Echoes22 said:
... if you had the means to check the purity first and if you were doing the drug in a controlled environment - with a doctor injecting the drug in your arm for example...
For the most part, I agree. However, the technique of sterile injection itself is not terribly complicated and can be adequately learned in a few minutes from an experienced guide. That being said, 99.9% of IV drug users do not follow the guidelines, and therefore end up exposing themselves to added risks.
With regards to guilt ... if it accompanies any of your drug use (with any method of administration), perhaps you should rethink the reason you are taking the drug in the first place. In moderation, experiencing the wonders of the psychedelic state should never under any circumstances be accompanied by guilt
... unless of course you are Catholic.
Echoes22 said:
I mean yea aren't you supposed to be scared when your life gets to the point where you are IV'ing shit straight into your blood stream?
BTW, I'm going to be IVing shit into a lot of people's bloodstreams in the very near future ... 3rd year of medical school being just around the corner and all. I'll just have a little more experience than the majority of my peers.
samadhi_smiles said:
The pharmacodynamics are just simply superior.
That's a matter of opinion of course.
I do think we should try and minimize the amount of IV discussion in this forum, seeing as this is a harm reduction website. At least the pro-IV attitude ... I think it needs to go. If someone administers psychedelics via IM, IV, or subQ, it should be stated in a matter-of-fact way, instead of "holy f*&#ing shit, IVing psychedelics is so awesome!" Sometimes I get the feeling that all the talk is baiting less experienced users to do something they're not comfortable with. Just my 2 cents.
