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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by maxerickson on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:49PM (#17138132)
Just ban chemicals that interact with certain receptors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_receptor_agonist#5-H...

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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by sannee on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:48PM (#17138661)
That's extremely non-selective - for instance [1] is a random paper discussing ethanol interacting with the 5-HT2A receptors (at least if you are a male rat that is).

It would likely also lead to unforeseen consequences. For example, the Czech government attempted to ban growing Phalaris, but had to backpedal as it's a common unassuming weed.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9347073

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