David Nutt píše:
Whilst heroin is regulated in 'Schedule 2', allowing tightly regulated medical and research use, the NBOMe ban has illogically consigned the compounds to 'Schedule 1', restrictions which prevent virtually all research. This is ironic in the sense that one of the main purposes for the new temporary bans is supposedly to give time for scientific assessment. Worse still, under different names (e.g. CIMBI-36), and labelled with an isotope of carbon, these chemicals have recently proved to be ideal tools to map and understand the brain using PET scanning. CIMBI-36 is administered in miniscule, sub-psychoactive doses. On the PET scans, the chemical lights up receptors in the serotonin system like a city's Christmas lights seen from space. Revealing the distribution and density of serotonin receptors in this way may lead us to a better understanding of, and treatments for, depression, psychosis and other mental health problems. Tragically, pointlessly, such research will now be close to impossible to conduct in the UK.