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The FDA treats deuterated drugs as separate entities for approval. Although the regulatory agencies are different, perhaps deuterated LSD and MDMA are legal (?!)
UK Psychoative Substances Act
http://www.legislat.../2/contents/enacted
In Britain, every molecule is illegal. [Wrongfellow, Apr 29 2018]
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Yes, they are probably legal until they are first used,
whereupon the legislation will be embroadened to encompass
them. |
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There's nothing like a nice bit of embroadery. And this one's marked out with compasses. Do you suppose it's masonic? |
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This is a serious question: |
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What do you mean when you use the words "legal" and "illegal"? |
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It's also a surprisingly difficult question to answer, and one which gave me a few sleepless nights. |
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Common responses such as "Everyone knows", "use a dictionary", "[such-and-such] is illegal" and "the so-and-so act says ..." are not answers to the question. |
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Honestly, give that question some serious contemplation, and you will never see the world in quite the same way again. The process may feel a little like Neo's un-podding in The Matrix, or Ford Prefect's "Ask a glass of water" quip. |
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"There's a myth that if we legalise a substance it would somehow take
the illegality out of it." - Keith Hellawell, UK Drugs Tsar |
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"There's a myth that if some men and women claim that a substance has been 'legalised' it somehow has an effect on reality or ethics." - spidermother, halfbakery avatar. |
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