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5 Real Ways to Get High Straight Out of Science Fiction​

Eventually technological advancement comes to every profession even if that profession is just burn-out, hippy, or full-time junkie. Its been a long time coming, but apparently science has finally gotten the message and realized that even drug abuse can be made better, faster, and stronger. With that in mind, here are some new, readily available drugs that seem more like science fiction than pharmaceutical fact.
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5 Real Ways to Get High Straight Out of Science Fiction


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seriously! ended up spending far too long on their site the past couple days..

http://www.cracked.com/article_19662_6-real-planets-that-put-science-fiction-to-shame.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_19479_the-6-most-mind-blowing-things-ever-discovered-in-space.html
it all started innocently enough, reading those 2^ while burning some incense; ended like an hour later in a wiki-hole re astronomy/universe(s)/etc with a headache that i woke up with this morning :|
oh and on that note, i hadn't been to the local incense shop in a while- was going strong as ever, the traffic there is crazy and incense is probably like 90%++ of the store's income. they have the market cornered lol
 
zero plans, but i haven't had many holiday plans in past couple years (only have 1 <free>relative in the state), always end up doing something random. am planning to find out where they do "soup kitchen" type stuff in the area (big homeless problem around these parts), to have as a 'backup' in case nothing preferable comes up (probably a 50/50, like said my holidays are always random as hell, but this time i'll be prepared in case the randomness isn't of the enjoyable variety ;P )
 
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huge gas-station "spice" sweep today in the county next to me, shit-ton of arrests and confiscated RC's (in hillsborough county. my understanding is pasco county is sweeping now or soon as well. My county seems ok, or at least are not trumpeting their ops on television
/heads to store for fragrances that may not be available tomorrow..
 
edit: sorry had no keyboard so could only copy/pase for my replies LOL.
it doesn't get you "high" in the 'stoned'/intox sense, but it absolutely changes consciousness in sleep-deprived ppl (from 'tired' to subjectively 'awake')
 
so yesterday i went to score some more incense from the local pornography shop, and was informed "the rats took all our stuff" by the clerk. Apparently all of FL has new levelIII felony provisions for like 20 more RC's, so they're gonna be out of stock a couple days til they can get "permissible" spice products. At that point i actually woulda grabbed some bud, but realized i've enjoyed spice so long i couldn't snap my fingers to find bud (odd feeling lol!)

EDIT: the bodegas in the city, while seemingly aware of such regulation, apparently do not care >:]
 
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Fun, Legal fun with Freebasing

How To Free-Base Caffeine – interesting drug legalization strategy​


This footage was prepared recently by a citizen-journalist / advocate in Vancouver. Contrary to what one might think, it’s a pretty good PSA for crack addicts wanting to manage their addiction … and it’s apparently legal, too.​


[clicky^ for video, hosted on liveleak]


When it comes to drug legalization, there are a few approaches. Harm reduction, for example, makes the argument that the purpose of public policy is to reduce harm, and that any policy that creates more problems than it solves isn’t actually successful. There’s decriminalization, which is essentially driven by voter initiative. There’s rescheduling, which seeks to alter the definition of a drug so that it no longer meets certain criteria for enforcement. There’s the medicinal movement, which seeks to alter access to certain drugs on the basis of their beneficial qualities. One of the features that all of these techniques share is that they directly address currently illegal drugs, and attempt to directly argue that these drugs should not be illegal.

…and then there’s this guy from Vancouver, who has created a Jonathan Swift-esque Modest Proposal, of sorts. Essentially, our Vancouver Videographer has created a tutorial that illustrates how to take plain coffee, combine it with a household cleanser, and end up with a super-pure, smokable form of caffeine. Essentially, his challenge to policymakers is this: criminalize coffee. Naturally, after coffee is criminalized will inevitably come the next food that can be purified, and so on… This is the argument of absurdity (reductio ad absurdum); how ridiculous could we theoretically make policy before policy has become too absurd to take seriously?

Some people will doubtless be shocked that the Vancouver Videographer suggests selling it on the school playground with the name “black magic,” but he insists that it must be sold with the disclaimer that it is legal to sell. Of course, anyone who is shocked by the suggestion is clearly missing the point of the video. In A Modest Proposal, Swift never advocated for cannibalism, and he would probably have been disgusted if people actually ate the children as a result of his proposal. On the contrary, people ought to be shocked by what is currently criminalized.

Personally, I love this message, but I’m not about to freebase some coffee. I would suggest that a more direct route to smokable caffeine would be to purchase chemically pure caffeine, rather than using the coffee method depicted in the video. I’ve heard that United Nuclear is a good source, but I’ve never purchased from them, and I make no warranties. Although this does have me thinking about some possibilities, let me reiterate: making freebase caffeine isn’t the point of the video.

I’d venture that all anyone really needs to hear are the words “freebase caffeine” and they are less than an hour from actually making it a reality. The knowledge is already out there, and a video tutorial isn’t a necessary step to making your own freebase caffeine. Any process that can be explained in 120 seconds is childishly simple, so it’s not like this video is the groundbreaking source of some “great new technique.”

What is groundbreaking, however, is the suggestion that we could criminalize everything simply by showing how easy it is to transform it into a “scary form.” Hot peppers, for example, are well known for their accompanying endorphin rush – perhaps peppers aren’t too far behind coffee? In fact, someone could just walk down the aisles of a supermarket and identify which products, fruits, and vegetables have any conceivable potential for becoming “scarier.” Why not create an act stipulating that nothing, whatsoever, can be sold in a store unless it has first been confirmed that it could never be made into a scary form?

Because it is absurd.

If it is plain to see why this line of reasoning is absurd, then we need to work backwards to figure out where this absurd line of reasoning began, and then remedy the situation so that it is no longer absurd.

[UPDATE 2009-01-20]
Since there is question about whether or not anyone has ever done this, I submit for your evaluation the following Erowid report:

I recently bought a bottle of ‘stacker 2′ pills. I really like these pills taken orally but I find that the excessive amount of caffeine (200mg) is a bit much for me. It also contains several vitamins, herbs, etc–but most importantly, ma huang extract (standardized 25mg ephedrine). I decided to do what the cigarette companies do to tobacco in order to convert the nicotine salt into a freebase–soak it in ammonia. I opened up one of the capsules onto a glass dish, added 5ml household clear ammonia via medicine dropper, ‘cut’ with razor blade until capsule contents were fully saturated, and let soak for approx. 1 hour. Next, I evaporated the ammonia in the microwave, scraped up sticky goo (light brown in color, almost rubbery but sticky when rolled into a ball), and smoked through my trusty bowl. That was bout two hours ago. Since then, have taken about 7 hits of the pharmaceutical-tasting lump…​

Obviously, RTFA. I take two things from this report:
1) the guy lived
2) the caffeine was hard to disambiguate from the ephedrine (which he also freebased).


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note: the idea-man is okay w/ full-copying of this 'adventure' for usages such as this, hence no "cont'd at..:" half-assing here.
 
#3. Non-chemical Hallucinogens

The Ganzfeld Experiments were initially developed as Parapsychological tests meant to prove the existence of ESP, and have been proven to induce vivid, detailed hallucinations. The subject places halved ping pong balls over the eyes which diffuse light, but not block it, and then noise-cancelling headphones playing white noise are placed over their ears. After a few minutes of active sensory deprivation, many report incredibly life-like, often symbolic, meaning-filled visions. Essentially, its akin to going on a quick vision quest - like the stereotypical Native Americans do in Hollywood movies. The chief differences here being that you can do it from the comfort of home in the time it takes to not watch Two and a Half men, rather than ten hours inside a sweat lodge, and you dont have to be robbed of your land and have genocide performed on your people. Bonus!

Because of shady research practices, skewed results and questionable subjects, the Ganzfeld Experiments did nothing to advance the theory of ESP, but if you really feel like tripping balls, and not so much like eating fungus picked out of cow-shit and then staying up for five hours past the point when it stops being fun, Ganzfeld might do a little something for you.
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Anyone tried this? Just spent 10 min listening to white noise with my eyes shut (don't have a ping-pong ball, and it's pretty light in here anyway). The only way I can see it having the effects described is if you can get into a hypnagogic state, might try again in bed later.
 
I've never tried it. Currently trying to get rid of this damn mental fog I've had for a week or two now. I think it's the etiz+weed without the nootropics I usually take since school ended for the semester.
 
yeah this forum is love/hate with me because it is cool to hear about ridiculous stories involving drugs but most of the news articles are just poorly researched and you can tell whoever wrote them doesnt really have a feel for using drugs.
 
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