#197 - America's Shadow War on Clandestine Chemistry | Jordan Rubin
Danny Jones Podcast
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Schedules and the Analog Act
Underground chemists would look at the substances that are scheduled on these lists and say, okay, well, if I'm not doing something with something that's not on this list, then I'm in the clear. If you can tweak this molecule ever so slightly for any type of drug that's on the Nixon era controlled substance act list, then okay, you're in the clear, right? The government can't touch you. So what first happened is in 1984, they had emergency scheduling, which sped up the timeline of the Nixon era Controlled Substances Act. You get lower, you get into the stuff that you might find more in like cough medicines, things like that.
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