Should the DEA release a list of chems they would prosecute under the Analogue Act?

[Cwest]

Hey guys so here is what I have been thinking about the past few days. In the UK and other European countries they have laws like the Cathinone Laws and sub laws that state any tryptamine substituted a certain way would be immediately illegal. This limits the chemists in the RC market who are trying to consider themselves legitimate or law abiding businesses but also lets the users know what they can and cant get prosecuted for. So even though it limits users and sellers it gives them a sense of security and pushes for new substances to be creative, some of which could be very beneficial to medicine.

However In the USA and other nations that just have an Analogue Act, which is a kind of cover all for hallucinogens, stimulants and depressants. The reason for this is the amount of time money and paperwork it takes to schedule a substance, even emergency scheduling, allows a drug to be fully distributed before it is declared unlawful. But this seems unconstitutional, as Thomas Jefferson (a Founding Father) said that the citizens of America have the right to use whatever medicine they choose. Its barely ok to ban specific substances from human use, but to ban substances that are similar, at the DEA's discretion seems unpatriotic at the very least...

So my question is, should the DEA have a list of chemicals they consider analogues so that people at least know what they can and cant get in trouble for owning? Would this be beneficial to people who are looking for stimulants and depressants and even opiates for functioning normally? Or would it destroy the RC market in these countries as all the DEA would have to tell the lab is "this substance is on the list, right here, available for everyone to see."

What are your thoughts? Would this help the DEA? Would this hinder labs? Would this give you some level of security and even keep you out of prison? How would this affect the you and the world around you?

 

[RobotRipping]

I do believe they already have that list, it's just vague. Doesn't seem to hinder the RC market in the US at all, couple people go down from time to time but overall, not many people have been prosecuted, especially just regular drug users. It would probably bring the DEA, prison industry, law enforcement and all those assholes more money if they specifically banned everything they could, i'm not sure why they haven't done this already.

I think it would be bad for the drug user if such a specific list were to appear. The DEA would have to play catch up constantly and chemists would have to synthesize drugs that perhaps no human has ever even tried. I think things are better as they are now rather than giving users shitty experimental drugs that they can feel safe using but may not be safe at all.

More strict and specific laws would just create a really shitty and possibly more dangerous RC market. It would make everything worse IMO.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

If anything I think it would make it worse in the event someone is arrested with analogue chemicals. I only have a basic understanding of the legal process, but it seems like it would be a bitch for the gov't/prosecution to convince a jury that X is related to schedule 1 Y.


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