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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:06 AM Jul 2012

(Good grief) Another example of the reaction to 'bath salts':

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During his rabid rant, Karl Laventure remarked, “I’ll eat you, I won’t eat you, I do want to eat you but I won’t,” according to cops on the scene.

Police in Gwinnett County said they’d never before seen a suspect fight through a blast of pepper spray or more than a dozen shots from a Taser.

They attribute Laventure’s ability to withstand pain and his incoherent babbling to the synthetic drugs he’d smoked for his 21st birthday.

“For a normal person, they get hit once or twice with the Taser, they’re pretty much done fighting,” said Cpl. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County Police Department. “It’s like he couldn’t feel pain.”
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http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/04/070412-news-bath-salts-cannibal-1-2/

Lawd! This shite makes PCP look tame.



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(Good grief) Another example of the reaction to 'bath salts': (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Jul 2012 OP
I thought it was PCP made you bulletproof Mopar151 Jul 2012 #1
The Feds want to ban the shit, But Rand Paul won't let them... Junkdrawer Jul 2012 #2
Do you have a good link for that? MattBaggins Jul 2012 #4
Just checked. Paul lifted his objection last week and the bill is on Obama's desk Junkdrawer Jul 2012 #5
Maybe bath salts carry the zombie virus Gman Jul 2012 #3
the infamous face eater in florida turned out to NOT be on bath salts CBGLuthier Jul 2012 #6
“I’ll eat you, I won’t eat you, I do want to eat you but I won’t,” Javaman Jul 2012 #7

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
2. The Feds want to ban the shit, But Rand Paul won't let them...
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 06:02 AM
Jul 2012

Seems weird the one crazy Senator can be keeping this shit legal.

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
5. Just checked. Paul lifted his objection last week and the bill is on Obama's desk
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 08:34 AM
Jul 2012

WASHINGTON -- In response to a series of bizarre, sometimes deadly, incidents involving people high on "bath salts," Congress is poised to send a ban on chemicals used in synthetic drug mixtures to the president's desk.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th District, a leading anti-bath salts crusader on Capitol Hill for more than a year, introduced a bill in March 2011 to add a long list of chemicals found in variations of designer drugs known as bath salts or synthetic marijuana to the Drug Enforcement Agency's list of controlled substances.

It passed the House overwhelmingly in December, but a version of a bath salts ban was blocked in the Senate by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who argued that drug enforcement should be left up to the states. The Senate then included a bath salts ban in its version of legislation pertaining to Federal Drug Administration user fees.

Bipartisan support for Dent's bill in the House coupled with pressure from lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., in the Senate, convinced lawmakers to include the ban as part of a final compromise on the FDA package.

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http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120621/NEWS90/120629951/-1/NEWS

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
6. the infamous face eater in florida turned out to NOT be on bath salts
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 08:42 AM
Jul 2012

Cops just throw out that shit when they don't even know wtf they are talking about, which is mot of the time.

All of this smacks of a new anti legalization propoganda push.

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
7. “I’ll eat you, I won’t eat you, I do want to eat you but I won’t,”
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 11:35 AM
Jul 2012

There's a Screaming Jay Hawkings song in there somewhere.

Certainly an Ella Fitzgerald song...

"first you say to do and then you do, first you say you will and then you won't"

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