heh… we should hang out sometime.
I agree that the manufacturers of these shit analogue drugs change the recipe up a bit for each iteration to avoid the law but what is stupid is that they could already be busted under existing drug analogue laws irrespective of changing the recipe, provided the prosecution could prove they were produced and marketed with the intention of human consumption.
FWIW there’s no reason to assume other mainstream drugs (MDMA, amphetamines) don’t have the same problems with shitty cooks. For the most part these retail products are produced in China, or using “Research Chemicals” produced in China. I’m extremely judgemental of China’s penchant for cutting corners in manufacturing (I avoid buying Chinese made foods whatsoever) but I don’t accept the premise that these things are inherently dangerous due to the mystery of their production.
What I do unreservedly agree with you on is that you’re better off doing the real deal, not these “half-measure” alternatives. Also interesting to hear what John W. Huffman (whose research group created the synthetic cannabinoids which are used to make these shitty alternatives) has to say on their consumption:
“I figured once it got started in Germany it was going to spread. I’m concerned that it could hurt people,” Huffman said. “I think this was something that was more or less inevitable. It bothers me that people are so stupid as to use this stuff”. Huffman may have developed these compounds for scientific research, but now he gets blamed for its abuse. As JWH-018 is more potent and easy to make, Huffman believes it is a more widely used synthetic cannabinoid of the JWH series.
