Long time lurker finally joined, pharmacology nerd and experimental enthusiast

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Hi guys! I'm a pharmacology nerd and prolific experimenter in my mid 20s, finally joining as a member after years of sourcing useful information from the forums. My favorite classes are dissociatives (arylcyclohexylamines specifically) and psychedelics (preferentially tryptamines), with kratom a trusty staple that I like even better than most true opiates and a special but cautious place in my heart for GABAergic anxiolytics. I have a primary educational background in chemistry and secondarily in psychology, so I'm all about structure-activity relationships, receptor selectivity and binding properties. I expect to contribute to the forums with a combination of experience reports, references to scientific studies, and predictive speculation based on mechanisms. I've always found this forum to be a great complement to Erowid in terms of having a bit of that freedom to extrapolate (given a requisite grain of salt) instead of purely recording observation.