Legal drug 'Ivory Wave' leads to multiple UK hospitalizations

"Ivory Wave," one of the latest legal recreational substances, is being marked by members of the UK health profession as dangerous.

The powdered substance that sells via legal loopholes as a "bath salt" is known as "Ivory Wave" and has been linked to a at least 20 recent hospitalizations, STV reports. Internet sites like Mysterious Plants tout the product's potency and have added it to a list of other recreational hallucinogens that are still legal in many places worldwide, such as the longtime favorite, Salvia Divinorum. Ivory Wire, as a legal bath salt, is marketed as "calming" and "relaxing" but reports now indicate that the several dozen individuals who took the substance and ended up in the hospital were feeling side-effects relating to anxiety, delusions, and weakness.