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Backyard drug makers selling 'legal highs' online


SELLERS of so-called "legal highs" can create and market new drugs so quickly that it will become difficult for authorities to keep on top of the problem, a drug conference has heard.

Just changing one carbon of a chemical compound can mean a new drug is developed, and using the internet backyard-developers can find these drug structures through old academic research papers and patent applications, according to Peter Vallely, a special investigator from the Australian Crime Commission.

Mr Vallely said there was broad confusion in the community about whether these new drugs were actually legal and people could order them online not realising they were breaking the law.
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"There are a number of people who have found themselves in circumstances where they have actually purchased a controlled substance and they are absolutely mortified," he said.

Many new specific drug compounds were banned and there was also a clause in federal law outlawing drugs that were "substantially similar" to existing compounds.

Mr Vallely believed only "the very tip" of an explosion in new drugs had been seen.

In the case of "synthetic marijuana" the basic chemicals needed to create the drug, which was then dissolved and sprayed onto herbs, could cost $10,000 for one kilogram. The drugs could then be sold for $2.4 million.

"That sort of money is not going to remain unnoticed by serious criminal organisations," he told the University of NSW 2011 National Drug Trends Conference.

Simply testing all the new compounds would significantly stretch the capabilities of forensic labs, he said.

He argued in the future the onus might have to be reversed so makers and suppliers would be forced to prove the substance was safe rather than authorities proving it was unsafe.

Adam Winstock, a consultant addiction specialist at the South London and Maudsley National Health Service Trust in London, told the conference that the European Union had gone from releasing about two notifications each year about new drugs, to about 80 in the past two years.

He said new drugs such as mephedrone, or "meow meow", became successful far more quickly than authorities could ban them.

And when they were banned people continued to use these drugs anyway.

He believed governments should look at regulating rather than banning the drugs.

In the UK, new drugs seemed to get a quicker uptake than in countries like Australia, although it was not clear why, he said.

A senior researcher at the Queensland Alcohol & Drug Research and Education Centre, Fairlie Mcllwraith, said her research into the internet habits of ecstasy users indicated that about 10 per cent had used the internet to buy drugs and 2 per cent to buy the ingredients for drugs.

About 5 per cent had sold drugs online.

But about 60 per cent of users employed the internet to research information about different drugs, she said.

The most common website used was a ''pill reports'' website in which users and drug sellers posted reviews of ecstasy tablets.
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http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/backyard-drug-makers-selling-legal-highs-online-20111017-1ltdv.html
 
what a poorly researched piece of shit!

particularly pill reports being touted as a vendor. pillreports is a harm min site. at least this has the benefit of drug seekers now knowing where to go to find info what is safe and what is not (even though not the intention of this article).
 
He argued in the future the onus might have to be reversed so makers and suppliers would be forced to prove the substance was safe rather than authorities proving it was unsafe.
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This is a worrying idea, the idea to prove something is safe that would start illegal is moronic. I know under current analogue laws this is often the case anyway. But to do it on a scale of all new chemicals is retarded, I definitely think their should be more put into the research or RC's, but banning them is not the way.

He believed governments should look at regulating rather than banning the drugs.
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Amen

There are a number of people who have found themselves in circumstances where they have actually purchased a controlled substance and they are absolutely mortified,"
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I think their should be a very easy link to get to on a government website, outlining all currently illegal chemicals in Australia that can be updated regularly. I know it would be a MASSIVE page but then people could quickly check any chemical they were considerring getting. Also if they were considerring purchasing a chemical that wasn't on there they could save a photo of the site on the date they purchased as proof that when they bought it they had no way of knowing it was illegal (The common person is no chemist) but this would be sensible and quite easy and quick to do.
 
What a joke. Whoever wrote this should be hung. This is so incorrect it isn't even funny.

There is one vendor online in Aus (and we all know who he is, you know, the one who can't even spell his own name, let alone his product names, and has the WORST website ever seen online, EVER) who has probably sparked this issue. IMO anyway.
 
In the case of "synthetic marijuana" the basic chemicals needed to create the drug, which was then dissolved and sprayed onto herbs, could cost $10,000 for one kilogram. The drugs could then be sold for $2.4 million.
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If this WAS indeed the case, I am in the wrong fuckin business hahaha
 
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