I have a post up over at Sb "News on substituted cathinone stimulants, aka "bath salts"" that discusses a Sunday New York Times piece on "bath salts".
The short version is:
and also this.
[update: the post is now at http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/news_on_substituted_cathinone/]
Which blog is the real, best blog? (Other than Fafblog)
Both blogs are awesome. Equally. Just like the five kids you have and tell them you love them all equally.
Readers must click on the Doonesbury link. I can't believe it was 1985 and I can't believe how close the final panel is to today's situation. Pure genius Google-fu, my good man.
Past is prologue, eh Abel?
I mean "David".
...damn real names, mutter, mutter, grr, lawn, mutter
Where can I read these things? Gaaa
[...] Bath salts are the colloquial name for a class of products marketed similarly to synthetic marijuana but very different in chemical composition. While also smoked and snorted, bath salts contain one or more stimulant drugs called synthetic cathinones – specifically mephedrone (or 4-methylmethcathinone, 4-MMC) or MDPV (or methylenedioxypyrovalerone). My neuroscience researcher and blogger colleague DrugMonkey is an authority on these compounds and has written extensively at his blogs. This category search is a good place to start but this single post and its links are best. [...]
The SB post has been transferred to http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/news_on_substituted_cathinone/
BATH SALT IS AS WHACK AS THIS WEBSITE