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This will obviously depend on what country we're talking about, but generally, I'd still expect tons of in vitro tests (e.g. applying it to body cells in a lab), then in vivo tests with e.g. mice and then a few tests with humans who've signed a contract, before such a chemical can be sold anywhere close to the free market.
Even if people volunteer for it, you can't just poison them...
you absolutely can lol
AbsolutelyNotCats is (probably) talking about some of not-yet-banned compounds predicted to have some recreational properties, sold as a "research chemicals" because these are not and will be not tested. people like DMT or 2C-B? slap a methyl here or hydroxyl there and you're good to go with selling this because it's not illegal to do so. you can't call this thing as safe or pharmaceutical or anything else, because it's not tested this way
there are also CROs that will make a panel of compounds of your choice that you then test in some high-throughput screening and these are legit, non-sketchy companies that do participate in pharmaceutical design. that's entirely different thing