If the photo is what the product looks like, there is no way anyone could even mistake it for real bath salts used in taking a bath.
Not to mention the fact that most women don't shop for spa care in a head shop.
"Bath salts first appeared in Durango about a year ago.
The bath salts sold at head shops and over the Internet are not intended for bathtubs; rather, they are a mixture of synthetic chemicals that are snorted, smoked or injected intravenously. They create a quick and intense high that has been compared to methamphetamine.
Street names for the drug include “red rocket” and “white devil.” The drug also can be packaged and sold under the guise of plant fertilizer.
Authorities are investigating other distribution cases involving bath salts, said Pat Downs, director of the Southwest Drug Task Force.
“We do anticipate additional arrests, but we don’t know when that will be,” he said.
The task force executed a search warrant a couple of months ago at Wild Side Gifts on north Main Avenue. No arrests have been made.
For months, manufacturers were able to sell bath salts legally by changing the drug’s formula by one molecule. But a new ban on “analogs” of the chemical compounds used to produce the high – cathinone and methcathinone – made it illegal to mimic the compounds for the purpose of human consumption, Downs said....."
(Shane Benjamin)
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