>> I'm not so much into chemistry, but shouldn't the number of production-viable cannabinoids with psychotropic effects be quite limited?
I've been following this lately but not from the beginning. AFAICT the number of cannabinoids that were created in labs, tested in-vitro and documented in research papers is in the hundreds. Most/all of these are now illegal in places like the UK where they ban chemicals, and may already be illegal in the US due to analog laws.
In response to this the cannabinoid producers have now gone totally off the map and are creating previously unknown variants of these. It's hard to say if these are more dangerous than previously studied chemicals because we've been in the realm of "somebody once made this and looked at what it did to some animal neurons" for a couple of years now.
>> Can the producers just run out of possible drugs? Or is that limit too high?
It's really, really hard to know. But there always seems to be a new one on the horizon.
I've been following this lately but not from the beginning. AFAICT the number of cannabinoids that were created in labs, tested in-vitro and documented in research papers is in the hundreds. Most/all of these are now illegal in places like the UK where they ban chemicals, and may already be illegal in the US due to analog laws.
In response to this the cannabinoid producers have now gone totally off the map and are creating previously unknown variants of these. It's hard to say if these are more dangerous than previously studied chemicals because we've been in the realm of "somebody once made this and looked at what it did to some animal neurons" for a couple of years now.
>> Can the producers just run out of possible drugs? Or is that limit too high?
It's really, really hard to know. But there always seems to be a new one on the horizon.