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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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- 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?

In addition to what others are saying, I think it's important to think "apples to oranges" here.

Think about it this way, if you're a dealer you want to inflate your supply right? So, if you have a street drug that is an 'upper' and you want to cut it, you need to cut it with uppers, or something that can mask an upper. That cut needs to blend in, if you're expecting something blue, and it has red in it, then you'll know its off.

Psychedelics would need to be cut with other psychedelics, but it's not as easy as mixing two things and having it come out. LSD comes as a crystal and is then put in an alcohol solution and dried on paper, there's not many things that would work that way. If the goal is to stretch your supply, you just further dilute it, and many people do.

Where there are cheaper/easier alternatives are things in the 2c family, or others that are _close_ to the experience of LSD but not, and are also more toxic.

I don't know if any of that is clear, or makes sense but

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.

We did exactly the same :) The thornapple trip reports were particularly nasty.

I ended up trying them around 2 decades ago (I do not recommend lol) and learned so much from that site. The information about the long time for it to take effect (1.5 hours AFAIK), warnings to take the right dose and no more, and the vision side effects the next day, along with horror stories of what could go wrong, Erowid probably saved us a trip to the ER or even worse.

Love those guys, incredible resource.

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- 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?

My friend was extra careful and sent it to a PO box kind thing, with a fake name and throwaway email just in case. But he thinks that is overly paranoid: if the letter was intercepted (highly unlikely), there would be no legal consequences because there is no link between him and the purchase (therefore strictly speaking all that happened was that someone mailed him illegal drugs without his knowledge ;)).

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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…

I would also recommend checking that the cough syrup you pick does not contain large doses of sugar alcohols like sorbitol, which in high doses, function as a very effective laxative. Nothing like spending 4 hours on a toilet emptying your bowels while tripping balls.

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We did exactly the same :) The thornapple trip reports were particularly nasty.

I ended up trying them around 2 decades ago (I do not recommend lol) and learned so much from that site. The information about the long time for it to take effect (1.5 hours AFAIK), warnings to take the right dose and no more, and the vision side effects the next day, along with horror stories of what could go wrong, Erowid probably saved us a trip to the ER or even worse. Love those guys, incredible resource.

So you read the trip reports and decided to give it a try nevertheless? Wow...

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Some previous discussions of Erowid: What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports (263 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171007 An Experience with Modafinil (343 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067264

> An experience with Modafinil

Well, there went two hours of my morning, and I only made it halfway through the comments.

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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 th…

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

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This site helped me tremendously in my youth, with staying safe and giving me actual knowledge about different chemicals, rather than the complete abstinence information from programs like DARE. At one point, I found that a psychoactive chemical I was taking had a serious side effect with a prescription I was taking, and that information was nowhere to be found through web searches. Without Erowid, I definitely would have permanently damaged my liver! I don't think we should necessarily be marketing psychoactives to the youth, but I'm glad that this type of information is available for those that choose to search for it.
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