Pubdate: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 Source: National Post (Canada) Copyright: 2007 Southam Inc. Contact: http://www.nationalpost.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/286 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/hallucinogens.htm (Hallucinogens) DRUG'S CHEMISTRY ALTERED JUST ENOUGH TO BEAT ILLEGAL DRUG POSSESSION RAP Police have been forced to drop charges against a man caught with a cache of 28,000 pills because the drug -- which has the same effect as LSD and Ecstasy -- is not illegal. RCMP and Canada Border Service Agency officers raided a Moncton home two months ago and seized a shipment of pills worth $1-million that they thought were LSD and Ecstasy. But the people who made the pills altered the drugs' chemistry just enough to beat the law -- the drug they found no longer matches any on the list of restricted drugs under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act. So charges were dropped against a 41-year-old man for possession of illegal drugs. The pills contain a "designer drug" is known as Piperazine, a chemical used to make industrial cleaners, made in clandestine labs in Europe by black-market chemists, police say. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom