It's "discovered" in the sense that somebody is making and importing it, but nobody in Australia has seen it before. So they go into the details of what kind of chemistry goes on with an unidentified powder.
Super interesting to read, but it's now behind some firewall for law enforcement only.
They also have a journal called Microgram where they publish scientific papers on forensic chemistry.
https://www.dea.gov/documents/2018/2018-01/2018-01-01/synthe...
More interestingly, "We contacted our offsiders at the UN Office of Drug Control, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, as well as several well-positioned researchers in this space from around the world. None had seen the compound before."
OPs entire point was the journey to find drug is what's interesting.
The fact they had not entered the known details into their database is not interesting.
That fact the Australians named CanKet after their capital is also funny. Because Canberra is a hole.
User review of CanKet - https://old.reddit.com/r/noids/comments/wv5q04/identificatio...
I guess there's a reason your account is shadow banned
If someone has a better title suggestion, we can change it again.
https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/new-psychoactive-substances/
>> In Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria there is now a ‘blanket ban’ on possessing or selling any substance that has a psychoactive effect other than alcohol, tobacco and food.
Perfect, so bake it into cookies.
so sodium benzoate is okay (no psychoactive effect) and hazelnut is okay (use as a flavoring), but random alkaloids wouldn't.
buzzkill law, though.
> Chemical X could only be something called 2’-fluoro-2-oxo-phenylcyclohexylethylamine. And they had never seen this compound before.
But it was previously discovered and named.
Or did the writer mean that the chemist invented a street drug which was then outlawed?
Or does it mean a known drug was outlawed and found for the first time by authorities within the country that outlawed it? That makes sense, but sounds like "Dog Bites Man".
Did not anticipate a detailed article on chemical sleuthing.