Safety being both a major problem with illicit drugs and a major concern of rationalists, this raised an eyebrow. The simplest explanation is that the people concerned with safety aren't the people using psychedelics and that I underestimated the availability of psychedelics through whatever the normal drug-buying channels are (and perhaps self-experimenters overstate the precision of the doses?), but I'm curious about other possible explanations. Assuming commonality, which I do not take for granted, the two most plausible explanations I came up with were:
Is there a rationalist Bear (preferred name of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, another early psychedelicist who started weird and became extremely weird) out there? As I understand it, synthesizing LSD requires serious know-how and equipment, but there are surely rationalist synthetic chemists and perhaps one is willing and capable.
Dark-web sales and purity testing labs? That meshes with the techno-libertarian side of things, but I have no idea how those labs operate and I'm guessing buying drugs online practically requires you to commit a federal crime in the US, which is a pretty big hazard.
I'm guessing the simplest explanation is the correct one, to the extent that there's a connection between rationalists and psychedelics, in the first place, but if someone actually knows, I'd rather know than guess.
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If you're in canada, you can just order shrooms online, though you'll have to pay by interac transfer bank-to-bank. They will arrive, and they will be real and effective. If you want to precisely dose shrooms, blend them into very small bits, then use a milligram scale to measure and make a shroom tea. That's how I do it anyway. For other psychedelics, another good source is https://my.indiamart.com/, though if you search directly on the website you won't find them, you need to go on google, and do a specific site search like "site: indiamart.com ketamine", and you'll find this close to the top links, which is just straight up a vial of ketamine. I've bought lots of stuff from indiamark, including blood pressure medications, a long-term supply of antibiotics for my disaster prep bag, semaglutide, modafinil, etc. and they've all made it past the canadian border safe and sound, and were completely effective as far as I can see, though I didn't test them in a lab.
To minimize legal risk you can also get stuff like 1P-LSD, which is different enough from LSD as to be in a legal gray area, but still a pretty potent psychedelic.
Any idea how one would go about getting them in Australia? I heard we legalised psychedelics at the start of this year but it's not something I've ever looked into.
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