Bath Salts, The New Crack?

Alright my girlfriend texted me something about bath salts being the new crack or something and it went completely over my head. But then I did some quick research and it turns out that certain kinds of bath salts contain a designer drug that's in the amphetamine (speed) family? Like what the fuck am I missing here? I can't smoke pot but you can walk into a fucking store and buy speed? I fucking hate America sometimes. Here's the full story.

Now I don't really understand if the salts just get you fucked up on accident or if that's the intent? I assume it's not. But like, doesn't the FDA test stuff like this before people can sell it? Why don't crack dealers just sit on corners in Harlem with "soap" stands or something. Seems too easy.

Dare you to snort it

But also, as usual, the press is probably turning this into a worse issue than it really is. Most people wouldn't know what the fuck I'm talking about if it didn't get coverage. And yeah I know I'm a hypocrite because if I kept my mouth shut you ignorant fucks wouldn't know dick about it. I'm trying to help you get high so shut the fuck up.

So now parents are going to be all flipping out and shit. The article says it wasn't hard for the CBS producer to get the shit, well you know, in New York City you probably could get a drug variety pack: a pound of weed, ten hits of acid, five E pills, and a dime of heroin within 30 minutes of looking. I'll keep following this shit to see what happens, I think bath salts like "Zoom 2" are the Four Loko of 2011.