Miguel Ashby's "Blue Magic."

​Miguel Ashby is an entrepreneur of sorts. Five years ago, the 26-year-old Everett resident created a website that specializes in selling "high quality products to help you relieve your stress and break the monotony of your day-in, day-out routine." Trouble is, his "products" are bath salts and synthetic marijuana, two substances that have drawn the ire of lawmakers and law enforcers nationwide. Yesterday, Ashby was arrested in Seattle in connection with a months-long undercover investigation conducted by the DEA's "Bath Salts Task Force."

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​Speaking at the ninth annual U.S./Mexico Drug Demand Reduction Conference in Washington D.C. this week, White House Drug Czar and former Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske made it clear that he thinks the failed War on Drugs is not only successful, but should be escalated.

In arguing for more law enforcement and international anti-drug efforts, Kerlikowske made quite the pronouncement. He said "the rate of Americans using illicit drugs today is roughly half what it was in the late 1970′s."

Roughly half?

Actually not.

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​On the afternoon of April 22, Army medic and two-tour Iraq veteran David "Doc" Stewart gunned down his girlfriend Kristy Sampels and fatally shot himself on I-5 just south of Tumwater after a state trooper pulled him over for speeding after a lengthy chase. Hours earlier, Stewart's 5-year-old son Jordan was asphyxiated with a plastic bag over his head at the family's home in Spanaway. Investigators discovered a jar of Lady Bubbles "bath salts," a powerful stimulant chemically similar to methamphetamine and snorted like cocaine, in Stewart's pocket. Yesterday, toxicology results from the Thurston County Coroner confirmed that both Stewart and Sampels were high on the drug at the time of their deaths.

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​Attention, choir! We have a new international team of pastors in church today, and they'd like to preach to you.

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​If one can deal with the technical set of hoops it takes to get there, fans of illegal drug use (who isn't?) can have their minds blown on a little website called Silk Road.

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