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Prior to the compounds being made illegal, mephedrone, methylone, and MDPV were marketed as bath salts. [34] The "bath salt" name and labels that say "not for human consumption" are an attempt to skirt the Federal Analogue Act , which forbids selling drugs that are substantially similar to drugs already classified for human use.
α-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (α-PVP), also known as α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone, O-2387, β-keto-prolintane, prolintanone, [2] [3] or desmethylpyrovalerone, is a synthetic stimulant of the cathinone class developed in the 1960s that has been sold as a designer drug and often consumed for recreational reasons.
The sale of khat is legal in some jurisdictions, but illegal in others (see Khat (Regulation)). Substituted cathinones were also often used as the key ingredient of recreational drug mixes commonly known as " bath salts " in the United States.
Bath salts are a lab-made class of synthetic cathinones, which are stimulants, similar to the substances found in the khat plant of East Africa, which some people ingest for its stimulant effects ...
It was so difficult to distinguish the synthetic drug from candy that the substance had to be taken to a lab for testing before it could be identified.
In the US, similar descriptions ("bath salts" is the most common) have been used to describe mephedrone as well as methylone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Combined with labeling that they are "not for human consumption," these descriptions are an attempt to skirt the Federal Analog Act which forbids drugs that are ...
Recently released court records detail the events that led to the death of a 2-month-old who ingested drugs known as "bath salts," but it's still not clear how the baby came into contact with the ...
In the UK, methylone is illegal since the 16/04/2010 revision of the misuse of drugs act. Before this it was not specifically mentioned in United Kingdom (U.K.) law as the β-ketone was not covered under the Misuse of Drugs Act. In March 2010, plans were announced to make methylone and other cathinones, Class B drugs, "within weeks".