US | bath salts With Eye on Spring Break, Florida Bans Bath Salts Spring breakers will need to find another cheap, dangerous high By Polly Davis Doig Posted Feb 8, 2011 9:56 AM CST Copied In this Jan. 18, 2011 photo, Itawamba County inmate Neil Brown describes at the jail in Fulton, Miss., self-induced injuries he incurred after ingesting a bath salt that's being sold at convenience stores. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) On the heels of reports that bath salts are as bad as meth, Florida's not messing around: The Sunshine State has joined Louisiana in banning the sale of little white packets of crystals that people around the Southeast are smoking or snorting, because, "For lack of a better term, (people) flipped out," a poison control official tells NPR. "It's almost like a psychotic break." One man under the influence ripped a cop's radar unit off—with his teeth—while another woman went after her mother with a machete, convinced the elder woman was a monster. And in Florida in particular, the combination of bath salts with one annual ritual loomed ominously: "We were all, literally, just absolutely worried to death about what was going to happen in spring break," says a sheriff. "And we still may have issues, but it won't be because they're buying [the bath salts] in the local stores." Read These Next "Admiral Piett" of the Star Wars universe died from COVID. Trump voter who supported mass deportations could be deported herself. Shooter opens fire on Texas Border Patrol Rescuer in floods gets a poignant question. Report an error