We publish a newsletter, Smart Life News , which is distributed to subscribers in 40 countries. I have scientific papers which document GHB-related chemical content of numerous foods. This makes them doubly Schedule-I substances. If true, a side of beef is technically several hundred pounds of Schedule-I substance. Possession with intent to sell a hundred pounds of Schedule-I substance is usually 30 years to life.
Most states have such laws.
Even though butyrolactone is specifically not included in your new GHB scheduling law, it is a close structural analog of GHB and it produces a strikingly similar pharmacological effect, either criteria of which is sufficient in California to give it scheduled status. If the analog-drug statutes are now made overly broad by the scheduling of GHB, they may be declared unconstitutional. Please examine it closely so that you may rationally determine a policy of enforcement that is compatible with both science and human rights. Please feel free to have it examined by an independent expert in biochemisty. Thank you for your attention to these matters.