Tagged: bath salts

Word of Mouth
1:51 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

The Science Behind Bath Salts

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Last spring, we heard a series of stories of bizarre and violent crimes attributed to people high on the street drug “bath salts.” in Florida, police shot a man who was cannibalizing another man’s face – and a mother tore off her clothes and assaulted her three-year-old son.  Although neither crime has been definitively linked to the deceptively-named street drug, they ignited conversations about the production and complicated legal status of ‘bath salts'.

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Word of Mouth
11:40 am
Mon June 4, 2012

Hannibal Lecter's Friends

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Over the past week, five separate incidents of cannibalism have been reported, including the grisly story of Rudy Eugene, a man shot and killed by Miami Dade police when he refused to stop eating the face of a homeless man.

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