Ok, sure.
TSA is looking for weapons, not drugs. I'm not saying you should go through security with nothing but kilos in your luggage. No need to flaunt contraband in the faces of federal agents,
but generally they won't mess with inconspicuous personal stashes. To be extra careful, pack your drugs into simple containers (personally I avoid baggies but this is probably unnecessary) and use a bit of decoy labelling. When x-rayed, nothing about it will stand out and that's not what they're hoping to find; they want to find someone trying to sneak a weapon onboard so that agent can get those hero accolades, promotions, and/or bonuses.
What I'm saying is if you neatly arrange
personal amounts of drugs, optionally using decoy labels, keeping your pills and powders in your toiletries bag amid your toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, allergy medicine, tweezers, razors, electric hair trimmer, et al.,
it really just blends right in. Weed I tend to keep in a medium-sized, sealed, mylar envelope labeled "CBD Flowers". Plus TSA can only enforce safety issues. If an agent is determined to see you indicted on possession charges, they would have to contact either the local police department's vice squad, or the DEA. Either agency won't be stoked to come make an arrest on simple possession charges that will lead to no other busts, no significant time (if any), and nothing desirable for an agent's career trajectory. It would be a waste of everyone's time. This is probably why I've flown with an
array of drugs – each always kept at "simple possession" amounts (below mandatory minimums and PWID triggers) – at least
three or four dozen times over the past decade when I figured this out.
I won't lie –
I still get nervous and find it helpful to take Xanax before going to the airport. It helps me be calm, relaxed, and in positive spirits, which are vibes agents are tuned into.
Looking nervous is suspicious. So I arrive early and
remain chill AF, and I get through security every time. It's a very useful skill worth developing. Also, I keep paraphernalia to a minimum so as not to call unnecessary attention to these items. Remember: it's a cinch to turn an apple into an efficient and tasty little bowl – I even gouge a carb hole into it and it works like a charm.
Yeah you nailed it. Despite having
decades of experience w/LSD and psychotropic drugs in general, it is still this way for me even today. One hit is almost always the smallest amount I'm willing to do. Any less isn't worth the discomfort.
It would be foolish of me to rule out personal bias in my assessment, and I also admit that it's been eight or nine years since I tried
microdosing (but I trip on standard doses of LSD fairly regularly still – it's one of my personal faves). Perhaps I'll revisit microdosing though.
It's not as risky as you might think. Many of those compounds are
not scheduled and would require a prosecutor to try the
Federal Analog Act, which they're reticent to do knowing it
could set an unfavorable precedent. The meth is probably the most likely target of prosecution, but the amount is well under the mandatory minimum trigger of 5 grams. I mean they could indict on four possession counts – DMT, K, Meth, and Cannabis (which is still illegal federally and airports are under federal jurisdiction), but you'd still probably be offered a plea bargain to just one charge in exchange for saving the state the trouble and expensive of trial by jury (first I would plead not guilty during the initial arraignment though so I would have that bargaining chip).
WHAT? Please rethink what you're actually saying here and how that's devaluing human life. Nothing justifies stripping people of human dignity and their rights, no matter what they've done or how indignant and angry you might feel. We – human beings I mean – must rise above barbarism. Moreover,
every U.S. citizen, regardless of criminal conviction, has a constitutionally protected right against cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Testing drugs on inmates is inhumane, unconscionable and unethical. Homicidal criminality and/or capital punishment convictions do not give us the right to devalue human lives. The death penalty is dubious enough on its own, as is a life sentence for anything short of first-degree murder.... I am not saying I advocate for cruelty to animals, and I find most slaughterhouse practices to be very disturbing moral quandaries, but there's still no justification for going all
Josef Mengele .
I hope in the future testing can be accomplished using sophisticated modelling paradigms and we grow nutritious meat in vats where no animal consciousness is connected to any suffering, but until then if it saves humans live to test on animals in our quest to better understand biochemistry and medicine, and the testing is done adhering to the utmost principled methodologies, it's just barely acceptable enough, IMHO.
No, this is true for the U.K. and Ireland. The rest of Europe generally calls them “fries” or the translation of same (e.g., in Spain they're
patatas fritas). But to the Brits, fish and chips = fried fish with a side of fries. In Ireland, this is a staple meal on Fridays because: Catholics. And early Irish immigrants to the U.S. brought with them the culinary tradition of referring to anything diced (like potatoes) as having been “Frenched”. Over time the whole term “Frenched, fried potatoes” shortened to “French fries” or just “fries”. But the British cooked them first and saw the slicing of a potato as a form of chipping the potato, and thus: “chips”. Meanwhile, “crisps” = “potato chips” in the U.K. because that was made first in the U.S. where it got the name "chips". So when either form of fried potato crossed the Atlantic, its traditional name was already in use. So both forms of potato were christened with new names, "French fries" and "crisps".
Brits also call a stove top, a “cooker”. They refer to trash cans as “bins” and trash itself is called “rubbish”. In the U.S. “fanny” refers to someone's derriere (called “bum” or “arse”), but in British parlance it's vulgar slang for a woman's vulva, and saying “fanny” is like saying “pussy”. So they get a big kick out of the fact Americans call waist bags “fanny bags”, lol. British-English speakers call them “bumbags”.
They nickname mathematics "maths" instead of the American "math". In British-English, “cheers” very specifically is a stand-in for “thanks”, not just an 80s sitcom. "Pissed" means "drunk" in the U.K. (as in “piss drunk”), whereas to an American that means someone is angry (as in "pissed-off"). Oh and “mad” means insane to the British, not angry. Calling someone "middle-class" in the U.K. is a put down that implies they're wannabe-wealthy, vapid and shallow. Instead of three general socio-economic castes – poor, middle-class, and wealthy – the Brits see it as four castes – poor, working-class, middle-class, and wealthy. Oddly the “working class” is respected and the “middle class” mostly are not afforded the same reverence. They use the word bespoke for "custom" and they spell things oddly like "centre", "theatre", "favour", "colour", "organise", "programme".
Then again, it's probably worth noting
there is no language called "American"; it's just a dialect of English, which is quite clearly from England. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – a
multi-volume dictionary – is still regarded as the principal historical dictionary of the English language. If any country gets to claim their variation of English as the de facto real deal, which should it be? Hint: it's not one of the former colonies. So it's Americans who spell words oddly. However the torch of British hegemony was passed to the U.S. during the 20th century, which also spawned the Internet and thus stamped English into the global superconscious as the international language of business because
virtually all computer programming languages are string-based languages written in American-English (consider, for example: the CSS selector, color, is not spelled "colour"). Web languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript use English strings and reserved words like "body", "header", "section", "box-shadow", "float", "if", "else", "for", "function"… What were we just talking about?
Sounds risky.
There's a serotonin subtype that dogs have and humans do not, and currently we're not sure what that subtype regulates, but we do know
LSD activates it, acting as a partial agonist at the site when LSD is given to canines. Either way, it's a bad idea drugging an animal if you're not a vet or instructed to do so by one. Worth noting: dogs and cats usually weigh 8x-15x less than humans, and drug dosage in clinical trials is based on a certain amount of milligrams per kilogram of body weight.
No, no, no,
I never said anything about international flight. There is
no way I would risk coming through customs riding dirty like that. Like I said, I was referring to
domestic flights only. Oh, it occurs to me that in Europe international flights must be more common, with domestic travel handled largely by other means like high-speed trains. In the U.S., domestic flights are probably more common, and flying within one EU country is perhaps a bit like flying from, say, Newark to LaGuardia, or taking a flight from SFO to LAX, or Orlando to Tampa…
feels extra. Though I'm sure it happens.
Yeah and
they also performed Lobotomies on people in the 1950s. It's probably not a good idea to cite that as your source of solid info; I mean, Hofmann discovered LSD before the discovery of serotonin for chissakes. And anyway
@Atelier3 is right – tolerance to most psychedelics builds quite rapidly, sometimes completely. This property is called
tachyphylaxis. This is Greek –
tachy means "rapid", and
phylaxis means "protection", so "rapid protection" (as in tolerance). That's not to say this is an ironclad rule, and with LSD I feel that tolerance never seems fully achieved, but that's just a hunch. Regardless, I've also read this regarding LSD and its rapid tolerance, and prior to this, I experienced this myself many times, firsthand. If you want to trip your fucking face off, take a heavy dose all at once, just practice harm reduction and consider having a sober trip sitter with you for this kind of experience.
I have my doubts, and as others have already opined,
I'm suspicious of the claim that each hit contains 350 micrograms per hit. That's rare to see doses this heavy and perhaps a bit dangerous.
(LSD is so potent, it's measured in micrograms, abbreviated as “µg”, with each being one-millionth of a gram. So 100 µg is 0.01 mg.)
Anyway if you actually took a full ~87.5 µg of good acid, you would have a light trip, but it would probably still be fun. My guess is your dose is gonna be closer to 40 µg or less, and you'll barely feel a shift off of normal into a + state. Regardless, sounds like it's worth finding out just for the science of it.
Please let us know what happens with you and your fiance. Good luck, and I hope I'm wrong and you have a worthwhile trip!
). Anyway one time, I was about to go upstairs, and I saw her lying on the couch, and went over and petted her, it was for sure her, she and my other cat look very different though she is my other cat's mother. I immediately turned and ran up the stairs, 2 at a time, My cats have an annoying tendency to run up next to me and then cross over in front of me as I go up or down the stairs, which has caused me to trip on them before, so I always watch my feet and watch for cats. No cat came up the stairs with me, I am sure of it. I went into my bedroom upstairs, and as I entered the room, my magical kitty, the same one that had sleep downstairs like 10 seconds ago (I woke her up petting her but she didn't come up with me) pushed open the closed closet door from the inside and walked out to greet me. I am forever stumped by that one because even if I had failed to notice her come upstairs with me (exceedingly unlikely), how could she have possibly gotten into a closet door (that was closed to begin with), and then re-closed it, without me noticing. The only explanation I can think of that makes sense is that she teleported. I wasn't high or anything either, stone cold sober (maybe kratom, I was probably addicted to it then, but that was just maintaining feeling normal at that point).
