Daily Mail - The deadly love drug that's destroying the rainforests

[S.J.B.]

Its far easiest to start with safrole or isosafrole though sjb id bet most labs are running with safrole and then ggoing to isosafrole then mdp2p or just going safrole----->mdp2p

Definitely, and that really matters when it comes to clandestine labs... but if MDMA was being made in a pharmaceutical factory, how easy the synthesis is wouldn't really be a factor... just the price of materials.

 

[Biovail]

other synthetic drugs like mephedrone — known as meow meow —

Really? Meow meow?

Articles like this just show how dumb readers really are. Any sensible person would realize that if ecstasy were legal, both the problems they're talking about would be solved. There would be no more rainforest destruction for reagents that are currently illegal to produce, and there would be no more cases of people ODing on recreational drugs simply because the dealer is their only source of information and they don't know the strength of the drugs they're taking.

Imagine if a pill of tylenol could contain anywhere between 100mg and 500mg of acetaminophen and you could need anywhere from 2 to 10 of them to fix your headache. If you guess and take 10 and they happen to have 500mg each, you'll most likely die without medical attention. A five year old could probably tell you the most reasonable solution to this problem, and it doesn't involve leaving it up to the black market to regulate the quality of drugs.

 

[voiceofreason]

The recent Nat Geo program Drugs Inc: Ecstasy stated that 250 acres of Cambodian forest are being destroyed each year to produce sassafras oil. To put that in perspective, that's 1/4000th of the size of that reserve. You be the judge of how damaging that is.

 

[rickolasnice]

I think we should just stop posting Daily Mail and The Sun articles really about drugs, they have always been atrocious.

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Fixed.

 

[nickels]

The recent Nat Geo program Drugs Inc: Ecstasy stated that 250 acres of Cambodian forest are being destroyed each year to produce sassafras oil. To put that in perspective, that's 1/4000th of the size of that reserve. You be the judge of how damaging that is.

It's nothing compared to the amount of Brazilian rainforest being felled daily for agriculture, beef and other industries.

 

[Dank Jenkem]

Is anyone using Sassafras albidum for safrole production?