Video: Designer Methamphetamine Bath Salts Chemicals Criminalization Bill Passes in New Jersey

Wow! I had no idea about these drugs – bath salts which mimic the effects of methamphetamine. But, new legislation has passed the New Jersey State Senate to control the chemicals used in “bath salts.”

New Jersey’s assault on a methamphetamine-style drug known as “bath salts” continued today, as legislation criminalizing six chemicals used to make the powders cleared the state Senate.

Pamela’s Law — named for a slain Rutgers senior whose alleged killer may have used the powerful stimulants — passed the Senate unanimously. The move is the latest in a flurry of legal action aimed at chasing the dangerous “designer drugs” from the state.

“The more the truth behind these products masquerading as bath salts comes out, the more banning these powerful chemicals makes sense,” said state Sen. John Girgenti (D-Passaic), one of the bill’s sponsors. “There’s only one reason people purchase these products, and that is to get high.”

The state Division of Consumer Affairs issued an emergency order banning the six chemicals on April 26. A bill similar to the Senate measure and also called Pamela’s Law, awaits action in an Assembly committee.

Bath salts, drugs that have nothing to do with bathing but can mimic methamphetamines and cause severe psychotic episodes, made headlines in New Jersey earlier this year when Rutgers senior Pamela Schmidt was killed in the basement of her boyfriend’s Cranford home.

OK, Congress over to you.

And, where is the Obama Administration’s DEA in all of this?

Oh yeah, seizing state’s supplies of sodium thiopental, so they cannot execute murderers.