Bath Salts and Cannabinoids Analyzed by GC-IR
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Introduction Drug case criminal prosecution relies upon laws specifying what is and what is not legal. Underground chemists try to avoid prosecution by modifying illegal materials to produce synthetic “designer drugs” which may slip through legal loopholes. Recent designer drug targets include cathinones and cannabinoids. Cathinones and related drugs are found on the street labeled as “Bath Salts” (due to a resemblance to commercial bath salts, though completely unrelated; methcathinone is a common example). Synthetic cannabinoids have an affinity for the cannabinoid receptor in the brain, providing a “high” similar to marijuana. Marijuana itself contains over 50 different cannabinoids. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) laboratory has considerable experience analyzing street samples of both cathinones and cannabinoids.
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