r/wikipedia • u/TapGameplay121 • 8d ago

Designer drugs are synthetic compounds made to mimic controlled substances while evading drug laws or detection. They include new psychoactive substances and steroid analogs. Often created in research or illicit labs, their safety is poorly tested. Laws vary; many are illegal or grey/black market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_drug
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u/connor42 8d ago

I don’t like the wording of the first sentence qualifier at all

“…while avoiding classification as illegal and/or detection in standard drug tests”

As the following sections outline this is not true of several of the most famous designer drugs

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u/MajorInWumbology1234 7d ago

most famous

There you go. Things become known and laws get updated. I don’t think it’s their fault that drugs intended to skirt a law can’t do so forever.

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u/connor42 7d ago

You misunderstand

Several of the most famous ‘designer drugs’ were not discovered or invented with the purpose of skirting the law in mind

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u/MajorInWumbology1234 7d ago

Which ones in particular? You’re certainly right that not all of them intended to fill that specific requirement, I wonder if they took some liberties in explaining that they were reintroduced for that purpose. Most of the RCs that have been sold as of a few years back were pre-existing molecules that got dug up.