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Potential RC Bans Coming Up In US

I think a lot of the problem here is that the RC market has really kinda gone mainstream. If you have internet access, a credit card, and are smart enough to spend 10 minutes on Google, you can have just about any type of substance you want in your mailbox in a week. This is wonderful freedom for those who are mature and responsible with their research of chemicals, but the problem is that you also have 16-year-old kids who can't get real drugs and end up getting hooking/messed up on some very hardcore RCs, often without measuring doses or considering consequences. I don't know that there's a way to stop teens from abusing "legal highs", but I think some responsibility lays with vendors who sell to people without collecting any information that would show whether or not the buyer is capable of working with RCs. It's a shame, though, that the handful of reckless teens who have caused problems and brought publicity back to the RC scene, are threatening to ruin the market for everyone. Anyone who would grab a big bag of 2C-E and start blowing lines without doing measurements is obviously taking a LOT of possibly lethal chances, and a normally sane person would think things through a little more. It's a shame that laws are based upon the minority who can't handle themselves, as opposed to the relatively responsible majority who know their limits.
 
The real underlying issue is the continued 'emergency' scheduling of psychoactive compounds, regardless of their apparent 'value' to those who use these compounds with responsibility. Unfortunately, I do not see this trend of reactionary fear-based legislation ending in the near future.
 
/navarone/ said:
Ahh, viva la vida in Europe!

(South europe especially!)
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Not western Europe. In Ireland the drug laws are far worse than US drug laws. Over here they brought in a bill which bans any and all substances considered psychoactive. Over here it doesn't matter if you find a new psychoactive compound that nobody has ever heard of, its banned by default.
 
ampakine said:
Not western Europe. In Ireland the drug laws are far worse than US drug laws. Over here they brought in a bill which bans any and all substances considered psychoactive. Over here it doesn't matter if you find a new psychoactive compound that nobody has ever heard of, its banned by default.
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Same deal in Eastern Europe. :) We've had salvia, JWH and LSA containing seeds banned for more than a year. :/
 
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