New Cannabinoid Laws ban Common Products

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New Cannabinoid Laws ban Common Products

2011-06-20
By Daniel Paul

The Retail Compliance Association (RCA) is conducting research into the number of products currently available that contain direct or indirect Cannabinoid Receptor Stimulants that are now banned under a new set of strict state laws.

“What we are finding is amazing, everything from artificial chocolate flavor, to synthetic motor oil contains analogues to the synthetic cannabinoids that have been banned, its brand new science, these receptors are responsible for so many bodily functions that it seems impossible that the new laws did not go way overboard in their extremely vague descriptions of potentially banned compounds” said Daniel Francis, Executive Director of the RCA “the science of the physiology is now catching up to the chemistry, and it truly is amazing that at least 8 states have made Tylenol a schedule 1 drug”.

Acetominophen, aka Tylenol, or the pain reliving medicine in Nyquil is now a schedule one drug, making it a felony to possess, distribute or sell in many states due to their new, broad reaching attempts to ban cannabinoids with compound specific bans. Florida, Wisconsin and Texas are amongst the states that have outlawed thousands of common products in their hasty effort to pass legislation to ban these compounds.

The Texas law reads:
" any quantity of a synthetic chemical compound that is a cannabinoid receptor agonist and mimics the pharmacological effect of naturally occurring cannabinoids....."

For Acetaminophen, the main active ingredient in Tylenol preparations and hundreds of other brands, there is a part of the medication that breaks down into the synthetic cannabinoid AM404, a Cannabinoid type 1 receptor agonist, specifically banned by these laws. It also uses the CB1 receptor to deliver its pain relieving actions, like natural cannabis.

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[NeighborhoodThreat]

Yep.

Drug War FTL.

 

[23536]

acetominophen (Tylenol, paracetamol, APAP or whatever) would be exempt from prohibition because it is already an approved drug.

 

[23536]

here: most of the ingredients in this OTC appetite enhancer would be banned

 

[olskoolrollrz]

Gotta get outta here..this is ridiculous

 

[onthenodintulsa]

I don't even know what to say. The ignorance behind this is amazing. Gave me a good laugh though.

 

[The Network]

acetominophen (Tylenol, paracetamol, APAP or whatever) would be exempt from prohibition because it is already an approved drug.

Technically not. States can do whatever they want to make things illegal, they just can't make things legal if they're federally banned.

 

[23536]

Technically not. States can do whatever they want to make things illegal, they just can't make things legal if they're federally banned.

right. I was thinking of the analog law, which exempts e.g. buproprion

 

[Herbal~Jah]

here: most of the ingredients in this OTC appetite enhancer would be banned

lol what?! i JUST read the ingredients in that "Black Hole" appetite enchancer... whats up with all those ingredients? Do they act on your cannbinoid receptors or something?

 

[23536]

lol what?! i JUST read the ingredients in that "Black Hole" appetite enchancer... whats up with all those ingredients? Do they act on your cannbinoid receptors or something?

primarily 3 compounds which resemble AM404 in structure. They have really long names because the chemicals themselves are really long.

 

[ResinTeeth]

Good thing we don't call 5-HT receptors "LSD Receptors" or these fuckheads would be banning damn near every food in existence. Same goes for calling Dopamine receptors "Cocaine Receptors".

Fuck idiots.

 

[debaser]

Yeah, funny.

I know, I don't live in those states, lol.

 

[The Network]

There are already hundreds of cannabinoids out that they haven't banned and won't because they're 100% structurally different than JWH-XXX or AM-XXXX or whatever. Like ZZ-1 or O-XXX, zz-1 is really easy to get and it's a cute little molecule that doesn't look at all like any other cannabinoid I've seen.

 

[23536]

Good thing we don't call 5-HT receptors "LSD Receptors" or these fuckheads would be banning damn near every food in existence. Same goes for calling Dopamine receptors "Cocaine Receptors".

off topic: what other receptors (besides cannabinoid) are named after drugs? I can think of opioid receptors, GHB receptors, nicotinic receptors...

 

[LSDMDMA&AMP]

GHB receptors aren't called that, thats GABA
and nicotinic receptors last i knew just meant acetylcholine/whatever you call those receptors

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

GHB receptors aren't called that, thats GABA
and nicotinic receptors last i knew just meant acetylcholine/whatever you call those receptors

Actually, it is an agonist of both the GABA-B and GHB receptors (but more so the latter than the former).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHB_receptor

 

[LSDMDMA&AMP]

oops.
i stand corrected

 

[artic]

Wisconsin almost legalized medical cannabis recently. This is ridiculous. Making substances illegal based on what receptors they act on is immoral and dangerous. They may be outlawing cancer cures, for all they know.

 

[The Network]

^ Lol that's funny cuz they recently went insane with synthetic cannabinoid bans.

 

[Herbal~Jah]

Wait, that article says 8 states have made tylenol a schedule 1 drug?!?! What the fuck? What states have done this? This article makes no sense?!?