Ivory Wave Snortable Bath-Salt Knock-Offs Hit Seattle-User: High Is "Like Rocket Fuel

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Ivory Wave Snortable Bath-Salt Knock-Offs Hit Seattle-User: High Is "Like Rocket Fuel

The furor over snortable bath salts like Ivory Wave and Bliss has reached a fever pitch. The United Kingdom has banned the products nationwide; Louisiana and Florida have too, while Idaho is looking to follow suit soon. So with state governments everywhere ready to poop all over the bath-salt-snorting party, a host of new companies (or old companies with new names) are selling the products as fast as they can--while they still can. But one user of a cheap Ivory Wave knock-off says to snort carefully, because some of the off-brand stuff is actually a lot more potent than the original.
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article @ http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/02/bolivian_bath_salts_is_bestwor.php
 
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Sigh. Stimulants are bad enough but I can't fucking believe they are marketing phenethylamines or tryptamines over the counter to an uninformed population.
 
well they better outlaw glue and volatile industrial solvents too, because there are plenty of ppl that like the "high" (shudders) they produce. It will never stop, there will always be someone or something to supply the demand.
 
Actually this is a good thing in a way. The way I see things going down is like this:

The mass of the population is uninformed, selling stuff like bath salts gets drugs into the public eye. Sure the media denounces them, but a lot of people are using them, what's that tell you? Eventually the masses will understand that drugs are not as deadly as the government portrays them, and the masses will ask for legalization.

I don't see it being unreasonable to ask for drug legalization, hell, everyone does em anyway.
 
Wait so are you telling me i can buy some sort of tryptamine downtown at the smoke shop?

My initial reaction is that i want some but.... what if i get like MDPV or some shit

lame
 
Mora Fiend said:
Actually this is a good thing in a way. The way I see things going down is like this:

The mass of the population is uninformed, selling stuff like bath salts gets drugs into the public eye. Sure the media denounces them, but a lot of people are using them, what's that tell you? Eventually the masses will understand that drugs are not as deadly as the government portrays them, and the masses will ask for legalization.

I don't see it being unreasonable to ask for drug legalization, hell, everyone does em anyway.
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All these drugs are going to be scheduled. That is the end result of this.
 
I was unaware of psychedelic bath salts-I had heard rumors but hadn't seen any around where I live in the SE United States. I'm pretty interested. I don't really care for the various stimulant bath salts.


EDIT: out of curiosity, how do the bath salts psychedelics compare to their illegal counterparts?
I ask because Mephedrone, MPDV, etc. are imo, unpleasant compared to MDMA. I've never tried coke or meth so I can't really make a comparison there.
 
EVERYTHING CAN BE BOUGHT ONLINE....

^MDPV is a lot like meth for me. I didn't really like meth although I developed a slight addiction to it. MDVP - Yeah we did WAY WAY too much of this the other day and just laid and bed and vibrated for 8 hours cause it was 2am. bad idea.
I don't mind if IF its done at the might time and I take care of myself.

Meph. like it, will likely use it again until I run into a negative experience. Felt like a speedy MDMA high. Like a pill with a little extra. Good for at home with your loved one, being creative. But the high is short lived...
 
Tickle My Pickle said:
wont all these keep coming out though?
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You mean will Chinese chemists synthesize new unscheduled and probably even more dangerous (at the very least completely unresearched) compounds? Yes, they will.. but they isn't really a good thing in my opinion 8)

This has already happened in the UK so we know exactly what will happen.
 
That wasn't an actual profit - it was a "you can buy ten kilos for 9 grand and flip it for 1.6 million assuming you sold it all in single grams at retail yourself" which glosses over a few things, shall we say.

It's insane, and just encourages it to become more popular. But these articles are never actually about harm reduction anyway...
 
Maybe the news, instead of making this thing the new 'flavor of the week' story, should be putting out important facts. Example, "Tonight on NBC News. Bath Salts! It's a dangerous new drug that is increasingly popular with youths. What you dont know could kill you. What do these at-risk youths need to know? Before you rail up some bath salts to make your techno rave-music become a "part" of you, you should probably know that the 350mg "ivory wave" you're anxious to get wasted on is about 35 doses. Thats right, all you little juggalos out there dont need to make a yay-o sized, fatty line outta your cobrasalt bath blend. Just a little goes a long way, and here at NBC nightly news, a little information could save your drug addicted life. I'm Schmucky Newsdouche, now to chet with sports" sorry, thats how i imagine a harm reduction newscast going
 
This is not unlike what happened with MDMA. It was cool when it was used as an underground thing by a few cautious people, but when party people in Dallas re-christened it "ecstasy" and started using it en masse, the party was over.

The main problems I see here are not the drugs themselves but:

1. Mass marketing of mind-altering substances in gas stations and other around-the-way places where every 15-year-old and his kid brother can see it, if not obtain it outright.

2. Products with no ingredient list and a funny name like "Trippin' Balls" in its place. If you don't know what's in a drug, you can't very well determine a safe dose or know what other drugs/activities to avoid while on it.

3. Lack of information about harm reduction among the general public. People thinking the stuff is safe because it's legal. And other such stupidity.

On the one hand, it's unfortunate to ban another drug/group of drugs without extensive studies on the potential benefits; on the other, these frankenstein-ish drugs would probably not exist or be so popular if other more well-known substances were legal and easily obtainable. I really benefit from mephedrone and methylone and hate the thought of them becoming illegal, but that's the system we've allowed to set up shop in our country--one in which government and big corporations control the people instead of serving them.

Rant over.

Long live mephedrone and other "Bath Salts". :(
 
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