@Mana0909 Have you ever used Tianeptine? It's wildly available in the USA (I'm not sure about Germany) but it's structurally similar, and I enjoy it quite a bit. It's very unique, and has a unique synergy with serotonergic psychedelics. I often formulate it into "Tianeplean" syrup that I'll put in whatever drink I've put LSD in, specifically. There are many allegations floating around about its pharmacology, I can subjectively state that it feels to be a mu opioid (noticeable pupilary pinning when used on its own, for example), but it was not meaningfully potentiated by carisoprodol nor a variety of benzodiazepines, yet it does noticeably amplify and click
very well with miprocin, psilacetin, LSD, 2C-B, allylescaline, and it makes arylcyclohexylamines (ketamine, PCP and friends) feel much more "magical" if that makes sense.
@negrogesic I feel like I can speak on the drug use patterns of younger people as a bit of an insider, I'm a quarter of a century old and have certainly noticed what you're talking about. Growing up around a lot of drug trade, it was weird to watch my homies move dope to my schoolmates' mothers and fathers and shit. Nowadays I think that, in addition to the aforementioned psychological/spiritual issues so well described by
@chugs earlier on in this thread, a bigger concern is this collective sense that we're all fucked. Past generations inadvertently left us in a late stage capitalist world where opportunity is essentially a pipe dream. I've noticed climate change in the short time I've been alive, it's fucked up. I've watched tons of people suffer and die here in the US over a lack of insurance, because of losing their job, because the only reason to be alive is apparently to be a cog in the larger capitalistic machine that surrounds you. Younger people aren't really trying to run from things as much as reshape them. I can't think of a single person I know under the age of 35 who hasn't used serotonergic psychedelics and classical stimulants, but most depressants wouldn't be desired in the first place outside of benzos that are anxiolytic without being sedative. Most younger people are depressed as hell, worn out with little to no opportunity to meaningfully recover. Essentially everybody I know younger than 35 uses cannabis and caffeine as daily drivers, and is absolutely down for mushrooms, LSD, DMT, phenidates, amphetamine, etc.
Heroin users are the reason heroin is no longer popular. It was the "king of opioids" for so long, and in what condition did it leave those who gave it their all. Strung out in some dopehouse somewhere? I've known countless heroin users throughout my life and maybe 20% or fewer are meaningfully functional in their lives, without their drug use interfering in some way. The only of the more "problematic" drugs left popular with younger people are amphetamines (though a
strong aversion exists towards vaporized or injected methamphetamine, some are still down for pressed meth addies) and benzodiazepines, since so many people have trouble adequately managing anxiety due to inability to access proper mental healthcare.
What concerns me pretty greatly is the "chemophobia" present in many of my peers. They'll take mescaline but not 2C-B, psilocin but not miprocin, but then I'll hear people refer to ETH-LAD as a "synthetic form of LSD",
as if LSD is naturally occurring. It's because to somebody born in the year 2000, it might as well be, it's been soaking its way into society since MKUltra. I've often met people scared of 2C-B and explained "You know this is essentially just refined mescaline, the same way that LSD is refined LSA, right?" and upon a brief conversation about structure-activity relationships and Shulgin, people are much less afraid of it. The infinitely broad scopes of chemical soups that compose cathinones, synthetic cannabinoids, and mu opioid agonists have many young people viewing drugs of specific classes as infinitely broad and befuddling, laced with danger and despair. I wish more people would stop thinking that "natural = safe" though, the amount of people both young and old who I've encountered touting the virtues of Monotropa uniflora (ghost pipe) as a painkiller, or mad honey, unaware of their profound toxicity, makes me genuinely quite concerned.