THE DEFINITIVE "LEGAL HIGH" TIER LIST

Thought I would make a personal tier list of my favorite legal highs (at least legal in the only country that matters )

This list is NOT extensive or complete, just my personal favs and hates. This is not a list of prescription drugs, just stuff you can order on the clear web or get OTC at stores. I'm also skipping cannabis because it's not legal everywhere yet (and it's for strags )

Let's get started then, shall we?

SHIT TIER

Nicotine

I really don't need to say much about why nicotine sucks in all it's forms. It's just not worth taking.

BORING TIER

Alcohol

Alcohol is one of the weakest, shortest duration, and most overall toxic of the GABAergics that I've taken. It's also just really uninteresting and generally uncomfortable.

L-Theanine

Theanine is really only good with Caffeine. On it's own, it does next to nothing. Taking a large dose almost feels like a small dose of gabapentin.

Racetams and Noopept

Not much to say about them. Minor stimulation and a slight 'glow' at mid-high doses. People swear by their nootropic abilities, and I have noticed a moderate increase in memory recall before.

DECENT TIER

Caffeine

Caffeine, especially in energy drink form, is great for when you want to focus, but still kinda relax - like playing a game, having a conversation with friends, or doing some chores. It's pretty nice being somewhat stimulated but not feeling the need to do things constantly, like with amphetamines.

It's also pretty tasty in most forms, and can actually be quite relaxing, especially when combined with L-Theanine (like in green tea). Best used occasionally (as I know you all have extremely high caffeine tolerance and will say it does nothing for you anymore )

Salvia

Salvia is one of those drugs that's extremely interesting conceptually, but kinda sucks in practice.

Sweating and discomfort followed by becoming an inanimate object for 2000 years, followed by days of depression. It's unique and worth checking out if you're adventurous. It's also probably the strongest drug on this list.

GBL / GHB / 2M2B

Is your alcohol making too much acetaldehyde in your stomach and poisoning you the next day? Yeah, it does that.

Would you prefer that your alcohol hit much harder but last less time? GBL/GHB are a good solution. A literal cleaning solution, at that!

Are you feeling scammed that the shot of vodka you bought didn't last 14 hours? Try 2M2B!

Final thoughts: These are all very interesting GABAergics with differing use cases, but not for me.

DPH

Diphenhydramine is great if you want to see spiders, shadow men, and horrors from another dimension while also constantly forgetting where you are and what's happening. It's a genuinely interesting experience, and it causes dream-like structures to appear in your waking reality as opposed to the geometry of psychedelics, meaning it has the most 'realistic graphics' of any hallucinatory drug.

It's also good at a low dose for fapping. Not sure why.

GREAT TIER

Kratom

Kratom is a south east asian plant which contains the indole alkaloid mitragynine. It's an opioid with relaxing or stimulating effects, depending on the dose. Pretty cool. It can hit very hard the first few times (or if you combine it with 30-60mg of DXM to reset your tolerance ) and can even make you 'nod' like a traditional opioid. It does have a sort of 'built-in abuse mitigation' in that it will make you violently nauseated if you reach a certain dose (which depends on you and your tolerance).

Kratom is a great drug to relax, to prevent pain while doing physical work , or to be social. It's also amazing for essentially eliminating stimulant come-downs.

Nitrous Oxide

Nitrous is a 'turbo button' for psychedelics, dissos, cannabis, and a slew of others. On it's own, it's a bit weak, but combine it with certain drugs and you will be shot to the fricking moon. It's really no joke - but it only lasts about 30 seconds. Still, an amazing substance if you're already high - and, being a dissociative, it actually prevents anxiety during the blast-off (unlike using cannabis to enhance psychedelics).

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GOD TIER

Phenibut

Phenibut is a gabapentinoid that, interestingly, acts on GABA B (and also A). It's basically alcohol, with less mental impairment, that lasts for 12-16 hours, has high levels of euphoria, enhances music, makes every shot of alcohol 4x stronger, and makes you a gigachad socially. It's also legal, cheap (if you can find it these days), and doesn't have a hangover - in fact, you'll feel GREAT the next day because of how well you'll sleep.

The best part about phenibut's social aspect is that it makes you more empathetic, like MDMA.

There's only really one downside - it takes 6 hours to really 'kick in', so prepare ahead of time.

DXM

DXM has a reputation of being a 'teenager drug', but the people who say that haven't taken a 3rd plateau dose.

DXM is a very powerful dissociative opioid with SSRI properties. What does this mean? - It means that DXM acts like an unholy amalgamation of ketamine, codeine, and MDMA. It also happens to reset your tolerance to stimulants and opioids, and is being researched as an antidepressant. It's also by FAR the best drug for music enhancement. This is not debatable.

There are four different 'plateaus' of DXM doses, which all have unique effects. The most interesting are 2nd and 3rd plateau - 2nd plateau is excellent for music listening and fading into the background of reality. It also makes you want to move your body, as every motion feels incredible. You'll be stumbling like an r-slur though.

In contrast, if you move around a lot on 3rd plateau, you'll vomit. Hard. 3rd plateau will suck you deep into a dark, boundless expanse of dream-like structures and voids. It's impossible to explain, but it is extremely profound. DXM also combines incredibly with psychedelics. The best and strongest drug experience I've ever had was on LSD+DXM.

I could go on for hours about all of the incredible things DXM can do, but the unfortunate downside is that it's not for everyone - I would estimate that 1/4 people who try DXM will hate it - there's also a small subsection of the population that lacks the enzyme to break it down, meaning they will likely have an extremely long nightmare trip.

In conclusion, DXM is not just my favorite legal drug, it is my favorite drug.

And that's the end of this loooooooongpost. Hope you learned something. Or not. Idk.

If you have any questions about any of these drugs, feel free to ask - or you can always check out psychonautwiki.org and erowid.org for more information on psychoactive chems. We should definitely keep illegal sourcing out of this hole, but as all of these drugs are legal and OTC, feel free to ask for sources in this thread if you need a good brand.

Please comment with your own favorite and least favorite 'legal highs' (you know, if you want )