So say you woke up one day and
bath salt was on the grocery list. What you should keep in mind is that this may not be you father’s cleaning product. Bath salt is the official slang for the mysterious narcotics that contain you in a zombie like mind state….well maybe not literally but as many reports suggest, you can’t help but to think evil thoughts. The controversy started when a Miami local attacked an unconscious homeless man, eating almost half of the man’s face. The homeless man was taken to the hospital and survived but leaving serious injuries. Now I know what you’re thinking, how does a man dig into another man’s face like a mcdouble? Well courtesy of this new drug, it’s said that people possess about 2 to 3 times their normal body strength. Origins of the substance as well as what exactly it’s made up of are still a mystery. At the moment bath salt is on a lawless rampage as you can find it any were from department stores to greenery shops (to use for plant food) but it’s pretty hard to ban a substance when the contents of it is always rapidly changing.
The most common substance in
bath salt is MDPV, (or mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone) which cause delirium, hallucinations,rapid heart rates, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts. Dickie sanders, a victum of the drug, experienced 3 days of terrifying hallucinations before slitting his own thought. When the suicide attempt proved unsuccessful he then left the watch of his father and shot himself in the next room. Many actions of those involved in these situations are described as “uncharacteristic” when under the influence which is why many take is as far as to say the people were zombiefied. One man was said to been caught trying to chew the paint off a cop car which would either make him a copycat criminal or the drug really makes people act how the consensus would want to believe. Now looking into fictional stories like Resident Evil doesn’t seem completely absurd. After all, what would stop an organization from making a bigger and better form of it and finding ways of mass distribution? Though that’s a pretty far out situation drugs are really no more than biological weapons. Instances when you hear about a man under the influence fist fighting an officer because he “thought he was a devil”, are almost comical but the threat of this is no joke.
Louisiana takes lead of the epidemic with 48% of all the calls being reported or 165 cases. At least 25 other states have had exposure reports also. Bath salt has definitely caused an up roar though still in its stages of infancy, but why would anyone be willing to inject something with such a potent nature? Convenience maybe? Could it be that it’s familiar to current drugs users because you can inject, snort, or smoke it? Maybe it complements meth and cocaine well? Whatever it is, it’s addictive and wildly popular. It’s as if all the junkies meant in the street and decided to make it the next big fad. Alternate street names for the drug are “
white lightning“, “Hurricane Charlie”, “Ivory wave” and “cloud 9″ with the latter being one of the more harder versions. You would think that society has learned its lesson by now but we seem to be a glutton for punishment. No matter how “evil, terrible, or terrifying” the experience is, they want to do it over and over again. Until the drug can be detected in humans and we pin point exactly what it is, there’s no telling how long it will take to make it illegal but for now cases in court are forced to receive judgments like disorderly conduct, basically a time out in the street corner. Eventually this thing may blow over just as crack did which is now grandpa’s drug…Well that is until they find the next big thing to sniff and cause a zombie apocalypse.
What are your thoughts on Bath salt and the crazy people on it? Is it really a problem? Are people purposely acting out on the substance just to gain attention?
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