#94 - Former 'Bath Salts' Trafficker | Justin Smith

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Justin Smith was sentenced to 12 years in prison for running the biggest bath salts trafficking ring in Florida. According to court documents, in 2011, Smith began purchasing Methylone, a club drug often referred to as “Molly,” in bulk from a source in China. Justin has since turned his life around and developed Contractor Plus, an app for contractors that skyrockets productivity and profitability. https://www.contractorplus.app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for coming on, Justin.
0:09.2	Thanks for having me.
0:10.0	In Florida.
0:10.5	Where are you, where do you live now?
0:11.9	I live in Ohio right now.
0:13.1	Okay.
0:14.3	So basically, I want to just introduce your story real quick and then you can, you can elaborate.
0:21.1	But basically, you were sentenced to 12 years in prison for trafficking bath salts from China, right?
0:29.5	You can call it bath salts.
0:31.2	So, you know, we had a variety of chemicals, everything from JWH18 to methylone.
0:36.9	That's really what got us on the Fed's radar.
0:38.6	A little bit closer.
0:39.6	What really got us on the DEA's radar was methalone, which is synthetic MDMA.
0:45.9	And, you know, a lot of people, partygoers take it and it makes them feel good.
0:49.5	A lot of people call it bath salts.
0:51.5	Is that what the news calls bath salts?
0:55.6	Is the same thing? Yeah, it can be a variety of chemicals a lot of people would blend like that guy in miami that like was eating people's
0:59.5	faces off yeah i was like what 10 years ago was that the same thing that you were selling it was like
1:03.4	five different chemicals blended in one you know okay so uh experimental they call them research
1:08.9	chemicals actually oh really research chemicals but uh. Oh, really? Research chemicals.
1:12.3	But, but yeah.
1:13.2	And you actually, you met Matt Cox in prison too.
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