Actually, I would be fine just using PG only, its just people have said to dilute it.
I don't have the PG yet (it comes tomorrow care of Amazon) so I don't know how thick it actually is. I bought some stainless steel mini funnels and if its thin enough to go through the mini funnel, I will just use the PG. Its not like the stuff is expensive.
If a solution will stay stable in PG and I don't have to worry about bacterial growth, I'll just stick with PG.
I have a box of 1mL graduated needle-less syringes coming as well.
I'm definitely prepared, I just need to know what the best way to do it all is. I'm not really an abuser of benzos so I need to insure stability as long as possible. I'm probably going to lean more towards just doing 50mg batches even.
lol why are you even asking? You seem to be chock full of knowledge and armed to the teeth with responsibility! I'm somewhat certain I just gave a lecture to someone more knowledgable than me.
As for bacterial growth, I wouldn't think that anything could survive in such a profoundly effective solvent like PG/PEG. That it would turn their little cell walls to mush, but that's just my intuition - not based on anything solid.
Apparently my intuition ain't half bad:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1675525
The antimicrobial properties of three glycols, - propylene glycol, hexylene glycol, and 1,3-butylene glycol - against Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes A, Streptococcus mitis, and E. coli were studied in vitro. Within 20 h, 10% and 30% hexylene glycol in fresh tryptic soy broth were able to kill all the micro-organisms listed above. Five percent hexylene glycol showed some antimicrobial properties but the 1% agent had no effect. Thirty percent 1,3-butylene glycol and 30% propylene glycol were approximately as effective as 10% HG. The results speak in favour of using hexylene glycol in cosmetic and dermatological vehicles instead of propylene glycol and 1,3-butylene glycol.
Since what you have is likely pure PG I'd guess nothing living will survive in the stuff - no need for benzyl alcohol or the like.
My guess is that etizolam is probably pretty stable in such a solution, after all PG is used as a solvent for many medications and syrups (and maybe for it's bactericidal properties as well?).
I've been looking at buying a 100 pack of those 1ml oral syringes, I believe they call them something which alludes to their use for TB testing instead of oral syringes? At least those are the tapered tip ones that they sell as "sterile." I think a 100 pack is like 12 bucks on ebay, seem about right? I'm sick of asking for 2-3 of them at a time from CVS, even though they don't ever ask what for or seem to care. (my ready excuse, though never needed, is hand feeding my non-existent baby parrot)
PEG is not the most pleasant tasting stuff (it has an odd hot feeling and a weird sweet flavor) so I preferred to make it 1mg/.1ml in order to minimize the quantity of it I had to put under my tongue. I haven't made a volumetric solution in a bit as my crummy AWS scale (I swear everyone has this one) broke. It can't decide when tared whether it weighs -100mg or +100! So I eyeball it and make damned careful that I'm eyeballing less than a mg, unsafe I know and I don't like it at all, it just motivates me to take it less often.
Oh, as for it's viscocity, I have PEG but I imagine PG is similar; I would guess that it is thin enough to go through even small funnels but I can't back that up. I merely poured 10ml into a measuring cup and weighed out 100mg and mixed.
How you're doing it is for sure the cheapest, most reliable way of taking etizolam. It boggles the mind what people pay per mg in the freaking pills and then they bitch about the variable quality of the indian/chinese manufactured pills. I bought 10 once out of curiousity and I remember not even being able to tell I took etizolam (I can for sure feel 2-3 mg of powder). People are also going nuts about how "their pills are vanishing." That may be so, but powder is still available for a ridiculously low price. If you people buying etilaam only knew of the ease and savings you'd be doing it too. Don't bother asking me where either, if you can buy etizolam pills you can find powder.
