Using newly created legal powers, the UK Home Office has temporarily controlled methoxetamine for one year. Methoxetamine is a chemical that has gained popularity over the past year as a replacement for ketamine, especially in the United Kingdom. This is the first use of the UK's new instant temporary scheduling power.
There has also recently been a novel prosecution of a group of people using a website called "the Farmer's Market" for selling illegal drugs internationally online. From 2006 to 2010, they used Hushmail, then switched to the anonymizing web browsing system called TOR. Originally built by the Navy, TOR is funded partially by the US Defense Department to provide privacy support for dissidents worldwide. The indictment for selling cannabis, LSD, and MDMA through the Farmer's Market does not indicate how the group's security was breached. As far as we know, this represents the first major prosecution of any of the public black markets available via TOR.