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[AG-Drogen] Ersatz für Mephedron steht schon bereit


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  • From: Maximilian Plenert <kontakt AT max-plenert.de>
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  • Subject: [AG-Drogen] Ersatz für Mephedron steht schon bereit
  • Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:51:33 +0200
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Mephedron wurde in Deutschland (Neue Drogen kommen und bleiben auf dem Markt http://hanfverband.de/letter/14_01_2010.html#Markt) sowie Großbritannien verboten - trotzdem dem Protest von Expertinnen, wie denen des ACMD - worauf zwei weitere Mitglied beschlossen sich nicht weiter als wissenschaftlichen Feigenblatt für die Regierung herzugeben (Siehe Mail "ACMD is in Meltdown" & The government's determination to control its drugs advisors left me no choice but to resign http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/04/drugs-advisory-committee-resignations)
Nun hat meldet das Psychonaut Research Project, http://www.p2002.sgul.ac.uk - der Nachfolger von Mephedron wird bereits im Internet beworben: MDAI - eine weitere "research drug" ähnlich MDMA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5,6-Methylenedioxy-2-aminoindane / http://www.eve-rave.ch/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=17594

New drug set to replace banned mephedrone as a 'legal high'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/18/drug-replace-ban-mephedrone

MDAI, a synthetic chemical developed as an antidepressant, is already being advertised across the web as a 'miaow' replacement

* Mark Townsend, home affairs correspondent
* The Observer, Sunday 18 April 2010

A synthetic chemical known as MDAI has already emerged as a successor to the drug mephedrone, which was banned in Britain this weekend.

Analysts at the Psychonaut Research Project, an EU-funded organisation based at King's College London, which monitors the internet for new trends in drug abuse, said it had identified the substance as the likeliest contender to replace the former "legal high". Co-principal investigator Paolo Deluca said: "Websites are already starting to promote MDAI and this could become the next popular product."

The drug replicates many of the effects of MDMA, or ecstasy, and was developed as an antidepressant by a team at Purdue University in the US during the 1990s. Experts believe its chemical blueprint could soon be mass-produced by the Chinese manufacturers who flooded the UK with mephedrone. Last year mephedrone became the fourth-most popular drug in Britain behind cannabis, cocaine, and ecstasy.

The many websites selling mephedrone closed down last week with the final deadline for placing online orders 3pm on Wednesday. At the same time, sites began advertising or offering MDAI, most describing it as a "research chemical". One of the most popular mephedrone websites states: "New products for April -- MDAI." Another announced the arrival of MDAI by declaring it was "proud to introduce a new compound to our product range". The cost of the chemical is about twice that of mephedrone, with a gram -- which users say is enough for five hits -- costing £25.

Other online drug stores said they would soon sell substances that could circumvent the measures recently rushed through parliament to make mephedrone and its related compounds a Class B substance. Internet forums have surfaced in which MDAI users detail their experiences of the drug. Positive comments included a "snug" or "comfort-cloak" feeling; some described a "moderate serotonin burnout", or mild comedown. "Don't think it would be to everyone's tastes, there's no rushing/stimulation/euphoria like with other legals; it's more of a therapeutic feeling," one user said.

Deluca said: "Users will decide if it is worth the money. If it is deemed not as powerful as ecstasy or cocaine, then it might not become as popular. But because it is an antidepressant with research status, it will make it much more difficult to declare illegal."

The Psychonaut Research Project publishes reports to help states quickly identify new trends in drug abuse. The team identified mephedrone in 2008, long before it hit the headlines. Among the organisations that receive its updates is the US military so that officers can determine what drugs its personnel might be tempted to use when serving abroad.

Deluca said that researchers were examining Scandinavia, because drug takers there are more experimental and can provide an early indicator of new substances that will later become popular on a wider scale in Britain. The first reported death involving mephedrone was in Sweden in 2008.

Deluca said that, in addition to MDAI, it had also identified another synthetic substance -- NRG-1 -- that could become popular, but which the government's drug advisers are already looking at banning. Professor Les Iversen, chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, recently said it intended to review NRG, which is widely prescribed in France as an appetite suppressant.
DRUGS IN BRITAIN

There are more than four million users of cannabis, cocaine or ecstasy, the three most popular drugs in the UK, according to government figures.

The street price of cocaine and heroin has fallen by nearly half in the past
decade.

Almost 2,000 drug-related deaths were recorded in the UK in 2008. Heroin and morphine accounted for almost half of those deaths.

Some experts have issued warnings about synthetic stimulant NRG-1, which remains widely available on the internet.




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