13 Facts About Bromo-DragonFLY

1.

Bromo-DragonFLY is a substance related to the phenethylamine family.

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Bromo-DragonFLY is considered a potent hallucinogen, having around one third the potency of LSD with a normal dose in the region of 200 µg to 800 µg, and it has an extremely long duration of action, up to several days.

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3.

Bromo-DragonFLY has a stereocenter and-(-)-bromo-DragonFLY is the more active stereoisomer.

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Bromo-DragonFLY was first synthesized by Matthew Parker in the laboratory of David E Nichols in 1998.

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Bromo-DragonFLY is a MAO-A inhibitor, and thus strongly inhibits oxidative deamination of 5-HT, increasing its risk profile.

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The 1998 synthesis of racemic Bromo-DragonFLY starts from hydroquinone, which is dialkylated with 1-bromo-2-chloroethane, brominated, and treated with n-butyllithium to yield the tetrahydrobenzodifuran ring system.

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In 2001, David E Nichols reported an enantiospecific synthesis of Bromo-DragonFLY which allowed the individual R and S enantiomers to be studied.

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Toxicity of Bromo-DragonFLY appears to be fairly high for humans, with reports of at least five deaths believed to have resulted from Bromo-DragonFLY in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finlandand the United States.

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Vasoconstrictive action resulting from severe overdose of Bromo-DragonFLY is known to have caused tissue necrosis of the extremities in at least one case.

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10.

Bromo-DragonFLY's friend described the trip saying, "It was like being dragged to hell and back again.

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11.

Bromo-DragonFLY is unscheduled at federal level in the United States but could be persecuted if it sold for human consumption, Bromo Dragonfly is listed as a Schedule I in Oklahoma.

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Bromo-DragonFLY is widely reported by the media as being a Class A drug.

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Bromo-DragonFLY was first classified as "health hazard" by Sveriges riksdags health ministry Statens folkh institut under the act Lagen om forbud mot vissa h farliga varor as of Jul 15, 2007, in their regulation SFS 2007:600 listed as brombensodifuranylisopropylamin (Bromo-Dragonfly), making it illegal to sell, purchase, buy, retail or possess.

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