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International drug ring. >> reporter: she was allegedly running this worldwide drug ring from sun set boulevard out of her apartment. apparently when the drug agents went in they found these packets of meth stacked up on the desk. they say she was using different aliases to shift around the world using fedex, even the postal service and she would hide the bags in bath salts. she was a penthouse pet. she was a wannabe reality star. she jumped bail last month in australia, $150,000 bail because sh...

four men a, robert bales was brought to the u.s. and speaks to his lawyer for the first time. heres his attorney, john brown. >> i think flfs an effort to paint him as someone who, rather than having a serious brain injury and shouldnt have been there to begin with, had some other factors. the financial situation for all of us is stressful, i think. but, you know, nobody goes and kills women and children because they had financial stresses. >> bales is kbg held now at fort leavenworth ...

About. i went to bed, bath and body works or whatever this place is and i got jasmine for three days. the smell stuck with me and i dont no -- know why it is getting banned. >> you read a different story. you were talking about the banning of the bath salts which are actually drugs mass ask you raided as bath salts. >> no? >> no. if you can talk about anything, you can talk about -- >> as long as im laughing. >> as long as you are laughing, and it doesnt matter if you are talking about bath salt...

>> i think it is a great idea. i say do all of the drugs you want, as long as you are only hurting yourself. when you start asking the government to help you because you cant keep a job due to your drug use, you are hurting me because i am paying the taxes to pay your welfare. why not do it? >> let me ask you this, terry, couldnt you argue -- wouldnt a democrat want a welfare recipient to get off the drugs or do they secretly want the drugs for the rest of their lives? >> hastings, the most corr...

A white powdery substance that is packaged as bath salts is now illegal in new york, but as you might guess, the chemical is not the kind you use for a relaxing soak in the bathtub. bath salts is the street name of a popular designer drug. the small inexpensive packets of powder are meant to be snorted to produce a hallucinogenic high. until now the drug has been easy to buy sold on the internet or in convenience stores. the new ban takes effect immediately. and tonight "dateline" nbc goes und...

By the time john arrived at the hospital, his 29-year-old son had only minutes to live. >> i said a prayer to god, and i asked him, please, dont let him lay here and suffer. >> reporter: but his father says his son never spoke of killing himself. however, in the weeks before his death jareds father learned his son was exhibiting some disturbing behavior. he was hallucinating and talking to himself. >> i cant imagine how much of that bath salts he had been injecting over that week. >> reporter: b...

Basis. >> reporter: william dempsey is an emergency room doctor in scranton, pennsylvania. >> ive never seen a drug progress from never heard of, never abused, and never seen in a period of three months to becoming an epidemic. >> reporter: so how easy is it to buy? >> these are bath salts. >> i heard about those, yeah. >> reporter: using a hidden camera, one of our producers went to this so-called head shop in new york city. >> 80 bucks? this little tiny thing? >> for $80. >> dude, they fly out...

>> reporter: last october john moody of st. joseph, missouri, got the call no father should ever get. his son, jared, had shot himself. by the time john arrived at the hospital, his 29-year-old son had only minutes to live. >> i said a prayer to god and i asked him, please, dont let him lay here and suffer. >> reporter: but his father says his son never spoke of killing himself. however, in the weeks before his death, jareds father learned his son was exhibiting some disturbing behavior. he was ...

Like 24-year-old andrew freeman who we met in minneapolis, minnesota. he makes his own brand of bath salts called bliss. >> how did you come up with the name bliss? >> just came up with it. >> reporter: one of our producers told freeman he was an investor interested in the bath salts business. >> is this your unique brew? yours personally? >> yeah. >> its mdvp. >> straight up? >> well and other stuff we brewed it with. >> right. thats what im saying but how do you know what to brew it with. >> i...

To sell and buy in most states. >> im seeing two or three cases of bath salt abuse on a daily basis. >> reporter: william dempsey is an emergency room doctor in scranton, pennsylvania. >> i have never seen a drug progress from never heard of, never abused, and never seen in a period of three months to becoming an epidemic. >> reporter: so how easy is it to buy? >> these are bath salts. >> i heard about those. >> reporter: using a hidden camera, one of our producers went to this so-calleded head ...