[uncircle]

After the discovery of a psychedelic compound, there are two pipelines for release:

- the academic way, where it's studied in labs by "serious people", and after FDA approval a big pharma with worldwide licence sells it for one million $ per kg.

- the black market way, where it's manufactured in quantity by shady RC companies and sold on the internet, until someone tries too large a dose, gets it put in Schedule I and banned.

I guess this one went the first route, unlike LSD.

[jampekka]

LSD was discovered in and extensively tested and produced by the giant medical company Sandoz for about 20 years. It was also extensively studied in academic settings.

The black market production started a lot later, mostly due to the War on Drugs.

[herbst]

Sandoz still produces LSD

[krispyfi]

Source? Their patent expired, and Wikipedia says they stopped making it on the 60s. Occasionally a sealed bottle of Delysid will surface somewhere, but I think that they are all vintage.