Over the past several years, the explosion of “designer drugs”— so named because they are designed to evade regulation and law enforcement—has continued unabated. Like fashion designers who work perennially to make last year’s wardrobe obsolete, chemists in sophisticated laboratories add continuously to the vast number of “novel psychoactive substances” available for purchase on the gray market. Among the most popular of these are synthetic compounds engineered to replace leading recreational substances of yesteryear. Here is an update on the most popular of these: synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic cathinones, and synthetic hallucinogens. Mod Mary Jane: Synthetic cannabinoids Deceptively...
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