At least they had nice lilac scented breath.
Kids can find all kinds of things to get a buzz from: aerosols, glue, paint, gasoline, etc. Most of these things are cheap and readily available in every home.
None of these things can be purchased by a minor in the state of Florida. You also have to be 18 to buy a can of whipped cream.
No doubt. If a kid wants an escape hatch from reality, they will find one. We need to stop talking so much to them about specific drugs and ways to get high, and talk to them more about why they want to get high.
Maybe he gets home from school earlier than his parents get home from work each day, so he gets to the mailbox first.
Thankfully I have been invited back to my friend's house this weekend and I may be tempted to use her Jacuzzi again, but I will see if she offers it to me first. I couldn't believe how relaxed I had become.
If that is true, then I forsee the FDA moving quickly to ban MDPV from bath salts and bath salts containing this substance cannot be sold to consumers and instead must be destroyed.
As for Epsom Salts, they have several different uses to relieve various symptoms. Since I have the opposite of constipation, I don't need to ingest them. I just use them for my hot baths when I come home all sore and achy from work, especially on the days I work both jobs and take my DD to softball games/practices.
Back on topic - Epsom salts are not harmful unless you ingest a whole carton of them at one time. That's when you run into serious problems!
I remember the 'K2' rage here a couple of years ago. Arkansas banned it and about 2-3 months later the Feds banned it. I thought about trying it just to see if it really was the hype everyone said it was but never got to. I didn't have the guts to try it once it was banned - I don't want to end up in jail over something stupid.
There was another substance that was basically synthetic THC, but I forgot what the street name of it is.
Both of these substances are still available on the black market. You just have to know your connections. I have no desire now to try either of these.
As for 'designer drugs', I typically think of things like LSD, GHB, XTC, etc as the 'designer drugs', however they are still drugs and can still do a lot of damage.
As for prescription drugs, they need to find a way to make it much more difficult for abusers of prescription painkillers to obtain these, while leaving the honest people alone.
Perhaps give patients only a 30-day supply with a required visit/checkup before a refill can be filled. Far as I know doctors currently prescribe a 90-day supply and tell their patients to 'take as needed'. To me, this is a setup for disaster for someone who has done narcotics in the past or has that 'addiction prone' personality.
What's sad is those who do abuse prescription drugs often don't see themselves as addicts because they justify it by saying they aren't doing 'real drugs' like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, meth, etc. Thing is, they are chasing after the very same effects that these 'real drugs' have through prescription drugs.
Drugs are bad for you, plain and simple.
