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8nbVq8oVakvAp6SX  1yr ago (text post)   2095 thread views

I am NOT soliciting information on how to procure illicit substances... but I am idly curious how rationalists are getting precisely dosed psychedelics

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I have no deep up-to-date knowledge of this subject, particularly none applicable in the West. Read Gwern on this topic and dark markets more generally, if you want. That said, if I were interested in microdosing, I'd have

  1. looked for shops with high reputation and indication of sourcing from guys who have the technical chops, on Hydra or whatever is the current mainstream platform. This is easy in major Russian cities due to the availability of poor, high-IQ chemists and badly supervised professional equipment, so e.g. phenethylamines are a solved problem. I suppose in the West it should be easier still. For LSD, there can't be that many reputable producers, but I'd guess the competitive pressure has fixed global supply, with consistently glowing reviews. (I remember my junkie friend talking about voidgoblin of something; keep such friends around if only for darkmarket questions, this isn't like Amazon where you can kind of afford atomization).

  2. bought hardware for dosing and storing sensitive chemicals, such as precision scales, amber glass vials, I don't know.

  3. thought about diluting the dosage appropriately to increase the precision of distributing it. E.g. assuming away some inconvenient complications that I advise people look into themselves, LSD should be soluble in distilled water and pure ethanol (for preservation against microorganisms), and it's a heck of a lot easier to measure milliliters than micrograms. For something like 2C-B, decent scales from Aliexpress should do it but you can also mix it with some inert substance like sugar.

But ultimately, what you need is not objective measurement but reproducibility of trials. Your individual sensitivity determines the dose you'd desire to administer (provided microdosing does anything of value) – and you will have to approximate it by trial and error.

Re: crime and law: lol. lmao. Of course it is a hazard. Knowledge of this will also make you paranoid under the influence. The risk can be minimized but not eliminated.

Pinging @JhanicManifold.

Pinging @JhanicManifold.

Lol, I guess I have been writing a lot about how to get various psychedelics, peptides, and semaglutide.

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