I know many many people who have used other drugs when all they want is a little pot to smoke after work. It's our beer but with much less side effects and problems than beer. (which is the true gateway drug)

why would anyone continue to use that shit?

Because denial tells them they are the exception to the bad results.
And the drugs are addictive.
I do not know if bath salts are addcitive.
But since the story says an "overdose" leads to violent and psychotic behavior,
something is telling those people to use more than they intended to use.

Maybe Heroin instead and you should modify your post.

I did not mean to include LSD as addcitive in my statement.

usually your posts are right on. not that one

Ignorance forgiven.

not like the others...

see if you can figure it out before i finish my song...

There are no winners in the war on drugs.

the law enforcement agencies getting the funding.

I don't like how he is holding down the fort for democrats

I don't like a ton of things he has let slip by because of the bush boys.

cancer patients and sick people.

I know it sucks, but it's the truth.

Its only notable side effects are the munchies and, in some, a tolerance for bad rock 'n' roll. Potheads do not become zombie cannibals. I speak from extensive personal experience, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.

remained confined to the bar circuit without the influence of the demon weed.

Not sure weed alone explains Ted Nugent though - think Jack Daniels and meth\crack\crank may have something to do with his continued success.

Cheap weed + not too discerning to begin with = Styx/REO/Foghat fans.

and anything is better than living in this hell-on-earth we have created for so many that we then, in turn, pretend don't exist or blame for their problems. So sure, they'll drink smoke, swallow, or shoot anything that removes them from the suffering for awhile.

We ignore the fact that drug abuse has a cause and more often than not, that cause is us.

No toxicology report from Miami, no toxicology report from Louisiana.

At this point, this is nothing but media-driven speculation.

It may have been just about anything that set the attackers off. Maybe bath salts, but maybe bad prescription drug combos, maybe just hunger--it is all conjecture at this point.

However, the points people make about legality and drug shifting are absolutely spot on. If cocaine were cheap and easily available, meth wouldn't disappear, but it would be much less common. If meth were legal, bath salts would be less likely. People will seek mood altering drugs and many will go for the easiest, most available option.

I've never eaten one so I can't say.

Perhaps we should be working on some alternative to wean them off real faces and on to something more sustainable, like tofu flavored and shaped to resemble a human face. Or perhaps pig faces would do the trick.

there is reported an uptick in heroin use.

It's just beyond my imagination how someone could do such a thing. Are we becoming less than human because of the society we've been forced to live in? Or is it just some really, really bad drugs?

Rudy Eugene, the "Miami Zombie" is the first one, really really crazy, very unnatural. I've heard of cannibalism, but not like this. Then when a cop arrested a guy in Miami recently, he threatened to eat cop's face, growled & tried to bite cop's hand. This one clearly is just a wannabe even though cops said he was on drugs.

I can't wait for drug tests on Rudy to come out, but it will take a long while. It could be something else. It's not in a Psychiatrists' text book. Very strange... I hope they have an answer soon.