Potency only means that you need a smaller quantity of a substance to attain the same effect. It has nothing to do with the maximum attainable effect. Users don't care about potency.
If anything, users care about speed of crossing the blood-brain barrier, which causes the pleasurable "rush" of rapidly increasing effects. The major drugs like heroin and methamphetamine are already pretty optimal in this regard.
On the other hand, drug suppliers care about potency because they can transport more doses in the same weight.
The only people who care about RCs are people trying to skirt the law, and drug nerds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potency_(pharmacology)
> Potency only means that you need a smaller quantity of a substance to attain the same effect.
Semantics, misused a term there.
> The major drugs like heroin and methamphetamine are already pretty optimal in this regard.
In a world where this was true, cutting drugs with fentanyl wouldn’t be a thing. It’s not just a cost optimization, it’s also because it gets you the best high on the block.
> The only people who care about RCs are people trying to skirt the law, and drug nerds.
“Spice”, as one example, has destroyed many communities. Legal highs and designer drugs are everywhere as of the past decade. “Bath salts” (cathinones), synthetic cannabinoids, etc.
Not exactly designer, but the isomerization process to extract delta-8 from hemp is a novel technique that’s being done underground by labs everywhere and distributed widely across America. We have no idea what’s in this stuff, even testing labs usually report XX% of unknown substances, reaction residues and cannabinoids in samples.
Research chemicals are everywhere. This arms race has touched millions.
