I think its a big deal, and even a few milligrams over what I intended would have a huge impact on me. A 5mg difference is VERY noticeable to me, and not much at all in terms of volume of material.
LSDreamer -
Once I was taking stuff that someone else had weighed out, and they had messed up calibration of the scale somehow and I was given too much. I don't recall right now how much... I think like 20mg or so. I've talked about it a number of times on here before, but suffice it to say that will never happen again. That wasn't eyeballing anything either, just an error due to lack of familiarity with the equipment at hand. I fried my fucking brains out in a pretty traumatic sort of way.
It was so much, in a very bad way... I don't think of it as a "bad trip" (only consider myself as having had one of those, with mushrooms)... it wasn't like I was trying to kill myself to escape it or anything. But I was hoping for like a 4-6 out of 10 on the intensity scale, and probably pegged out at a 14 or so. The sheer terror/panic that set in made things quite a bit more intense than the dosage of the drug alone would have done.
I have to agree with S_S... its not something you should have without a scale; or not something you should use, anyway. Wait until you can get one. I don't want to derail the thread with why you should have a scale and why its bad to eyeball the drug because... well, because it pisses me off kind of when threads get diluted with this stuff. There is no excuse for not having one, period. Everyone will argue over it anyway until they are blue in the face and it just messes up the signal to noise ratio of an otherwise useful thread.
Its extremely basic and applies to all drugs outside of things like cannabis, and, IMO, is a requirement for use of any substance that is fully active at under 100mg or so, or you are asking to get backhanded by the drug. I'm only saying anything about it at all as I have first hand experience with a DPT disaster that happened because of an accident EVEN WITH a scale. If you got a small amount like 350mg then you almost certainly know someone that has a scale; enlist their help if you are not willing to invest in your own safety. You really don't want to learn the hard way man, ask anyone that has taken too much of any strong psychedelic... you can't take it back, and its probably a good way to wind up with PTSD or something.
Lets please not clutter the DPT thread up with debate over using/not using scales and whether its ok or not to eyeball a drug, etc, etc. At least start another thread if its going to happen anyway, so it can go to DB or something in the end. Please don't take this the wrong way, really not trying to be a dick or anything, its just been done to death, and I don't want you to hurt yourself or for anyone to get the idea its ok.
If you REALLY need an example of why its bad, I'd go into go into detail on what happened to me if it would help convince you, but I really don't even like to think about it all that much TBH (scooping vomit out of the floor trying to save it thinking I was losing my "life force" by barfing, shaking from terror, cold puke and toilet water all over my clothes, dry heaves/serious cramps, which of course are magnified artificially while tripping my fucking ass off, scared of death, phasing in and out of reality. etc). ugh. what an awful night night that was. I feel kind of lightheaded when I think about it.
I would at least use it orally if you are not going to listen about the scale, so that the dose required is much, much higher.
