Operation Web Tryp

Operation Web Tryp was a United States Drug Enforcement Administration operation that ended on July 21, 2004, with the arrests of 10 persons. Its purpose was to investigate websites suspected of distribution of unscheduled, unregulated tryptamines and phenethylamines of questionable legality. One of these websites was supposedly making $20,000 a week, and at least one of them sold substances (2C-T-7 and 2C-T-21) that led to two or more fatal overdoses. The websites that were involved in Operation Web Tryp are:

WWW.RACRESEARCH.COM

WWW.DUNCANLABPRODUCTS.COM

WWW.PONDMAN.NU

WWW.AMERICANCHEMICALSUPPLY.COM

WWW.OMEGAFINECHEMICALS.COM

Legality

Although these chemicals were not scheduled, their legality had been questioned in 1986 by the Federal Analog Act. This Act and the United States v. Forbes Colorado federal district court case, its analysis not yet having been overruled by any more recent case, provided that the burden of proof, in regards for the intention for human consumption, was on the government if any prosecution under the Federal Analog Act was to occur. Additionally, legal ambiguities regarding the legality of certain analogs of scheduled substances had been established in the aforementioned court case (In particular the similarities of AET and DMT were debated).