This must have some relatively complex mode of action then?
Because although my knowledge of brain chemistry and how substances affect this is pretty much just a basic grasp of the essential fundamentals, and I'm not going to pretend to know much more than that, but as far as I understand things, gabaergic substances like benzos boost gaba, (obviously,) and substances that act on dopamine, such as the ADHD stimulants for example, boost levels of dopamine (again self-evidently obviously). And things like Ecstasy release floods of serotonin into your brain, as everyone who knows the first thing about Es knows.
I am aware of some substances that act on more than one neurotransmitter, eg mephedrone hits dopamine and serotonin, and I think cannabis activates dopamine as well as the cannabinoid receptors. I'd have to give myself a refresher course on all of this, (and also a more in depth understanding would certainly be beneficial,) to be confident in any further statements. But I believe that alcohol acts on gaba and dopamine (for some - I don't think I get any noticeable increase in dopamine from it) and it seems Alcarelle is trying to mimic alcohol's modes of action by trying to act on various multiple neuro transmitters - gaba, dopamine, and serotonin - all from one subtance.
It seems pretty ambitious and unusual to me, but as I've said this is not a subject I know a great deal about, although I am interested. I suspect Alcarelle is only going to lightly tickle those 3 receptors, at best. I mean, if it had powerful effects on all 3 receptors / neurotransmitters it would be one of the best substances ever invented. And I doubt it is that.
I still don't even understand how he can invent a substance that is supposedly psycho-active, when all such old and new substances were blanket banned in the UK under the NPS Act of 2016, or whenever it was.
If it is actually psychoactive then it must be banned, and if it isn't, then it's totally useless?