It’s reportedly "the latest legal way to get high: snorting bath salts." And public health officials in the Midwest are warning people not to turn their epsom salt into nose candy. I’m glad these officials are around to tell us these things. (Link to full story at bottom).Bath salts are garnering this heightened level of attention in the wake of recent incidents in Kansas and Missouri. In one, a Kansas University (or as we say around here, KU) student wandered out into traffic and was killed – with bath salts on his person (toxicology results are pending). Also in 2010, "family and friends of a Cameron, Mo., man who committed suicide attributed his death to an addiction to bath salts."
So keep your Cloud Nine, Ocean Snow and Lunar Wave out your nose and in your bath. The stuff in those bath salts is reportedly "amphetamine-like and mimics the effects of ectasy." BTW, you also shouldn’t shoot up bath salt through a needle either, as has previously happened in at least one reported case.
And while the linked story is silent on the issue, I would assume that the same advice would go for eating bath salts, rubbing them on open wounds, and ingesting them anally (is that a word?). But that’s just idle speculation on my part.
I also wouldn’t try baking them into a brownie, although they might work OK sprinkled atop a mound of spaghetti (they are "salts," no?). But even that one I would take with a grain of salt. Best bet: Leave the damn bath salts for the ankle soaks and the NFL training rooms.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/jan/06/public-officials-warn-against-snorting-bath-salts-/
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