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Designer drug

How can one effectively source the claim that methoxetamine is a designer drug? This wikipedia page (with the - dubious anyway, apparently - definition at Designer drugs) is claiming that methoxetamine was "created (or marketed, if they had already existed) to get around existing drug laws"? One could (if to do so didn't seem both irresponsible and possibly unencyclopaedic) link to a website selling the chemical, but then the website selling the chemical probably wouldn't make it clear for what purpose the chemical was created (or marketed). If one cannot source it, perhaps the claim should be removed, and the page should just say that methoxetamine is a "chemcial of the arylcyclohexylamine class". But then, I think we all know that it probably is a designer drug, but I'm not sure that's good enough to warrant inclusion of that claim: our deduction that it is being marketed to get around existing drug laws smells somewhat of original research to me. So I'll add 'citation needed', and seek others' views on this... GoVaLe2 (talk) 11:21, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't be pedantic. There's no mention of this chemical in scientific literature. It appeared out of nowhere on vendor web sites which openly refer to it as a replacement for ketamine. It's clearly a designer drug... what do you want, vials of it to come with designer labels like jeans? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.225.88.31 (talk) 03:02, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ironically enough, it does come with designer labels on the packaging to signify authenticity, they are small rectangular holographic stickers that say METHOXETAMINE TM, and are only present on "official" batches.--Valerophenone (talk) 23:18, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Lednicer paper says nothing about MXE, or any related arylcyclohexylamines behaving as opioid pro-drugs, where did that come from?

Substance of Abuse

I would suggest that categorisation as such is a matter of subjective opinion.