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Synthetic Cannabinoids are illegal in New Zealand, it is classified as a Class A controlled drug. [199] The New Zealand Parliament passed a law in July 2013 banning the sale of legal highs in dairies and supermarkets, but allowing some "low risk" drugs to continue to be sold through speciality licensed shops. [200]
A temporary class drug is a relatively new status for controlled drugs, which has been adopted in some jurisdictions, notably New Zealand and the United Kingdom, to attempt to bring newly synthesized designer drugs under legal control. The controlled drug legislation in these jurisdictions requires drug scheduling decisions to follow an ...
Australia has one of the highest cannabis prevalence rates in the world. [2] On 24 February 2016, Australia legalised growing of cannabis for medicinal and scientific purposes at the federal level. [3] On 12 November 2017, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) made low-THC hemp food legal for human consumption in Australia. [4]
AMB-FUBINACA (also known as FUB-AMB and MMB-FUBINACA [3]) is an indazole-based synthetic cannabinoid that is a potent agonist for the cannabinoid receptors, with K i values of 10.04 nM at CB 1 and 0.786 nM at CB 2 and EC 50 values of 0.5433 nM at CB 1 and 0.1278 nM at CB 2, [4] and has been sold online as a designer drug.
RCS-4 is a potent cannabinoid receptor agonist, with EC 50 values of 146 nM for human CB 1 receptors, and 46 nM for human CB 2 receptors. [2] All methoxyphenyl regioisomers, and N -butyl homologues of RCS-4 and its regioisomers also display potent agonist activities at CB 1 and CB 2 receptors.
The Anti-narcotics department declared synthetic cannabinoids and their analogues illegal after an outbreak of JWH-018 containing product referred to as "Joker". [48] Latvia: 28 November 2009 [49] New Zealand: 8 May 2014 [50] Norway: 21 December 2011 [51] Poland: 8 May 2009 [41] Romania: 15 February 2010 Russia: 22 January 2010 South Korea: 1 ...
The use of cannabis in New Zealand is regulated by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which makes unauthorised possession of any amount of cannabis a crime. Cannabis is the fourth-most widely used recreational drug in New Zealand , after caffeine , alcohol and tobacco , and the most widely used illicit drug .
These unprecedented synthetic cannabinoids often feature alphanumeric code names intended to mimic the style of chemical nomenclature used by academic laboratories and pharmaceutical companies, and there is generally little, if any, information available regarding their pharmacology and toxicology at the time of first discovery.