Where do people buy or get research chemicals?
13 Chemists sometimes make their own. (However, those asking how to make them, likely aren’t qualified to do so). Legitimate chemical supply companies may carry some research chemicals, although most of these companies require that customers provide credentials proving that they work for a research institution. Occasionally, research chemicals are commercially available to the public due to them having another non-psychoactive purpose. (Gamma-butyrolactone, for example, has been available as an industrial solvent.) Some people get research chemicals by discretely asking trusted friends who have better access to such things. And although research chemicals may be available from strangers at parties or clubs, this avenue for obtaining them is notoriously problematic, with issues of poor quality, cut and/or misrepresented product, and potential for legal troubles due to undercover operations. On and off for over a decade, there have been online vendors of research chemicals operating in a
