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Prior to the compounds being made illegal, mephedrone, methylone, and MDPV were marketed as bath salts. [34] The "bath salt" name and labels that say "not for human consumption" are an attempt to skirt the Federal Analogue Act , which forbids selling drugs that are substantially similar to drugs already classified for human use.
The list is designated within the Controlled Substances Act [1] but can be modified by the U.S. Attorney General as illegal manufacturing practices change. Although the list is controlled by the Attorney General, the list is considered a DEA list because the DEA publishes and enforces the list.
A toxicology report later found no "bath salts" in his system. [34] On May 5, 2011, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed a law making it a crime "to knowingly produce, manufacture, distribute, sell, offer for sale or possess with intent to produce, manufacture, distribute, sell, or offer for sale" any product containing MDPV. [35]
Bath salts are a lab-made class of synthetic cathinones, which are stimulants, similar to the substances found in the khat plant of East Africa, which some people ingest for its stimulant effects ...
The sale of khat is legal in some jurisdictions, but illegal in others (see Khat (Regulation)). Substituted cathinones were also often used as the key ingredient of recreational drug mixes commonly known as " bath salts " in the United States.
It was so difficult to distinguish the synthetic drug from candy that the substance had to be taken to a lab for testing before it could be identified.
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In the United States, substituted cathinones are the psychoactive ingredients in "bath salts" which as of July 2011 were banned by at least 28 states, but not by the federal government. [ 47 ] See also