Talk:4-Methylmethcathinone

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The reason that I created the article for this compound is that it has recently (July 2007) been found by a government approved laboratory to be the active ingredient in a supposedly legal recreational drug product, which has been sold internationally by an Israeli company and exported to a range of countries including Israel, England, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

I have worked with the laboratory in question previously, they are the official government laboratory used by the Police for analysing seized "Ecstasy" pills in the jurisdiction in which they are based, however I am unsure whether the laboratory wishes to be publically identified at this stage and so I feel that it would be inappropriate to reveal which laboratory carried out the testing.

The reason that I felt this compound to be notable is that it has been sold to and used by at least several hundred people around the world, if not over a thousand, and since it has not been formally tested in animals or analysed in any scientific studies, the fact that this compound has been (and I believe still is being) sold to the general public over the internet, presents a significant public health issue. If any deaths had resulted from this compound and its existence found in a toxicology screen by the coroner then it would certainly have been reported in a journal by now, so essentially the argument for lack of notability of this drug rests on the fact that no-one has died from it yet.

It is my understanding that the researchers who conducted the analysis of the products containing this compound intend to publish their results in one or more academic journals once their study is completed, and at this point the compound will certainly satisfy the wikipedia criteria for notability, so if this article is deleted at this stage, it will simply have to be rewritten once the compound has been formally reported in the scientific literature.

Designer drugs are a significant public health concern at the present time, and many of these compounds become subject to a significant degree of recreational use prior to becoming sufficiently widely known to be mentioned in journal articles by researchers in the field. While this compound may not yet have been widely studied or mentioned in journal articles, given the large number of people who have consumed the products sold by the Israeli company in question, the prevalence of recreational use of this compound exceeds that of many other designer drugs such as 4-MTA or BDB, which are held to be sufficiently notable for inclusion in wikipedia merely because their longer history of use has resulted in their being mentioned in journal articles. Meodipt (talk) 02:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)