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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(Good grief) Another example of the reaction to 'bath salts':
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During his rabid rant, Karl Laventure remarked, Ill eat you, I wont eat you, I do want to eat you but I wont, according to cops on the scene.
Police in Gwinnett County said theyd never before seen a suspect fight through a blast of pepper spray or more than a dozen shots from a Taser.
They attribute Laventures ability to withstand pain and his incoherent babbling to the synthetic drugs hed smoked for his 21st birthday.
For a normal person, they get hit once or twice with the Taser, theyre pretty much done fighting, said Cpl. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County Police Department. Its like he couldnt feel pain.
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http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/04/070412-news-bath-salts-cannibal-1-2/
Lawd! This shite makes PCP look tame.
Mopar151
(10,006 posts)Boy, I can't wait to scramble my nervous system like an egg......
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Seems weird the one crazy Senator can be keeping this shit legal.
MattBaggins
(7,905 posts)What is Rand Paul doing?
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)WASHINGTON -- In response to a series of bizarre, sometimes deadly, incidents involving people high on "bath salts," Congress is poised to send a ban on chemicals used in synthetic drug mixtures to the president's desk.
U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th District, a leading anti-bath salts crusader on Capitol Hill for more than a year, introduced a bill in March 2011 to add a long list of chemicals found in variations of designer drugs known as bath salts or synthetic marijuana to the Drug Enforcement Agency's list of controlled substances.
It passed the House overwhelmingly in December, but a version of a bath salts ban was blocked in the Senate by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who argued that drug enforcement should be left up to the states. The Senate then included a bath salts ban in its version of legislation pertaining to Federal Drug Administration user fees.
Bipartisan support for Dent's bill in the House coupled with pressure from lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., in the Senate, convinced lawmakers to include the ban as part of a final compromise on the FDA package.
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http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120621/NEWS90/120629951/-1/NEWS
Gman
(24,780 posts)It could happen.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Cops just throw out that shit when they don't even know wtf they are talking about, which is mot of the time.
All of this smacks of a new anti legalization propoganda push.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)There's a Screaming Jay Hawkings song in there somewhere.
Certainly an Ella Fitzgerald song...
"first you say to do and then you do, first you say you will and then you won't"