KETAMINE FREEBASE: CRIMINAL COUNTERION?

In 1999 ketamine was made a schedule III controlled substance in the United States. In the following years China, a major exporter of ketamine, also subjected the chemical to more stringent control and Sichuan began to formally regulate export of ketamine in 2004. If you look at posts on various drug forums during the period between 2002 and 2004 it is frequently stated that China prohibited non-medical export of the hydrochloride salt but not the freebase resulting in laboratories vending the freebase form exclusively:

[There was] a funny window where China had scheduled ketamine HCl but not the base, so that took up the slack.
- J, 2013

There is also alot of Ketamine freebase comming out of china these days, it is diff than the typical ketamine hcl (salt)
(this is because exporting ketamine hcl was outlawed so they just switched to the freebase)
- shroomy, 2002

For some reason people seem to be able to get lots of this ketamine freebase now-a-days. is there some sort of different legal status for this stuff then for the HCL form?
- pberezansky, 2003 

There used to be a big import market from China, but there was a clamp down and now China only exports Freebase Ketamine and not Hydrachroide. Freebase is much harder to use and has to be converted into the salt.
- budda, 2004

There are also an abundance of threads and teks from that period detailing the conversion of ketamine freebase to the hydrochloride salt aimed at scientifically untrained ketamine users in possession of the freebase. This is all to say I believe there is sufficient (indirect) evidence to support the idea that this practice was taking place in China in the early 2000s, my question is whether any of you (readers) can help me find direct evidence that China controlled the HCl salt of ketamine but not the drug itself––effectively prohibiting the chloride counterion––which is ridiculous. If anyone reading this speaks Chinese or could direct me to a lawyer familiar with Chinese drug law during that period, help would be greatly appreciated.

tl;dr

I want to substantiate the claim that ketamine hyrdrochloride, but not the freebase, was legally controlled in China during the early/mid 2000s. 

HAVING A SHOW

“You’re terrible,” he says.

“You’re terrible,” he repeats.

“You’re terrible,” he repeats with additional emphasis.

“What?” I reply.

“You’re terrible,” he says.

“He’s terrible,” he says to a man standing between us.

“What?” the man between us asks, directing the question at me.

“Is he joking or being genuinely hostile?” I ask, directing the question at the man between us. 

“Are you joking?” the man between us asks the man. 

“He’s terrible,” the man responds, “He has a show on Vice, it’s terrible, everyone agrees.”

“You have a show?” the man between us asks cheerfully.

“He has a show about drugs,” the man answers for me.

“Is it a video show?” the man between us asks with genuine interest.

“Yes,” I respond.

“I used to work for Vice with Timmy Barber eating cockroaches,” the man who thinks I'm terrible says, I believe.

“Your terrible,” he says.

THE DEATH OF JAMES ARTHUR?

James Arthur (aka James Dugovic or James Dugovic Arthur) was an infamous lay ethnomycologist and author of Mushrooms and Mankind, a book I find interesting for reasons entirely separate from Arthur's original intention. Mushrooms and Mankind serves as a timeless testament to the power of pareidolia in the wishful male psychomycophile, there are few other published works that indulge such freewheeling speculation in an effort to prove the central role of mushrooms in human history. 

But even more interesting than Mushrooms and Mankind is the issue of James Arthur's pedophilia. I am a proficient Google searcher (an exceedingly rare skill) and so I've read discussions of the topic posted on the Shroomery and various other mushroom and psychedelic interest forums. I have also seen his mugshot and the formal listing of his crimes including: 

*Lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years

*Assault to commit mayhem, rape, etc.
*Continuous sexual abuse of a child
*Oral copulation with a person under 14 years
*Oral copulation with force

I am posting this because I am looking for detailed information on James Arthur's sex crimes, either in the form of a police incident report, an arrest affidavit, a case disposition report, or similar. There is a wealth of anecdotal and second-hand information but I am looking for verifiable first-hand reports and formal documentation.

5-Br-DMT: SYNTHESIS AND EFFECTS

Please enjoy a new article on marine psychedelics that I wrote with Jason Wallach. It details a synthetic route to 5-Br-DMT as well as TiHKAL-style analysis of the subjective effects of the compound in human experimenters.

SEA DMT

A DISCUSSION WITH ADAM GREEN & DANIEL PINCHBECK

SCREENING AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Dear Massachusettsians, tomorrow I will be screening select episodes of Pharmacopeia (as well as some new unaired footage) at Brandeis University. The screening will be followed by a Q&A and is free of charge. I hope to see you there.

FREDERIK HEINZ BARTH

I am looking to contact Frederik Heinz Barth, we had a written exchange in 2008 but I've since been unable to get messages to you. If you read this please send me an email as I would like to reconnect to ask a question about the synthesis of substituted 1,8-naphthyridines.