@isocortex 591422 wrote:
These new age chemists are shrewd, heartless, breakin bad wannabes. They won’t think twice about adding to the structure knowing that it is 100% neurotoxic. I blame them for changing the phrase “let’s score some eccies” to let’s “score some pills”,as you don’t know what the fuck is in there. The young ones missed out, they are happy if the pill does something as we were let down if we didn’t chuck on come up, get eye wobbles, saw the whole club wearing glasses, be totally loved up that you wanted to hump the speaker stack, share your deepest thoughts with a total stranger … All off one pill”
I was involved in the early years of legal highs in Australia, the shit that went into them, all for a kick was unethical and fucking dangerous
to be fair a lot of the oldskool nostalgia (I’m old enough to remember it from the strart) was to do with a different era and set and setting; and young people generally feeling more optimistic and happier even when there weren’t drugs around; added to which the end of the Cold War had distracted politicians worldwide to such an extent they were willing to cut young people a bit of slack; so a blind eye was turned to former booze nightclubs being blatantly funded by drugs sales (as they wouldnt’ survive selling tap water at the bar) and being re-used for raves for a few years.
this only lasted for a while until people got greedy with MDMA; and countries with public health services soon worked out there was a different kind of impact – less weekend violence but more long term chronic physical health problems amonhst youngsters who wouldn’t normally present with them (due to lack of sleep/food); a rise in family disuptes/domestic violence during midweek comedowns; youngsters leaving their parental homes early and moving into chaotic shared houses/squats often surviving by shoplifting/petty crime; and some eventually turning to opiates/benzos as they got older.
because of this its near impossible to stage late night music events in many countries so there are now new usage patterns in NPS – people do them alone or in small groups at home or in public squares without the distractions/solidarity of things like music/pretty light displays/friendly people and this leads to other problems…
TBH I’ve not tried any new psychedelic other than AMT but I’ve reached the stage of life where I am too busy and have too many responsibilites to have a whole 24 hours spare (including recovery time). I’m fairly certain Shlulgin always documented risky as well as pleasant effects and ensured his experimental subjects were safe.
the real problems occur when stuff like this is bulk purchased by people who are not even chemists but just want to be “dealers”; and is decanted into baggies using dubious scales; not properly labelled and the users don’t know what dosage they are getting; and this all happens at a unlicensed event miles from anywhere…
