Students for Sensible Drug Policy

You can either search on the Federal Register.

SSDP's got a link up there.

Ratesandreasonproject.com will have a link up there to where there'll be a tool that you can submit a comment.

But it's really important, I think, that people get out there and leave comments because they do influence the process.

But so as you mentioned, you're looking for researchers to represent as interested parties.

Who are you looking for? And what would that participation involve?

Basically, it would be great working with SSDP on this, Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

Any undergrad or graduate students, PhD candidates would be great that are um researching any of these on an ongoing basis um that would be uh they they would be kind of perfect also to um any other scientists are out there who are uh working with these things whose research is going to be impacted uh basically um you know they will uh um They would provide testimony and, you know, gather information from on their research.

She kind of straddles both worlds in a really interesting way.

She spent six years studying the effects of synthetic cannabinoids in the lab and now works as the Director of Network Relationships at Students for Sensible Drug Policy, otherwise known as SSDP.

Brooke is a singular figure in this world because, as I said, she kind of occupies just as much space in the neuroscience world as she does in the policy world.

That grants her a really unique perspective, especially on matters related to drug prohibition.

I'm sure you've attempted this in the past, but if you could get in the mind of s- of one of these people at the DEA, what compels them to go after these incredibly obscure drugs? Is it just a game of, like, they're flipping through PCALL and they see something and they're like, "That one?" Or is there, is there ever an inciting incident? I mean, I'm sure-- I know it's different case by case, but in the case of DOI, what was the, what was the, the impetus, and what was the explanation that they gave, or did they give one at all?

They did.

So SSDP, um, was the organization that was leading that case against the DEA with our associated counsel at the time, uh, when the DEA was trying to make DOI and DOC, both those compounds, into Schedule I substances after being unscheduled.

And just like you said, there's no cases of human use.