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Think TankPop HitThe search for legal ways to get high has led people to bake banana peels, grow marigolds and do unmentionable things to heads of lettuce. Now it has led to butyl nitrite, a chemical kin of amyl nitrite and, like amyl, nicknamed "poppers." (Amyl nitrite you may remember from the drug-sodden Sixties, when it was a popular drug of abuse but had to be obtained with a prescription.) Butyl nitrite is legal, easy to obtain and currently very à la mode in middle-class and pro...