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    I took the SATs my second time the night after taking LSD and was still seeing decent trails. I did better than when I took it the first time and got very close to a perfect verbal score iirc.

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    A skilled geologist recognizes the rocks they can safely lick. Licking every rock is just stupid. Imagine licking asbest.

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      I believe licking asbestos is fairly unproblematic. You just really shouldn’t breathe in asbestos dust.

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        Asbestos definitely causes inflammation when tissues are exposed to it, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone lick asbestos. One exposure wouldn’t do much. That said I’m pretty sure the act of picking asbestos up and bringing it to your face and breathing it in would be the most dangerous part of that.

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    The untold story: 1.) the grade was curved due to everyone’s low numbers

    2.) no one wanted to get near the rocks to identify them because there was one weird mofo walking on all fours around the displays, randomly snarling and licking each one

    Homeslice identified a few more than everybody else and his grade shot to the moon.

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      I like this thread/comic but I’m legitimately confused by ‘ace rights’ did we start forcing people to fuck or something? I hadn’t noticed lol

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        It is probably more about recognition, most people (in their minds) don’t recognize asexuality. Many folks thought I had something wrong with me (do you know how many erectile dysfunction or micropenis jokes I had to endure?) or I was attracted to them and was trying to hide it.

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          Yeah I get that and agree, but I think that language is important in these situations. That’s about something that has nothing to do with rights and minimalizes the actual civil rights issues that we DO have by association. I agree that education is important, but that has nothing to do with a legal fight for rights.

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            While I do agree, I also feel the need to point out that this is a meme, it doesn’t have any agenda other than “be funny” so probably not much thought has went into it.

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          LoL, imagine the GOP nutters who get so offended by the Gay Rights Rainbow Flag when they are confronted by the ACE Rights Centaur. 😂

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          Sorry, but they can still vote, right? This isn’t anything to do with ‘rights’.

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        I think its missing a comma, cause its common for shaggy phrases to end with “right scoob?”

        I thought the same thing you did at first though.

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        I feel dumb, I don’t get the ace bit. Was it just slang, like he’s cool, and then they swerved it? Or was there something that actually made the commentary think they were asexual in the image? Now I feel dumb and old.

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    As someone who does LSD whenever she can (Which is… sadly not as often as you’d think)

    This doesn’t surprise me

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      I really want to experiment with psychedelics but I have no idea where to even start on obtaining them lol

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          It’s a different world these days. Two decades ago I’d do rails of molly out of an Altoids can which was being passed around a festival campsite. Now anything can have fent in it. Shit sucks and I kind of feel bad that kids these days have to deal with this.

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          *safely obtain them. I don’t know how to tell apart legit sites and honeypots, and as a trans girl in Texas I am really really really worried about potentially being arrested. So I don’t risk it, and I probably won’t until I meet someone I can trust irl who can help me get access tbh.

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            Get a lysergemide analogue from a reputable chem site. Chems.ca comes to mind as the most trustworthy in the USA.

            Technically not illegal as long as you say you weren’t going to use it for human consumption. Research only.

            Its more expensive than street L but depending on your sources most likely way, way cleaner. Its from a legitimate lab so you know its synthesized correctly.

            Don’t use darkweb sites of any kind in Texas if you’re worried about getting in trouble. Just get the research chems they are cleaner than 100% of anything on a dark web market anyway. And also, technically legal.

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              Just get the research chems they are cleaner than 100% of anything on a dark web market anyway.

              That’s not bad advice in general, but why do you think dark web drug market traders wouldn’t have an incentive to sell quality goods?

              If you sell something adulterated, you’re gonna get extremely bad reviews. Some modern recreational drugs users (especially ones who go so far to use dark web markets) are extremely savy about their own drugs. Testing kits and even proper lab testing is pretty common. If you live in continental Europe, it’s no problem. More in some countries, less in others. But basically you can mail a sample to a lab from anywhere, for a fee. But in a lot of countries in Europe they’re just available for free, for harm reduction.

              You’d be kind of silly to think people who have a site who sell “novel research chemicals” haven’t dabbled with illicit substances at some point or another. Having already the capacity to manufacture lysergemide analogues, they would have no trouble making a batch of LSD. And that’s worth a bit more. It’s just harder to get rid of sometimes, being illegal and whatnot. These legal substances pay less, but have much less risk, being technically legal (until the laws catch up basically).

              I’m not trying to sound like a dick here, just it’s a subject near to my heart. The illegal drug markets are so fucking vast that it’s insane we as a society pretend that prohibition prevents people from getting and using drugs that we just forfeit all the money that could be made from taxing that as a trade, globally.

              If I had the powers of a genie and could snap my fingers and the world just changed so that all drug purchases would have taxes on them, the amount of money gained with even a 10% tax could solve world hunger (if utilised properly.)

              “With estimates of $100 billion to $110 billion for heroin, $110 billion to $130 billion for cocaine, $75 billion for cannabis and $60 billion for synthetic drugs, the probable global figure for the total illicit drug industry would be approximately $360 billion. Given the conservative bias in some of the estimates for individual substances, a turnover of around $400 billion per annum is considered realistic.”

              https://www.worldometers.info/drugs/

              Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

              https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger

              And personally I’m of the opinion that the global drug trade value is severely underestimated. And 10% tax would be nothing. Compare for example to European alcohol tax rates, which are around 25-30%. The tax on tobacco here in Finland is around 50%.

              Huuuge rant from one offhanded comment you made it. Don’t take it personally lol I just like writing shit to distract myself.

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            a trans girl in Texas I am really really really worried about potentially being arrested

            Okay, yeah, I can’t definitely understand that.

            I’m unsure as to how much of this I can talk about here, but what online stores have going for them is often safety and reliability. Unless the markets are “cashing out”, they’re usually safe.

            (“Cashing out” as in they have a functional market people use, then when it’s been going for a while, they’re decide to end it, they just stop relaying orders but keep the money that’s in escrow, usually still get action for some days/weeks, leading to huge profits.)

            That being said, you’d need a safe mailbox to order to, so as not to order drugs to your own home.

            But yeah, IRL can be better, especially because you can then have someone who instructs you or acts as a tripsitter if you feel like you like to have one.

            IRL can also be worse, because you don’t really know what you’re getting for a certainty. Unlike with online traders, because you can choose someone who has hundreds of positive comments and a good rating.

            People honest don’t know how easy getting drugs is in most parts of the world, which is what makes it hard for them, which in turn makes it easy for everyone who does know, because you can quite comfortably do your business in front of people who are totally oblivious to it.

            But yeah. Don’t get arrested in Texas for drugs as a trans-girl, I strongly agree with that. Hope Harris wins and the US could perhaps improve a bit. Stay safe, sister. <3

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              Yeah the delivery part has always been what’s worried me the most. I don’t know anything about getting a secure mailbox because as I understand it, any delivery point that belongs to you can be traced back to your name. And the only options I have are my house and the UPS/USPS office for delivery.

              Also yeah I’ll be voting for this election, hoping for a Harris win too and also for Allred to finally kick Cruz out of Texas!

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                as I understand it, any delivery point that belongs to you can be traced back to your name.

                Pretty much yeah.

                The defense I used here in Finland was that since you can’t trace who sent it and there’s no verified money traffic from me to a drug dealer, they can’t really prove it’s me.

                If I knew your address, I could send you a bag of drugs. Would that make you a criminal? Even if you didn’t want it? If it does, then shouldn’t I just mail anyone I don’t like in the US some weed, basically?

                My point is I don’t know how the laws about that sort of thing work over there, but I knew how they worked here, so I was at customs several times telling them I don’t know shit about any drugs that came to my address. They knew that I knew that they knew that I knew that they knew. You know? But it didn’t matter the slightest, because there was no way of connecting me to the drug order. I think I even bought the bitcoin from my account, but it’s like if you had taken out cash at an atm. Ofc drugs are bought with cash, but factually connecting you taking cash from your account to you using it to buy drugs is something they have a hard time doing.

                But yeah, I knew how these things worked here. They just always had to drop the charges despite it being extremely clear I was guilty, because no evidence. So I’m not gonna suggest anything for you, as the sentences are a bit harsher for all drug things in the US. Well, except for weed, since it’s legal in some states. Even though it’s still illegal on the federal level. Crazy.

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                  Yeah it’s legal in Colorado and I had some fun with it while I was there. But now in Texas even though I’m of legal age I cannot get access to weed legally (except for delta-8, but they’re trying to ban that too). And that also means the quality of weed is much, much worse. The smell of good quality legal weed from the boutique dispensaries in CO are very pleasant and calming to me, but I absolutely cannot stand the smell or taste of the “skunky” stuff, which in my experience pretty much all illegal weed tends to be. So I don’t have much interest in obtaining weed in Texas, especially because I don’t plan on staying here. My current plan is to get a degree and get out of the country, ideally move tosomewhere in Europe. Not sure exactly where yet, but I’ve narrowed down a list with the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, and Switzerland currently at the top (and yeah ik weed isn’t legal in all those places either but from what I’ve seen the punishments seem to be far less severe). So I’m not really chomping at the bit to get access to drugs right now, though it’d sure be nice if more things were legal here.

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            I’ve found multiple friendly employees at vape shops in both Arkansas and Oklahoma, especially in the college cities of course. But that might be a productive avenue that’s worth trying out.

            Best of luck from an ally not too far away!

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            I know they ain’t quite the same, but you might be better served at finding some spores. It’s the mushrooms that will get you in trouble.

            Peyote might be an option given your locale.

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              I feel like I remember hearing bad things about Peyote? Not sure if that’s what I’m thinking of. No idea how to grow spores (or really anything for that matter), I suppose I could learn at some point but for now it’s not something I have the time nor resources to really sustain.

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      I would love to try LSD, but I’m too worried about serotonin syndrome because of the medications I take.

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        Serotonin syndrome is somewhat of a phobia more than a rational fear with modern medications.

        Unless you’re taking a MAOi, which I somewhat doubt (as they’re not really used anymore due ti safety concerns and whatnot), you should be alright.

        Serotonin syndrome is still sort of in the recreational drug users mythos, because being too careful isn’t really harmful, and people don’t really understand neuropharmacology that much, so they tend “not to risk it.”

        https://www.vice.com/en/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-mixing-mdma-and-antidepressants-safe-sesh/

        (MDMA and LSD are both serotonergic, but MDMA is more risky in terms of serotonin syndrome than LSD.)

        I’m not suggesting anyone on medications reads this and thinks I’m saying it’s a risk-free thing, but since we be adopted SSRI instead of MAOi, it’s not nearly as big of a risk. MAOi and psychedelics was honestly very risky.

        SSRI’s tend just to blunt the effects of psychedelics/mdma. If you keep to normal recreational doses, it should be fine. From the article:

        Again, the real danger lies in what both Charlotte and Nilu describe as a chase to catch up with their friends who aren’t on antidepressants.

        “You won’t be getting the euphoric, psychological effects you want by taking more, but you will be getting more of the physiological effects – higher blood pressure, higher heart rate and higher temperature, which is a bummer,” says Dr Sessa. “These are not normally dangerous. MDMA is a relatively safe drug. We know that because so many people take it and come to no harm. But in excessive doses, because you’re trying to overcome the effect of being on the SSRIs, these may become dangerous.”

        So no need to be that worried about the side effects, but also while you’re on SSRI, the experience probably will be a bit muted and you might have some slight discomfort. Who knows, it’s a bit personal and depends on your meds. If you’re just on a rather low dose of SSRI, it might not really affect the trip at all.

        Not trying to advice, just informing a bit as I’m pretty well versed on the subject even if I do say so myself.

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          It’s more complicated than that and I think it’s just not worth the risk. I have a nerve disorder which I take the medication for, and it’s three medications: an SNRI, a GABA analogue and an anticonvulsant. I just don’t know that adding LSD into a mix like that is a good idea, because even if none of those individually could cause it, collectively, who knows? It’s not like it’s a common mix.

          But I do appreciate it.

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            I won’t pretend to have such deep knowledge as to claim to know they’re safe, but as far as I’m aware (which again, is some, but am not a medical professional), the N of the SNRI shouldn’t really be affected directly. But that doesn’t mean that if you get a little bit jittery when you’re going up that you won’t have increased norepinephrine which would then be blocked from reuptake.

            So yeah, it’s somewhat more complicated. Anticonvulsants are basically what you’d use to come down from a trip (depending on which type, there’s a lot), so I don’t see any obvious risks in that either. GABA should likewise not be a problem, as not directly affected, and like anticonvulsants, some of them are used as anti-psychotics.

            However with those meds, even if I could say it’s safe (whichever again, I can’t, but personally believe it to be of low risk, due to the things I’ve read concerning), I don’t know if I’d say it’s worth it, really.

            Like you wouldn’t enjoy a night out if you had the flu, basically, but it wouldn’t be that risky. Even though like getting a bad case of pneumonia and not treating it might be fatal, but quite a small risk. Probably on the same level, these risks.

            collectively, who knows?

            No-one, honestly. But the internet is pretty hard at work on it.

            Although they started with recreational polysubstance combinations, actual meds don’t appear on the list too often unless they can be uses recreationally.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polysubstance_combinations

            But yeah, safety is #1 when using drugs.

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            As a former recreational user of many substances(not LSD though), I understand your hesitancy. I had many great experiences on shrooms so I tend to recommend that before LSD. I just think it’s not as intense and has a lower probability of negative interactions or experiences, but that’s just based on what I’ve seen/heard/read. There are knock off versions of shrooms in vape shops but I have no idea what they are like.

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              I appreciate it. I’ve done shrooms before I got on this medication, so I do know what that’s like. I just am not going to take any chances these days.

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              It’s very much a different strokes for different folks kinda thing. People I know prefer LSD and other, closely related lysergamides because it gives a bit more of an energy boost - I’ve heard it described as shrooms with a shot of espresso. Others prefer shrooms because it’s a little more laid back feeling.

              Granted, your set and setting is really going to set the tone for whatever psych you ingest. Things can go amazingly or very, very badly with either substance depending on your headspace and how you set yourself up/structure your environment for the experience.

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          Until very recently festivals were a major source of LSD distribution in the U.S.

          Not so much regular attendees buying 10 strips but people who know each other meeting up at various festivals to exchange larger quantities of dry, crystal LSD. I don’t know how much it’s changed in the last decade or so, probably not that much.

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            True! You used to be able to track LSD in the US by looking at the grateful dead tour schedule, matter of fact lmao.

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    In order for licking the rocks to help on the test, he must have already tasted them before.

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    I couldn’t do it, I’d be worried everyone could tell I was high. Tbf tho, no one called him out for licking rocks… sooooo idk. I’d just hate to be remembered as the rock licking guy

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      I once gave a speech on butterflies while stoned off my ass. Got really, REALLY fucking stoned, with a buddy cause I was pretty sure I didn’t have to go to that class that day. Checked the syllabus and turns out I had to go. We picked the subject of other people’s speech, and gave a 3 minute “speech” on butterflies, which I mostly just modified Mitch hedberg jokes to fit butterflies. Got the class laughing and got an A. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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        Mitch Hedberg jokes while high is a pretty smart move. Either that or you’re the only person who finds them funny and end up looking like an idiot.

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        I took a geology course in college. The raw giddiness the professor hit on seeing a very bland gray rock still makes me laugh thinking about it. Dude was starstruck by a large grey lump. I’m sure it was a very excellent rock, but I can’t recall now what made it so amazing. Something about glaciers.

        I think he would have gladly licked the rock if he thought no one was looking.

        I 100% believe the above.

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          I partied with geologists. Trust me they licked that rock. Totally what they do. I knew one that joked about keeping a few pebbles in his pocket of Gypsum or kaolinite or some other sedimentary rock to chew on to make a point about how much he was a geologist.

          There is a whole tongue test is to tell if it’s bone or rock anyways. I bet the guy on LSD was to busy high to notice half his classmates were probably licking the rocks sober.

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        I know, had two Geology majors as college roomates. Dudes would just roll joints and stare at rocks. Well, my primotology roomate would do the same…