Louisiana bans 25I-NBOMe

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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) announced Friday it was banning the possession, manufacture and distribution of 25-I, the synthetic drug that resulted in the death of an Alabama student at last month's Voodoo Festival in New Orleans. DHH Secretary Bruce Greenstein said he, along with the Legislature and police, would continue to target the class of drugs writ large.


A sample of the synthetic drug 25I-NBOMe, street name 25-I or N-Bomb, is exhibited during a press conference at the State Crime Lab on November 9, 2012.
Lauren McGaughy/NOLA.com
Greenstein told NOLA.com health officials and police have seen a "very serious spike" in synthetic drug abuse in the last two years. Since then, the Louisiana Legislature has passed legislation allowing the DHH to unilaterally ban certain synthetic drugs immediately by emergency rule.

On Friday, taking advantage of his new authority, Greenstein and the DHH moved to make illegal the possession, manufacture and distribution of 25I-NBOMe, also known and 25-I or N-Bomb.

The drug will now be classified state-wide as a Schedule I substance - heroin, ecstasy and LSD are also in this group - and use or abuse will carry the maximum penalty under the law.

"It's been on our radar-tracking - synthetic drugs - for a long time," Greenstein told NOLA.com before Friday's press conference. He added because 25-I specifically is such a new drug, "we haven't been able to pinpoint" where it is most concentrated.

There have already been 25-I deaths this year in Minnesota, North Dakota, California and North Carolina. But the death of Little Rock-native Clayton Otwell, 21, at New Orleans' Voodoo Festival was the first confirmed 25-I death in Louisiana.

According to witnesses, after only one drop was placed in his nose, Otwell immediately started babbling incoherently. Within 30 minutes, he had a seizure and never regained consciousness. He died Tuesday after being put on life support at Tulane University Hospital.

The Louisiana State Crime Lab has confirmed three samples of 25-I since May 2012. But Greenstein told reporters there are "likely more cases we don't know about." The problem of synthetic drugs in Louisiana goes back more than two years.

cont http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/11/25-i_banned_after_voodoo_fest.html

 

[Clocktower]

Better switch to 25B kids...

 

[MrPorter]

According to witnesses, after only one drop was placed in his nose

I reckon someone along the way could have easily messed up volumetric dosing somehow - allowing evaporation or an error by a factor of 10 - both are easily doable. Also, it seems so readily absorbed compared to buccal and all it takes is someone slightly more sensitive than someone else.

Common problems with highly dose sensitive drugs with a high risk profile on top :/

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

Problem of course is that there is tons of the stuff...it's going to take a long, long while for this stuff to go way, if it ever goes away. It's sad that good LSD is rare these days but we are blessed in that there is some out there in some places.

Just seems like it's hard to find, especially in that most people don't care at all, even when they're told that it was "synthesized from extracted mescaline and blah, blah blah..." yeah, some girl tried to tell me this blotter she had was synthetic mescaline extract and I explained to her what it was and her face dropped more and more as each of her arguments was shot down. My only question was "what the fuck is synthetic mescaline extract?"-only in my mind, I did not vocalize this-like the way she was speaking, she sounded like she was reading information, as if she knew absolutely nothing about what she was talking about. I almost felt bad for her, the way her voice hesitated each time I presented a fact.

It wasn't so much that I talked down to her or was rude, it was just that she kept talking to me as if her product was worth a notably higher price than what is commonly acceptable to me, as if it were some sort of mysterious, exciting experience.

I apologize, I'm just really jaded about the NBOMe's.