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New secretive "alcohol alternative"

oh interesting. so he was already involved with creating some pseudo benzo in the past. NOW IM REALLY CURIOUS!
 
Pagoclone is the name of the compound they call "alcosynth" and most likely is the active ingredient of one their beverages.

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Pagoclone - Wikipedia

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I checked out web site (GABAlabs) and from that i interpret there are going be more/alternative compounds they would be using in their products. But we'll see as nothing has come out yet.
 
SnafuInTheVoid said:


www.sentiaspirits.com

About Us - Gaba Science + Plant Alchemy

Sentia was born out of our desire to develop better options for adult recreational adult drinkers and to provide other ways for us all to connect.
www.sentiaspirits.com www.sentiaspirits.com

GABALabs – The Science of Conviviality

gabalabs.com gabalabs.com

"GABA Labs is developing ingredients that aim to enhance GABA activity in the brain and nervous system, thereby increasing sociability and conviviality while reducing anxiety.

GABA Labs will bring the Alcarelle series of synthetic ingredients (including “Alcosynth”) and its active botanical ingredient, known as “ABI”, to market and license this technology to the Drinks Industry. They will create new ranges of drinks that give some of the social and conviviality benefits of alcohol whilst reducing the risks of harm.

Ingredients Compounds​

GABA Labs is working on a range of compounds that aims to mimic the positive impacts of alcohol – sociability, less anxiety, more conviviality – while avoiding the harm alcohol causes. We’ll be licensing these ingredients technologies to Drinks Companies so they can make a whole new generation of healthy drinking choices for adult social drinkers.

In order for this to come to market, Alcarelle will have to go through a rigorous regulatory process. This is likely to take between three and five years.

Botanical Ingredients​

GABA Labs’ research into GABAergic molecules in food grade plants has led the scientific team to investigate extracts from approved food-plants, already well-established in the food and drinks market. We combine these to create active botanical ingredients for license to drinks companies."

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They claim to be inventing a true non-toxic alcohol "alternative". They are very secretive of the proprietary (plant based?) ingredients. Their claims are quite high.

Sounds like BS to me since they wont release their ingredients or science.

It's probably going just be like every other bullshit knockoff "legal highs" you see in the headshops in the US and online

There are some early reviews that sound positive but I'm very skeptical
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Wasn’t there a member of the aminoindan family of chemicals a few years ago that was supposedly the “new and improved alternative to alcohol?” I think there was an article I read about it although I don’t have it at the moment. But I can’t remember what it was.
Never mind it was apparently “5-methoxyaminoindane” someone had mentioned it above.. although I thought there was another one as well although I may be mistaken.
 
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LivingOnValium said:
Pagoclone is the name of the compound they call "alcosynth" and most likely is the active ingredient of one their beverages.

en.wikipedia.org

Pagoclone - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

I checked out web site (GABAlabs) and from that i interpret there are going be more/alternative compounds they would be using in their products. But we'll see as nothing has come out yet.
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i cant find much info and wikipedia article is so vague. is this legal to purchase somewhere? i understand the no source rule of this forum, but if this shit is LEGAL and can save lives, why the fuck not share this?? fuck if mods of this forum give two fucks about saving someone's life as all they care about is RETARDED RULES that change ALL THE TIME.
I remember asking for weed here 10 years ago and being banned haha. now its LEGAL and i wish all the COPS who abused me and ALL THE MODS who abused me, fucking apologize, for being reprogrammed cretins. Just kidding, this will never happen. COPS and MODS will never succumb to the feeling of being equal to someone or anything at all in this life.
 
LMAO I can't see this going wrong, not at all. If it's a GABAergic it'll likely be hideously addictive, very likely more so than EtOH even if it has less acutely toxic hangover feeling (as many of the weird branched alcohols do) and might even feature a lovely agitating rebound like GHB and friends have.

They're also asking for trouble with their marketing. Entering into a space that may be more regulated than they think.
 
LivingOnValium said:
Pagoclone is the name of the compound they call "alcosynth" and most likely is the active ingredient of one their beverages.

en.wikipedia.org

Pagoclone - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

I checked out web site (GABAlabs) and from that i interpret there are going be more/alternative compounds they would be using in their products. But we'll see as nothing has come out yet.
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If I remember correctly though wasn’t pagoclone non intoxicating? I definitely remember reading trip reports about it and it being referred to as “underwhelming” in many cases maybe it’s better left as a treatment for stuttering (what it was in clinical trials for I believe) if this is the case why would anyone bet any kind of money on trying to market it? Not saying I wouldn’t give it a shot but I don’t see how they would even begin to compete with alcohol in the case of said GABAergic being pagoclone..
 
Ever since my gbl days i have thought about something like this. Would be interesting to see something like this
 
I smell bs. For a few reasons.

The first and most obvious... Alcohol would be illegal now if it were discovered today. And so will this.

The second and arguably even worse reason. The new coke effect. Being "better" sometimes just isn't enough. People are attached to alcohol. It has a huge place in culture. And I think competing with it by trying to be similar but better is doomed to fail.

And third and finally, I suspect the product doesn't actually exist/work as described. :p
 
JessFR said:
Alcohol would be illegal now if it were discovered today.
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Would it be, though?

It's created through natural fermentation. It's a natural chemical which people create without even trying. I'd imagine it would be controlled but not illegal just like today.

It's also hard to imagine what it would be like if a very simple chemical like that were suddenly discovered in modern times.
 
SnafuInTheVoid said:
Would it be, though?

It's created through natural fermentation. It's a natural chemical which people create without even trying. I'd imagine it would be controlled but not illegal just like today.

It's also hard to imagine what it would be like if a very simple chemical like that were suddenly discovered in modern times.
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Opium is also natural.
As are shrooms.
As is Marijuana.

Those last 2 don't even require any processing.

We have a culture where we ban recreational psychoactive substances as a default. Alcohol is only an exception for historical reasons.
 
It is likely some partial agonist benzodiazepine or z-drug (much more likely the former).

The problem is alcohol is far more reinforcing than any drug of such qualities. Would also produce physical addiction faster. I drink nightly but have stopped on an odd night with no withdrawal symptoms. I even quit drinking out of the blue one night (for nearly 2 years) and experienced no withdrawal. A partial benzodiazepine receptor agonist stopped in such a fashion would have far more serious of a discontinuation syndrome.
 
negrogesic said:
It is likely some partial agonist benzodiazepine or z-drug (much more likely the former).

The problem is alcohol is far more reinforcing than any drug of such qualities. Would also produce physical addiction faster. I drink nightly but have stopped on an odd night with no withdrawal symptoms. I even quit drinking out of the blue one night (for nearly 2 years) and experienced no withdrawal. A partial benzodiazepine receptor agonist stopped in such a fashion would have far more serious of a discontinuation syndrome.
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Z drugs are hit or miss with people though. Alcohol is by far the most widely used accepted and enjoyed drug in existence I believe.. it’s going to be hard to compete with that.. I enjoy z drugs and the like but not everyone does.. some people just aren’t into driving their car to get nachos at 3am and not remembering any of it in the morning.. while I hope this would be the case as another a usable z drug is always welcomed in my case I’m just not sure I’d bet my money on it taking off.. of course phenazepam did and it was purely utilitarian for me so maybe I’m an oddball
 
Freudzilla said:
Like what the fuck? My parents atleast let me believe in Santa clause til I was like 8
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lmao, just joking obviously

but in all seriousness my dad would get drunk, have a "talk" with me... which ended up him literally saying that I'm never going to amount to anything, I have his genes and will always be a fuck up like him. He called it the "[Familyname] Curse"

I was like 8.... yeah.... you can probably understand why I hate my father :D
 
Freudzilla said:
Like what the fuck? My parents atleast let me believe in Santa clause til I was like 8
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I still remember asking if Santa Clause was real.

This is how I remembering it happening...

Me: mom... Is Santa Clause real?
Mom: well that depends, do you want the truth or do you want what you want to hear?
Me: what I want to hear.
Mom: yes he's real.
Me: and the truth?
Mom: he's not real.

I don't remember how I reacted beyond that, but I don't think I was upset. I also don't know how old I was at this point.

Strange given how much I don't remember of my childhood that I do remember that.
 
My mother specifically tried VERY hard to maintain the illusion of santa clause being real. I can't remember how old I was when I figured it out, but probably later than other kids. 7 or 8 maybe?

Bless my saint of a mother. She always gave 110% as a mom.
 
SnafuInTheVoid said:


I truly love how off topic we get at BL :p

We all need some adderall for community ADD
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I'm sure this will come as no surprise to people who know me, but I've always felt like we get too anal about staying on topic.

I mean sure. You wanna strive to remain roughly on topic. But I don't think natural tangents in the discussion are bad. A lot of them burn out quickly on their own and when they don't that just means we get 2 threads out of one when it gets split off.

But just killing divergent discussions before they've even happened has always seemed a little silly to me. Human conversation just can't reasonably expected to remain on a clear and straight line. People don't naturally converse like that.
 
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