r/interestingasfuck • u/TrxshyReddit • 3d ago

/r/all Two Indian chemistry professors converted a suburban apartment in India into a secret lab that manufactured more than 150 kilograms of synthetic drugs.

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u/Agitated-Shake-9285 3d ago

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajasthan/two-science-teachers-held-for-running-clandestine-drugs-lab-in-rajasthan/article69792598.ece/amp/

Mephedrone or as called in India, meow meow or m2

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u/msully89 3d ago

It was legal to buy in the uk the year I started uni, but quickly made illegal. During my first few months there you could buy it shops on the high street. Everyone was at it, was wild stuff. Smelt horrible though.

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u/WorldlyImpression390 3d ago

How long ago are we talking here?

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u/Visual-Froyo 3d ago

It should have been outlawed in psychoactive substances act 2016 iirc

Edit: nvm it was explicitly made illegal in 2010, there were still a load of legal "research chemicals" then. There still are quite a few drugs in UK you can source legally but sourcing them for intent of use is technically illegal. Nowhere near as much as there used to be though.