"research chemicals", as they are euphemistically known, are synthesised by commercial labs, often based in the US, which openly sell their products

Designer drugs are powerful synthetic psychedelics from the same chemical families as LSD, magic mushrooms and mescaline. They are too new to have enticing street names; instead their lengthy chemical names are shortened to abbreviations such as 2C-I, 4-HO-DiPT, and 5-Meo-DMT. Unlike ecstasy, methamphetamine or other synthetic recreational drugs, the new compounds are not made in illicit factories or backroom kitchen laboratories. Instead, "research chemicals", as they are euphemistically known, are synthesised by commercial labs, often based in the US, which openly sell their products on the internet.

"research chemicals", as they are euphemistically known, are synthesised by commercial labs, often based in the US, which openly sell their products

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New Designer Drugs

DMT Dimethyltryptamine <br /><br />Found in minute quantities in certain Amazonian plants and in the human brain. Smoked, the effects are nearly instantaneous and very strange. "The closest you'll get to experiencing death bar actually dying" as one user put it. <br /><br />Dose 2-60mg <br />Duration Less than 10 minutes <br />Legal status Class A <br />Price £100 a gram on the street<br /><br />***<br /><br />5-Meo-DMT Methoxydimethyltryptamine <br /><br />A more powerful sister compound of DMT, occurring naturally in the venom of the Bufo alvarius toad but generally smoked in synthesised form. Not uncommon for those who take large amounts to suffer psychological and emotional difficulties for weeks afterwards. <br /><br />Dose 1-20mg (smaller than a grain of salt) <br />Duration 5-20 minutes <br />Legal status Class A but available to buy on the internet<br />Price $175 (about £90) a gram <br /><br />***<br /><br />2C-I (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine) <br /><br />Most likely candidate for the coveted title "the next ecstasy". <br /><br />Powerful psychedelic stimulant described as a cross between MDMA and LSD but with much gentler side-effects. Already appearing in pill form on the UK dance scene. <br /><br />Dose 10-25mg <br />Duration 5-8 hours <br />Legal status Class A but available to buy on the internet <br />Price $299 a gram web price; £10 a pill on the street <br /><br />***<br /><br />2C-T-2 (2,5-dimethyoxy-4-ethylthiophenethylamine) <br /><br />Respected psychedelic, from the same phenethylamine family as MDMA and mescaline. <br /><br />Noted for its warmth and "outrageous visuals". <br /><br />Dose 10-25mg <br />Duration 5-8 hours <br />Legal status Class A but available to buy on the internet <br />Price $299 a gram web price; £10 a pill on the street

New Designer Drugs

DMT Dimethyltryptamine Found in minute quantities in certain Amazonian plants and in the human brain. Smoked, the effects are nearly instant...

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New drugs are powerful synthetic psychedelics from the same chemical families as LSD, magic mushrooms and mescaline

New drugs are powerful synthetic psychedelics from the same chemical families as LSD, magic mushrooms and mescaline. They are too new to have enticing street names; instead their lengthy chemical names are shortened to abbreviations such as 2C-I, 4-HO-DiPT, and 5-Meo-DMT. Unlike ecstasy, methamphetamine or other synthetic recreational drugs, the new compounds are not made in illicit factories or backroom kitchen laboratories. Instead, "research chemicals", as they are euphemistically known, are synthesised by commercial labs, often based in the US, which openly sell their products on the internet. <br /><br />The rapid growth in the transatlantic online trade in such chemicals has been fuelled by international differences over legality. While Britain has outlawed all of these drugs - under an amendment to the Misuse Of Drugs Act in February 2002 - they remain legal in most other countries, including the majority of EU member states. Even in the US, despite some of the most draconian anti-drug laws in the world, the bulk of research chemicals are legal to manufacture, sell, possess and consume. <br /><br />With ecstasy dropping in price and popularity, users and dealers in this country are looking further afield to obtain new highs. A recent Home Office survey found that ecstasy use had dropped 21% in the last year. The street price had also dropped to an all time low of £2-£3 a pill. <br /><br />But while most research chemicals are too psychedelically powerful to make it as club drugs, one, 2C-I, is rapidly gaining popularity in this country as a dance drug, thanks to some similarities in effect to MDMA, the main ingredient of ecstasy. More than 125 pills of the drug were seized by police last year, including 65 at the Glastonbury festival, and some London dealers are offering it for £10 a tablet.

New drugs are powerful synthetic psychedelics from the same chemical families as LSD, magic mushrooms and mescaline

New drugs are powerful synthetic psychedelics from the same chemical families as LSD, magic mushrooms and mescaline. They are too new to hav...

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methamphetamine use is said to have reached epidemic proportions.

Methamphetamine can be cooked up using a handful of household chemicals, but byproducts can include toxic waste in the local water supply, fires and explosions. <br /><br />Globally, users are said to outnumber those of heroin and cocaine combined, but its prevalence in the UK is still a matter of some debate. <br /><br />The UK is further removed from the suspected "meth labs" of Mexico and south-east Asia, than Australia and the rural US, where methamphetamine use is said to have reached epidemic proportions.

methamphetamine use is said to have reached epidemic proportions.

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"Strawberry Quick," chocolate, cola and other sodas, Robertson said. One agent reported a red methamphetamine that had been marketed as a powdered for

Among the new flavors are strawberry, known as "Strawberry Quick," chocolate, cola and other sodas, Robertson said. One agent reported a red methamphetamine that had been marketed as a powdered form of an energy drink, he said.<br /> <br /> A patrol officer who stopped a car on Feb. 13 in a rural area of Greene County, Mo., seized a bag of "strawberry meth" from a female passenger, says Capt. Randy Gibson of the Greene County Sheriff's Department. The seized drug had a slight strawberry smell to it, he said. <br /> <br /> Greene County deputies have seized colored meth before, Gibson says. Several years ago, blue methamphetamine, known as "Smurf dope" circulated in the area, Gibson said.<br /> <br /> "It was nothing more than one of the local meth cooks taking a great deal of pride in his purity," Gibson says. "He ground up blue chalk to color it so he could market it as his."<br /> <br /> Carson City, Nev., Undersheriff Steve Albertson says dealers often try to make their meth distinctive with color or a catchy name as a way to brand it. "Then they'll spread the word that this meth, whatever color it is, is the best kind of meth there is," he said. <br /> <br /> The appearance of "Strawberry Quick" in Greene County came less than two weeks after the Nevada

"Strawberry Quick," chocolate, cola and other sodas, Robertson said. One agent reported a red methamphetamine that had been marketed as a powdered for

Among the new flavors are strawberry, known as "Strawberry Quick," chocolate, cola and other sodas, Robertson said. One agent repo...

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