Police are typically not looking for an item like bath salts. If you are confronted by a Police Officer and have bath salts or similar substances with you, it is important to know if they are specifically illegal or not and if there is a "grace period" in your state if the substance was banned. The video on the right gives you the best way to talk to Police if you do (or do not) have an illegal substance in your possession.

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Bath salts are dangerous for the primary reason that they are unregulated and mixed by people that have zero qualifications for handling powerful drugs being placed in your body. But then again... the package does say they are not for consuming. There are plenty of "legal high" websites out there that you can purchase products that are herbal and nature and still have "desirable effects". In legal states gas stations, head shops and websites are all places that commenly sell such products. The point is... those places also sell products that are legal, "safer" and still give the desired result. Do your research and be safe.

With all the media attention that bath salts have been recieving, it is almost certain that this product will not be going anywhere. By stirring up a panic about it, they made a relatively small, but regular business into a huge boom of big business industry and knowledgeable chem heads making packets in their garage. Of course MDPV will eventually be a fully scheduled illegal substance in all 50 states, but there are HUNDREDS of research chemicals that can be cut with a harmless power and put in a bag for sale.

It takes state and federal legislation months to even catch up with what is available and often times years to ban new substances.
There is a demand for this product (mostly created by all the media hype) and when there is a demand there will be a way found to supply it. Designer drugs are not a fad, they are a reality that people need to deal with and not lose their minds over. We can chemically engineer anything, and the government regulation and legislation process takes long enough that it's worth it to sell.

"Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality. 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." -Web MD

The clinical presentation is similar to mephedrone [a chemical found in other designer drugs], with agitation, psychosis, and stimulatory effects. Both of these agents should be of concern, as severe agitated behavior, like an amphetamine overdose, has occurred.

MDPV is a stimulant that gives stimulant like feelings. Such as high energy, long periods with out sleep and decreased appetite. However now MANY kinds of chemicals are being used in a broad area call bath salts. Not all results are the same, not all people are the same and every mixture is different.

No. Currently the active ingredients are not searched for on drug tests. The drug is virtually undetectable making it even more popular.