To bluelight members,
I need help! I have one really important question for all you smart bluelighter readers out there. I bet this forum's average IQ is above 100, maybe even 115 and in the top 20th% tile in forums globally. But having somewhat higher IQs doesn't mean we're invincible from doing stupid shit. Ha! Quite the contrary, may even do more. Nevertheless, I need help figuring out which scale to get, even though I'm leaning towards one, but more importantly, which website to get the scale from. The questions are at the bottom of the post after I explain why I'm indecisive, but read first, don't skip, after all this is where ya get no know people. I explain why I have almost zero posts.
Personal Introduction/Regular & Drug History/Scale situation(roughly in that order):
Hey guys, I haven't been posting (I've had 20-50 posts per username over the last decade using a new username every couple years, so not a regular contributor & it's very unlikely the regulars would recognize me) but I've been reading copious amounts of posts & threads for the last 10 years, not quite since it's inception, in 1999, but pretty close, and I am obviously in love. You don't hang around that long if you don't love it on some level . I will start posting more now that I'm taking this college semester off to help my mother and I'll have free time.
I'm 26, male, in college, between jobs, spent 4 years in the military (C.S.A.R. aka combat search and rescue, in a nutshell it's a special forces medic) so it's hard to get a 'non-military-esque' job with my credentials, so I'm looking to be a C.O. (correctional officer @ a prison) for a job. The medical portion of my training was before I become a serious and heavy drug user. So, as a newbie in the special training, I became encapsulated by medicine, learning the life saving skills and knowledge of pharmacology required to properly execute that job, therefore, as I write on bluelight consider I may know a thing or two about pharmacology (still feel retarded in the grand scheme of things because the human body still trumps our knowledge) which is what guided me down the path of drug use. I still remember when I consciously made the choice to become a drug addict. The very moment. In my bathroom with a tourniquet wrapped around my arm starring at the needle on the head of the toilet. Drug addiction didn't creep up on me, I ignorantly made the choice with thinking "well that's terrible for the small percentage of people who receive permanent & temporary brain damage (basically including but not limited to deregulation of receptors that we can't reverse at this point in time with technology's current standing) from substance abuse but that won't happen to me." Ha, well it happened, in the hole forever now. I just loved drugs 'on paper' and needed to feel them to satisfy the curiosity urges I got while learning about them in minute detail, ultimately just the fascination of it all down to the molecular level. Unbeknownst to me, I was in for a wild ride, and not all the turns were good on that roller coaster either. Some whiplash turns, I just hope I don't break my neck(OD and die or lose everything including relationships)! Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics are really what gets me going (defined as the human body interacting with the drug and vice versa). I never touched anything but alcohol and pot until I was 17, did it for 2 years and stopped at 19. And the pot and alcohol was very limited and I didn't enjoy it as much as everybody else did. I was focusing on my athletic ability (football SS & hockey goalie). But the last 5 years have been moderate to heavy use at times but also with stretches of nothing and a very healthy lifestyle. I am very disciplined about taking breaks and using moderation with drugs so I'll stop all recreational drugs & body build for a couple months before returning. So a heavy user at times, only thing I had an issue with in my life as far as drugs is with opiates. For this reason I've been on Suboxone for the last 2 years and it's worked out wonderfully. I try hard to avoid daily use of anything because I've been though the worst withdrawals a human can, within reasonable parameters, and never want to feel that way again, plus it's not healthy, risk of OD. It definitely cuts off years of your life. I have been doing meth a lot (relatively a lot) recently though (more on that). I party with benzos whenever I can get them but apply moderation so I never build a tolerance. I also use them for anxiety attacks, which I don't think I'd have the attacks right now {have G.A.D.} if I didn't abuse MDMA that one night @ age 21 and abuse opiates from 21-22.5 years old. The first time I ever did MDMA, I did ~ 8 doses worth of pure MDMA powder straight from my friend's friend who were both Chemists & old college buddies. The friend had a masters in Chemistry and built his own lab{not for distribution but for use by him & his friends} so the purity was insane, no cut whatsoever. Such a small amount of powder and the MDMA hit ya like a ton of bricks in the face, the ultimate euphoria, not just the beginnings of it, THE FULL effect within 15 seconds(of IV). The switch from sober to rolling in about 12 seconds was the most amazing thing ever in my life. What do y'all think the purity was? The "yield", if you will, 70-85%?. I was injecting all night; it was ~7 hours of what the ends and beginnings of what orgasms feels like, and what the middle of the big O feels like the minute after an injection. I've come to the conclusion that human beings were never meant to feel that good!. Recently within the last 2 years I party with coke and meth. I IV most of the time, if it's somewhat safely shootable(fake word). Love the needle. Loved it before I shot up for the first time, that happened like this: when I was in medical school I loved doing anything with a needle to a patient as a Paramedic. It's even alright getting stuck (too much is awful). 90% of the time using needles I'm very safe and smart, like a MOFO'ing surgeon! I feel blessed I was able to learn the medical side prior to turning druggy, and even feel blessed having the knowledge/training regardless. Coke I did occasionally from 22 to 25 and a half but my mom wanted me to cut down so I did(very open relationship with mother). I did meth only twice in my whole life (very small amounts) up until 3 months ago, and have done it like 7 times since the 2 months, . I only went too far once and I had psychosis for a couple days. I learned my lesson there. Never happen again. I avoid binging with stimulants because after approx. 2 days you're basically wasting the *smeagol voice* 'precious' drug anyway. How? As some of you know, your brain literally becomes exhausted of essential neurotransmitters so you get the same stimulation (take into acct. tolerance and habituation) but not the same euphoria. Norepinephrine and dopamine releasing agents can drain you, in the same manner MDMA drains your serotonin stores (as well as inhibits the re-uptake @ the synaptic cleft). Daily use of MDMA causes the drop off in euphoria in a dramatic fashion each day not to mention it's extremely neurotoxic and you will definitely get permanent damage from that type of abuse at some point if continued most likely manifesting itself as an anxiety disorder. To combat becoming famished (malnutrition, lethargy, dehydration, starvation{body eats own muscle for necessary protein} and release of cortisol which is extremely catabolic + much more, these are just a few) when using stimulants, which is inevitable, you can slow it down so I force myself to eat and time it so I eat right before another dose when it will be just *that much* easier and sleep periodically after about 48 hrs of being up 2 day go, Before I start again I make sure I'm recovered, say, on average to 80%. If I start doing doses and I'm not getting euphoric but just a glow (enhanced mood), I will stop because that means I'm not ready to fully experience. My brain needs to build up more storage of Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Serotonin among lots. This technique is in a similar fashion to people taking 5-HTP a couple weeks or days before they roll on ecstasy to make sure the body has near it's maximum. 5-HTP is the precursor to serotonin. It's debatable whether it works because the body doesn't actually convert it into serotonin. Whether it is has some efficacy is unknown fully, but people use it to recover and to prepare. Moving on, I have never done stimulants 3 days in a row for this reason. The length of my partying with coke is usually 24-40 hours on average and meth is ~48 hours. Methamphetamine is much more of a nuisance to people that have insomnia (both on and off hard stimulants) due to the long half life relative to coke's short half life, just to give you an idea I'll take a break from history/freewriting and do an excerpt on drug tests and detection times, kinda in the mood to talk about drugs(especially meth and coke the Stimulant Bros.), if you don't wanna hear it I'd skip it:
Meth's half life of 12.7 hours (762 minutes), making coke's half life, calculator......... 8% of the duration of meth's half life and meth's half life is 12.5x longer than cocaine's half life. So military folks, GS-XX people(gov't contracted with a numbered ranking system) and employees of certain companies that pay for personal tests in the civilian sector, if you plan on getting high, get high on Friday always, or the Friday version of your work week. You must party on Friday aka the work day before you have two days off, to be clean on Monday morning because of your job(jobs that pop random or jobs that test entire sections of the company if somebody was involved in something drug related significant enough to raise suspicion) or to prove something to somebody like your wife or a bet. Choose coke as your #1 stimulant, avoid not just meth but all amphetamines (levoamp, dextroamp, lisdexamp, etc.) and don't do coke passed 4am on Saturday (or Friday night still in your mind in the moment) around noon at the LATEST. For example if you stop at noon, then you'll be high for another hour or so, then deal with the cocaine down from 1pm-4pm, then make sure you eat dinner and take at LEAST 100mg of Benadryl before your meal so when you're done you just pass out then you can get +12 hours of rest and wake up fairly early and start the cleaning process(which I won't go into)and re-hydrating with gatorade and water. Stopping Saturday @ noon gives your body 44 hours, or 48 hours if you can push the test till noon. At noon on Monday you will have exactly 2% of the drug in your body according to the mathematics of it but it's certainly less than 2% realistically. This is kind of a worst case scenario so if you follow this you will definitely pass even if you don't hydrate like a manic and dilute your urine. Know that for future reference fellow bluelights, this version I'm doing for all drugs is worst case and even then the realistic worst case will have less than the number % drug you have, only exception being the substance gets stored in fat cells. And by the way all of this is assuming you do none of the mostly simple and some difficult techniques to manipulate getting tested and passing (I won't get into them here because this post isn't about cheating a drug test haha it's about passing legitimately). Now, I never weighed a shot of blow so I don't know what I use for sure but after I get the scale I can repost if people want the weights of how much meth and coke I'm doing in my shots. I'll have the meth information up before the month is out but it may possibly take longer for the coke measurement. So say that's 2% of a 100mg IV dose, which is a plump healthy dose for an IV shot considering, not a large line for insufflating is my guess, to better grasp it picture 10% of a 1 gram bag of blow in a line or 10 lines out of 1 gram bag or 20 out of two or 35 out of a ball. So with the 100mg slammed you'd have .08mg (this only applies to IV, not other ROAs. In general please consider the ROA when doing this process to be accurate, but as a fail safe you can use the IV ROA for your math and if you sniff or plug or eat your drug it will always be a longer duration because less of the drug reaches target tissues compared to IV use). The .08mg (if my math was right it's 4:30am and I did this quick) should get you under the limit the Federal Government has which is 150ng/dl for cocaine(nanograms per deciliter the unit of measurement they test for, basically it's a concentration of said drug in small drop of blood)and 500ng/dl for amphetamines (all but they're mainly looking for dextromethamphetamine). I got some bad news for ya guys, I told you the measurements first so you didn't get disappointed, but in October of 2010 the gov't changed, in a very significant way, they cut off threshold for meth and coke! Bigger? Nope, smaller. They straight up cut coke and meth's in HALF. Went from 300 to 150 and 1000 to 500 for coke and meth, respectively. other Fckers. They said the reason was "to increase identification of abusers of these drugs." I hated them a little bit even when I was working for them but now I hate them so much more. Basically now it's twice as hard to pass. For those lost, before the rule change in 2010 you could have 0-299ng/dl of coke in your blood because the threshold was 500ng/dl. Now if you have 150ng/dl or higher, you're in trouble. Now here's what happens if you test 'hot' as we like to say. You're not canned yet, they do a confirmation test on it. Now usually it's around the same exact reading but you have a chance. For cocaine they measure again and if it's below 100ng/dl you pass, above 99 you fail. For meth it's even more harsh and cold, the 500 drops down to 250ng/dl. So you could have 350ng/dl and pass the first one and you're good. The buffer is from 250-500 for meth and 100-150 for coke. To clarify, I'm not sure all companies do confirmation tests and also they may have different values. It wouldn't surprise me if some hardcore CEO decided there is a no tolerance policy and if you have 1ng/dl you're toast. It also wouldn't surprise me for a CEO/Board of Directors to not know shit about drugs or testing or bioavailabilities and just ask the laboratory they're using what is best or what makes the most sense, or what is the cheapest, ahahah.
Back to using meth and coke. I find it's more difficult to binge on coke because it takes more out of me, more needle marks (like x5-10 more shots) and to be honest I don't like binging on coke. One period of time I use like for 24 hours is fine but I don't binge on coke, and rarely meth (once in my life). Binging on meth is OK if you have experience and/or wisdom or get advice, quality advice. I dunno about you but fuck that hallucinating shit! The shadow people are coming watch out! You know they ain't there but they still can scare ya occasionally!
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Here's my segue, and the decision I have to make which I can use your help on with acquiring a scale. Doing drugs is great, especially when you control and curtail the negative side effects, but for a couple reasons I want to get into the Research Chemical(RC) business. I won't totally abandon meth and coke. For one it's less illegal activity so I can come clean with some people I'm currently 'withholding information' from(not lying, at least not yet)and hiding my illegal drug use from even though he, my best bud I live with, knows my history and knows I get high once in a while, and also knows about the affinity for needles (weird situation huh?). He's a SpecOps medic as well & still in the military. He's not anti-drug, just frowns upon it destroying people's lives and it almost did mine(accidental OD on oxymorphone, amazing story tell me if wanna hear it). The most profound reason to explore RC's is I want ample, perhaps copious amounts of a stimulant so I can use them for schoolwork in college whenever I want/need and without spending absurd amounts of money for Addys where some jack ass frat boy is selling them for like 8-15$ a pop. My remaining years in school would be so much more fun if I was able to have amphetamine analogues, which are cheaper than street speed/meth, for concentration and motivation on classes I dislike. I wouldn't abuse them(using them to escape or replace depression with euphoria, use for no reason, boredom, etc.), just simply 2 days a week being extremely productive for probably a 36 hour period, then lounge, go to class and bodybuild the other 5 days. My GPA will soar I'm sure. Those are couple of essential reasons. I did a huge report at the end of a summer course on a field trip to Mexico. 4 weeks of school was it, a little over 3 weeks was in Mexico. No work was required on the trip in Mexico. Just walking around attending. You had a journal due as part of your portfolio that you handed in 6 days after arrival in the US. The journal was supposed to be a daily journal, you reflecting and thinking each day so you had to write or else you wouldn't remember the little things. That was all the work you had to do really during the 3 weeks in Mexico. First day was spent getting back on schedule and sleeping and eating good AMERICAN food so nobody I talked to did any work that day. Second day I got high and hung with friends and my girl at the time, third day I call my buddy Leo in the class with me and somehow Adderall comes up, it was honestly probably me, so he started looking, took 2 days, and he found em. Like 15 30mg. So we had about 36 hours left. We moved into FedExKinkos knowing we'd be there down to the wire. Now imagine a 4, yes four credit class on very in depth Mesoamerican cultures like the Olmecs, that's like 29 day course and you have no work due till the end. I thought halfway through the trip on the private bus, "THAT'S GONNA BE ALOTTA FUCKIN WORK!" So I sniffed my way to an A (Leo got an A too) going to the bathroom @ FedEx Kinkos, the worker dude definitely knew something was going down and I'm sure he figured it out and didn't give a shit. We were very quiet. It was due 8am in the teacher's mailbox so it was nighttime when the night worker was talking to us and saw us there for so long. My point being, yeah, my GPA is gonna rise, like a phoenix rising out of the desert! (Seinfeld reference, George's father). Oh almost forgot, my portfolio was the size of a novel when we were done, Leo's work was very big as well.
Now, the history is over, onto present day:
THE ISSUE AT HAND:
I am finally ready after years of putting it off, to invest in a quality scale specifically for substances I deal with(and the aforementioned reasons explained about RCs). Money is not that big of an issue but I'm not willing to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars (over 300$). Price range up to 200$. Possibly up to 230$ if it's on clearance and I'm saving hundreds. I do not want a cheap one, i.e. under 100$ assuming quality and price have a linear correlation, for my main one. I will be buying a secondary mini/pocket for a rough estimation on the go, it'll be a .001 scale (it means it weighs @ milligram intervals, .01 is by 10 mg intervals, .1 is by 100mg intervals). To try and get help about the world of scales in which my knowledge is embarrassing, I started by reading through multiple threads that had hundreds of posts on multiple websites which took me a week(but bluelight is the only one I respect enough to post on). My understanding is there are 2 scales in contention online among drug 'forumites,' if you will. Acculab's Vic-123 and My Weigh's GemPro 250. The Acculab's Vic-123 has a slightly better reputation upon first glance than the My Weigh GemPro 250 and the Acculab costs more money buy like 43%. That is, the Gem Pro 250 is 57% of the cost of the Acculab. The reason the reputation is perceived by most as better is because the GemPro 50 was overall inconsistent and a little faulty, just overall shitty compared to the Acculab. But to be fair I think it was much cheaper as well. But as I sifted through it seemed My Weigh fixed this over the years with later versions and now they are comparable. The GemPro 250 is on sale on a website right now for 135$ which seems like somewhat of a steal from the normal 165$. I'd like to have a scale that doesn't have to remain plugged in, so as not to raise suspicion. Leaving it out is OK I guess, but not too clandestine, but, like I said, if I go the RC root I'm not breaking any laws of possession, purchase, or trafficking, therefore my roomies won't care and I can leave it out and plugged in(apparently from my gatherings with digital scales, especially "precise" ones, they should be plugged in 24/7, as mentioned before) or as much as possible for a variety of reasons to make it easier on the user. Plus upon every start up they need to warm up for a few minutes, at least five, some wait as much as thirty, so you can eliminate the start up if it remains on. I can also use it for illicit drugs like meth and coke and with the RC cover up I won't have to explain powder and a scale if I get sloppy with my sneakiness. It should be fun to weigh my intravenous doses down to the milligram, in a precise fashion, after doing IV drugs for years with no such instrument. Unfortunately it may perhaps may facilitate me in doing more drugs because I'll feel like a maaaaaaaaaaaaaad scientist. Get addicted to a substance like I said earlier I will not and have been successful so far. Oh ya and not to mention adding to the ritual which I should be taking away from . A good thing is RC's can look like coke or meth anyway (more like meth, that white crystalline powder most RCs are like I presume). So back to which scale,
Acculab Vic-123- $236-$290 Would be paying minimum. (MSRP $435 apparently from a half shady website)
GemPro 250- $135-$170 Would be paying minimum. (couldn't find MSRP)
Both have a resolution of .001 mg which is the minimum precision you should go with RC's (for obvious reasons), a centigram scale won't work because it will read in intervals of 10mg so a non-broken one will probably be 5mg off when they are off, not to take into account inconsistency and error. Capacity is 50g for GemPro and 120g for Acculab. However, I will never need to go above 50...Plus I've heard the higher the max and/or the bigger the range the less accurate which makes some sense. Anyway, I have a low-ish but dependable quality food scale that weighs to the gram if I have something that heavy. Here is where I need help. Ebay offers the "GemPro" (the seller wrote Pro Gem instead of GemPro in every instance, and the pictures he has don't match the real product) for $70 + 10$ shipping =80$ with a this selling record (17,325 positive, 297 neutral, and 310 negative) and it claims new, in box, with tags. A separate website offers it for $135+8$=143$. Scales need to be taken care of, almost anally, especially digital scales because moving them and knocking them around like in transportation can Fck them up. This guy selling them on Ebay, I don't know if the guy moved houses or had sloppy non-fragile shipping to him. It can permanently mess them up. So is it worth the piece of mind to spend double, well, not quite, it would be 1.7 times as much to get the higher priced one, compared to 58% of that for the Ebay one. You can assume the private website (www.oldwillknottscales.com) took better care of it since their entire business is scales ONLY, right? Long winded question, I mean to say, is it worth the extra 63$? I know we have different lives so factors are different, but I'm not in any debt to give you a slim idea of my financial life, 0 debt. Another factor, an Ebay delivery will take exorbitantly longer because this guy is in China compared to the Knott Scales Co. in the USA.
Sartorious shut down Acculab and the Vic-123 has been resurrected as the Sartorious AY123. You can still find them online though, but ya gotta look.
Acculab/Sartorious 123 I didn't investigate the Acculab Ebay page like I did Gem Pro but lemme know what ya find)
99$ +13$shipping on Ebay used I presume=$112
$236 from private dealer
$235 from private dealer
Manufacturer's Warranty is 2 years
links
http://www.affordablescales.com/scal....asp?specs=678
http://balance.balances.com/scales/1955
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acculab-Sart...item2a22fda736
Gem Pro:
$70 + 10$ shipping=80$
135$+ 8$ shipping= 143$
148$ private dealer (same website the other scale is on, here:
links
http://www.oldwillknottscales.com/my...empro-250.html 30yr. warranty with this site (not a typo, THIRTY YEARS)
http://balance.balances.com/scales/9/
Ebay link w/ pictures of the product, check em out
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300512858964
Now here is the product on a Google search "GemPro 250":
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...QEwBw&dur=2165
I emailed the Ebay guy with the Gem Pro, here is my email then his, mine is kinda long as I wanted to act a certain way since my guess is he's a southeast Asia, china, japan area guy who learned English as his 2nd language and he's trying to rip off Americans online using Ebay on some purchases. These types of people are usually the ones scamming people in emails with various techniques. Emails:
"
To *ebay name,* (which is "pretty_temptation" which doesn't sound professional at all)
Hi, name's NAME. (here I tell him I'm a disabled US veteran {which is true} and that I have some time on my hands for a hobby which I need a scale for) I need an ACCURATE mg scale to measure the strong medicine powder I'll be taking. By the way, if ya speak English I would like to talk with you on the phone about buying the GemPro250 digital scale. Upon shopping I narrowed it to two scales. Acculab/Sartorious Vic-123 is the other.
There are a few things that concern me, & make me think you are trying to get away with foul behavior. If you are I don't care just lemme know now so we can move on. Your pics don't match what the actual product looks like. There is no "GemPro 250, Precision" in the top right corner. No "My Weigh" in the top left. Your pics look like you took them off of some other site. Why'd you write "Pro Gem" not 'GemPro' which is right. I like your price, but seeing that the other prices are WAY higher it smells like to good to be true, but please prove me wrong. I only think somewhat negatively because I've never used Ebay before, so I can be way off base. But I need reassurance then I can buy from you. I'll wait 2 full days (48 hours) then if no response I will execute my original plan which was buying from the online company for 135$ per scale with a 30 year warranty.
Cordially,
NAME
His response:
Dear NAME
Thank for your email,I have come to pay my respects to you for your heroic history first.
We sold few hundred digital scales to different parts of the world on past few years,received so much favorable comment and no one returned,you can inquire about our feedback.
In my experience,if you in order the scale to measure the medicine powder is more than sufficient.
Our product exactly the same as "my Weigh gempro 250" on accuracy and function,but not any relationship,and you will pay only half the price.
Don't worry anything,we provide guaranteed forever.
Best regards
Shirley
"
What the fuck is this guy talking about? He doesn't even answer my questions. RED FLAG and god damn that's why I don't use Ebay. And what the fuck with the praising me because I helped my country with years of my service? Scum bag if he actually is a scammer. But, he could be totally legit and just not have good English. This is where regardless of if you answer my questions at least give me your scoop on what you think is going on..
So, decision time, you ready?
1) Buy GemPro 250 or Acculab Vic-123/Sartorious AY-123?
2) Regardless of which scale, since I can buy either online with more shopping and will get the same prices, Ebay or private dealer?
My answers:
1) GemPro 250
2) private dealer (Willknott scales)
THANKS SO MUCH!!! Bluelight rules! If i broke rules doing this somehow then let me know and I will kindly follow a moderator's requests.
I need help! I have one really important question for all you smart bluelighter readers out there. I bet this forum's average IQ is above 100, maybe even 115 and in the top 20th% tile in forums globally. But having somewhat higher IQs doesn't mean we're invincible from doing stupid shit. Ha! Quite the contrary, may even do more. Nevertheless, I need help figuring out which scale to get, even though I'm leaning towards one, but more importantly, which website to get the scale from. The questions are at the bottom of the post after I explain why I'm indecisive, but read first, don't skip, after all this is where ya get no know people. I explain why I have almost zero posts.
Personal Introduction/Regular & Drug History/Scale situation(roughly in that order):
Hey guys, I haven't been posting (I've had 20-50 posts per username over the last decade using a new username every couple years, so not a regular contributor & it's very unlikely the regulars would recognize me) but I've been reading copious amounts of posts & threads for the last 10 years, not quite since it's inception, in 1999, but pretty close, and I am obviously in love. You don't hang around that long if you don't love it on some level . I will start posting more now that I'm taking this college semester off to help my mother and I'll have free time.
I'm 26, male, in college, between jobs, spent 4 years in the military (C.S.A.R. aka combat search and rescue, in a nutshell it's a special forces medic) so it's hard to get a 'non-military-esque' job with my credentials, so I'm looking to be a C.O. (correctional officer @ a prison) for a job. The medical portion of my training was before I become a serious and heavy drug user. So, as a newbie in the special training, I became encapsulated by medicine, learning the life saving skills and knowledge of pharmacology required to properly execute that job, therefore, as I write on bluelight consider I may know a thing or two about pharmacology (still feel retarded in the grand scheme of things because the human body still trumps our knowledge) which is what guided me down the path of drug use. I still remember when I consciously made the choice to become a drug addict. The very moment. In my bathroom with a tourniquet wrapped around my arm starring at the needle on the head of the toilet. Drug addiction didn't creep up on me, I ignorantly made the choice with thinking "well that's terrible for the small percentage of people who receive permanent & temporary brain damage (basically including but not limited to deregulation of receptors that we can't reverse at this point in time with technology's current standing) from substance abuse but that won't happen to me." Ha, well it happened, in the hole forever now. I just loved drugs 'on paper' and needed to feel them to satisfy the curiosity urges I got while learning about them in minute detail, ultimately just the fascination of it all down to the molecular level. Unbeknownst to me, I was in for a wild ride, and not all the turns were good on that roller coaster either. Some whiplash turns, I just hope I don't break my neck(OD and die or lose everything including relationships)! Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics are really what gets me going (defined as the human body interacting with the drug and vice versa). I never touched anything but alcohol and pot until I was 17, did it for 2 years and stopped at 19. And the pot and alcohol was very limited and I didn't enjoy it as much as everybody else did. I was focusing on my athletic ability (football SS & hockey goalie). But the last 5 years have been moderate to heavy use at times but also with stretches of nothing and a very healthy lifestyle. I am very disciplined about taking breaks and using moderation with drugs so I'll stop all recreational drugs & body build for a couple months before returning. So a heavy user at times, only thing I had an issue with in my life as far as drugs is with opiates. For this reason I've been on Suboxone for the last 2 years and it's worked out wonderfully. I try hard to avoid daily use of anything because I've been though the worst withdrawals a human can, within reasonable parameters, and never want to feel that way again, plus it's not healthy, risk of OD. It definitely cuts off years of your life. I have been doing meth a lot (relatively a lot) recently though (more on that). I party with benzos whenever I can get them but apply moderation so I never build a tolerance. I also use them for anxiety attacks, which I don't think I'd have the attacks right now {have G.A.D.} if I didn't abuse MDMA that one night @ age 21 and abuse opiates from 21-22.5 years old. The first time I ever did MDMA, I did ~ 8 doses worth of pure MDMA powder straight from my friend's friend who were both Chemists & old college buddies. The friend had a masters in Chemistry and built his own lab{not for distribution but for use by him & his friends} so the purity was insane, no cut whatsoever. Such a small amount of powder and the MDMA hit ya like a ton of bricks in the face, the ultimate euphoria, not just the beginnings of it, THE FULL effect within 15 seconds(of IV). The switch from sober to rolling in about 12 seconds was the most amazing thing ever in my life. What do y'all think the purity was? The "yield", if you will, 70-85%?. I was injecting all night; it was ~7 hours of what the ends and beginnings of what orgasms feels like, and what the middle of the big O feels like the minute after an injection. I've come to the conclusion that human beings were never meant to feel that good!. Recently within the last 2 years I party with coke and meth. I IV most of the time, if it's somewhat safely shootable(fake word). Love the needle. Loved it before I shot up for the first time, that happened like this: when I was in medical school I loved doing anything with a needle to a patient as a Paramedic. It's even alright getting stuck (too much is awful). 90% of the time using needles I'm very safe and smart, like a MOFO'ing surgeon! I feel blessed I was able to learn the medical side prior to turning druggy, and even feel blessed having the knowledge/training regardless. Coke I did occasionally from 22 to 25 and a half but my mom wanted me to cut down so I did(very open relationship with mother). I did meth only twice in my whole life (very small amounts) up until 3 months ago, and have done it like 7 times since the 2 months, . I only went too far once and I had psychosis for a couple days. I learned my lesson there. Never happen again. I avoid binging with stimulants because after approx. 2 days you're basically wasting the *smeagol voice* 'precious' drug anyway. How? As some of you know, your brain literally becomes exhausted of essential neurotransmitters so you get the same stimulation (take into acct. tolerance and habituation) but not the same euphoria. Norepinephrine and dopamine releasing agents can drain you, in the same manner MDMA drains your serotonin stores (as well as inhibits the re-uptake @ the synaptic cleft). Daily use of MDMA causes the drop off in euphoria in a dramatic fashion each day not to mention it's extremely neurotoxic and you will definitely get permanent damage from that type of abuse at some point if continued most likely manifesting itself as an anxiety disorder. To combat becoming famished (malnutrition, lethargy, dehydration, starvation{body eats own muscle for necessary protein} and release of cortisol which is extremely catabolic + much more, these are just a few) when using stimulants, which is inevitable, you can slow it down so I force myself to eat and time it so I eat right before another dose when it will be just *that much* easier and sleep periodically after about 48 hrs of being up 2 day go, Before I start again I make sure I'm recovered, say, on average to 80%. If I start doing doses and I'm not getting euphoric but just a glow (enhanced mood), I will stop because that means I'm not ready to fully experience. My brain needs to build up more storage of Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Serotonin among lots. This technique is in a similar fashion to people taking 5-HTP a couple weeks or days before they roll on ecstasy to make sure the body has near it's maximum. 5-HTP is the precursor to serotonin. It's debatable whether it works because the body doesn't actually convert it into serotonin. Whether it is has some efficacy is unknown fully, but people use it to recover and to prepare. Moving on, I have never done stimulants 3 days in a row for this reason. The length of my partying with coke is usually 24-40 hours on average and meth is ~48 hours. Methamphetamine is much more of a nuisance to people that have insomnia (both on and off hard stimulants) due to the long half life relative to coke's short half life, just to give you an idea I'll take a break from history/freewriting and do an excerpt on drug tests and detection times, kinda in the mood to talk about drugs(especially meth and coke the Stimulant Bros.), if you don't wanna hear it I'd skip it:
Meth's half life of 12.7 hours (762 minutes), making coke's half life, calculator......... 8% of the duration of meth's half life and meth's half life is 12.5x longer than cocaine's half life. So military folks, GS-XX people(gov't contracted with a numbered ranking system) and employees of certain companies that pay for personal tests in the civilian sector, if you plan on getting high, get high on Friday always, or the Friday version of your work week. You must party on Friday aka the work day before you have two days off, to be clean on Monday morning because of your job(jobs that pop random or jobs that test entire sections of the company if somebody was involved in something drug related significant enough to raise suspicion) or to prove something to somebody like your wife or a bet. Choose coke as your #1 stimulant, avoid not just meth but all amphetamines (levoamp, dextroamp, lisdexamp, etc.) and don't do coke passed 4am on Saturday (or Friday night still in your mind in the moment) around noon at the LATEST. For example if you stop at noon, then you'll be high for another hour or so, then deal with the cocaine down from 1pm-4pm, then make sure you eat dinner and take at LEAST 100mg of Benadryl before your meal so when you're done you just pass out then you can get +12 hours of rest and wake up fairly early and start the cleaning process(which I won't go into)and re-hydrating with gatorade and water. Stopping Saturday @ noon gives your body 44 hours, or 48 hours if you can push the test till noon. At noon on Monday you will have exactly 2% of the drug in your body according to the mathematics of it but it's certainly less than 2% realistically. This is kind of a worst case scenario so if you follow this you will definitely pass even if you don't hydrate like a manic and dilute your urine. Know that for future reference fellow bluelights, this version I'm doing for all drugs is worst case and even then the realistic worst case will have less than the number % drug you have, only exception being the substance gets stored in fat cells. And by the way all of this is assuming you do none of the mostly simple and some difficult techniques to manipulate getting tested and passing (I won't get into them here because this post isn't about cheating a drug test haha it's about passing legitimately). Now, I never weighed a shot of blow so I don't know what I use for sure but after I get the scale I can repost if people want the weights of how much meth and coke I'm doing in my shots. I'll have the meth information up before the month is out but it may possibly take longer for the coke measurement. So say that's 2% of a 100mg IV dose, which is a plump healthy dose for an IV shot considering, not a large line for insufflating is my guess, to better grasp it picture 10% of a 1 gram bag of blow in a line or 10 lines out of 1 gram bag or 20 out of two or 35 out of a ball. So with the 100mg slammed you'd have .08mg (this only applies to IV, not other ROAs. In general please consider the ROA when doing this process to be accurate, but as a fail safe you can use the IV ROA for your math and if you sniff or plug or eat your drug it will always be a longer duration because less of the drug reaches target tissues compared to IV use). The .08mg (if my math was right it's 4:30am and I did this quick) should get you under the limit the Federal Government has which is 150ng/dl for cocaine(nanograms per deciliter the unit of measurement they test for, basically it's a concentration of said drug in small drop of blood)and 500ng/dl for amphetamines (all but they're mainly looking for dextromethamphetamine). I got some bad news for ya guys, I told you the measurements first so you didn't get disappointed, but in October of 2010 the gov't changed, in a very significant way, they cut off threshold for meth and coke! Bigger? Nope, smaller. They straight up cut coke and meth's in HALF. Went from 300 to 150 and 1000 to 500 for coke and meth, respectively. other Fckers. They said the reason was "to increase identification of abusers of these drugs." I hated them a little bit even when I was working for them but now I hate them so much more. Basically now it's twice as hard to pass. For those lost, before the rule change in 2010 you could have 0-299ng/dl of coke in your blood because the threshold was 500ng/dl. Now if you have 150ng/dl or higher, you're in trouble. Now here's what happens if you test 'hot' as we like to say. You're not canned yet, they do a confirmation test on it. Now usually it's around the same exact reading but you have a chance. For cocaine they measure again and if it's below 100ng/dl you pass, above 99 you fail. For meth it's even more harsh and cold, the 500 drops down to 250ng/dl. So you could have 350ng/dl and pass the first one and you're good. The buffer is from 250-500 for meth and 100-150 for coke. To clarify, I'm not sure all companies do confirmation tests and also they may have different values. It wouldn't surprise me if some hardcore CEO decided there is a no tolerance policy and if you have 1ng/dl you're toast. It also wouldn't surprise me for a CEO/Board of Directors to not know shit about drugs or testing or bioavailabilities and just ask the laboratory they're using what is best or what makes the most sense, or what is the cheapest, ahahah.
Back to using meth and coke. I find it's more difficult to binge on coke because it takes more out of me, more needle marks (like x5-10 more shots) and to be honest I don't like binging on coke. One period of time I use like for 24 hours is fine but I don't binge on coke, and rarely meth (once in my life). Binging on meth is OK if you have experience and/or wisdom or get advice, quality advice. I dunno about you but fuck that hallucinating shit! The shadow people are coming watch out! You know they ain't there but they still can scare ya occasionally!
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Here's my segue, and the decision I have to make which I can use your help on with acquiring a scale. Doing drugs is great, especially when you control and curtail the negative side effects, but for a couple reasons I want to get into the Research Chemical(RC) business. I won't totally abandon meth and coke. For one it's less illegal activity so I can come clean with some people I'm currently 'withholding information' from(not lying, at least not yet)and hiding my illegal drug use from even though he, my best bud I live with, knows my history and knows I get high once in a while, and also knows about the affinity for needles (weird situation huh?). He's a SpecOps medic as well & still in the military. He's not anti-drug, just frowns upon it destroying people's lives and it almost did mine(accidental OD on oxymorphone, amazing story tell me if wanna hear it). The most profound reason to explore RC's is I want ample, perhaps copious amounts of a stimulant so I can use them for schoolwork in college whenever I want/need and without spending absurd amounts of money for Addys where some jack ass frat boy is selling them for like 8-15$ a pop. My remaining years in school would be so much more fun if I was able to have amphetamine analogues, which are cheaper than street speed/meth, for concentration and motivation on classes I dislike. I wouldn't abuse them(using them to escape or replace depression with euphoria, use for no reason, boredom, etc.), just simply 2 days a week being extremely productive for probably a 36 hour period, then lounge, go to class and bodybuild the other 5 days. My GPA will soar I'm sure. Those are couple of essential reasons. I did a huge report at the end of a summer course on a field trip to Mexico. 4 weeks of school was it, a little over 3 weeks was in Mexico. No work was required on the trip in Mexico. Just walking around attending. You had a journal due as part of your portfolio that you handed in 6 days after arrival in the US. The journal was supposed to be a daily journal, you reflecting and thinking each day so you had to write or else you wouldn't remember the little things. That was all the work you had to do really during the 3 weeks in Mexico. First day was spent getting back on schedule and sleeping and eating good AMERICAN food so nobody I talked to did any work that day. Second day I got high and hung with friends and my girl at the time, third day I call my buddy Leo in the class with me and somehow Adderall comes up, it was honestly probably me, so he started looking, took 2 days, and he found em. Like 15 30mg. So we had about 36 hours left. We moved into FedExKinkos knowing we'd be there down to the wire. Now imagine a 4, yes four credit class on very in depth Mesoamerican cultures like the Olmecs, that's like 29 day course and you have no work due till the end. I thought halfway through the trip on the private bus, "THAT'S GONNA BE ALOTTA FUCKIN WORK!" So I sniffed my way to an A (Leo got an A too) going to the bathroom @ FedEx Kinkos, the worker dude definitely knew something was going down and I'm sure he figured it out and didn't give a shit. We were very quiet. It was due 8am in the teacher's mailbox so it was nighttime when the night worker was talking to us and saw us there for so long. My point being, yeah, my GPA is gonna rise, like a phoenix rising out of the desert! (Seinfeld reference, George's father). Oh almost forgot, my portfolio was the size of a novel when we were done, Leo's work was very big as well.
Now, the history is over, onto present day:
THE ISSUE AT HAND:
I am finally ready after years of putting it off, to invest in a quality scale specifically for substances I deal with(and the aforementioned reasons explained about RCs). Money is not that big of an issue but I'm not willing to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars (over 300$). Price range up to 200$. Possibly up to 230$ if it's on clearance and I'm saving hundreds. I do not want a cheap one, i.e. under 100$ assuming quality and price have a linear correlation, for my main one. I will be buying a secondary mini/pocket for a rough estimation on the go, it'll be a .001 scale (it means it weighs @ milligram intervals, .01 is by 10 mg intervals, .1 is by 100mg intervals). To try and get help about the world of scales in which my knowledge is embarrassing, I started by reading through multiple threads that had hundreds of posts on multiple websites which took me a week(but bluelight is the only one I respect enough to post on). My understanding is there are 2 scales in contention online among drug 'forumites,' if you will. Acculab's Vic-123 and My Weigh's GemPro 250. The Acculab's Vic-123 has a slightly better reputation upon first glance than the My Weigh GemPro 250 and the Acculab costs more money buy like 43%. That is, the Gem Pro 250 is 57% of the cost of the Acculab. The reason the reputation is perceived by most as better is because the GemPro 50 was overall inconsistent and a little faulty, just overall shitty compared to the Acculab. But to be fair I think it was much cheaper as well. But as I sifted through it seemed My Weigh fixed this over the years with later versions and now they are comparable. The GemPro 250 is on sale on a website right now for 135$ which seems like somewhat of a steal from the normal 165$. I'd like to have a scale that doesn't have to remain plugged in, so as not to raise suspicion. Leaving it out is OK I guess, but not too clandestine, but, like I said, if I go the RC root I'm not breaking any laws of possession, purchase, or trafficking, therefore my roomies won't care and I can leave it out and plugged in(apparently from my gatherings with digital scales, especially "precise" ones, they should be plugged in 24/7, as mentioned before) or as much as possible for a variety of reasons to make it easier on the user. Plus upon every start up they need to warm up for a few minutes, at least five, some wait as much as thirty, so you can eliminate the start up if it remains on. I can also use it for illicit drugs like meth and coke and with the RC cover up I won't have to explain powder and a scale if I get sloppy with my sneakiness. It should be fun to weigh my intravenous doses down to the milligram, in a precise fashion, after doing IV drugs for years with no such instrument. Unfortunately it may perhaps may facilitate me in doing more drugs because I'll feel like a maaaaaaaaaaaaaad scientist. Get addicted to a substance like I said earlier I will not and have been successful so far. Oh ya and not to mention adding to the ritual which I should be taking away from . A good thing is RC's can look like coke or meth anyway (more like meth, that white crystalline powder most RCs are like I presume). So back to which scale,
Acculab Vic-123- $236-$290 Would be paying minimum. (MSRP $435 apparently from a half shady website)
GemPro 250- $135-$170 Would be paying minimum. (couldn't find MSRP)
Both have a resolution of .001 mg which is the minimum precision you should go with RC's (for obvious reasons), a centigram scale won't work because it will read in intervals of 10mg so a non-broken one will probably be 5mg off when they are off, not to take into account inconsistency and error. Capacity is 50g for GemPro and 120g for Acculab. However, I will never need to go above 50...Plus I've heard the higher the max and/or the bigger the range the less accurate which makes some sense. Anyway, I have a low-ish but dependable quality food scale that weighs to the gram if I have something that heavy. Here is where I need help. Ebay offers the "GemPro" (the seller wrote Pro Gem instead of GemPro in every instance, and the pictures he has don't match the real product) for $70 + 10$ shipping =80$ with a this selling record (17,325 positive, 297 neutral, and 310 negative) and it claims new, in box, with tags. A separate website offers it for $135+8$=143$. Scales need to be taken care of, almost anally, especially digital scales because moving them and knocking them around like in transportation can Fck them up. This guy selling them on Ebay, I don't know if the guy moved houses or had sloppy non-fragile shipping to him. It can permanently mess them up. So is it worth the piece of mind to spend double, well, not quite, it would be 1.7 times as much to get the higher priced one, compared to 58% of that for the Ebay one. You can assume the private website (www.oldwillknottscales.com) took better care of it since their entire business is scales ONLY, right? Long winded question, I mean to say, is it worth the extra 63$? I know we have different lives so factors are different, but I'm not in any debt to give you a slim idea of my financial life, 0 debt. Another factor, an Ebay delivery will take exorbitantly longer because this guy is in China compared to the Knott Scales Co. in the USA.
Sartorious shut down Acculab and the Vic-123 has been resurrected as the Sartorious AY123. You can still find them online though, but ya gotta look.
Acculab/Sartorious 123 I didn't investigate the Acculab Ebay page like I did Gem Pro but lemme know what ya find)
99$ +13$shipping on Ebay used I presume=$112
$236 from private dealer
$235 from private dealer
Manufacturer's Warranty is 2 years
links
http://www.affordablescales.com/scal....asp?specs=678
http://balance.balances.com/scales/1955
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acculab-Sart...item2a22fda736
Gem Pro:
$70 + 10$ shipping=80$
135$+ 8$ shipping= 143$
148$ private dealer (same website the other scale is on, here:
links
http://www.oldwillknottscales.com/my...empro-250.html 30yr. warranty with this site (not a typo, THIRTY YEARS)
http://balance.balances.com/scales/9/
Ebay link w/ pictures of the product, check em out
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300512858964
Now here is the product on a Google search "GemPro 250":
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...QEwBw&dur=2165
I emailed the Ebay guy with the Gem Pro, here is my email then his, mine is kinda long as I wanted to act a certain way since my guess is he's a southeast Asia, china, japan area guy who learned English as his 2nd language and he's trying to rip off Americans online using Ebay on some purchases. These types of people are usually the ones scamming people in emails with various techniques. Emails:
"
To *ebay name,* (which is "pretty_temptation" which doesn't sound professional at all)
Hi, name's NAME. (here I tell him I'm a disabled US veteran {which is true} and that I have some time on my hands for a hobby which I need a scale for) I need an ACCURATE mg scale to measure the strong medicine powder I'll be taking. By the way, if ya speak English I would like to talk with you on the phone about buying the GemPro250 digital scale. Upon shopping I narrowed it to two scales. Acculab/Sartorious Vic-123 is the other.
There are a few things that concern me, & make me think you are trying to get away with foul behavior. If you are I don't care just lemme know now so we can move on. Your pics don't match what the actual product looks like. There is no "GemPro 250, Precision" in the top right corner. No "My Weigh" in the top left. Your pics look like you took them off of some other site. Why'd you write "Pro Gem" not 'GemPro' which is right. I like your price, but seeing that the other prices are WAY higher it smells like to good to be true, but please prove me wrong. I only think somewhat negatively because I've never used Ebay before, so I can be way off base. But I need reassurance then I can buy from you. I'll wait 2 full days (48 hours) then if no response I will execute my original plan which was buying from the online company for 135$ per scale with a 30 year warranty.
Cordially,
NAME
His response:
Dear NAME
Thank for your email,I have come to pay my respects to you for your heroic history first.
We sold few hundred digital scales to different parts of the world on past few years,received so much favorable comment and no one returned,you can inquire about our feedback.
In my experience,if you in order the scale to measure the medicine powder is more than sufficient.
Our product exactly the same as "my Weigh gempro 250" on accuracy and function,but not any relationship,and you will pay only half the price.
Don't worry anything,we provide guaranteed forever.
Best regards
Shirley
"
What the fuck is this guy talking about? He doesn't even answer my questions. RED FLAG and god damn that's why I don't use Ebay. And what the fuck with the praising me because I helped my country with years of my service? Scum bag if he actually is a scammer. But, he could be totally legit and just not have good English. This is where regardless of if you answer my questions at least give me your scoop on what you think is going on..
So, decision time, you ready?
1) Buy GemPro 250 or Acculab Vic-123/Sartorious AY-123?
2) Regardless of which scale, since I can buy either online with more shopping and will get the same prices, Ebay or private dealer?
My answers:
1) GemPro 250
2) private dealer (Willknott scales)
THANKS SO MUCH!!! Bluelight rules! If i broke rules doing this somehow then let me know and I will kindly follow a moderator's requests.
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