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Does this mean all drugs or just all the common street drugs? What about precursors and obscure phenethylamines?

Hello PIKAL. Great name.

Yes, it means all drugs. It specifically decriminalizes all drugs whether they're class I, II, III, or IV.

It only doesn't decriminalize more-than-personal amounts of specifically named popular "street drugs" as the article refers to them.

AFAIK, the truly "obscure" phenethylamines (ie, not 2C-I, 2C-E, 2C-B) were never illegal to begin with in the US.

There is the analogues act but it is unclear to me whether or how often that gets enforced.

you would have to have in-depth chemistry and legal knowledge to know exactly what is illegal under the US analogues act. but if you can't show that a substance is closely related to something already under schedule I or II, it is legal (or at least not illegal) by default. now that the popular 2C-x's have been explicitly added to schedule I, my guess is that the whole family is on thin ice, if not unambiguously illegal.

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