The Internet has become a fount of entrepreneurial alchemy:
Never before has it been so easy to obtain the instructions, the precursor molecules, and the manufacturing capabilities to produce exotic, unregulated compounds on a mass scale—or print out crude recipes for drugs you can make yourself. … The consumers experimenting with these unregulated chemical concoctions may inhabit different worlds—the gym, the rave, and the crash house, respectively—but the drugs themselves are often produced with precursors purchased from the same places and derived from recipes traded on many of the same websites. They also carry some of the same risks.
The Dish 