The audience Scott describes may be different from the general population. It is young people who are apt to experiment with anything available. Those kids out back who are smoking cigarettes and look guilty when I walk up to see what they are doing, snuffing it out under a foot to hide it. They sneak shots from dad's whiskey bottle and try their friend's MJ. If heroin, bath salts, crack, or other drugs were readily available, they would be trying them, overdosing, and you would have a lot more dead kids on your hands. One of my patients took some plant like product, probably laced with bath salts, and ate it just because a friend told him to. Some of the bath salt chemicals have 800x the potency of regular THC. Other kids have walked out onto the freeway like zombies and been hit by traffic under their influence. Do you really want the DEA to give up fighting this stuff? Can you imagine the misuse of Percocet if it was on the store shelves? You think drunk driving is a problem? Granted, this is an expanding problem and overdoses from narcotics have gone from 4 million a year in the 90's to 12 million. Survival of the fittest is right!
