Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work • Hacker News Board

ninetax wrote: post #13

aware2 wrote: post #9

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Is it?

The title was "Crowdfund a Meth Lab" but it has been changed.

Sorry, not sure why the title changed. Was originally 'Crowd Fund a Meth Lab', as noted in other media outlets.

Re: Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work

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Post by nowarninglabel » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 5:44 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #10

keefe wrote: post #8

> How will we spend your money? on lawyers

Amphetiamines are used by the military to keep pilots awake and has a plenty of other legal uses. Methamphetiamine, for example, is prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD in low doses. What exactly is illegal about researching the effects of the drug on the brain? The usual difficultly in studying this stuff is finding funding.

Either you live in a country with much more liberal drug laws than the UK or US, or you are a bit misinformed. These countries have very strict regulations on who can possess quantities of scheduled narcotics, even for research. It took nearly a decade to get regulatory approval to schedule a MDMA research study in the U.S. It's hard to find source on this stuff, but you can see as noted here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22280-a-real-fmri-high...

Re: Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work

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Post by digitalpacman » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 5:52 PM UTC

I don't get it. All of these people on the project would typically have amounts of money for research on whatever they want to do. Why do they need more money? I guess I am missing the point. I've heard of a bunch professors from friends that have huge research funds. They can even give portions of their research grants to students.

Re: Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work

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Re: Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work

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Post by dmix » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 6:18 PM UTC

nowarninglabel wrote: post #16

dmix wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amphetiamines are used by the military to keep pilots awake and has a plenty of other legal uses. Methamphetiamine, for example, is prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD in low doses. What exactly is illegal about researching the effects of the drug on the brain? The usual difficultly in studying this stuff is finding funding.

Either you live in a country with much more liberal drug laws than the UK or US, or you are a bit misinformed. These countries have very strict regulations on who can possess quantities of scheduled narcotics, even for research. It took nearly a decade to get regulatory approval to schedule a MDMA research study in the U.S. It's hard to find source on this stuff, but you can see as noted here: http://www.newscientist…

MDMA is not used clinically like Amphetamines are.

You can find amphetamines at pharmacies in the USA under the brands: Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat, Desoxyn, Didrex, ProCentra, and Vyvanse.

In addition, the article doesn't say they are specifically going to use Meth, only amphetamine.

Re: Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work

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Post by mattacular » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

Why? There is already a pretty thorough understanding of how amphetamines work (as compared to other psychoactive substances) because they've been used by militaries around the world forever. Oh and baseball teams.