Legal High ~ "Nopaine" and Designer Drugs...

Jeanne Whalen writes in the WSJournal that In Quest for 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox Law, about the blossoming "specialty chemicals" movement. Meet David Llewellyn who has...

"...entered the so-called "legal high" business -- a burgeoning industry producing new psychoactive powders and pills that are marketed as "not for human consumption." Mr. Llewellyn and a chemistry-savvy partner started selling something they dubbed Nopaine -- a stimulant they concocted by tweaking the molecular structure of the attention-deficit drug Ritalin. Nopaine "is every bit as good as cocaine," [...] Still, he emphasized, "Everything we sell is legal." [...] Mr. Llewellyn is part of a wave of laboratory-adept European entrepreneurs who see gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs."

Of course, all drugs and use should be decriminalized.