A new product has elbowed itself a place at the table of legal items stealing peaceful sleep from moms everywhere. Is little Johnny taking paint thinner? Smoking synthetic marijuana? Imbibing canisters of Four Loko? No Ma’am, this time Johnny is stuffing bath salts up his nose.
Bath salts — we’re not talking about what your grandma spikes the tub with. These products are to cocaine what K2 is to weed, a weird test-tube synthetic knock-off that can still twist up your brain in psychotropic knots. Any mainstream news article you Google up on the topic begins with strange anecdotes from the police files relating to bath salt use, usually featuring guns, nudity and the Second Coming.
But at least one Northeast Ohio community has fielded such a surplus of bath salt-related insanity that it’s decided to act.
This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2011.
This is a major concern, but by banning sales of this means less for the community when it comes down to sales and taxes, and it won’t stop them from getting it or using it. Its not the drug that is the problem but the people taking it. Its not like it jumps into your nose or into your mouth, or for the few who have injected it and died. This is something the people do themselves and its not I who have to deal with what it does to their body and mind.
I used to live in Barberton and this is the stupid stuff that these idiots in legislation do. Let alone the judges in Barberton spend more time proposing ways to tax the community than actually doing what they are supposed to do (handle the court system and stay out of politics because this is what makes your view corrupted. Plus they send so many cases to Akron than handling the sentencing there, that Akron gains from the court costs and programs they force the people into). There are more important things for these people to be doing than banning sales of an item that people have found a way to use in a harmfull manner. It does not affect their lives and if someone wants to be stupid and take it then the consequences are for that person to deal with.
We pay these idiots to do stupid things when we could be using the money we put to these people for fixing the streets. Barberton has gone down hill since I left and the people in office seem to have gone retarded.
Horrible idea for the picture. Even though I doubt any actual kids read the Cleveland scene. This is like promoting Chucky Cheese as the center for the Bath salts, and if I was an owner of a Chucky Cheese I would be checking where the store costumes are and firing the person for the bad publicity this can cause. Also on a side note, I would suggest spending some time actually researching into the incidents than posting an article that could have been written in less than 20 mins for a once a week article. Barberton Herald would have been a good starting source over the Akron Beacon Journal.