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pezuzu:
I'm just curious:

Does anybody know what political/legal/payola leverage the essential oil and aromatherapy industries are using to keep sassy and brown camphor legal to buy/sell?

PZ

terbium:
I would acquire now while the acquiring is still good.

halfapint:
It's because the DEA can't make it too public they manipulate the FDA's decisions. (That ain't legal.) The most notable examples are sassafras and tryptophan. In both cases, the medical grounds given by the FDA for trying to suppress public sales are let's say highly dubious, for it might bee rude to say FUCKING PHONY. Happens the FDA cannot stop the herbal distribution of sassafras; it ain't legal. Sassafras was first a medicinal herb, and its oil so used, before its safrole ingredient was declared a precursor. They just muscled the oils distributors by threatening to pull their liability insurance for that item.
http://www.itmonline.org/pdf/asarum.pdf

It's also not legal for them to keep l-tryptophan off the consumer shelves either; the facts have been known nearly a decade, and pure l-tryptophan presents no public health hazard. Nobody has the balls to take them to court over it, is all.

We know, hell we probably could present documented proof, that the DEA is muscling its fellow agency to pretend these substances are public health hazards, just so the DEA can restrict our access to these two beautiful precursors. Unfortunately, our lobby in Washington happens to be a little weak right now.

Note the FDA regulations have to do with its public availability. These do not determine its DEA watch list status. It is conceivable that single-component l-tryptophan as a dietary supplement could be restored to store shelves, for the DEA could say nothing about that. It isn't currently a controlled precursor, nor on any watch list. Sassafras oil is neither a controlled precursor, nor on a watch list per se. We know the DEA watches it like a nearsighted buzzard, though their legal authorization to do so is by no means firmly grounded. Its safrole content is the listed precursor, which is on the watch list.

Sassafras root bark is neither listed nor watched. I expect you can make yourself conspicuous enough, importing thirty tons from China to your third floor apartment, to get yourself noticed, though. The FDA doesn't regulate it, and the DEA doesn't watch it. Customs, though, is very likely alert to it, particularly as a single-component shipment, in large amounts as above. Business recipients, as always, get more slack than peeps do.

Goes for the oils as well: sassafras albidum, ocotea cymbarum, cinnamomum camphora (brown). Domestic oil sales in quantity are not formally watched. In fact, DEA extortion on most of the large domestic suppliers leads to the de facto situation that you'll get snitched out, by some suppliers under some circumstances. That's not strictly a legal situation, it's more of a description of applied State terror. A chemical supplier selling purified safrole is required by law to snitch on its customers to the DEA. An essential oil supplier selling sassafras oil is not legally required to snitch, but likely as not will "voluntarily" do so, after the DEA twists their arm hard enough. Arm twisting is among the specialties of that agency.
turning science fact into <<science fiction>>

foxy2:
I don't think tryptophan was the DEA, because honestly its not all that great of a precursor.  And the drug it is a precursor to is not addictive.  And the pigs didn't take the Tryptophan from a well known person who was raided of their other chems, which leads me to believe that they don't give a flying fuck about it.

I think it was the drug companies that caused the demise of Tryptophan.  SSRI's were brand new at the time and tryptophan is an effective cheap antidepressant.
I hate my government, does this mean I'm a terrorist??

goiterjoe:
the manufacturers of Prozac probably had a big say in the demise of tryptophan, considering how one appeared on the market around the same time the other disappeared.
If Pacman had influenced us, we'd run around dark rooms eating pills and listen to repetitive music

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