Comments on: How meow meow got its name

By: Frankie

Frankie — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:06:06 +0000

Synchromium. Methedrone is a differant and more toxic drug intended as a replacement for illegal mephedrone.

By: Synchronium

Synchronium — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:23:21 +0000

What I want to know is how mephedrone turned into “methedrone”… Infuriating!

By: Pharmtastic

Pharmtastic — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:26:12 +0000

Cool stuff! All we need is a wiki article to influence the world.

By: neurobonkers

neurobonkers — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:02:25 +0000

Nice piece just one small point, a correction for private eye really.

Mephedrone was available on the internet waaaay before 2009. Right back in 2007 it was broadly experimented with and promptly dropped by users due unanimous reports of it’s “dirty high” and harsh “comedown”.

The only people interested in it were coke dealers for whom it was an incredibly cheap cutting agent/substitute. It was one of the least popular research chems among users, a last resort. Methylone was at that point broadly judged to be more akin to MDMA, with far less potential for addiction and far more enactogenic qualitites.

Anyway my point is that the “meow” boom was completely manufactured by the media in 2009.

Considering there was an almost year long UK wide MDMA drought at this time and a bottomless supply of coke on the streets it’s fair to say that without the free online promo of the red tops Mephedrone would never have got off the ground.

By: Mafficker

Mafficker — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:46:28 +0000

The cat may be out of the bag with ‘meow-meow’ but for chemists who understand that MeO- as shorthand for a chemical substituent on a ring structure i.e. a methyl-oxy group, ‘meow-meow’ is a complete misnomer as N-methyl-4-methyl-cathinone contains no methyl-oxy groups but three Methyls: one on the nitrogen in the ‘tail’, one on the alpha carbon in the tail, akin to methyl-amphetamine, and then one at the four position on the phenyl ring.

For more information on this chemical nomenclature see Phenethylamines i Have Know and Loved by Sasha and Ann Shulgin at:

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml

or see the ACMD’s report ‘Consideration of the Cathinones’ at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/drugs/acmd1/acmd-cathinodes-report-2010