Salutations at a long last, bluelight.
BL has been a part of my life for 20 years, if not longer, as one of my first such resources [along with Erowid]. Couldn't ever be arsed to formally register. But then, - why now? Because this evening I enthusiastically consumed quantities of substances as an ethical demonstration of willed agency and degenerate cocaine-addled lab-rat tendencies, and found myself checking in on BL, and what can I say - it just happened.
In many ways I already feel at home at BL. This is a fine community and a genuine asset of free expression, harm reduction, and knowledge/experience all the way to some bizarre fringes thereof. I'd like to offer my thanks to BL for the insight and support I have derived over the many years - even as an anonymous background user. I hope I may be able to now contribute substantively to this ongoing experiment. I mean, I haven't been to hell and back and presently still reporting there in regular intervals to continue serving time, just to keep the hardest-learned of lessons regarding drug use to myself when I may be able to provide some succor to others.
Anyway - I hail from the southern shores of Lake Erie. I have extensive experience with all manner, mode, and media of substances over the past two decades. I have lived many of the intense/extreme aspects of life as one who opts to freedom of expression and absolute integrity of personal agency when it comes to consuming one substance or another, whether bread or ketamine, [e.g]... which is to say: tolerance, dependence, over-dose, withdrawal, legal prosecution and incarceration subsequent to personal use, social and economic isolation, stigma and exile/excommunication from friendly and familial relationships alike, food and housing instability, suicidality, varied critical and chronic illness, violence/assault, etc. You know, the usual worst-case-scenarios, inexorable!
But my deliberate use of substances - whether medical or recreational, supervised or entirely self-enterprised - has nonetheless proven in my estimation to have yielded more good than all that truly horrific bad. The right substances used the appropriate way in a suitable context can reliably enhance human experience for the better, and in potentially profoundly meaningful ways. This is the eternal promise of pharmacology. The entire paradigm of the use of any substance seems off kilter to me, so shaped and dominated by abhorrent regimes of attempted control and prohibition which wreak a staggering human cost on medical and recreational users alike and beyond. Instead of denying humanity free access to substances, regulating institutions ought to seek to facilitate safe access along with a mandate to rigorously develop doctrines of best-use to issue as guidelines - it is that simple, like how that ibuprofen bottle or cold medicine in your kitchen cabinet have simple labeled directions, recommendations, warnings and risks. A normalization of all substance use along with free access guided by well-developed knowledge of responsible use is the means by which to allow society to grow up a little a bit and come to the realization that everything is a substance - but it is, as they say, the dose that makes the medicine; and the insult and ailment that informs the response. Anyway, that's my spontaneous decriminalize+stop harm spiel.
Glad to be here as always, but now, with a login. Looking forward to actually engaging with you all in the community.
BL has been a part of my life for 20 years, if not longer, as one of my first such resources [along with Erowid]. Couldn't ever be arsed to formally register. But then, - why now? Because this evening I enthusiastically consumed quantities of substances as an ethical demonstration of willed agency and degenerate cocaine-addled lab-rat tendencies, and found myself checking in on BL, and what can I say - it just happened.
In many ways I already feel at home at BL. This is a fine community and a genuine asset of free expression, harm reduction, and knowledge/experience all the way to some bizarre fringes thereof. I'd like to offer my thanks to BL for the insight and support I have derived over the many years - even as an anonymous background user. I hope I may be able to now contribute substantively to this ongoing experiment. I mean, I haven't been to hell and back and presently still reporting there in regular intervals to continue serving time, just to keep the hardest-learned of lessons regarding drug use to myself when I may be able to provide some succor to others.
Anyway - I hail from the southern shores of Lake Erie. I have extensive experience with all manner, mode, and media of substances over the past two decades. I have lived many of the intense/extreme aspects of life as one who opts to freedom of expression and absolute integrity of personal agency when it comes to consuming one substance or another, whether bread or ketamine, [e.g]... which is to say: tolerance, dependence, over-dose, withdrawal, legal prosecution and incarceration subsequent to personal use, social and economic isolation, stigma and exile/excommunication from friendly and familial relationships alike, food and housing instability, suicidality, varied critical and chronic illness, violence/assault, etc. You know, the usual worst-case-scenarios, inexorable!
But my deliberate use of substances - whether medical or recreational, supervised or entirely self-enterprised - has nonetheless proven in my estimation to have yielded more good than all that truly horrific bad. The right substances used the appropriate way in a suitable context can reliably enhance human experience for the better, and in potentially profoundly meaningful ways. This is the eternal promise of pharmacology. The entire paradigm of the use of any substance seems off kilter to me, so shaped and dominated by abhorrent regimes of attempted control and prohibition which wreak a staggering human cost on medical and recreational users alike and beyond. Instead of denying humanity free access to substances, regulating institutions ought to seek to facilitate safe access along with a mandate to rigorously develop doctrines of best-use to issue as guidelines - it is that simple, like how that ibuprofen bottle or cold medicine in your kitchen cabinet have simple labeled directions, recommendations, warnings and risks. A normalization of all substance use along with free access guided by well-developed knowledge of responsible use is the means by which to allow society to grow up a little a bit and come to the realization that everything is a substance - but it is, as they say, the dose that makes the medicine; and the insult and ailment that informs the response. Anyway, that's my spontaneous decriminalize+stop harm spiel.
Glad to be here as always, but now, with a login. Looking forward to actually engaging with you all in the community.
