This exact thing happened to a friend of mine (a setup)! It involved 2ce though, he had 70mg in 7 capsules, and this kid kept bugging him for psychedelics and wouldnt stop, I remember he just wouldnt shut up, and this was a kid who sold drugs himself, so my friend gave in, and told him "okay I have something thats kinda like mescaline", and the "buyer" says "awesome! I'll be there in 10 mins". So, later, this guy's car pulls up, my friend goes outside, and out of HIS car come 3 or so undercover cops. They frisk him, he asks why they're doing this and they said "it looked like you were trying to do something to that car over there". He responds with the truth: "thats MY DAD'S CAR!", regardless of their bs excuse they reached into his pockets and found the 7 capsules and said "aha! Mescaline!". He had to spend 2 nights in jail and was charged with a *felony* for "possession of a hallucinogen" and ALSO "possession of a hallucinogenIC".
They kept saying it was a "gram of mescaline" (it was 70mg in volume, no filler), and it kept being a felony, then he went to a lawyer, his parents shelled out $4k, and the lawyer said it is illegal to have a HALLUCINOGEN in your possession. He said, the reason there is also a charge for "hallucinogenic" is in case it turns out to be a drug thats not quite a hallucinogen, like an MDxx, its a fail-safe. I thought things worked by schedule? 2ce is not scheduled, and the Analog act Also, another key thing was that HE HAD TO GO TO ANOTHER FRIEND TO GET THE 2CE BECAUSE THE "BUYER" KEPT HARASSING HIM FOR IT, that is entrapment, no? The court wouldnt even test the substance or acknowledge that it wasnt even a 10th of a gram until he paid for the lawyer. The US legal system is already fucked, and I hope
1) that people stop getting screwed over for doing things that aren't illegal. possession of 2ce alone should not warrant arrest. Its like getting arrested for Robitussin. Yes, DXM is a powerful dissociative, and its technically uncontrolled. Same with 2ce. Also, DXM is related to a couple scheduled substances ("analog act")
2) That the analogs some of us know and love like the 4-substituted tryptamines, the 2c's, etc will not be made unavailable or be turned into street drugs, or the current means of getting them becomes sketchier and more dangerous. I do not foresee any other way, unfortunately. And yes, some analogs, like newer steroids, fentanyl analogs, the *-meo-pcp's, and all the stims and mephedrone analogs HAVE and DO cause problems. But things like 4-ho-xxx/4-aco-xxx and the unscheduled 2c's have not caused one death, and they are relatively unknown. I hope it can remain that way so that we dont have people thinking "OMG kids can trip out this cheap and avoid the black market!? And they're taking a substance one molecule away from psilocin or mdma? STOP IT AT ONCE! Emergency schedule! Just temporary.."
If this stuff even makes the news once it will change things =(. I was sad to see a story about 2ci. What happened to that guy was fucked up, and my friend got lucky.
EDIT: Sorry, this is kinda off-topic, but I was really wondering, is there really a global mephedrone ban in the works? I've read about it somewhere but can't find anything to verify or disprove it... Anyway, this is fused with personal experience, what I've seen myself, and this builds my views on this particular matter, I dont mean to delve too deep in my own experiences, since this is something that concerns all of us. The article itself is good, and I'm glad they didnt take the all-too-common negative spin (because I have yet to read anything good about any kind of research chemical).