Bath Salts

More and more it becomes evident that people in this world just want to get high, to feel other than they normally do and would.  Much of this is probably natural human instinct, our whole society is based on doing things to feel certain ways from alcohol use to material consumption to possession to relationships but what I think is irresponsible is the way that some people market, use, and abuse other people's curiosity and the latest one to piss me off is the bath salt and plant food crazes that have been sweeping the US since at least December 2010.  Around the time I was hearing more and more about the spices that were being abused as synthetic marijuana, I started hearing more and more about these salts and plant products that people were snorting, shooting, popping and injecting.  Then it was all over this small southern town as the drug compound is called mephadrone and it acts like a cross between cocaine and amphetamine with heavy hallucination properties.  Several reports from people that have tried it talk about the hallucinations involving people chasing them which is very different from the psychedelic properties of other drugs.  This chemical in my opinion is not something that should be used, not to say that others are safer but these types of drugs are made by smart chemists who are looking to make a quick buck and don't have the concern for repeat users as they figure by the time this gets big it will become banned and then they will just move on to next craze.  I have heard of deaths but more often I hear of hospitalizations due to the hallucinations.  As the law is always slower than the rest of the world, they have been trying to plug the loophole that allows this drug to be sold at most gas stations and tobacco shops in the US, the reason it is still legal is because on the bag it says "not intended for human consumption" and because of this it does not fall in the line of any federal laws.  Clever and crafty and as long as people want to get high there will be these types of dangers, until people realize that it is ok to feel what you feel and not feel the need to change everything then there will always be some chemical being abused the biggest and most dangerous still being alcohol and tobacco which kill more people than all other drugs combined every year.  What to do what to do.  As for now, check into your communities and find out what is being done to combat this, petition against companies that continually sell these to kids who don't even need to be 18 to buy it, and do some more research.  MSNBC did a great investigation about it not that long ago.  Nobody knows how dangerous these drugs are but at this point all signs point to extremely harmful.