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If you want any evidence that drugs have won the drug war, you just need to read the scientific studies on legal highs.
If you’re not keeping track of the ‘legal high’ scene it’s important to remember that the first examples, synthetic cannabinoids sold as ‘Spice’ and ‘K2′ incense, were only detected in 2009.
Shortly after amphetamine-a-like stimulant drugs, largely based on variations on pipradrol and the cathinones appeared, and now ketamine-like drugs such as methoxetamine have become widespread.
Since 1997, 150 new psychoactive substances were reported. Almost a third of those appeared in 2010.
Last year, the US government banned several of these drugs although the effect has been minimal as the legal high laboratories have over-run the trenches of the drug warriors.
A new study just published in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology tracked the chemical composition of legal highs as the bans were introduced.
A key question was whether the legal high firms would just try and use the same banned chemicals and sell them under a different name.
The research team found that since the ban only 4.9% of the products contained any trace of the recently banned drugs. The remaining 95.1% of products contained drugs not covered by the law.
The chemicals in legal highs have fundamentally changed since the 2011 ban and the labs have outrun the authorities in less than a year.
Another new study has looked at legal highs derived from pipradrol – a drug developed in 1940s for treating obesity, depression, ADHD and narcolepsy.
It was made illegal in made countries during the 70s due to its potential for abuse because it gives an amphetamine-like high.
The study found that legal high labs have just been running through variations of the banned drug using simple modifications of the original molecule to make new unregulated versions.
The following paragraph is from this study and even if you’re not a chemist, you can get an impression of how the drug is been tweaked in the most minor ways to create new legal versions.
Source: Interesting for sure
http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/19/legal-highs-making-the-drug-war-obselete/
If you’re not keeping track of the ‘legal high’ scene it’s important to remember that the first examples, synthetic cannabinoids sold as ‘Spice’ and ‘K2′ incense, were only detected in 2009.
Shortly after amphetamine-a-like stimulant drugs, largely based on variations on pipradrol and the cathinones appeared, and now ketamine-like drugs such as methoxetamine have become widespread.
Since 1997, 150 new psychoactive substances were reported. Almost a third of those appeared in 2010.
Last year, the US government banned several of these drugs although the effect has been minimal as the legal high laboratories have over-run the trenches of the drug warriors.
A new study just published in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology tracked the chemical composition of legal highs as the bans were introduced.
A key question was whether the legal high firms would just try and use the same banned chemicals and sell them under a different name.
The research team found that since the ban only 4.9% of the products contained any trace of the recently banned drugs. The remaining 95.1% of products contained drugs not covered by the law.
The chemicals in legal highs have fundamentally changed since the 2011 ban and the labs have outrun the authorities in less than a year.
Another new study has looked at legal highs derived from pipradrol – a drug developed in 1940s for treating obesity, depression, ADHD and narcolepsy.
It was made illegal in made countries during the 70s due to its potential for abuse because it gives an amphetamine-like high.
The study found that legal high labs have just been running through variations of the banned drug using simple modifications of the original molecule to make new unregulated versions.
The following paragraph is from this study and even if you’re not a chemist, you can get an impression of how the drug is been tweaked in the most minor ways to create new legal versions.
Source: Interesting for sure
http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/19/legal-highs-making-the-drug-war-obselete/
