just had a look at an (outdated) UK prescribing formulary and there are other “benzos which are not strictly benzos” in there (I am not a chemist or pharmacist so do not know the exact structure) but all of them are Class C Schedule 4 (which will still get you nicked and in jail for divertng them in any quantity).
I suspect Etizolam remains uncontrolled simply because any social problems caused by it are masked by those already caused by diverted class C controlled benzos. There do appear to have been “supply chain disruptions” but those lead me more to believe some of the Indian companies making the legit pharm versions may be starting to worry about reputation damage as they want a piece of the legit UK and EU pharmaceutical market (i.e as a licensed pharm) which would result in a greater part of the profilts going to them rather than the middlemen diverting the Indian pharm supplies.
At the same time the UK can’t just make something Class C/4 without the risk of a shit ton of new addicts presenting to NHS facilities and pushing up NHS costs which didn’t exist before.
Also I was looking recently at a crime report about one of the less intelligent RC dealiers selling blended brands which still allegedly contained cathinones and other class Bs, the cops showed various cardboard trays of jiffy bags carefully marked out with different types of postage (first class, special delivery etc). Although cathniones are bad for people in the long run; one thought of mine was “that is a good few quids worth of revenue to the Royal Mail; and I’m sure RC’s mean that people who may never have posted or received a letter in their lives (growing up always with computers) contribute to this; and that their delivery is also an incentive to users to keep their bull terrier/cat/goose well behaved towards the postie (there are some places near where I live where he/she could be otherwise set upon by all 3 species one after the other)….
