Wasn't it just? Second only to the 60s in musical and cultural significance imo. But the subsequent RC scene has ruined drugs. It could have been an age of awakening, but prohibition has as usual fucked everything up for everyone. Now we have people dying from fentanyl laced heroin, synthnoids sold as MDMA etc fuckin etc.
I absolutely love the 1990s. I agree with you what the 90s probably were second only to the 60s in music and culture. In term of ICT technology the 1990s were also a very special decade. I remember playing Bubble Bobble on my Commodore 64 and soon after sitting with my Pentium 386 and Windows 3.1, DOS and OS/2 and playing Wolfenstein.
The tendency we saw in the United Kingdoms with high quality (tested) research chemicals sold as what it really whas and without impurities was actually something I hoped could have resulted in an increasing acceptance of (a group) of legal drugs. But the ban in United Kingdom have posthumously resulted in laaaaarge quantities of research chemicals stored in warehouses around the United Kingdoms, that now are being sold to normal illicit drug suppliers so they can press diclazepam tablets or meclonazepam tablets and sell them for high prices as original Roche Valium or Roche Rivotril and all the RC Empathogens as MDMA or mixed in MDMA making people react bat shit crazy after intake. The ban also resulted in an increase of available Fentanyl analogues in particular in Sweden where they were legal and very common and this have spread to Denmark. It is sold as Fentanyl analogues in most cases, we do not have the same problem with laced heroin (I think the majority of laced heroin in the US is due to big manufactoring labs in Mexico producing Fentanyl).
When you have a high quality, reliable RC Vendor that test every batch they receive from China or have their own labs (now in countries like Spain) I actually like the products. Etizolam, to mention an example, is actually my prefered benzodiazepine of all the available benzo's both Rx and RC.
However, as soon as the RC chemicals move from legal (or grey zone) vendors to the normal illicit drug dealers that use RC to cut theit cocaine, meth, MDMA, Heroin and so on it becomes dangerous and especially in the case with fentanyl+heroin in becomes LETHAL.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the ban in the UK has resulted in a 1000-fold increase in fake Rx benzo as Valium, Clonazepam and Xanax and which ever Rx benzo's there really is money in.
Question: I am not sure from your post if you dislike RC all together or if it is mostly the selling them as something else or lacing heroin with fentanyl?
I have absolutely no idea how to stop the fentanyl being mixed with heroin. I don't think it is possible to make a small test kit where one can test if ones heroin is laced with fentanyl. That probably require advanced technologies.
In general all drugs you can buy where I live in Denmark is crap. The cocain sold as fishscale or bolivian cocaine is pretty expensive in Danish Kroners (as far as I recall I am not allowed to mention price? is probably around 40% clean in average. The heroin are maybe 5-20% pure. Amphetamine 5% pure. MDMA might be the only thing that is relatively pure.
I always clean my cocaine myself, in round number cocaine here is cut with Levamisol in 70% of cases, Phenacetine in 40% of cases, creatine in 30% of cases and in rare instances caffein and benzocaine. In the rare cases where my cocaine does not contain Levamisol I can achieve a purity of 99% and if it does contain Levamisol I can achieve a purity of around 90-95% according to analysis done by the Spanish company EnergyControl.
The process of cleaning it is not that complex, but it requires a lot of time a being careful with the more dangerous chemicals used in the process. But all in all, even though if you for instance buy 20 grams and end up with a a little under 10 grams, it is worth it. The 10 grams last much longer than 20 gram uncut. In my first attempts I ruined a couple of batches of cocaine, but after having done it for a while I rarely make mistakes.
But I don't know how to clean the heroin, and I don't want to spend money on the crap that is available here. So I have never tried heroin bought in Denmark. I would like to have the option to do heroin, but as long as it is like this I am not interested.
So the only opiats/opioids I take IV is pharmaceutical products - over a perioid of 6 months I injected Fentanyl everyday which resulted in an extreme tolerance. I had injectable morphine and oxycodone as well, but in much smaller quantities than Fentanyl. I think that for every 10th ml of Fentanyl I had 1 ml of Morphine and 1 ml of oxycodone (Fentanyl came in 10 ml ampuls, while morphine and oxycodone came in 1 or 2 ml ampuls). But I don't think the rush from these things come the least close to the rush from good IV heroin. I have Ketobemidone for IV injection currently, this however is extremely euphoric. It might be close to heroin. I don't know.
I have a quite unique access to Ketobemidone where I don't have to do anything illegal to get it. But getting pharmeceutical grade morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl can not be done with out breaking a law or two (might be an understatement ;p ). So in terms of the bad heroin it actually means that addicts who are quality freaks like myself have to perform crimes that are much more serious that meeting with a person and buing a bag with something in (here I only consider my crimes and not the crimes related with manufacutring and moving the stuff to Denmark). I can honestly say that if I could get proper heroin I would never have done the things required to gain access to enough pharmaceutical opiats/opioids to provide me with gear for every day in 6 months.