"Bath Salts" or "Plant Food" Are You Familiar with This Drug?

Around here the teens' drugs of choice (besides pot and alcohol) are prescription drugs (taken from parents/grandparents) and add/adhd medications.
Teens will find a way to get high, always have, always will. All we can try to do is keep them HOME and keep them BUSY!!!

i'm confused about why people who rant (which is fine, i like rants!) are accusing other people of ranting, on subjects that don't seem to have anything to do with the question.
i had not heard of bath salts or plant food being huffed, but i'm not surprised. rather than rush to pull everything off the shelves again (our country's standard horse-is-fled-slam-barn-door response) it's yet another sign that we need sensible drug laws, a lot more thoughtful (ie not hysterical) drug education, and parents who are actually involved in their kids' lives.
an economy that offers a viable future to today's teens and lets them get jobs now wouldn't hurt either.
khairete
S.

Ok, I'm so out of it that my first thought was: real bath salts and plant food? Who ever thought of snuffing bath salt or plant food?

My second thought was: if I thought it was a high end bath product (I would never spend $20 on plant food) and purchased it, would it irritate my skin?

I'm so glad that my kids are too old or too young to worry about this right now. I always went with the "don't be an idiot" advice. If you want to drink or use pot from a VERY reliable source, that is O. thing, but most of these drugs are dangerious at least in part because they are illegal and I don't want you to put something in your body made by an idiot in his bathroom or basement.

Can anybody tell me 'why'? Why do kids want to not have control over their body and know what they're doing? Why do they want to risk their lives like this? I just don't understand it. Are they that unhappy? I've not heard of this O. though.

I heard all this "bath salt" hype on the news a while back and could NOT figure out what the heck they were talking about by "bath salts". I was asking everyone I knew "What are they? Where are they sold? WTH?" and no O. really knew, and then I was under the impression they were banned and removed...but no? WTH are they? Are they labeled "bath salts" and they're sold in "plant dapartments?" I DO NOT GET IT! WHAT ARE THEY??! Is it a beauty product or a plant fertilizer for god sakes...

Yes, my OLDER brother has been doing it. Trust me when I say that it is stupid... Pointless and dangerous. Id much rather he just get baked. They drug test him at work and this is his solution.

You'd think I was the older O..

Yes I heard of it .It was legal here in Ireland up to last year.
It is alot stronger than natural marajuana as it is made with chemicals.
It was being sold in "natural " shops.
There was a vast increase in attendance to the hospital emergency room with teens suffering hash psychosis,the poor things freaking out..
So personally I see these drugs as far worse than hash or marajuana due to the ammount of addditives.
All the best
B. k

I just watched "intervention" and the guy on there did the bath salts, this was the first time I have ever heard of it!

Im really beginning to think that anything and everything that can be snorted is, just for the high. I really don't think anything is safe anymore! Its scary as hell to think of as a parent. All we can do is hope and pray we have taught our kids well enough about drugs and that we have raised them strong enough to not fall into peer pressure and that they don't try it!

yes, & they're readily available. O. more worry for parents.

& as of tonight, I've heard of another: teens smoking tea leaves. Time to research this O.. :(

The local news station did a story on these a few months ago. They indicated if I remember correctly - convenience stores sell them.

They are illegal now here in PA. My understanding is that they aren't legit products you'd buy at Walmart. (So not the same as kids huffing cleaning products that are sold by responsible retailors.) The stores around here that have been busted for selling them are the specialty tobacco shop (that also sells bongs for "decorative" purposes) and some corner markets that keep the cash register behind protective glass. In other words, they know what they're selling and what it's used for. Prior to enacting the law, legit stores had voluntarily stopped carrying the products. The tricky thing about banning these products is that they can make these tiny modifications to the chemical makeup of the product and then it's technically a whole different compound that needs to be legally banned. I remember the district attorneys in the different counties taking it to the media and really pushing the state legislature to write them a broader law so they could stay ahead of the drug makers who were always tweaking the chemical formulas just slightly enough to produce a non-banned product.

I dont have teens, but it is illegal here.

A local teen died from taking them last year (and several others hospitalized) so it's been on our local news quite a bit.

MN has outlawed the current versions of them, but I understand the manufacturers can change the formula a little and that makes them legal again.

I'd be watching my kids and talking about it for sure if they were older.