Cypherpunk Inadequacies / Why the 60's failed

[Mirimir]

On 09/05/2017 04:50 PM, Marina Brown wrote:
> On 09/05/2017 10:39 PM, Mirimir wrote:
>> On 09/05/2017 02:56 PM, Marina Brown wrote:
>>> On 09/05/2017 09:14 PM, Mirimir wrote:
>>>> On 09/05/2017 08:38 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
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>>>>> On 09/05/2017 12:54 PM, John Newman wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Sep 3, 2017, at 9:47 PM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 09/03/2017 12:05 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> On 09/02/2017 09:06 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>>>>>>>>> A "store" for SK's top 10% wealth transfer? Lol, designed.
>>>>>>>>> Less time hobbled on "psychedelics".
>>>>>>>>> More time on "revolutin".
>>>>>>>>> Or at least gettin hippie dirty, jiggystyle.
>>>>>>>>> Crypto rave, on.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reportedly good blotter has been available on SR etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On SR, then alphabay - excellent mdma also.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These services (well, their descendants) are obviously risky as fuck. 
>>>>>> Better to source privately if possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simple rule:  Cop only from people you know, and don't eat anything they
>>>>> have not already.
>>>>
>>>> That is of course prudent advice :)
>>>>
>>>> However, it is possible to test unknowns safely enough. You start with
>>>> an extremely low dose. Perhaps 1% of the purported normal dose. And then
>>>> retest at higher dosages. A reasonable set of dosages might be 1%, 2%,
>>>> 5%, 10%, 20%, 50% and 100%. Or more, if you like.
>>>>
>>>> See PiHKAL and TiHKAL :) He started with untested compounds.
>>>>
>>>> Albert Hofmann did get gobsmacked, I admit. But it didn't kill him. I
>>>> once inadvertently took a few milligrams of LSD. It was indeed intense,
>>>> but no more than some DMT experiences. Did last a lot longer, though.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Milligrams ? Are you sure you don't mean micrograms - a dose of LSD is
>>> ussually 10 micrograms. If you did take milligrams it would litterally
>>> have been a few hundred hits of acid. The most i have heard about people
>>> taking is 10 hits.
>>
>> Back in the day, the typical decent dose was ~250 micrograms. 4000 hits
>> per gram was the gold standard. But of course, as a mid-level dealer,
>> you never got crystalline LSD. You got a solution in absolute ethanol,
>> in sealed glass break-neck ampules.
>>
>> So basically, I bought a quarter gram, and fucked up diluting the stuff,
>> before making my test samples. So instead of 250 micrograms, I took a
>> sample that nominally contained ~5 milligrams, or 20 doses. But
>> fortunately, I corrected the error before anyone else tried it :)
>>
>> My typical dose was 500-1000 micrograms, so this was only 5-10 times
>> normal. And my tolerance was probably pretty high, as well.
>>
> 
> I got the numbers wrong.
> 
> I had a friend in college who had to take 10 hits just to get off.
> He was a Cellist who loved to play heavy metal on his cello.

What a trip :)

Have you heard/seen Seemann,[0] by Apocalyptica with Nina Hagen? And
then, there's Nina on acid on Letterman.[1]

0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAlVF7lYKL8
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGsTUY8YQo

> I guess not so bad. ....My longest trip was 3 days. ....On Jimson Weed.

Yeah. I tried smoking that once, but nothing. So it goes.

>>>>> "Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall of some unholy
>>>>> bathroom in some ungodly hall" all too accurately describes people who
>>>>> buy WTF-ever from darknet vendors.  Same shit, different decade.
>>>>>
>>>>> :o/
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