Etizolam is becoming the new phenazepam (popularity wise) as it's pretty widely available in actual blister packs of pills and seems less likely to lead to week or month long blackouts as were reported from phenazepam abuse. I am glad to see most of the opiate/benzo RCs staying fairly underground, I'm not particularly interested in them anyways and I feel that they will attract even more media attention and lead to way more incidents than any of the psychedelics have or will. (
VICE article on some of the craziest opiate chemistry going on out there) Hopefully greed won't prevail over caution, as there's plenty of money to be made by suppliers without resorting to marketing it and pushing it in headshops and gas stations, though perhaps all the attention on K2/Spice and "bath salts" has kept them too busy to pull off another Operation Web Tryp, but it's only a matter of time as the scene is clearly growing with new chemicals.
The NBOMe series is taking off in a big way and is likely going to make it a wise purchase for you fluffheads out there to get some LSD field test kits, there's plenty of unscrupulous people willing to buy a gram or two and lay a whole page of "acid" and make bank. I don't know if it's happening everywhere but around Detroit I've been hearing more and more reports of DOx blotter going around, and the cost per dose is much higher for DOC/DOI than it is for 25i-NBOMe and such.
As for AM-2201 and it's other friends, I tried a handful of the "synthetic" cannabinoids last spring and summer, JWH-018, AM-2201 and a few others. AM-2201 was one of my favorites despite its short duration, I typically just dusted a bit of actual chronic with it for extra boost, didn't particularly enjoy it just on it's own. I ended up giving my last few points to a friend who had been blowing fifteen to twenty-five dollars a day buying K2 and Spice to stay high but stay clean for urine tests. He blew through the entire bag in less than a week due to constantly redosing every 30-40 minutes. I've had a couple anxiety/paranoia attacks from the various RC cannabinoids but nothing serious, did prepare a bowl with AM-2201 at Bonnaroo this year on Friday morning and was just warning people not to roast the whole thing and to take small hits when a girl came running up screaming that her friend in her tent was having a seizure, having some experience with this I ran to make sure nobody was trying to jam anything down her throat or something crazy like that, by the time a medical cart arrived and i walked back to my campsite a kid who had decided to toke down on my bowl while i was gone was pale as a ghost puking in the weeds by our neighbors camp. felt bad but he did exactly what i had warned him about