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RCs Questions regarding "bath salts" and their identification

Intrinsic man

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Hello all,

I'm sure by now most of you have heard about the cannibal zombie like man who, during a psychotic episode, decided it was a good idea to eat another mans face off. There is a lot of talk in the media about "bath salts" and how they played a role in this mans bat shit crazy actions.

It was my understanding that the term "bath salts" were used to describe the research chemicals Mephedrone, Methylone and MDPV. I have tried Methylone and Mepehedrone a hand full of times (decided a while ago to stay away from pretty much all RC's) and they do not seem to deserve all the media attention they are receiving. They certainly don't seem like a drug that would make someone eat another mans fucking face.

I have a handful of friends who have MUCH more experiencing with these drugs than I, and they would often, over the course of about a year, take a combo of Mephedrone and Methylone and have quite the time. The problems I see with these drugs are that they, 1. Have no guarantee of safety and 2. Can have somewhat fiendish properties at times causing some to irresponsibly binge. They do not seem to be as insidious as everyone is saying.

Are these the drugs people are referring to when they speak of "bath salts"? Do you think they are the cause of this Miami man's freak-out? Is the media perhaps using the term bath salts incorrectly? Have I totally fucked my brain having tried them a handful of times?

One red flag I noticed in most of the reports was the assumption that these drugs could be bought at gas stations, or for that matter anywhere that wanted to sell them. In my experience, these drugs were exclusively bought from an online vendor, like all RC's. Perhaps "bath salts" is now a term being used to describe something else?
 
When I hear bath salts it makes me think Pentedrone/MDPV. Who knows really? I think people in the public eye just assume kids are going to the local bath and body works and snorting up literal bath salts.

I often wonder if youngsters hear about bath salts and try that shit? Like snorting/shooting actual bath salt?

If anything, it has probably caused an increase in the actual sale of bath salt.

Score one for the bathing industry.
 
Bath salts is not a specific category of drugs. It is a broad label people affix to RCs/other drugs so that they can be sold. They are marketed as "salts you dump into your bath and are NOT for human ingestion" when in reality its bullshit, and just a way to legally market illegal drugs.

the "bath salts" term is just a phrase to make something illegal, legal. I've never know to buy "bath salts" from online vendors. 9/10 times you buy the RC knowingly with a label that says "[RC name here] Not for human consumption" versus buying a packet of bath salts' that say "PURPLE FOAM! Add to bath water. Not for human consumption"
 
Bath salts are a vague term used to describe all those shitty drugs you can buy at headshops that contain unknown amounts of unknown chemicals, used to be MDPV mostly and meph/methylone type RCs that you described, but these days they contain just about anything, mixes of quasi-legal or illegal substances.

Basically, they are an extremely dangerous, reckless, fiendish, dirty high that are best avoided completely, I lump them in the same category as inhalant abuse.
 
Bath salts are a vague term used to describe all those shitty drugs you can buy at headshops that contain unknown amounts of unknown chemicals, used to be MDPV mostly and meph/methylone type RCs that you described, but these days they contain just about anything, mixes of quasi-legal or illegal substances.

Basically, they are an extremely dangerous, reckless, fiendish, dirty high that are best avoided completely, I lump them in the same category as inhalant abuse.

Yes, I have heard that there is crazy shit going around now-a-days at head shops. Were I would semi disagree with you is in your evaluation of the 3 drugs I mentioned. I don't know much about MDPV so I can't say anything about that but Methylone didn't seem to be all that bad. Of course who knows what it's doing to your body... It just seems like another way to roll. IMO it actually felt like a "clean" high. I now avoid them simply because I don't have any idea as to there short term and long term affects on the body and mind but as for the actual Methylone experience, it doesn't seem to be all that different from MDMA.
 
When I hear bath salts it makes me think Pentedrone/MDPV. Who knows really? I think people in the public eye just assume kids are going to the local bath and body works and snorting up literal bath salts.

I often wonder if youngsters hear about bath salts and try that shit? Like snorting/shooting actual bath salt?

If anything, it has probably caused an increase in the actual sale of bath salt.

Score one for the bathing industry.

Hahaha this seriously cracked me up
 
Yes, I have heard that there is crazy shit going around now-a-days at head shops. Were I would semi disagree with you is in your evaluation of the 3 drugs I mentioned. I don't know much about MDPV so I can't say anything about that but Methylone didn't seem to be all that bad. Of course who knows what it's doing to your body... It just seems like another way to roll. IMO it actually felt like a "clean" high. I now avoid them simply because I don't have any idea as to there short term and long term affects on the body and mind but as for the actual Methylone experience, it doesn't seem to be all that different from MDMA.

It's very different from MDMA, at least in my book... Didn't even come close to comparing.

BTW: my statements about the short/long term effects are mostly about the current bath salts, which aren't so much MDPV anymore since the ban and they are substituting all these bullshit RC stims so people abusing bath salts are just as much guinea pigs as people who use the same drugs in their "pure" RC form. At least the people trying these stimulants in RC form have a vague idea at what the vendor claims the substance is, and not just a totally random mix of "plant food".
 
I have a friend, thankfully now in rehab, who began IVing this shit and completelh ruined his life. He has been a heavy IV coke and meth user and for some reason he said the downward spiral from his use of "bath salts" was much quicker and more violent.he has attested to the fast onset of disgustingly fiendish behavior and eventually, full blown psychosis. He was 5150'd after a month of use. Bottomline:u dont know whats in this shit. Buyer beware stay the fuck away
 
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