Senator Schumer Wants To Ban "Bath Salts"

It was only a week ago that we first heard about the crazy new bath salts drug trend, but they're already being targeted by the man for permanent banishment. Senator Chuck Schumer announced a bill today to add the two active ingredients in the powders, mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV, to the list of federally controlled substances.

Authorities say that people are snorting, injecting or smoking bath salt powders, and getting a high reportedly as powerful as abusing methamphetamine; according to experts, some of the effects of the salts (which sell for as cheap as $20 a packet) include hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts. "These so-called bath salts contain ingredients that are nothing more than legally sanctioned narcotics, and they are being sold cheaply to all comers, with no questions asked, at store counters around the country,” Schumer said. And we haven't even gotten a chance to try them out yet! At least they can't take away our beloved slightly caffeinated, sour-tasting, over-the-counter energy jolt drinks...since they are basically placebos, it turns out.

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By Ben Yakas in News on January 30, 2011 11:13 AM

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cmdrogogov

This idiot is a dead loss, following the bloombag school of making sure that the public at large are kept safe from the menace of having an iota of choice in the products they buy all whilst scratching the backs of his mafIAA and hollywood buddies by supporting abortions of copyright legislation like COICA and ACTA.

whitecastlerock

I guess Chucky boy gave up on fighting rising gas prices...

Caffiend

Lets see. No energy drinks with alcohol and no bath salts. What's next? Perhaps I should try to find a way to get high on hipsters, maybe they'll get banned.

rcltrh

The thing is these drugs are not actually "bath salts" that can be bought anywhere in the bath and beauty section, and have never been used in the stuff you put in your bath water. They only call them that to bypass customs and drug laws much like some of the inhalants they call "nail polish remover," "video head cleaner," and "incense" which are not nor have ever been used for any of those things. If you go to the convenience store/head shop and see little packets labeled "bath salts" up there by the caffeine, speed, and similar products, that is what they are trying to ban not the stuff at Bath & Body Works which does not and has not ever contained those drugs.

Mordicai

"Mephedrone, also known as 4-methylmethcathinone (4-MMC), or 4-methylephedrone, is a synthetic stimulant and entactogen drug of the amphetamine and cathinone classes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Huh. Sounds...like drugs to me, actually. While I think safe, legal, regulated narcotics would be a better path-- it works with caffeine & alcohol-- its not like Schumer isn't making sense.

robingee

So he's not banning bath salts, he wants to "add mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone to the list of federally controlled substances."

So OK.

starrygordon

And we need this.

Stanhope Charming

Does Chuck only work on Sunday?

random transplant

Breaking news:

Zinfandel shared between married couples leads to unwanted pregnancy. Ban everything!

Xwendekar

Let's ban marriage.

blink667

Rome is burning and Chuck wants to legislate bath salts. I think his next ground breaking piece of legislation will have something to do with the size of breast implants.

Roger_the_Shrubber

Let's ban Chuck Schumer.

Guest

The people who sniff bath salts are the ones who are already doing all of the other illegal drugs anyway and are now to broke to afford them.

I don't appreciate my relaxing baths being less luxurious cause of some crazy fiends.