Cypherpunk Inadequacies / Why the 60's failed

[Marina Brown]

On 09/06/2017 12:13 AM, Mirimir wrote:
> 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.
> 

If you want a trip you don't smoke it but it is VERY dangerous.
Definitly an ordeal.

--- Marina


>>>>>> "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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