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Opioids are the 7oh vapes similar to chasing the dragon?

Featherfall

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Learning a bit about them and i was wondering, to anyone whose done both, do the new 7oh vapes act similar to chasing the dragon with classical foil heroin? Logic tells me it should be pretty similar, which would be crazy knowing thats just the intended use form.
 
The amounts in the carts I have seen for sale are too low for anyone with a tolerance (200-mg, maybe 400-mg). I can't stress enough how insanely compulsive these compounds are for me. A vape of 7-OH at any conc. would become ineffective if it lasted more than a day forcing me to stop use for 24 hours, otherwise I’d go 24/7 with it. I would need 2x the amount of my first cart within a week. Tolerance ime increases significantly quicker than thebaine based opioids. If you know this great and if so others please take note.

If I could control 7-OH use a vape would be amazing! If, it’s always the fucking "if”s!

I just can’t and neither can a significant fraction if users. What fraction, 1% or 50%. We do not know but it isn’t just myself.
 
The amounts in the carts I have seen for sale are too low for anyone with a tolerance (200-mg, maybe 400-mg). I can't stress enough how insanely compulsive these compounds are for me. A vape of 7-OH at any conc. would become ineffective if it lasted more than a day forcing me to stop use for 24 hours, otherwise I’d go 24/7 with it. I would need 2x the amount of my first cart within a week. Tolerance ime increases significantly quicker than thebaine based opioids. If you know this great and if so others please take note.

If I could control 7-OH use a vape would be amazing! If, it’s always the fucking "if”s!

I just can’t and neither can a significant fraction if users. What fraction, 1% or 50%. We do not know but it isn’t just myself.
I see, yeah they seem fucking devious from an addiction standpoint (insanely short half life + tolerance build up + smoking it) practically made to hack your brain. But good to know its not necesseraly comparable to heroin smoking.

Other question to anyone from the states, how common have 7oh/"kratom" vapes become qrecently, are they flying of the shelve or do people stick to oral formulations? I hear the kratom industry is absolutely booming esp over the pond so i was wondering if that new roa is taking over maybe, considering its probably much more addicting.
 
The amounts in the carts I have seen for sale are too low for anyone with a tolerance (200-mg, maybe 400-mg). I can't stress enough how insanely compulsive these compounds are for me. A vape of 7-OH at any conc. would become ineffective if it lasted more than a day forcing me to stop use for 24 hours, otherwise I’d go 24/7 with it. I would need 2x the amount of my first cart within a week. Tolerance ime increases significantly quicker than thebaine based opioids. If you know this great and if so others please take note.

If I could control 7-OH use a vape would be amazing! If, it’s always the fucking "if”s!

I just can’t and neither can a significant fraction if users. What fraction, 1% or 50%. We do not know but it isn’t just myself.
Yeah those carts are ass... like you said there's not enough in em to even feel it for those of us who have some kind of tolerance... that would be tits tho if they were effective- but i'd go broke down doubt cub scout
 
i though the alkaloids in kratom were heat sensitive...?
as are shrooms? vaping would kill any naturally affecting "high(s)" for lack of a better word. i may be wrong. been before.
now the whipped up syrups from labs may be more tolerant to heat idk
 
Learning a bit about them and i was wondering, to anyone whose done both, do the new 7oh vapes act similar to chasing the dragon with classical foil heroin? Logic tells me it should be pretty similar, which would be crazy knowing thats just the intended use form.
i though the alkaloids in kratom were heat sensitive...?
as are shrooms? vaping would kill any naturally affecting "high(s)" for lack of a better word. i may be wrong. been before.
now the whipped up syrups from labs may be more tolerant to heat idk
Responding to both of these above quoted comments ^^^

I've written about it a bit here on Bluelight, but I've vaporized 7-OH by sandwiching it between layers of cannabis and hitting it with a single jet lighter like you would use for DMT that is sandwiched in weed. It was consistently producing significant nods. I've not found any success or anybody reporting success from 7-OH vapes, but hey, maybe it works? I just found sandwiching to be good enough though, smoked through a gram of ~63% pure 7-OH in a day.
 
Responding to both of these above quoted comments ^^^

I've written about it a bit here on Bluelight, but I've vaporized 7-OH by sandwiching it between layers of cannabis and hitting it with a single jet lighter like you would use for DMT that is sandwiched in weed. It was consistently producing significant nods.
thats insane, guess you can chase the dragon with it, the alkaloids being heat sensitive is weird though, the wikipedia page for kratom says you can smoke it but that could mean anything
I've not found any success or anybody reporting success from 7-OH vapes, but hey, maybe it works? I just found sandwiching to be good enough though, smoked through a gram of ~63% pure 7-OH in a day.
thats a fuck ton if your tolerance was low or barely anything depending on how much you were doing, i know you say you cant get addicted but do you recall how much was needed for effect at this time?
 
thats insane, guess you can chase the dragon with it, the alkaloids being heat sensitive is weird though, the wikipedia page for kratom says you can smoke it but that could mean anything
I would absolutely not advise smoking kratom leaf powder, but man, maybe it does something? I'm not sure.
thats a fuck ton if your tolerance was low or barely anything depending on how much you were doing, i know you say you cant get addicted but do you recall how much was needed for effect at this time?
Yeah I hadn't touched an opioid in maybe 2-3 months at that point? I needed maybe 10-15mg per dose. Just spent most of the day torching my way through.
 
1 gram in a day with no tolerance .... that raises red flags that I am sure you are aware of as well
Yeah, red flags of possible waste via that RoA for sure. I had somebody watching me with Narcan, in reality it was maybe 4-5 hours in total. The gram was 63%, ~3% extra was mit, and a pretty negligible amount of minor alkaloids. The incredibly fast DoA allowed me to redose pretty infinitely, reminded me of how I can go through over a gram of pure DMT in a day just back-to-back breaking through.
 
Yeah, red flags of possible waste via that RoA for sure. I had somebody watching me with Narcan, in reality it was maybe 4-5 hours in total. The gram was 63%, ~3% extra was mit, and a pretty negligible amount of minor alkaloids. The incredibly fast DoA allowed me to redose pretty infinitely, reminded me of how I can go through over a gram of pure DMT in a day just back-to-back breaking through.
Yeah I found it pretty easy to burn through a gram or maybe even more in day smoking it. I think either bioavailability goes way down or a lot of the material burns. I would throw approx 40mg onto pipe and it would feel like 10-15mg orally but instantaneous (and very compulsive). At the time I wasn't worried about having Narcan. I think 7 does produce respiratory depression, but no where near the levels of traditional opiates. I never felt physically in danger. I also never took it to true nod levels.. unless i was nodding and didn't noticel

If vapes are real, maybe it doesn't destroy so much and more effective.
I know one of the companies I was working for produced a regular MIT vape, and i thought it was pretty much useless or required too much effort to get a decent effect.
 
This post made me chuckle a bit.

No, 7oh vapes are not chasing the dragon.

Chasing the dragon specifically refers to smoking black tar heroin off foil, with greater significance in describing heroin addiction in general.

Vaping 7oh is just vaping 7oh. Extremely dubious in nature. I've done A LOT of 7oh in my life but never considered vaping or snorting it. (OK I snorted some once but wasn't impressed and continued oral dosing)

Nasty drug and nasty addiction, I suggest you stay away from it. Its nothing like heroin, but the addiction cycle it will launch you into is close.

1 gram in a day with no tolerance .... that raises red flags that I am sure you are aware of as well
Yeah I found it pretty easy to burn through a gram or maybe even more in day smoking it.
7oh has a ceiling to the effect. Potent affinity but shit efficiency. At a certain point it starts to feel like bupe, no amount will get you high(er).

And yeah, must be extremely inefficient because 30mg oral with no tolerance would make most people sick for 8+ hrs.

Only at the pinnacle of my 7oh habit was I able to eat 1g of 7oh in a day (my gallbladder was destroyed at that point -- 7oh and mit alkaloids are specifically hepatoxic to the bile ducts in the liver, and downstream from that is the gallbladder)

Those vapes do not contain as much 7oh as they claim, can almost gaurantee you.
 
7oh has a ceiling to the effect.
Yeah I noticed that which is why I never tried to push it to super high levels. I wasn't sure if it was possible to "nod". Pushing it higher just seemed to shoot tolerance faster. I likely DID have a tolerance at that point. I consider myself lucky, but i went through 20g in a month split orally and smoking. and I just stopped w no issue aside from anxiety over stopping. It DOES work tho.


Those vapes do not contain as much 7oh as they claim, can almost gaurantee you.
This. Tbh, the highest purity I've seen of it was 83% from a talented chemist. Most of what is out there is the red powder which is generally like 63% as most of the chemists* who make it, don't really put in the effort to clean it up much. I think orally when they are pressed into tablets the purity % is taken into consideration. I imagine with vapes, they just put 200mg or w/e of the material into PG and call it.
 
Yeah I noticed that which is why I never tried to push it to super high levels. I wasn't sure if it was possible to "nod". Pushing it higher just seemed to shoot tolerance faster. I likely DID have a tolerance at that point. I consider myself lucky, but i went through 20g in a month split orally and smoking. and I just stopped w no issue aside from anxiety over stopping. It DOES work tho.
I never had such luck, but I was on 7oh for years. I'm so glad to be off 7oh, with suboxone being the compromise.

It's a weird drug. The high is maybe 1/10th of heroin, but the withdrawals are up there. Not much physical sickness, doom, and desperation like H withdrawals, but there is one part of 7oh withdrawals I found to be actually worse than heroin withdrawals; the full body RLS, which actually transcends RLS and turns into full blown physical agitation, I have felt so agitated before it felt like some sort of psychosis.

With H withdrawals I can generally just writhe in bed... beyond sucks but I can generally find some sliver of comfort in laying down and closing my eyes... no such comfort is afforded in severe 7oh withdrawal. I was once in the hospital with 7oh & pseudoindoxyl withdrawals so bad they had to pump me full of haloperidol and physically restrain me to the bed. I still have scars on my arm from accidentally ripping my IV line out because I was so agitated. I believe this has to due to how 7oh potently releases dopamine, but only in very specific parts of the brain, so when you stop it creates a massive intracranial inbalance.

Fuck 7oh. That's one drug that I'm almost glad the DEA might schedule. I'm sort of indifferent, but its fucking INSANE my local vape shops are now stocked up on mostly 150mg pills. That's a farcry from the original 15mg pills....
 
I never had such luck, but I was on 7oh for years.
I don't want to push my luck but I've never experienced opioid withdrawal afaik. Either that or quitting 2 separate and severe benzo dependancies makes opioid withdrawal look like a walk in the park...
I don't like the DEA scheduling anything, but I won't miss it and it seems like the average joe has a tough time using 7 with self control.
Besides, I still have 1 foot in the kratom industry and have access to MIT isolate. The chemical synthesis to 7-OH using oxone is about the easiest synthesis I've ever done. So it will always be an option for pain relief. I prolly didn't mention it but I was making it for work/research so having 20g of the raw powder didn't seem like a big deal to me.

I do think it should be schedule 2, because I think it's a much safer alternative for treating pain than traditional opioids at least in regards to respiratory depression. When I had a low tolerance 5mg was enough to barely notice psychoactive effects while providing significant analgesia/pain relief.

I also think the lack of education vs law enforcement's mandatory abstinence stance is just as big of a problem as drugs are. I've heard many times from folks who ran into issues that they thought it was safe because it was legal to buy at a gas station. In my head I say a) well you're buying drugs from a gas station what did you expect and b) why didn't you research it more before you started taking it every day...
 
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I don't want to push my luck but I've never experienced opioid withdrawal afaik. Either that or quitting 2 separate benzo dependancies makes opioid withdrawal look like a walk in the park...
Most of my ER visits (more than I'd like to recall/share) I generally show up with both severe simultaneous opioid, alcohol and benzo dependencies. You should see my medical record, lol :rolleyes:.... it would make your seasoned triage doctor blush.

Anyways you kinda made me place where severe 7oh treads. Its like some fucked fucked up amalgamation of opioid, stimulant, and SSRI withdrawal with a tinge of severe benzo withdrawal.

The one saving grace of 7oh is the withdrawals are remarkably short. 72 hours or so. By day 4 you are clearly out of acutes and into PAWS. Saw some other guy here saying they last 5-7 days like traditional opioids such as H. I disagree. It doesn't matter if I go cold turkey or switch to subs, after day 3 I start feeling rapidly back to normal. Without subs, a heavy PAWS sets in, but the acutes are always over by day 4.
 
Most of my ER visits (more than I'd like to recall/share) I generally show up with both severe simultaneous opioid, alcohol and benzo dependencies. You should see my medical record, lol :rolleyes:.... it would make your seasoned triage doctor blush.

Anyways you kinda made me place where severe 7oh treads. Its like some fucked fucked up amalgamation of opioid, stimulant, and SSRI withdrawal with a tinge of severe benzo withdrawal.

The one saving grace of 7oh is the withdrawals are remarkably short. 72 hours or so. By day 4 you are clearly out of acutes and into PAWS. Saw some other guy here saying they last 5-7 days like traditional opioids such as H. I disagree. It doesn't matter if I go cold turkey or switch to subs, after day 3 I start feeling rapidly back to normal. Without subs, a heavy PAWS sets in, but the acutes are always over by day 4.
Was speaking to my GF at the time. She is a big head in the kratom industry and decided early on that she didn't want to have any part in 7. That's how I got the free 20g lol, I'd made it with her (so romantic!) and by the time it didn't smell like solvent, she didn't want it anymore. We were observing the whole 7 addiction thing really rear up and we came to the conclusion that in a weird way, because it IS safer than traditional opioids in regards to respiratory depression, you can actually take more and more without as serious of health risk, and combined with the ceiling effect, allowed people to take massive amounts which caused tolereance levels to skyrocket to the point that are hard to reach with H/Fent safely or without serious financial drain.

Man I got mad stories about the industry and life in general, that you won't hear all the time. :D
 
Was speaking to my GF at the time. She is a big head in the kratom industry and decided early on that she didn't want to have any part in 7. That's how I got the free 20g lol, I'd made it with her (so romantic!) and by the time it didn't smell like solvent, she didn't want it anymore. We were observing the whole 7 addiction thing really rear up and we came to the conclusion that in a weird way, because it IS safer than traditional opioids in regards to respiratory depression, you can actually take more and more without as serious of health risk, and combined with the ceiling effect, allowed people to take massive amounts which caused tolereance levels to skyrocket to the point that are hard to reach with H/Fent safely or without serious financial drain.
I completely agree. 7oh is like a fishing lure for people who typically wouldn't get addicted to hard drugs. I mean shit bro, when in the last 40-50 years could you purchase such a powerful drug OTC like that? It certainly fucks you up more than codeine.

I see so many posts on reddit or wherever from drug naive people who are now hopelessly addicted to 7oh, and its their very first addiction. That just makes me sad in a way...

A drug like 7oh should not be sold under the umbrella of kratom organic harmlessness.

And yeah... now that I think about it, at the peak of my 7oh usage I was spending about $80/day, which on average is more than I usually spent on heroin per day ($60-80). And I wasnt even getting high at that point. Its such an insidiously nasty addiction once you get into it.
 
I completely agree. 7oh is like a fishing lure for people who typically wouldn't get addicted to hard drugs. I mean shit bro, when in the last 40-50 years could you purchase such a powerful drug OTC like that? It certainly fucks you up more than codeine.

I see so many posts on reddit or wherever from drug naive people who are now hopelessly addicted to 7oh, and its their very first addiction. That just makes me sad in a way...

A drug like 7oh should not be sold under the umbrella of kratom organic harmlessness.

And yeah... now that I think about it, at the peak of my 7oh usage I was spending about $80/day, which on average is more than I usually spent on heroin per day ($60-80). And I wasnt even getting high at that point. Its such an insidiously nasty addiction once you get into it.
Aight to be fair regarding the pricing.. id buy a kg of MIT, for i dunno 18k at the time. Id turn that into 600g of 63% 7, which when i started doing this, it sold for 100k/kg wholesale. Retail you can ex0ect price to rise easily 1000% from point of manufqcture. So its really no surprise, due to its simplicity of manufacture, and huge margin, that it blew up. There was a SHIT TON of money to be made at every level in the beginning. The 150mg pills are a product of intense competition between dif producers. I doubt its very profitable by now, which is why switch way ahead of time. I see this shit coming everytime.

MGM-15 slightly more difficult but still.. ANYONE w a chem minor could do it. It also starts from 7, so your overall end yield starting from MIT is significantly less, which is why you see less of it.

When delta 8 THC started getting regulated and market shrank is the exact same time 7-OH started to increase and it's no coincidence. Buncha d8 " wook chemists" needed work.

Tbh im a little worried what banning 7-OH will push these same people to.

Lately, Im theoretically working on something likely as dangerous (if not more) dangerous than 7, but it comes from totally different class of plant compounds which are not even on the radar of DEA or the these out of work d8 "chemists". How it works out in practice (yield % and reafent costs) will determine if its profitable and if i will do it commercially. If i do... you can bet your ass sooner or later it will be on shelves. Sorry if i sound arrogant its just a pattern ive seen over the years and people follow my work like a hawk (or vulture really.) I just want to make psychedelics legally and ethically.

In this case.. its beyond the reach/skillset of wook chemists, but also theres ALWAYS people that will just gladly sell an SOP for a quick buck and when it comes down to it.. chemistry is a process that can be replicated by anyone with zero knowledge and training.

Conflicted. A little.

MGM-16 also being scheduled but its entirely different and not something someone could do in a garage
 
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( 7-oh )
For pain management, it's a godsend. I hear. If only I was able to stomach it but I can't. It's not for everyone. Just certain ones. An acquired taste I say. To put it mildly.
And then I also hear that,

For people trying to numb psychological/emotional pain (addicts): DO NOT TAKE ONE SINGLE DOSE.
 
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