1. Designer drugs

2. What does the term designer drug mean?
The term "designer drug" was coined by a University of California at Davis pharmacologist in the '80s, used to describe man-made drugs more potent than ever. Such as: Ecstasy. PCP. GHB. LSD. As legislators outlawed these drugs, manufacturers simply tweaked the formulas to get new, legal versions. Authorities realized they were always behind. Video

3. So federal lawmakers passed a bill to outlaw designer drugs in 1986
So federal lawmakers passed a bill to outlaw designer drugs in But it has been largely ineffective.
Called the Federal Analog Act, the law states that any chemical "substantially similar" to a controlled substance will be treated as one, if intended for human consumption.
It was the first time the government had tried to outlaw entire groups of drugs.

4. Synthetic Pot
Synthetic cannabis (video) is a psychoactive designer drug derived of natural herbs sprayed with synthetic chemicals that, when consumed, allegedly mimic the pleasurable effects of cannabis. It is best known by the brand names K2 and Spice, both of which have largely become generalized trademark used to refer to any synthetic cannabis product. (It is also for this reason that synthetic cannabis is often referred to as spice product, due to the latter.) There is controversy among calling Spice and K2 synthetic cannabis and is considered by some to be a misnomer, because the ingredients contained in these products are mimics, not copies of THC.

5. Slang Terms
In addition to K2 and Spice (video), other street names include Black Mamba), Bombay Blue, Fake Weed, Genie, and Zohai.
According to Partnership at Drugfree.org, other names also include Bliss, Blaze, JWH -018, -073, -250, Yucatan Fire, Skunk and Moon Rocks.

6. In July 2012, the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 was signed into law. It banned synthetic compounds commonly found in synthetic marijuana, placing them under Schedule I of the Controlled Substance Act.

8. Cost
For $35, users can buy 3 grams of K2 “incense” with nothing more than a credit card or PayPal account.

9. Synthetic drugs in Cherokee County
Synthetic pot
Synthetic drugs (heroin, ecstasy)

10. Detox Symptoms of Synthetic Pot
These symptoms will peak in intensity within a day of cessation of use, and only gradually start to subside after three or four days. Within a few day of discontinuation of Marijuana detox some symptoms will raise and then steadily start to fall down after three or four days,
Symptoms include: · Restlessness · Headaches · Loss of appetite · Extreme cravings · Anxiety · Depression · Nausea · Insomnia · Aggression and irritability

11. Bath Salts video

12. Why are they called bath salts?
"It’s confusing. Is this what we put in our bathtubs, like Epsom salts? No. But by marketing them as bath salts and labeling them 'not for human consumption,' they have been able to avoid them being specifically enumerated as illegal," Horowitz says.

13. What is in bath salts?
A new, highly addictive designer drug labeled “Bath Salts” contains Mephedrone and MDPV (Methylenedioxypyrovalerone). Mephedrone and MDPV are stimulants that act much like Methamphetamine and Cocaine, but produce the added effect of hallucinations.

14. Slang Terms
Bath Salts” are known by many names such as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning, Hurricane Charlie, Vanilla Sky, Charge, and White Knight. “Bath Salts” are snorted, injected, or smoked primarily by teens and young adults due to their widespread availability on the Internet, local convenience stores, and smoke shops. The product is carefully labeled as not for human consumption, but that is precisely why drug manufacturers have placed this extremely toxic substance on the market.

16. What do you experience when you take bath salts?
"Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pains, suicidal thoughts. It’s a very scary stimulant that is out there. We get high blood pressure and increased pulse, but there’s something more, something different that’s causing these other extreme effects. But right now, there’s no test to pick up this drug. The only way we know if someone has taken them is if they tell you they have.

17. Major Side Effects of Using “Bath Salts” for Drug Use
Bath Salts” are known to produce side effects similar to Meth and Cocaine such as elevated heart rate, hypertension, irritability, extreme paranoia, delusions of super-human strength and invincibility, hallucinations, suicide, aggressive and violent behavior, and possibly even murder.

18. Long term effects
As a warning to young people experimenting with this drug, the effects of “Bath Salts” may be permanent. Cases of violent suicide are numerous and growing fatalities are reported to Poison Control authorities. For all intents and purposes, this drug is extremely toxic and may result in permanent brain damage. The chemical ingredients found in “Bath Salts” are also found in various forms of insecticide, as well as chemical treatment programs designed to kill aqueous algae and fungus.

20. Cost
At least 28 states have banned bath salts, which are typically sold for $25 to $50 per 50-milligram packet at convenience stores and head shops under names like Aura, Ivory Wave, Loco-Motion and Vanilla Sky. Most of the bans are in the South and the Midwest, where the drugs have grown quickly in popularity. But states like Maine, New Jersey and New York have also outlawed them after seeing evidence that their use was spreading

21. Advertising for bath salts video

22. Video
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