evening all. i spent my day talking to an NBOME user who was hospitalised recently, then watched rat tissues infused with various RCS, and spoke to a man who has interviewed 7,000 people about their drug use. so i'm knackered, and have a load of work to do, so i won't reply fully here.
i'm on a hiding to nothing, truth be told. i know that, comes with the territory. like i said, there are no secrets any more. even the silk road is covered in dozens of reports.
go check any media site for benzo fury 8) 6-apb, amt stories, annihilation, magic dragon, rocket fuel, smiles, fuck's sake. there are dozens. this stuff is being discussed right now, without my reporting on it, by the people who will soon ban it.
i will be naming loads of drugs in my piece, so i can be blamed for their eventual banning. because they will be banned.
i think that's stupid, not because i like them, or think their use is safe, or positive, but because it will not be based on evidence or quality reporting.
i'll be edited, of course, but the process is much less sinister than you may imagine. there's no media-governmental complex conspiring together to end your fun. the government does what it wants to retain power, so it can enrich its friends and itself, and the tabloids do what they do to make money. You think murdoch and dacre don't know their audience? they aren't dupes - they just disagree with you and think drugs should be banned.
the guardian is a liberal and progressive and intelligent publication, but sure, i can't be responsible for what happens after i write. i have no interest in preserving ro attacking a drug scene, i am simply documenting it.
but the only agenda i have is in the last paragraph of the MixMag article that's linked to elsewhere.
I'll check in tomorrow to see if i have any PMS, but for now I'm off to listen to guy garvey on listen again and relax. i completely undersand if folk here don't want to speak - and like I said, I have a dozen interviews I can use from other sources. But bluelight has interesting, intelligent people, and so... you know what to do/not do.
mp/out.