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Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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My friends and I used to visit this site a lot in high school and got kicks out of reading experiences for the more "hardcore" drugs like nightshade. Who knows how many of them were legit, but it was a great stoner activity. Glad to see this site is still around.

I've spent a lot of time reading those. They are entertaining and terrifying.

Erowid's a really good source of "Hey, you know, maybe I don't want to get involved in that" at times.

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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I'm curious how people go about finding safe sources for something like LSD (to be clear I'm not asking for anyone to give specific details, just an explanation). While psilocybin is easy to try safely (just travel to a place where it is legal), LSD is illegal in every jurisdiction as far as I know. The thought of ingesting some substance from dubious sources, that could be contaminated with absolutely anything, terr…

- Buy on the darkweb. Marketplaces exist with established vendors, open forums, feedback, customer support, escrow... I could write a long text about how this is an infinitely better way to do things for all concerned than to "force" non-violent people to interact with violent drug traders and adulterated products, but let's leave that for now. You can pay with Monero for untraceability. - Test what you get. Some stu…

Interesting. Can you clarify this part?

> there's no reason to have LSD and an adulterant

Why is that? From what I understand LSD is pretty challenging to produce, so isn't there an advantage to an unscrupulous producer using something easier/cheaper?

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Buy on the darkweb. Marketplaces exist with established vendors, open forums, feedback, customer support, escrow... I could write a long text about how this is an infinitely better way to do things for all concerned than to "force" non-violent people to interact with violent drug traders and adulterated products, but let's leave that for now. You can pay with Monero for untraceability. - Test what you get. Some stu…

Interesting. Can you clarify this part? > there's no reason to have LSD and an adulterant Why is that? From what I understand LSD is pretty challenging to produce, so isn't there an advantage to an unscrupulous producer using something easier/cheaper?

From my old and hazy memory (someone correct if wrong):

There are few psychoactive compounds that work in the same microgram range as LSD. So if you're getting blotter then the size of the tab is important. The other compounds such as the NBOMe series use bigger blotters that are easy to spot.

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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I'm curious how people go about finding safe sources for something like LSD (to be clear I'm not asking for anyone to give specific details, just an explanation). While psilocybin is easy to try safely (just travel to a place where it is legal), LSD is illegal in every jurisdiction as far as I know. The thought of ingesting some substance from dubious sources, that could be contaminated with absolutely anything, terr…

- Buy on the darkweb. Marketplaces exist with established vendors, open forums, feedback, customer support, escrow... I could write a long text about how this is an infinitely better way to do things for all concerned than to "force" non-violent people to interact with violent drug traders and adulterated products, but let's leave that for now. You can pay with Monero for untraceability. - Test what you get. Some stu…

How does your friend receive the mailed packages?

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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This feels like a good audience for Erowid.

I'm sure there's already a significant overlap.

Erowid facilitated my deep dive into psychedelics in 2010 or so. Such a treasure trove on information about harm reduction, dosage, etc.

My old bad trip was meticulously documented and is published on the site (don’t mix cannabis with psychedelics, yo! You don’t wanna get paranoid as the walls are melting)

Funny aside: I think I spent 13 BTC to buy some LSD on the dark web at the time. Years later, the change from that transaction was enough to pay a month’s rent in London. Not only I spent what is a small fortune today, but the parcel was seized by the authorities so I never had the pleasure of trying LSD. Maybe one day…

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Buy on the darkweb. Marketplaces exist with established vendors, open forums, feedback, customer support, escrow... I could write a long text about how this is an infinitely better way to do things for all concerned than to "force" non-violent people to interact with violent drug traders and adulterated products, but let's leave that for now. You can pay with Monero for untraceability. - Test what you get. Some stu…

Interesting. Can you clarify this part? > there's no reason to have LSD and an adulterant Why is that? From what I understand LSD is pretty challenging to produce, so isn't there an advantage to an unscrupulous producer using something easier/cheaper?

I think what OP is saying is that if a manufacturer is putting real LSD on a tab, it's unlikely that they're also adding an adulterant.

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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This feels like a good audience for Erowid.

I'm sure there's already a significant overlap.

Reading Erowid trip reports persuaded me to try high dose tripping on Robitussin (DXM). From Wikipedia:

The first plateau (1.5 to 2.5 mg per kg body weight) is described as having euphoria, auditory changes, mild stimulation, and change in perception of gravity.

The second plateau (2.5 to 7.5 mg/kg) causes intense euphoria, vivid imagination, and closed-eye hallucinations.

I like recovered.org's description of fourth plateau dose experiences:

The fourth plateau (at extremely high doses) can cause complete disconnection from reality, a sense of entering “another universe,” and a loss of sensory contact with the environment.

Sounds about right. Definitely kills some brain cells, but a hell of a ride. Would not recommend it if you don't like dissociatives.

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Buy on the darkweb. Marketplaces exist with established vendors, open forums, feedback, customer support, escrow... I could write a long text about how this is an infinitely better way to do things for all concerned than to "force" non-violent people to interact with violent drug traders and adulterated products, but let's leave that for now. You can pay with Monero for untraceability. - Test what you get. Some stu…

How does your friend receive the mailed packages?

Every jurisdiction has its own rules but in broad strokes: receiving a package containing drugs isn’t illegal, otherwise, anyone could send their enemy drugs.

To safely receive drugs through the mail, you do not do anything clever (like mailing them to an empty house) instead you behave in a way that gives you plausible deniability. And you do not do anything that would lead police to think you’re distributing.

Order small, personal use quantities to your name and your address and leave the package on your counter for a couple of days after it arrives. If the police show up, say you didn’t recognise the package and left it on the counter until you had time to return it to the post office.

Where you’re ordering from and to matters too. Ordering from the Netherlands into Australia almost guarantees the drugs will be found because all international mail is processed by Australia’s postal service and the Netherlands is an obvious source country. Order nationally to avoid processing.

Ultimately, it’s just like buying drugs on the street: be a nobody buying for personal use.

The biggest risk is that inevitably the seller will eventually get busted and your address will be in the seller’s records. If you’ve bought large quantities, the police will see you as a dealer and try to catch you in a sting. The best sellers do not keep records for this reason, but it’s something you won’t know until they get caught. If you buy personal use quantities, the police aren’t going to waste time on you, even if they have records of your orders.

Re: Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

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I'm curious how people go about finding safe sources for something like LSD (to be clear I'm not asking for anyone to give specific details, just an explanation). While psilocybin is easy to try safely (just travel to a place where it is legal), LSD is illegal in every jurisdiction as far as I know. The thought of ingesting some substance from dubious sources, that could be contaminated with absolutely anything, terr…

DMT vape pens are "legally" available in parts of Canada last I checked.
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