Mephedrone Rumour

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Sirens said:
why were they arrested??
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If you sell it *as a drug* you're breaking the law. That's why it's sold as plant food, bath salts, etc, even though it has no such uses. Although could be that perhaps some other controlled substances were involved.
 
It's because even though it's not illegal, it's not strictly legal either. You can't just make a new chemical, open a new site, and sell it as "The best drug about", but you could sell it as long as it's not for consumption.

Coffee has been tested and is legally allowed, so yes, you could sell it as "a drug".
 
can someone ban the tabloids please?

They pose a far greater threat to our brains then any chemical
 
have you tried PL? - don't you need to chew about a million leaves to notice it? Can't exactly hide that in your underwear going into clubs :lol:
 
I rememebr reading a few years ago about this:

With the fall of the Soviet empire came a loosening of communication. In early 1992, I received a letter from a Russian scientist who had finnaly obtained a copy of our 1987 publication on methcathinone. He stated that our paper was the only published reference he could find on methcathinone and was surprised by the lack of interest in this substance in the West. He further wrote that methcathinone was widely abused in the Soveit Union but that formal public disclosure of the methcathinone problem had been withheld by Soviet authorities for "political motives". Evidently, methcathinone has been abused since the late 1970s; its use has incereased by ten-fold from 1984 to 1988 alone. Apparently, this substance is less costly than alcohol and has "even [won over] subjects with opium dependence". In Russia, methcathinone is termed ephedrone and is known on the street as JEFF. Together with alcohol, it may be considered the greatest drug abuse problem in Russia today.

[source: http://www.phc.vcu.edu/Feature/oldfeature/cat/cat.html]

Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) is an an analog to methcathinone, which was seemingly a big problem in russia. I hope this isn't the start of something bad.
 
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kippo said:
Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) is an an analog to methcathinone, which was seemingly a big problem in russia. I hope this isn't the start of something bad.
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I think that's very out-of-date. I would guess that the fall of the USSR, opening to the West, and subsequent invasion of more traditional drugs (cocaine, ecstasy) have collectively changed the situation. Also, the massive expansion of heroin production in Afghanistan and Russia's role as a transit country for the smack getting to Europe.

I have neither seen nor heard of methcathinone in my 8.5 years here, not in Moscow and not in my visits to the regions (where the situation is invariably different).

I have heard of people chewing khat in Central Asia, though I saw no serious problems with it when I lived out there.
 
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