AL-LAD

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AL-LAD
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Legal status
  • AU:Unscheduled
  • CA:Unscheduled.
  • DE: NpSG (Industrial and scientific use only)
  • UK: Class A
  • US:Unscheduled, could be illegal if is sold for human consumption under the Federal Analogue Act.
  • Illegal in Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and France, could be illegal in many countries if is sold for human consumption or under the several analogue acts [1]
Identifiers
  • (6aR,9R)-N,N-diethyl-7-prop-2-enyl-6,6a,8,9-tetrahydro-4H-indolo[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide
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Chemical and physical data
Formula C22H27N3O
Molar mass 349.478 g·mol−1
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AL-LAD, also known as 6-allyl-6-nor-LSD, is a psychedelic drug and an analog of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). [2] It is described by Alexander Shulgin in the book TiHKAL (Tryptamines i Have Known And Loved). It is synthesized starting from nor-LSD as a precursor, using allyl bromide as a reactant.

Contents

Effects in humans

AL-LAD on blotter paper AL-LAD blotter.jpg
AL-LAD on blotter paper

While AL-LAD has subtly different effects than LSD, and appears to be slightly shorter lasting, their potencies are similar; [3] [4] an active dose of AL-LAD is reported to be between 50 and 150 micrograms. [5] AL-LAD has a known but short and highly uncommon history of recreational human use, which originated in Ireland and the UK, but spread internationally.[ citation needed ]

Chemistry

AL-LAD does not cause a color change with the Marquis, Mecke or Mandelin reagents, [6] but does cause the Ehrlich's reagent to turn purple because of the presence of the indole moiety in its structure.

AL-LAD is not scheduled by the United Nations' Convention on Psychotropic Substances overcome is legal ever that doesn't be sold for recreational usage, could be sold for medical or research purposes like a research chemical.. [7]

Denmark

AL-LAD is illegal in Denmark. [8]

France

AL-LAD is illegal in France. [9]

Finland

Listed in a decree of the government's psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market. [10] [11]

Latvia

AL-LAD is possibly illegal in Latvia. Although it isn't specifically scheduled, it may be controlled as an LSD structural analog due to an amendment made on June 1, 2015. [12]

Sweden

The Riksdag added AL-LAD to Narcotic Drugs Punishments Act under Swedish schedule I ("substances, plant materials and fungi which normally do not have medical use" ) as of January 26, 2016, published by Medical Products Agency (MPA) in regulation HSLF-FS 2015:35 listed as 6-allyl-6-nor-LSD, AL-LAD, and 6-allyl-N,N-dietyl-9,10-didehydroergolin-8-karboxamid. [13]

Switzerland

AL-LAD is illegal in Switzerland. [14]

United Kingdom

AL-LAD is illegal in the UK. On June 10, 2014 the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) recommended that AL-LAD be specifically named in the UK Misuse of Drugs Act as a class A drug despite not identifying any harm associated with its use. [15] The UK Home office accepted this advice and announced a ban of the substance to be enacted on 6 January 2015 as part of The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014.

United States

AL-LAD is a Controlled Substance at the federal level in the United States, [16] AL-LAD could be legally considered an analog of the Schedule I drug LSD, therefore, sales, possession or consumption for recreational not medical nor scientific use could be prosecuted under the Federal Analogue Act. [17]

See also

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