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Either our next questioneer Alex from Melbourne is delightfully innocent, or he has ingested too many household substances in search of a high:
After recently hearing about the Florida zombie and sniffing bath salts turning you into a zombie, I want to know: does the term bath salts mean the actual bath salts like in my grannies’ cupboard or is it a code name for another drug like cocaine?
While I’m sure that snorting granny’s bath additives would have some deleterious effect upon your brain (as well as softening your heels and alleviating arthritis pain), your suspicion is correct that it is another substance – just as meow meow isn’t a wrapful of kitten language, and horse is not a horse. The synthetic stimulant mephedrone sometimes bears the slang name bath salts because it looks a bit like bath salts. You can tell the difference because mephedrone doesn’t smell of lavender.
I know this is all very confusing, Alex, so just try to wrap your brain around the take-home message that DRUGS ARE BAD, KIDS, and you shouldn’t put them in granny’s bathwater.
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June 16, 2012 at 10:54 am |
I too am from Melbourne and had the exact same question. Finally I feel confident enough to crack open the bath salts I got for Christmas without the fear of getting the salt to water ratio wrong in the bath and subsequently going on a rampage.
June 14, 2012 at 2:04 pm |
I’m glad Alex asked this question. I was wondering the same thing. I work in a pharmacy and when I asked my pharmacists this question they said it was granny’s bath salts. I said that surely it was a code name for something else. They acted like I was stupid and no, it was in fact granny’s bath salts. So, thanks for clearing this up. Grannies the world over can heave a sigh of relief (if their oxygen tanks will permit) and continue their daily ablutions, confident in the knowledge that they are not geriatric drug mules.