Times sure change. when i was 20, we would find some cheap rolling papers, a 10.00 bag of weed..make a batch of tiger juice,.and have a party.
Now its 140 for a 1/4 of hydro..and smoking in a 200.00 evaporater and drinking natural flavored waters.
lol
They are sold as "bath salts" in convenience stores in an attempt to disguise them as a household product. A lot of those hole in the wall places sell synthetic weed as incense, blount papers, pipes, bongs etc. and it's been tolerated for years.
I am a nurse supervisor for a small rural-ish community hispitsl. And I'm sorry to say we see way too many kids messing with dangerous chemicals. We have intentional and accidental drug overdosed kids in the ICU almost weekly. I'm thankful that it isn't my family...but that doesn't mean it's not prevalent and worthy of intervention and information.
And bath salts aren't actually what goes in the bath from what I understand. They just look like it
As someone who worked in the EMS field and still do for the fire department, I find it comical when the call is dispatched as an un-intentional or accidental drug overdose. It can not be accidental or inintentional you the individual made the choice to ingest or inject the drug into their bodies.
Drugs always have and always will be part of society, unfortunately the drugs seem to be getting worse.
jswordy said:Not as a general rule in the South. It's illegal to sell "bath salts" in TN and AL. In either state, possession or sale of drug paraphernalia is illegal. Last I heard, possession of a single marijuana seed could get you 5 years in TN.
Rolling papers, they can't touch, because those could be used for tobacco - a LEGAL destructive drug that costs the country billions in end-of-life healthcare every year.
And I also know the way it really works. About 5 years ago, a prominent newspaper columnist was arrested with a half ounce of coke sitting on his front passenger seat during a traffic stop. He posted bond and the matter quietly went away. Now, you make that guy into some nobody black kid from the hood, he's locked up for 20 years.
As far as the war on drugs, both sides are making money off it so that is why it keeps escalating. As a mayor, my Dad used to auction off houses, cars and possessions of arrested drug folks, most times before they even had been through the criminal process. The money funded the police department. On the flip side of that equation, the harsher the penalties the higher the prices for dealers.
The home is a hotbed of prescription drugs like it never has been before, and with penalties and prices way up on pot, young kids can be innovative when it comes to that stuff, including the drugs they themselves are taking. Ritalin has been crushed and snorted for years, for example. They don't even need a drug. The choking game is simply choking yourself until you nearly pass out, and then getting a rush when the blood flow resumes.
And don't even get me started on meth, the bathtub drug. I saw it literally destroy a young coworker who went from a vivacious woman to a hollowed out shell in about a year.
So we still live in a drug culture. It's just different from the one of the past.
The only exception to unintentional or accidental I can think of would be a senior citizen who has taken the wrong combo or dosages of various drugs the doc has prescribed. I can see how easy it could be for an older person to mix it up. My aunt is in early stage dementia and just did that with blood pressure meds. Wound up in the hospital.
I know a few guys, and girls, in the army that resort to spice (synthetic marijuana) and bath salts (synthetic cocaine) because they don't show up on a urine analysis. It's no good I tell ya. It leeds to seizures, weight loss, and not to mention it makes people act crazy. If more states would get with the program, like Washington and Colorado, I don't think these alternative drugs would be so popular.
JohnT said:I tell ya, I had no time or the energy to get into trouble once my father was done with me.
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