Bath salts — the head shop incense you’re not supposed to put up your nose according to the label, common sense and medical sources everywhere but should you do so will induce a wild hallucinatory brain scramble complete with mental light shows, violent urges, foxhole flash backs, sexual mania, bouts of irrational nudity and other verifiable antisocial behavior — will be banned in October. An end of an era, this is — if you’ve been watching the headlines over the last year, you know Parma Blow (as bath salts have become known in certain media circles) is responsible for the wildest moments of reported news we’ve been lucky enough to aggregate for your work-day procrastinating pleasure. And you are welcome.
As we thumb through the vast door-stopper anthology of bath salt stories, one stands out: the April 25th robbery of Papa Smokes, a Mentor-on-the-Lake head shop.
This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2011.