kept away from people. Ideally, we should have enough personal responsibility to make good choices. But even those of us from wonderful backgrounds screw up. And even those from the meanest turn into model citizens.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:26am

      There are things that have to be kept away from people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

      What a good Communist or Liberal position of you.

      How about Guns, Knives, etc. Should those “be kept away from people for their own good as well”

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    • felina g
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:31am

      Food.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:53am

      You would think that if the end result of these designer drugs was to eliminate the undesirables in society, the Progressives would be all for it (since they already support genocide thru termination of life). Go figure.

      Seriously dangerous drugs…but not as dangerous as the left.

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:11am

    When the smokeable incense showed up in tobacco shops the reaction was to me, predictable.
    I hung out for about an hour with a friend behind the counter and observed the clientele.
    Crackheads and dope smokers who didn’t have a drug connection were streaming in to buy it.
    It is a dangerous drug that causes permanent damage to the liver, pancreas, lungs and brain.
    The “bath salts” are in the same category. If you have children please tell them to avoid these drugs and those who use them. And moderation isn’t the answer either. The chemicals build up over time and cause the same damage eventually.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:22am

      Who do you blame for this? The companies? The people? or the Government?

      I blame the government, but not for the reason everyone else here does. If the government would understand the prohibition does not work, but regulation and education does then companies would have have a market for “smokable incense” that are 1000000000000000000000000000000000x more deadly than classic marijuana they are marketed as a replacement for as people would choose to smoke the real stuff instead the government as created a massively profitable and deadly black market, and a massively profitable and deadly side (chemical) market for a relatively harmless intoxicant.

      Good Job Conservatives!
      Good Job Nanny Government that is supported by Conservatives!!

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  • Uncle Sambo
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:04am

    Why not;

    You already have to be over 18 to purchase spray paint.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:33am

    When it gets down to it, each of us is responsible for what we put into our bodies and no amount of legislation, litigation or policing is going to stop some people. You just can’t protect idiots from themselves.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:23am

    Sounds like the drug the left is on….

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  • WHITE LOTUS2x
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:04am

    Halucinations sounds terifying to me, and thats only one of the effects. I guess I` not smart enough to appreciate it.Lotus.

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    • Blacktooth
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:49am

      Lotus,

      Intelligent people, like most of us realize that if I, for instance, make a bad decision, I will always have a consequence resulting from it. And I will have to accept that consequence without whining to someone else for sympathy. If some idiot decides to take drugs, they are on their own as far as I am concerned.
      I can try to help someone make good decisions, but the final decision is up to them.

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  • stmike
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:41am

    Wow instead of The Final Ride at the amusement park its The Final Bath in your tub. Will wonders never cease?

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  • orionjwh
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:33am

    Trust me this is a good thing. It is really bad in my area. They add the drug into bath salts and they absorb into the skin, but some people still smoke or snort them. The reactions are violent and sometimes permanent. Several people in my area have permanent neurological damage from using it once.

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    • Blacktooth
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:31am

      Orion….. “Several people in my area have permanent neurological damage from using it once.”

      Maybe they should not have used it once!
      I can muster no sympathy for anyone who uses hallucinogenic drugs. They reap what they sow.

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  • Vince Foster
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:31am

    .
    I heard there a new drug on the mean streets called “GoldBond”.
    .

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  • louzyana
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:28am

    This DRUG that is being sold at corner stores and truck stops is NOT the typical “take me away Calgon” type bath salt. It was never intended to be put into a bath, but rather up your nose. Here in Louisiana the sale of this drug was banned after hundreds of people were showing up at local ERs with serious problems. Hallucinations that lasts for days are one of the most serious effects of this drugs and suicides were reported connected with the use of “bath salts”.

    The people who produce this product know exactly what it does and it needs to be taken off the market. More info here.. http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/649596.html

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    • stmike
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:53am

      Just read the bloomberg article Omg. Folmer is my state senator I should call and thank the man seeing as I knew nothing of this. Hug maybe this is why so many people at the local Walmart look like they just walked out of a circus side show ugh

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    • Kalidor835
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:27am

      I love how the Federal bureaucrat said it could take years to ban it on that level. In the meantime I guess it’s up to the states once again to be the ones with sanity.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:32am

      So if people start showing up at the ER have drinking gasoline we should bann it as well?

      How about we go ahead and bann all spray cans because people huff??

      Or Magic Markers, or Paint Thinners, or any of the 1,000 of products that can be used to “get high” sold every day at the supermarket??

      Prohibition has NEVER and will NEVER work. Intoxicants and hallucinogens have been used by humans since before civilization, and will continue to be used by humans till there are no humans left. To think you can change human nature with a human law is a violation of natural law and a violation of our personal freedom

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    • louzyana
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:00am

      the_ancient,
      Gasoline or the other items you mentioned are not marketed as a “high” like these bath salts are being done. The packets of this drug are on the counters of stores right next to the energy drinks. And the side effects are deadly.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:12am

      To the FDA and many “concerned citizens” Energy drinks are dangeruous as well as should be banned so you going to support people banning those?

      How about Caffine Pills?

      Do you support the continued ban of Ephedrine (aka original mini thins).

      Do you support banning personal responsibly as well?

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    • mill
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:13am

      The_Ancient

      you’re just being silly and obstinate in your responses.

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    • JollyTrooper
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:23am

      @Mill:
      As a libertarian…I see his point loud and clear. It’s not silly or obstinate.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:50am

      It amazes me that we have a culture that needs to get high so bad that they will snort anything without looking into it. Amazing! http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • Bret
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:12pm

      It was created for union members, so it appears to be working. If I don’t buy it, I don’t have a problem with it. If you buy stuff at a gas station and stick it in your bath… …stupid is as stupid does. I would be more worried about the water in the tub, now that PA has sold its’ soul to the nasty natural gas industry…

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:21pm

      @WALKWITHME1966

      I used to work with a guy that, like me abhorred pre-employment drug screens, When a potetental employer would ask “do you have a problem taking a drug test” he would always respond “Why is this place soo bad I have to be high to work here?”

      ROFL…..

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:34pm

      @MILL

      I am trying to get people to understand that “government banns” are not the solution to any real or perceived product or social problem. A persons personal feelings on a substance, item, or activity does not give that person the right bann others from using it. Just because the items I choose have “popular” support or “popular” uses does not make them any less dangerous.

      I dont smoke, I dont drink alcohol, but I do consume large amounts of Flavored and Caffeinated sugar water otherwise known as Mountain Dew, that is my “vice” if you will, Some people would love to tax or bann my drink of choice because it is “bad for you” and it will probably kill me since my family has a long history with Type II diabetes, I know the risks and I choose to do it anyway.

      If a Person wants to consume these bath salts, then it is THEIR body not yours, you have no RIGHT to tell any person what to drink, eat, smoke, snort, or do with their body.

      I dont want to hear about “well it costs the government money” or “they steal things” which are common excuses to allow people to sleep at night while violating other peoples natural rights. Instead you should support swift and harsh punishment for actual crimes like Theft, Murder, etc, and support reforms to would allow irresponsible drug users to either A> Get help from people that want to help those people or die in the streets (which I have no problem with, you choose to get addicted to hard drug and die in the street it is not my problem or burden).

      What you dont do is pass prohibitions on activities and products you personally do not see a value in or dont personally enjoy, because at some point there will be someone that will want to bann something you do enjoy but they do not see a value in or enjoyment in.

      As to the “Bath Salts” These are a direct and logical result of the “War on Drugs” Want to see these dangerous products disappear, the solutions is to end the war on drugs, not just add these to the war, because there will be a chemical replacement for them, I assure you of that.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:11am

    what the heck..????

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    • vivrobbins
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:30am

      This is awful, this is the reason so many children are dieing at the hands of theirs own parents, have you ever been around a person high on myth. People high on myth are angry, uncontrollable, paranoid INSANE.
      These salts create the same effect. They are dangerous, get them off the shelves NOW.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:33am

      I haven’t heard about this one.Seems dangerous. Hope they can get them off before anyone is killed.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:40am

      If you are bent on polluting your body and you’re fool enough to snort bath salts, I say have at it. You deserve all that you get. I am sick of protecting and paying for stupid people doing stupid things.
      http://bioterrorsuvival.com

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:45am

      I had to go Google this one.
      Looks like the drug is a “designer” type that you snort.
      It makes you hallucinate.

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    • APatriotFirst
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 7:57am

      My drugs of choice ……….

      1. Check the Blaze Not sure I can find a 12 step program for this to give it up.
      2. Check the Eagles of Decorah. Don’t want to give this one up.
      3. World of Warcraft game. I am level 85 now, no way I will give it up.

      All the rest of the drugs out there are not my cup of TEA.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:23am

      I have to agree with Ironmaan on this one, if it’s not this it will be some other junk these clowns will take to escape reality. How about we try to enforce a little personal responsibility for a change, you want to shove bath salts up your nose and die, have at it cause evidently your too stupid to have around in the first place. I suppose the next thing we‘ll find out is someone is using a happy meal toy for something other than it’s intended purpose and the government will make those illegal too…….never mind.

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:25am

      I can guarantee that they still won’t have a budget done this summer again until 2-3 months after it was supposed to be.

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    • cognitivedissonance
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:45am

      @vivrobbins I’m curious about how one gets high on myth, I‘ve got a copy of the Iliad and I’m wondering if I should smoke it, eat it, or sniff it. Or maybe there are other types of myth that will give me a better high. Should I use some stories about Odin? Or the Bible? Or the Qu’ran?

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    • mill
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:53am

      we’ve had problems with the bath salts here and “spice’… seems there is no limit to what people will do or put into their bodies.. Adults are one thing, there is no curbing there stupidity, but the kids are using these things.

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    • Obeckian1984
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:02am

      maybe we can ban Gasoline while we are at it.
      Did you know people sniff Gas to get high ????

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:30am

      Ironman, I agree!

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    • ying
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:35am

      Please, these are not really bath salts people! This just proves how easily brainwashed you all are, and how easy it is to fool you. Just because the package says bath salts does not mean that it’s that. It’s meth, a legal meth.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:44am

      “Myth” That’s what you teatards are high on! It makes you angry, uncontrollable, paranoid INSANE!!!

      Get off the myth teatards, and try REAL facts for a change.

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    • Bret
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:06pm

      Maybe this idiot should watch Gasland… I think that PA had better look at it’s own natural gas “fracking” leases as a source of death and disease, before it tackles the tough problem of bath salts. If you want to see well water catch fire from the faucet, watch Gasland now, before your state kills itself…

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:28pm

      Sell it to all progressives, they can get their buzz and die for all I care…

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Well, if this is legal, we can see what the result is. People want to legalize pot and other street drugs. What’s going to happen? Ain’t gonna be pretty. The government wants to downsize the population anyway.

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    • ztkraptor
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:04pm

      yeah, gotta watch out for those “myth” people…ROFL

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    • nosycophant
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:10pm

      The Blaze is about a year behind on this, ten billion to the war on drugs last year and this all that came out of it? when it comes to weed decriminalize and educate why does the handgun violator get out of prison after serving 3 of 5 years to make room for another person for possession of pot? WTF the real problem is the chemicals like this stuff no one is educated about and not till it is too late, but let the feds and police get there rocks off on arresting people and putting the pot heads in jail when the real problem is this kind of stuff the junkies roll over on a pot head get a reduced sentence for being a rat and when they are on the street again they find their safe coke or chemical dealer still in business because he gave up a pot head and not the real dope dealer.

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    • 1952
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:13pm

      Lousy reporting here…. how is drug administered? What does it look like out of the package? Are there other names for it? What are the symptoms? As a teacher, I like to keep abreast of these things… like salvia, etc. Any parent should check this out because if it’s legal, the kids won‘t think it’s bad to try. Wake up!

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    • BidBerthaDotCom
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:55pm

      Quit with the knee-jerk, “let’s ban it” mentality already. The government can’t keep illegal drugs out of prison, so let’s turn the whole damn country into a prison and see if that works. Great idea. And stop with the whole “for the children” garbage too. You sound like a bunch of liberals. Drugs are going to be here whether they’re legal or not. Teach your kid how not to be an idiot. If he/she is stupid enough to do this stuff and dies, well maybe Darwin had a point.

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 2:51pm

      @ironman
      agreed with your post 100% and they should pass the salts out at union rallys at no charge.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 3:26pm

      if you go to most gas stations that sell pot pipes, they also sell these meth powder. almost identical to meth in every way, but these guys sell it to kids legally, sometimes labled as plant food also. kids in as young as 10 can buy it and use this legal product. the pakisani guys who run the ct convenience stores keep it next to the candy .

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    • Allee
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 4:49pm

      To VivRobbins: Honey, I think you may be referring to “meth” not “myth”. People on “myth” are called “democrats”, although the symptoms and reactions are the same that you described.

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