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Note that these chemicals are mostly automatically illegal in the USA under the Federal Analog Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analog_Act http://en.wi
by rms 16y ago
Note that these chemicals are mostly automatically illegal in the USA under the Federal Analog Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analog_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analog_Act
However, the Federal Analog Act has been notably tested twice in court to criminalize new substances and the Act was not upheld the first time and was upheld the second time. So it is not of yet well established and it is suppliers that are at risk of prosecution, not consumers.
- viraptor 16y agoNot knowing enough about chemistry: what are the chances of people with medicine bought in another country being stopped as carrying something "substantially similar" to a drug?
- rms 16y ago0+, the federal analog exists as a law on the books but takes a concerted prosecution effort to use.
- markbao 16y agoA lot of designer drugs are synthesized in places like Israel, which has no law prohibiting drug analogs. Mephedrone started to become widely popularized in the Middle East and Europe because of an Israeli manufacturer/online distributor. Quote from the pharma crime director of Israel's Ministry of Health: "Israel, to my sad dismay, is a major leader in designer drugs for this reason."
- olegkikin 16y agoWow, many legal drugs should be illegal under that act.
- chc 16y agoThe article also notes that the drugs are marketed as not being for human consumption, which is an exemption in the analog act as well.
- narrator 16y agoIsn't the federal analog act what they use to bust people who are selling fake drugs? The reasoning being, well you said it was the same as illegal drug x so we're busting you as if you were selling illegal drug x (even if what you were selling is perfectly legal oregano). It's a really kind of Alice in Wonderland war on drugs reality but it actually happens all the time. Just put into google news "busted for selling fake drugs" or something like that and you'll get tons of stories.