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Actual risks to smoking aluminum foil

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SaY4cT

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Been crashing pills (mainly benzos) lately and used aluminum to smoke them
Just wanted to know the risks as opposed to snorting or even taken orally
tbf, this doesnt feel anywhere near as nasty habit as snorting, and the sleep seems to come easier, taste is pretty bad though

Thanks
 
Why bother? You didn't increase the BA by much by smoking it. You should just take em orally.
 
Aluminum is not a very toxic metal to the human body even in large amounts. It has no know biological function.
It is not accumulated.

The kidneys are very well at excreting it.

Smoking off foil is not remotely as dangerous as you burning pill matter on top of it.
 
Yeah I would be more worried about the combustion byproducts from the pill than the alum. foil

IIRC there was a possible link between aluminium having potential for causing alzheimers but I haven't personally looked into it and dont think that it would be much of an issue from smoking off of foil... Then again with that in mind from a HR point of view if you were going to choose between glass and foil, glass would be the smarter option.

But more to the point, crushed pills being combusted is your main worry here not foil... Benzos smoked? Errrr no show there
 
are there any distint differences in the high as opposed to conventional routes? do you get anything greater this way? is it worth it?

id say no and for hr purposes would advise you to taking them orally or sublingual routes; they deliver almost all the drug into you without any possible risks and consequences which may come from smoking the pills.
 
The truth is that aluminum consumption is controversial, mainly because science has not reached a consensus about it. On one hand you have studies saying it does nothing, but then you have health institutions saying it's a potential risk factor for Alzheimer's.

My instinct is that it's not good for you, and I wouldn't smoke anything off it. Is a glass pipe unaffordable or not accessible?

And anyway... smoking benzos won't do much more for you than simply eating them, aside from irritating your lungs.
 
No one knows for sure, but apparently there was an experiment by a foil manufacturer after reports of problems with people smoking H off of foil. They said, at those temps (higher than that of a bowl), it doesn't cause brain damage, however I don't know for sure. And I don't think anyone else does. I've done this plenty as a teenager but I'd recommend that you try to avoid it

Edit: sorry thought it was a grass bowl. If for any powder, should be the same as chasing the dragon... The jury is out on that (and probably won't return for a while).

I will share a DMT smoking tip that helped me but I don't know if this is any more or less damaging (I think less). If you get some of that kitchen mesh stuff, made out of metal, you can put a bit into a bowl, and then melt DMT (or in your case, whatever benzo) onto it, and then when it's stuck to the mesh, hit one more time and it should get all the powder. As long as you don't BURN the metal this is probably less harmful than foil. But before you do it, research it to make sure

I also agreed that smoking benzos won't be much better than eating them, since most have a 90% oral bioavailability or so. There's really no point in doing anything else. I guess some lams are better iv from what I read but that's mostly midazolam
 
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There's no risks to smoking off of uncoated foil that we've discovered yet. But, benzos are one of the few drug calsses that are most effective orally. Snorting them is quite a waste due to the majority of benzos being water insoluble. Smoking seems to be the worst choice with any substance in terms of health risks, so i would guess this follows suit.
 
Thanks for all the answers everyone, this is a lot of useful information.
 
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