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That's a US-specific law though. The article is mostly about the UK market, and in the UK the law bans specific chemicals, and attempts to address families of chemicals. It invariably falls short and molecule-tweaks can skirt it.

The drugs mentioned in there - Benzo Fury (I hate that name, let's call it 6-APB because that's the molecule on the wrapper) is extremely close to MDA, aMT is a tryptamine which escaped the generic tryptamine regulations and the NBOMes are a twist on the generic 2C-x structure.



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