My dad worked in a prison. We had a friend of the family who had a son who was really a mad machine. After a decade of crime he ended up in the max security prison my dad worked in. The friend came over upset one day, asking my dad what she could do to get him out and make his life better? He told her he was where he belonged for the good of everyone and the sooner she lets him take his own responsibility for that, the better off her entire family would be. My mom was so mad at him for saying that!
Years later she confided in my dad that that was the best advice she ever received.
Said the same thing about my brother before he turned his life around. I was ready to call the cops for my mother, but something happened that turned him around. We are all grateful for it, but she never wanted to admit that she knew it would be better for him to be incarcerated than dead.
This bath salts thing is dumb, and I am quite irritated by my AG for pulling this unilateral crap.