Scientist Haunted By Misuse Of Drugs He Invented

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http://www.npr.org/2011/01/05/132685131 ... e-invented

David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he is haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths.

Nichols makes chemicals roughly similar to ecstasy and LSD that are supposed to help explain how parts of the brain function. Then he publishes the results for other scientists, hoping his work one day leads to treatments for depression or Parkinson's disease.

But Nichols' findings have not stayed in purely scientific circles. They've also been exploited by black market labs to make cheap and marginally legal recreational drugs.

[Psychedelicious]

THX für den Link *verneig*

Aber NIchols hätte doch von Anfang an mehr als sonnenklar sein müssen was er da tut.
Er ist/war quasi ein Ziehsohn von Shulgin und konnte ja an dessen Beispiel wunderbar verfolgen wie und wohin das führt - war nie eine Frage ob sonder wann....

FInde das jetzt etwas komisch sich da so hinzustellen und zu tun als ob man von All dem nie geahnt hätte ..... very strange Mr. Nichols .....!