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Comrade Grumpy

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19. The next thing they need to outlaw is prohibition.
Tue May 29, 2012, 05:20 PM
May 2012

Cocaine used to be legal, then they banned it and someone came up with amphetamines. Amphetamines used to be easily obtainable. They clamped down on them, and--voila!--cocaine was back. Now, cocaine and speed are both illegal (although easily available), and the new synthetic stimulants are on the market. Illegalize one, and a chemist shifts a couple of molecules, and there's a new, legal one. Arguably worse, although I have to say that we read these accounts of people going bonkers on bath salts, we should recall the similar scary stories we heard about other drugs.

As for K2 and Spice, those are synthetic cannabinoids. Wanna kill the market for them? Easy, legalize weed.

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This "Bath Salts" thing; I don't get it. [View all] Nuclear Unicorn May 2012 OP
Hal Sparks does a god comedy bit on this ... reading his home town news ... JoePhilly May 2012 #1
OMG - that was hilarious!!! Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #5
He has an album called Chamageddon ... and he is a regular JoePhilly May 2012 #8
Ah! Thats where I heard his name before. Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #13
He's like a young Robin Williams. GoneOffShore May 2012 #18
I remember stories of PCP back in the 70s but this bath salt thing tops them all Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #2
That's scary. Nuclear Unicorn May 2012 #9
In DE, they just arrested a gas station owner who was selling it over the convenience counter woodsprite May 2012 #11
I thought they banned 'Bath Salts' in Delaware LynneSin May 2012 #23
WebMD article on bath salts: FSogol May 2012 #3
We've had a few users visit our ER lately rustydog May 2012 #4
I caught my son doing it a few months ago. Thankfully they outlawed it and he can no longer get it notadmblnd May 2012 #6
Talk about naive, my friend, outlawing bathsalts has NOT kept it from availability rustydog May 2012 #10
we are not in WA notadmblnd May 2012 #17
It varies from state to state with the illegality of it LynneSin May 2012 #21
The next thing they need to outlaw is prohibition. Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #19
It's a supposed legal loophole. People want to get high without facing prison if caught. Thegonagle May 2012 #7
The town's dry except for some really expensive shit that's out of reach Warpy May 2012 #12
Spot on GObamaGO May 2012 #16
Cheap high Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #14
Boredom, though the whole thing reeks of yet another moral panic. (nt) Posteritatis May 2012 #15
Bath Salts? Simple - it's cheap and in some states, it's legal to buy at your corner market store LynneSin May 2012 #20
Why all the fuss? Clearly "bath salts" are nowhere near as dangerous as cannabis. kestrel91316 May 2012 #22
Neither do I, but it's been on the ATL news for a while now missheidi May 2012 #24
The appeal is it's legal proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #25
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