In before the "'Murica" crap starts...
As for Florida, I don't know what is going on. All three people in my house right now were born and raised in Florida. We all have IQs above 140 (with my friend at a whopping 183), on the other hand, I am sure the cumulative IQ in my neighbors house (also 3 people) is lower than just my friend's IQ. It seems that we have a large number of extreme intelligence cases in Florida (one way or the other) with few in between.
To everyone calling out bath salts for the cause, I highly doubt it. I have three main reasons this one isn't likely to be caused by it (same thing with all the previous cases where they cited bath salts as the cause).
-Bath salts work in the same way that drugs like cocaine work. They are stimulants that are likely to make you hyper active, lose the desire to eat, lose the desire to sleep, and you have a strong desire to re-dose (because of the euphoria related to stimulants). Bath salts have not shown any proof of strong hallucinations other than anecdotal evidence of hallucinations caused by lack of sleep.
-Bath salts are not currently able to be tested for as there is no official bath salts recipe. There are multiple chemicals that they use to produce different types of "bath salts" that all produce similar effects. The patients who where given drug tests at the hospitals use the typical 7 drug screening that the police do. It tests for the 7 commonly abused drugs and that is it. Without knowing what to look for in the blood we can't find it.
-Bath salts have a very short half life. All of the reports of crazy stuff happening linked to bath salts are extremely gone on something that has a very long half life (8+ hours from reports). (half life being the amount of time that you feel the effects of the drug in your system, not the amount of time that the physical drug is in your system. For example pot has a half life of 4-6 hours, but stays in your urine for up to a month [usually less] and in your blood for up to 3 months.)
That isn't to say these people weren't taking bath salts. I believe they were actually taking them, as they admitted to taking them. I have a feeling it is from a drug interaction with something already in their systems. Perhaps a prescription they were all on or a disease they had. The media however doesn't want to report all the facts. The media in America likes to only tell us the parts that they can sensationalize and make money off of, and that is the real problem in America right now. More so than the people.
OT: I would love to have heard the police dispatcher trying to tell the deputy what he was in for.
Dispatcher: Okay we have a 211 with a possible... um... whats the code for fetal position masturbation and uh.... I think he took a crap on the carpet.
Deputy: Um... I am supposed to be putting down a dog or stopping a robbery?
Dispatcher: I'm not sure, maybe both?
