• cenzorrll@piefed.ca
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    1 day ago

    I worked in toxicology, and there wad study on THC and gas-station analog use and driving impairment that was done near a military base. Every time it’s referenced in conferences, the presenter ALWAYS says “if you’re in the military and have illegal drugs in you’re system, it will ruin your life. They also know what drugs and metabolites are tested for, so they make sure it isn’t in their system during random drug tests” *wink-wink*

    There was an interestingly large number of people with weird THC-analogs in their system for this study specifically.

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      24 hours ago

      When I was serving we did a LOT of those research psychedelics like 2C-B and 2C-I. But if we had a long weekend Molly was the preferred choice. Spice was just barely on anyone’s radar, and we didn’t really trust it lol.

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        22 hours ago

        …and we didn’t really trust it lol.

        As you shouldn’t. It was often mixed in a concrete mixer with random plant matter (hopefully at least hemp) and a jar of chemicals from China, then packaged with cool graphics. It was a ridiculously high percentage of the time that what was in the package wasn’t what it was on the label. Per brand you could expect it to be consistent…ish, but it was something like >50% of the time it was not what it said it was.

        It was basically whatever analog wasn’t illegal at the time in China was produced then shipped to the US, and the sketch packagers didn’t give a shit what it actually was.

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          It wasn’t hemp. The plant name may come to me later but it was commonly something else. I think it started with or had a D in it, and it had little yellow flowers

          But yes, that shit was no fun. I’ve tried a few “spice” or “incense” back in the day. I can tell you some of those highs were absolutely no fun. I was high as shit but at times was too scared to try and move or do anything. “I don’t want to try to move because I don’t want to try to move and then find out I can’t” and like “the person in the show is actually looking at me”. Watching a show, live or animated, if the person on screen turned their head in my mind I saw their features pop out of the screen and then meld back in

          I’ve never done psychedelics so that’s the closest to tripping I’ve been but fucking hell that shit did my head in

          Edit: ok, so the plant I commonly saw used as the smokeable herb was damiana

          Also I forgot another term was “potpourri”

          While trying to search the plant I came across the name of the shit that fucked me up, “mr happy or mr nice guy