The cathinones are just as diverse as the amphetamines; everything from Adderall to Meth to MDMA.
Chemically, the two families are almost identical; the only difference is that the cathinones have an extra ketone group in the beta position on their carbon chain (which is why they’re sometimes called “BK-amphetamines”).
The structural difference makes cathinones slightly less able to pass the blood-brain barrier relative to amphetamines, so they tend to be a little less potent by weight. Apart from that, the BK’s normally have similar effects to their amphetamine analogs; cathinone is similar to amphetamine, methcathinone is similar to methamphetamine, etc.
However, the BK-cooks are exploring parts of the family tree that are not well understood. Nobody knew what to expect from mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) because nobody had ever seriously investigated the amphetamine equivalent.
That just doesn’t have the symmetry of the original version, and the symmetrical version ‘the only thing that can stop a bad guy on face eating drugs is a good guy on face eating drugs’ just lacks the truthiness…
This, so hard. I mentioned in one of the other face-eating posts that his behavior also strongly resembles schizophrenia. Can we at least wait a few weks until the drug tests come back?
FWIW the kid also screamed “Test me! you won’t find any drugs!” at the police.
I’d also like to note that in the first Florida face-eating incident, there was no flakka/bath salts/spice/anything except marijuana found in the guy’s system.
Drug truisms need to die, kids are never going to trust drug fact when this myth is presented as if its for their own “good”. They know when adults lie, they know when smoke is being blown up their ass.
I hadn’t even heard of cocaine until I “met” these guys:
…and after I saw the show I knew cocaine was guaranteed to make me cool. Best drug commercial EVA.
