Hello /r/drama. For the last week I have been microdosing the beautiful drug known as LSD, which is in my opinion the best drug ever developed along with MDMA.

I want to report my experience after being unsatisfied with the gay/kitty aesthetic of most microdosers online, who all seem to struggle with depression, don't go to the gym, etc. I do not see LSD as a soy way to "connect with nature" or anything else similarly r-slurred, but as a way to see cool things and have fun. I have noticed a similar sentiment here so I hope that this perceptive is valuable to similarly minded users who enjoy drugs for the drug part.

"Nooo bro psychedelics connect you with the earth, you have to feel the ground, feel the soil, it's spiritual!!!11!"

"Colors look neat"

Dosage/Setup

My daily dosage was roughly one fourth of a gel tab (what others might call a "needlepoint" or "windowpane" I think). I am told by my dealer that each gel is 220uq. However, I am doubtful of this since when I've compared intensity of a full tab to blotters that I know to be 100ug for a fact I have not noticed a huge difference. So based on that intuition I would place each gel at a true value of at max 120ug, making each dose roughly 25-30ug. I am aware that this is more than the typical recommended microdose but to be perfectly honest I had literally no way to cut the gels in smaller pieces, those bitches are insanely hard to slice. As a consequence of this it is highly likely that my dosage actually varied day to day from as low as 15ug to as high as 40ug. If I did this again I would probably find a way to be more exact, and ideally, use paper blotters instead of gels to start with.

I did my best to take them after I woke up and finished my morning routine of showering, brushing teeth, etc each day. This meant that I took my dose at around 8-9AM. Aligning with my typical experience with acid, that means the "peak" would be at around 10-11AM and continue until 12AM-1PM. My typical schedule entails working from 9AM-5PM each day. So in theory, the most acute effects should be felt while I was working. For this reason, I also decided to take my microdose as late as 1-2PM some days, so I could feel the effects outside of a workplace in my social life/free time.

Results

Here is just an unorganized list of thoughts but I'm happy to expand on any of them:

• I was able to plan out large scale projects easier. For my work this summer, I have to draft plans/direct others on how to accomplish tasks with multiple potential methods to success. This week, the path forward seemed much clearer, where as before it seemed easier to get caught up in "what ifs" of potential other options. I was much more willing to identify a path quickly and commit to it.

• Visually, I did not see much of anything. I guess as expected. Occasionally a wallpaper pattern would "wiggle" but nothing like a full dose would do.

• I have a mild tinnitus, which gives me ringing in my ears occasionally during period of silence. For this entire week, I did not notice any ringing.

• What I did notice, possibly in the place of ringing, is a minor "enhancement" of background noises. The crickets chirping outside seemed to be louder, the noises of an AC unit hummed a bit more, etc. I noticed that I could focus on the sounds and somewhat dissociate.

• My workouts were mostly unaffected. I did feel better after each workout, sort of a greater sense of accomplishment. However, there was one time where I was curling and the normal pump I felt turned into a much more intense sensation that my biceps were about to literally explode. So I cut my set short.

• My music taste shifted slightly to less wordy songs.

• My ego was noticeably enhanced. Just generally felt like I was better.

• I had a strange desire to begin writing. I used to write for fun when I was in high school (in college now) and I would write everything from weird satire to short stories. The past week I wrote many many pages of self reflection. I was unique, I would write down my thoughts and tying them together into sets of cohesive narratives/themes, maybe a kind of journaling? Which I have never done before.

• My s*x drive noticeably decreased, as did my desire to consume alcohol. I went out this weekend with my friends and I didn't really feel a need to drink or hit on anyone.

• Sometimes I do this thing where I neurodivergentally tend to simply not care about what people are telling me, but this week I noticed that I was more interested in listening to others.

• My memory was slightly worse. Do you know the feeling of having a thought or word at the tip of your tongue, and having to stop and think about it before it slips away? I felt that more often than usual.

• A significant person in my life actually passed away recently. I found that I would think of them more often and my memories would become more intense. However, it was mostly happy thoughts, not a sadness.

Overall, I came away feeling that the week as a positive experience. Would I do it again? I'm not sure. It was not life changing, and to be honest, a lot of my satisfaction with it probably stems from the fact that some days I was straight up just taking almost half a tab due to my neurodivergent measuring . I also don't like the prospect of being unable to use a car. I live in an urban area so I don't need to drive often, but if I do I would not want to potentially ruin my life by getting in a minor accident and then being tested. I did appreciate the small boost not only in creative energy, but the feeling that I knew the way forward.

Let me know what you guys think.

Boring alcoholic. Dont do wild shit. Never wanted to live sober tho or live this long. Trying to suffer existence until the pre-dementia stage

Worst person I ever met:

Old nice granny! She told her story before leaving. She shoved her husband at the time off the back porch stairs and turned him into a quadriplegic. Lied about it. Took "care" of him. Wheeled him around while both homeless and left him in a shed to die lol

"My baby dad killed my baby but it was an accident so we shouldn't be here" I mean he did just roll over on it so whatever...

Crazy dude in intake room. Cracked out with a knife. Waving it around. He was chill tho if u didn't mention the knife or taking it away from him. Other people SO offended when a worker was like that's crack... and all the crackheads offended and swearing it is meth not crack.

Funniest dude. Lied about army shit. Had fake teeth. Would take his teeth out and flick his tongue and "sexy dance" in the mirror. Told me: "I respect women! I practice jew jitsu it's all about respect!" After me clowning on him for saying he wants to frick me and some heroin addicted fat chick at the same time. (LOTS of fat heroin addicted white chicks that are stupid as shit)

Bragging about being whores. One girl swore she made hundreds just smoking crack naked in front of a wheelchair dude. I dont believe her... Def trying to clean up the degrading things she did.

Dumb foids gettin mad cuz I'd rather be homeless than sell my butthole and dignity for $30. "They" felt bad for me. XD

Pleading to not let heroin addicts die...

Had "narcan training" and this ex heroin b-word told me how she OD'd like 8 times in one month and the paramedics stopped coming to revive them and how it was super important we save everyone

they got on buprenorhpine within 3 months of starting the pain clinic (no history of pain meds being prescribed before, but history of drug abuse) does this seem legit??? my understanding is that because lyrica is a gabaergic that it has depressive synergy with the bupe, and said person has prior opiate addiction history *sips tea*

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Hello users of rdrama.net and welcome to the first edition of...

LAPPLAND'S CHEMICAL SERIES

Today I will show you the process of methamphetamine manufacture.

Please keep in mind that the manufacture of methamphetamine is illegal and so is the sale and consumption. I @Lapp have never taken produced or sold methanphetamine. I do not personally condone the manufacture sale or consumption of methamphetamine.

rdrama.net does not condone the manufacture sale or consumption of methamphetamine.

If you struggle with meth addiction please contact the American addiction center at

406-220-5357or get help on the web at https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help

If you find yourself in any way replicating the process of meth production please contact your local police department so that they can assist you and get you the help that you need.

The creation of this post was endorsed by @carpathianflorist all legal issues are solely their responsibility

I still do not know what SWIM style is please inform me in the comments.

This guide is for education and informational purposes and is not to be replicated.

what is methamphetamine ?

Meth is a strong central nervous system stimulant that was discovered in 1893. Methamphetamine properly refers to the equal mix of levomethamphetamine and dextromethamphetamine in their pure amine forms though the most commonly known version of methamphetamine is the hydrochloride salt version commonly known as crystal meth. Methamphetamine was once readily available as an over the counter medication, the earliest prescriptions for it were for treating hay fever, asthma, and the common cold. During the second world war meth was given to soldiers to improve their performance. Factory workers and other laborers were also given methamphetamine to keep them awake and capable of working longer, it is during this time that the negative side effects of meth use started to be discovered. The first meth ban in the United States occurred in 1959 when meth based inhalers were regulated to stop abuse with them. Later in the 1970's and 1980's stricter restrictions pushed methamphetamine into being a schedule II substance. Despite its illegality meth manufacture has continued until today and due to many restrictions placed upon the process and materials meth manufacturing is a hard and dangerous process.

equipment

The manufacturing of meth requires at minimum the following materials:

Several round bottom flasks, a claisen adapter for the round bottom flasks, a still head that has a thermometer holder, Two condensers with straight central tubes one 35 cm long and the other 50 cm long, a vacuum adapter,a separator funnel, and multiple 24/40 size ground glass joints.You will need at least one each of the following round bottom flask: 3000 ml, 2000 ml and 500 ml; and two each of 1000 mi and 250 ml. I am not sure if changing the equipment type for a suitable replacement is possible or if the exact specifics really matter, I have never undergone these processes as they are illegal.

Due to the abuse of drug manufacturing most chemistry supply companies keep extensive records of customers and require an account to be set up before hand to purchase.

chemicals

The following are the necessary precursor chemicals:

Listed Precursor Chemicals:

1. Anthranilic acid and anthranilic acid salt

2. Benzyl cyanide

3. Ergonovine and ergonovine salt

4. Ergotamine and ergotamine salt

5. N-Ergotamine acid and N-Ergotamine salt

6. Norpseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine salt, norpseudoephedrine optical isomers, and norpseudoephedrine salts of optical isomers

7. Phenylacetic acid, phenylacetic esters (such as ethylphenylacetate) and phenylacetic salts

8. Phenylpropanolamine, phenylpropanolaminesalts, phenylpropanolamine optical isomers, and phenylpropanolamine salts of optical isomers

9. Piperidine and piperidine salts

10. Pseudoephedrine, pseudoephedrine salts, pseudoephedrine optical isomers, and Pseudoephedrine salts of optical isomers

11. 3, 4-Methylenedioxyphenyl-2-propanone

12. Methylamine and methylamine salts

13. Ethylamine and ethylamine salts

14. D-lysergic acid, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers

15. Propionic anhydride

16. lsosafrole

17. Safrole

18. Piperonal

19. N-Methylephedrine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers

20. N-Ethylephedrine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers

21. N-methylpseudoephedrine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers

22. N-ethylpseudoephedrine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of optical isomers

23. 57% Hydriotic acid

24. Ephedrine

25. Benzaldehyde

26. Nitroethane

27. GBH

28. Red Phosphorus; white or yellow Phosphorus

29. Hypophosphoric Acid, and its salts

30. lodine (must be over 2% tinticture)

31. N-phenethyl-4-piperidone

The following are necessary essential chemicals

list of essential chemicals:

1. Acetic anhydride

2. Acetone

3. Benzyl chloride (4 kg)

4. Ethyl ether

5. Potassium permanganate

6. 2-Butanone

7. Toluene

8. Acetic anhydride

9. Benzyl chloride

10. Ethyl ether

11. Potassium permanganate

12. 2-Butatone

13. Toluene

14. lodine

15.Acetone

process

This is an example of the Leuckart-Wallach reaction. This reaction converts aldehydes or ketones to amines by reductive amination in the presence of heat. The Leuckart-Wallach can convert phenylacetone into meth. The process that will occur is shown in a diagram below:

the process of creating phenylacetone is shown in the diagram below:

the process of creating N-methylformamide is shown below:

To test the two productsi in a glass test tube there should be one part N-methylformamide for every two parts phenylacetone for the reaction, at this point simply putting them together in a test tube will cause them to mix together. The Leuckart-Wallach reaction method is highly sensitive and if not done right will create a red like tar substance instead of the desired methanphetamine, if a red tar like substance is created as a result of the N-methylformamide and phenylacetone reacting in the test tube then there was water present in the reaction and the process to create both chemicals must be restarted.

If the red tar like substance is not created then the full reaction between the N-methylformamide and phenylacetone may proceed. For the full reaction there must be one part phenylacetonefor every 2.5 parts N-methylformamide. Though apparently the amount of N-methylformamide can vary from 2 parts to 3 parts and still be perfectly fine to react. The two chemicals should be mixed together in a 500ml round bottom flask, the flask should be set in a container filled 2/3 of the way with oil on a burner to apply even heat throughout the flask as the chemicals react. The oil may be vegetable oil or a subsitute oil which can similarly evenly distribute heat through the round bottom flask as desired. A metal pan is fine container for the oil as it will allow the contents of the glass round bottom flask to be seen. As heat is applied the contents of the flask should be stirred regularly with a thermometer. The temperature of the oil bath should be brought to 100° C over the course of 45 minutes or so. Once it reaches this temperatuee, the heat is turned back down so that the chemicals may stabilize at this point. Every degree of temperature must be closely monitored from this point forward. The temperature of the contents of the flask is heated up to 105° C. The chemicals in the flask must bestirred every 15 minutes. At about 105° C, the reaction will start, although sometimes the mixture's temperature must go as high as 110° C before the reaction starts When the reaction starts, the contents of the flask begin to bubble. After the reaction starts the temperature must be lowered down to the initial heat that the mixture started to react at. It may be left at this state for several hours. Tap water flow is proper for use in the condenser. The heat should be turned on to the 500 ml flask, and a gentle rate of boiling is to be maintained for 2 hours. The mixture should turn black. The reaction going on here is methamphetamine formyl amide. his is a hydrolysis reaction. After the two hours have passed, the heat to the flask is turned off. While the flask is cooling down, 80 grams of sodium hydroxide and 250 ml of water are mixed in a 1000 ml round bottom flask. When both flasks have cooled down, the black reaction mixture is cautiously added to the sodium hydroxide solution. It is added in small portions, and then swirled around to mix it. They react together quite violently. The reaction here is sodium hydroxide reacting with hydrochloric acid to produce table salt, with formic acid to produce sodium formate, and with methamphetamine hydrochloride to produce methamphetamine free base. At this point the mixture must be distilled. The salt will form at the bottom of the flask and not react with the liquid substance within, After the mixture is distilled either toluene or ethyl can be used as the solvent to make the crystals in. With whatever solvent is used the insides of the condenser, vacuum adapter and 250 ml flask must be rinsed to get out the methamphetamine clinging to the glass. This rinse is poured in with the product. Solvent is added to each of the Erlenmeyer flasks until the volume of liquid is 300 ml. They are mixed by swirling. Then the sulfuric acid is then added to the solution and anair blower is started to slowly keep the fumes of dry HCI flowing into the meth free base rather than ever being sucked backwards.Within a minute of bubbling, white crystals begin to appear in the solution. to filter the crystals out. There should be a small amount of formic acid added as it acts as a catalyst. The formic acid should be buffered by the presence of free methylamine, to prevent the pH of the reaction mixture from falling too low and becoming acidic. The presence of water in the reaction mixture will cause the reaction to not happen. It prevents the phenylacetone from dissolving in the N-methylformamide, which creates low yields of purple-colored crystal. The filtering flask and Buchner funnel are set up now. The drain stem of the Buchner funnel must extend through the rubber stopper, because methamphetamine will dissolve rubber. A piece of filter paper must cover the flat bottom of the Buchner funnel. The vacuum is turned on and the hose attached to the vacuum nipple. Then the crystals are poured into the Buchner funnel. The solvent and the uncrystallized methamphetamine pass through the filter paper and the crystals stay in the Buchner funnel as a solid cake. About 15 ml of solvent is poured into the Erlenmeyer flask. The top of the flask must be covered and shaken to suspend the crystals left clinging to the sides. This is also poured into the Buchner funnel. Finally, another 15 ml of solvent is poured over the top of the filter cake.after this the vacuum hose is disconnected and the Buchner funnel. All of the filtered solvent is poured back into the Erlenmeyer flask it came from. It is returned to the HCI source for more bubbling. The Buchner funnel is put back into the top of the filtering flask. It still contains the filter cake of methamphetamine crystals. The vacuum shluld be turned back on, the vacuum hose must be attached to the filtering flask, and the top of the Buchner funnel is covered. The vacuum builds and removes most of the solvent from the filter cake. as the filtering process continues, one flask is being filtered while the other one is being bubbled with HCl. Solvent is added to the Erlenmeyer flask to keep their volumes at 300 ml. Eventually, after each flask has been bubbled for about seven times, no more crystal will come out and production process is finished.

the end

Thank you for reading this far, please keep in mind that this process is illegal and that replicating any of it in part or in whole should not be done. Meth is a terrible substance that should not be consumed. I do not support the production or consumption of any illicit materials and neither does rdrama.net

Join me for the next edition of LAPPLAND'S CHEMICAL SERIES where I will teach the members of !cuteandvalid how to create estrogen for the use in male to female transitioning with just a plastic bag and a bathtub.

Mind the nipples

Thank u almighty rDrama codecels

U made the website pretty

Until next time, friends!

(I'm only eating 1g tonight - I don't want a trip that's scary!)

Copied and pasted it for you poorcels. Don't complain about the format, poor boy.

There was a new smell to New York City on my first visit since the pandemic. The New York I remember from 2018 was scented with subway fumes, car exhaust and pretzels. Now the air was a heady blend of forest fire, car exhaust and cannabis.

Recreational marijuana was legalized in the state of New York in 2021. But even if cannabis is easy and legal to buy in 23 states and all of Canada, the risks of chronic use aren’t talked about much.

Several studies have shown that chronic cannabis use is linked to a higher incidence of schizophrenia among men in their early 20s, the age when the disease is usually diagnosed. The first paper on the topic, a Swedish study published in 1997, found that heavy cannabis use was associated with a sixfold increase in schizophrenia risk. In the decades since, social scientists have unearthed a strong link between heavy cannabis use and other severe psychological illnesses, including clinical depression and bipolar disorder.

Now a new longitudinal study has examined the medical records of all citizens of Denmark over the age of 16, some 6.5 million people in all, for patterns of diagnosis, hospitalization and treatment for substance use between 1995 and 2021. In the paper, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in May, Dr. Oskar Hougaard Jefsen of Aarhus University and colleagues showed that people who had previously been diagnosed with cannabis use disorder were almost twice as likely to be diagnosed later with clinical depression. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cannabis use disorder is characterized by craving marijuana, using it more often than intended, spending a lot of time using it, and having it interfere with friends, family and work.

Even more dramatically, the paper also found that people with cannabis use disorder were up to four times as likely to be diagnosed later with bipolar disorder with psychotic symptoms. As is true of many psychological disorders, the increased risk was higher in men than in women, and the more a person consumed, the greater the risk. The study did not distinguish between different forms and concentrations of cannabis.

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Though the association was strong, the authors note that they can’t say for certain whether chronic and heavy cannabis use induces psychosis, or whether people prone to mental illness are more likely to be heavy users. It makes sense that people who feel the symptoms of incapacitating depression or mania, or who sense apparitions or voices only they can hear, might try to self-medicate with cannabis. Without a randomized controlled trial, which would be unethical in the extreme, it’s hard to untangle these strands definitively.

But the study is still eye-opening due to its sheer magnitude. With so many people over so many years, there is very little statistical “noise.” And because the information was gathered from the national Danish Health Registry, there were few dropouts—often a big problem in longitudinal studies. As much as possible, the researchers confirmed that the symptoms of a person’s psychiatric disorder emerged after their chronic cannabis use and diagnosis, not before, and that they compared people who were alike in all ways except the frequency of their use.

Like cigarettes decades ago, cannabis is now widely considered a harmless habit: easy and legal to buy in most places, socially acceptable, and pleasurable in the moment. Over the long term, it may be safer than drinking alcohol. But is it really safe for you and your teenage kids? Only time—and more research—will tell.

Though the association was strong, the authors note that they can’t say for certain whether chronic and heavy cannabis use induces psychosis, or whether people prone to mental illness are more likely to be heavy users. It makes sense that people who feel the symptoms of incapacitating depression or mania, or who sense apparitions or voices only they can hear, might try to self-medicate with cannabis. Without a randomized controlled trial, which would be unethical in the extreme, it’s hard to untangle these strands definitively.

But the study is still eye-opening due to its sheer magnitude. With so many people over so many years, there is very little statistical “noise.” And because the information was gathered from the national Danish Health Registry, there were few dropouts—often a big problem in longitudinal studies. As much as possible, the researchers confirmed that the symptoms of a person’s psychiatric disorder emerged after their chronic cannabis use and diagnosis, not before, and that they compared people who were alike in all ways except the frequency of their use.

Like cigarettes decades ago, cannabis is now widely considered a harmless habit: easy and legal to buy in most places, socially acceptable, and pleasurable in the moment. Over the long term, it may be safer than drinking alcohol. But is it really safe for you and your teenage kids? Only time—and more research—will tell.

Took a trip to the capitol recently, the "gifting" system they have is wild.

So basically DC passed something called i71 a couple years ago that made instructed the police to make pursuing weed distribution and sale the "lowest priority." This was a sort of sidestepped, weird form of decriminalization. This was then followed by i81, which did the same thing for "natural plants," so that includes shrooms, mescaline, ayahuasca, etc. However this didn't actually make the sale or distribution legal. So to get around this small restriction dealers have now switched to being "gifting" services, where you buy a sticker and then get a pound of weed as a "free gift" with purchase.

It's actually r-slurred how this works. I went to a bar with some friends on my final night there, and as I'm leaving a random homeless looking guy harasses us and asks if we want to be "gifted" some horrendous looking dmt vapes (which even funnier is not technically legal since i81 only decriminalizes the plant form, not powder), weed, or shrooms. Then along with it he has these rick and morty stickers, the price for each of course being 50-150 dollars. When did drugs become so gay and r-slurred.

Just got a handful of carts at my dispensary because they had a 50% off sale. Also got 7g of shrooms capsules to try and microdose with because I haven't actually tried doing that before.

I'm not big on the ol' devil's lettuce, but I have this small plant that sprouted on my property this year which left me wondering- is it possible to.get high off it? Has anyone even tried?

The context of this question is as follows:

I know this is Cannabis sativa sativa because that's what grows in the wild here. I think this is one of the species that people smoke, so that's one point in its favor, however, I also know that this is the edible cannabis which is processed into edible seeds and oils in many of the foods that I have on the regular, and I definitely don't get high off that.

Finally I've heard that while it's legal here to grow cannabis in the fields, you're not allowed to do so in greenhouses or inside homes. Could it be that it just needs more heat/sunlight to produce the good chemicals?

So what do you all think? Would it theoretically be possible to get high of wild plants? Should I try it for science ?

I've been working on my qualifier paper for the past 3 weeks and the stress has been causing me to blow through kratom like crazy. I bought a 100g tub last Thursday and there's approximately 15g left. I was finishing the final draft last night and I needed to toss and wash 5g just to get the shakes to go away.

I haven't had any today and by noon I already had the withdrawals. It's 3:30 and I'm sweating like a motherlover and I can't stand the taste enough to even taper off at this point.