Dreamoar
Posts: 4711 Joined: 10-Sep-2009 Last visit: 28-Feb-2025 Location: Rocky mountain high
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 2151 Joined: 23-Nov-2012 Last visit: 07-Mar-2017
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This question really stumped me: Quote:A new legal drug that is approved by the Government comes onto the market, it is safer, reasonably priced and has similar effects to your current illicit drug of choice. How would the availability of this new drug impact on your use of your illegal drug of choice? On one hand: safety. On the other hand, I'm not sure I would trust the government with my brain in that way. Why I would trust a dealer/online shop instead, I don't know, but given their track record, I'm not sure I'd take any psychedelic with the governments seal of approval on it. Blessings ~ND "There are many paths up the same mountain."
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 628 Joined: 12-Jan-2010 Last visit: 28-Feb-2019
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Why go for the synthetic one when you can have the natural one?  I don't even get why they would want to try to make a drug with the same effects instead of just legalising the one they want to mimic. It was an interesting survey though, am curious to see the results. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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Kalt und Heiß, Schwarz und Rot, Kürper und Geist, Liebe und Chaos
Posts: 4661 Joined: 02-Jun-2008 Last visit: 30-Apr-2022
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The key in the above question is the "safer", whatever that means. Since the substances we mostly talk about here in the Nexus have particularly good safe margins (also supported by plenty of data), it'd be hard or impractical to say the least to make a "safer" analogue. But think of substances like DOx, NBOmes, PCP, ketamine, opiates etc and yes, safer alternatives are possible. Need to calculate between salts and freebases? Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH? Click here!
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 628 Joined: 12-Jan-2010 Last visit: 28-Feb-2019
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I agree with you Infundibulum. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 417 Joined: 03-Jan-2012 Last visit: 24-Jan-2019
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Interesting survey, hopefully it helps marijuana get legalized The Unknown = A Place to Learn
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Posts: 599 Joined: 09-Nov-2011 Last visit: 10-Aug-2016 Location: Spirit World
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Looks like they spent some time thinking about this survey.
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