Schedule I substances

Schedule I Substances with no accepted medicinal use in the United States and a high potential for abuse for example, heroin, marijuana, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, and psilocybin. 

The CSA classifies cathinone is a Schedule I substance, the same category as heroin and cocaine, and cathine as Schedule IV, which carries no mandatory prison penalties. 

Use of peyote or mescaline carries the same fines and punishments as any other Schedule I substance, which can include imprisonment. NAC members who use peyote outside the religious ceremony are not exempt from the consequences for illegal use. The federal guidelines refer specifically to the peyote cactus, L. williamsii. However, any other psychoactive cactus bought and used with the express intent of extracting the mescaline content will carry the same consequences under the law as using the more common form of the peyote cactus. 

Although many young people who joined the hallucinogen subculture went on to hold jobs, marry, create families, and be responsible adults, there is little doubt that many young people were harmed and their lives permanently set back. In consequence, LSD was classified as a Schedule I substance, and its possession and distribution were made crimes. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) was created to promote scientific research into drug abuse and addiction. 

C-B is a Schedule I substance and thereby falls under the penalties associated with that group of drugs. Persons convicted of first-time possession of 2C-B in a federal court face up to a year in prison and a mandatory fine of at least 1,000 up to a maximum of 100,000. A first-time conviction for the sale or possession for sale of 2C-B by a federal court carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years and a fine of up to 1 million. 

Each state has the opportunity to modify current drug laws according to its own needs and preferences. Most states have adopted guidelines, but many have changed certain components. For example, marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 substance, but the penalties for possession in many states arc less severe than those applied to other Schedule I substances. In fact, at least 11 states at some time have passed legislation to decriminalize marijuana possc,ssion. 

Illicit fentanyl derivatives are synthesized in clandestine laboratories solely for substance abuse. In the United States, these agents are classified as restricted Schedule I substances. 

Heroin is a semisynthetic narcotic that was first synthesized in 1874. It has been used as an analgesic for moderate to severe pain. In the United States, it is a schedule I substance and, therefore, does not have a medicinal use. It is a drug of abuse. 

Another agent attracting recent attention is 2C-T-7 (e.g., Blue Mystic or Tripstasy ) (53), which has been recently controlled as a Schedule I substance. Recently controlled indolealkylamine analogues include a-MeT (AMT), a-EtT ( ET ), and 5-methoxy-N,N-diisopropyltryptamine ( Foxy Methoxy ) (Fig. 23.6) these agents had been previously shown to produce DOM-like stimulus effects in animals (54). 

Another abused drug, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or Ecstasy, is a synthetic drug with psychedelic and stimulant effects. In 1988, it became a schedule I substance of abuse under the Controlled Substances Act Trafficking in this drug can lead to 10 years in prison. 

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