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Pacing yourself at festivals

tbh, ive done the BL approach and been very restricted on when we took our drugs (MDMA, LSD, pot, booze, etc). I had a good time drinking, GREAT time on L, and decent time rolling by breaking it down Friday, Roll, Saturday, L, sunday weed booze.

I've also been 100% completely irresponsible at my last festival and had a GREAT time, keeping in mind i waited around 3 months (and a few days, but who's counting :P) since my last MDMA experience to prep for the assault on my brain.

Original plan, roll at night on first day, roll at night on third day. drink and smoke on 2nd day.

Things changed :naughty face:

We got to the festival late on friday, (started at 11am, got there around 3pm) A really good dj that has something to do with consumption in his name and is dubstep/electro was playing, amongst a solid line-up of sick DJs the rest of the day/night (this was the best day as far as acts were concerned, just shitty headliner). My best friend said "fuck it, gimme my mint now," so, our entire group NOM NOM NOMs their first mint. about an hour later, he asks for a half, everyone noms half of their second mint (keep in mind we only had 2 each for the ENTIRE weekend). a few hours later, everyone noms their other half. So now its about 8pm or so and we're "completely out" of our mdma (i was smart and nabbed a few more mints for "emergency purposes").

Everyone comes down just fine, but wants to go out, my friend busts out one of the "hidden mints" at about 11pm and splits it with me, we go out to the bars.

Next day we wake up just fine and i had enough mints for everyone to have another, was planning on saving for sunday but thought id bring them "just in case." Of course, as soon as we get there after a hard rock show and plenty of moshing, my friends all want mints. We scour the crowd (its really easy to find mints in chicago, u just yell "MINTS?!") and eventually grab up another 10 or so. I decide to save mine and hand out a bunch to everyone. I give a lightshow to a kid who offers me some LSD, i give it to a friend. I now want to be on their level and we go to an afterparty. i drop a mint and ROLL BALLS.

next day, I've saved 3 mints, one for me, my gf, and her friend. We go out to the show, everyone drops another mint (after scouring the crowd) so i take a half, then about 30 minutes later decide "fuck it" and take the other half. Everyone else has had 2-3 mints by this point. I split the last mint (as my gf and her friend dont want to roll) between me and a buddy and sell the last mint to him as well (so we could both have a mint and a half).

I felt fine, just kinda tired for about 3 days after, and pretty much spent the entire weekend (except saturday and sunday during the DAY) rolling. We broke every rule (no re dosing, dont dose during come down, dont roll while wasted, roll once a month at most, dont roll many days in a row, etc) and NOBODY really had a bad come down at all. I took a ton of pre and post load supplements (pirecetam, 5htp, multivitamins, etc) and drank a shit ton of gatorade and water, and also took lorazepam for about a week after the experience.

I feel fine, i dont feel dumb, i was just a little unmotivated and tired at work for the first week, but still got my shit done.

The point is, everyone is different, if you do what you really want and your body tells you that its okay, go for it! Just don't make a habit of going "festival mode" on your drugs a lot and you'll be fine. I'm going to wait a few more weeks but theres another festival coming up, i will only attend one day as i know what i will do if i go all three. I'm gonna roll, and its gonna be epic. 1 month in between is pushing it a little after that kind of consumption.

note: for harm reduction sake, i really dont recommend doing this, one night i took it too far and ate 2mg lorazepam, an adderall, a mint, and was pretty drunk, and i blacked out after i got a concussion from extreme eye wiggles while walking down a huge staircase and texting on my phone (i fell and landed on my head) i think thats actually where the negative side effects (tired, unmotivated, temporary amnesia) came from.

however, i didnt die, i didnt get seriously hurt (in my opinion) and i had a great time.
 
i guess one point i will make is that if you are going to go nuts, please dont eat like 5 pills per dosing session. i see people do that and just get etarded or worse. Keep the doses "smaller" if you're gonna try to roll all day long, and have fun!
 
Due to sniffer Dogs in my city and an average 30-40 arrests per festival, I either pop before i enter the venue or don't go at all :( .... damn the war on drugs, oh for the good old days!!

War on dogs. More like it.

That's when I'd try to find a megadose of MDA before the festival. Keep you going for 6-7 hours and MAYBE be able to sneak 2mg of alprozolam in for comedowns.
 
The crazy thing is now in Melbourne they have these drug amnesty bins where you can ditch your drugs if you get worried about being caught. THey found people were overdosing because they were taking all their drugs at once at the first sign of sniffer dogs. Its ridiculous. Although in the defence of the powers that be, most of the people getting caught at festivals get (i think its called) diversion orders where they have to have drug counselling and don't get a criminal record unless they re-offend within x months. Every festival in Melbourne nets 30-40 busts these days from the dogs, always makes the papers, usually 2 or 3 of which are dealers with substantial amounts, and the rest just casual users. I reckon they are just doing it as PR - they need to be seen to be 'fighting' drugs, even though the REAL fights happen at much higher 'druglord' levels.
 
I would rather enjoy myself then not remember half the weekend so I'll stick to taking mandy at night for all the main acts and re dose half the inital amount every hour. This might be a stupid question but because there is such a huge emphasis on drugs, police and sniffer dogs at this festival I'm debating buying off people inside, what do you think? I'm always up to date with the current pills on pillreports so I'll be able to tell if they're good or not.
 
That's a real shame, what about 2Cs?

Those aswell, I was in Ministry of Sound and my hallucinations were mad! I thought there was a v.i.p area in from of the main bit were the dj's play from, then I thought there was rails all along the side and people were leaning on them, then later on as I took more people started turning green, every time the lights changed colour I thought I was in a different place for example when they turned red I thought I I was in a massive warehouse rave, then it went green I thought we were on top of a sky scraper...bad times then I finally got home, got in bed, looked across the room and I could see like an outline of a person sitting there made up of small particle then all the particles just dropped to the floor. I'm bad with hallucinations and the worst time I tripped out I actually believe these things were real and they looked so real aswell.
 
The funny thing was that I still laugh about with my friend to this day is that we both say exactly the same hallucinations! lol that's the enjoyable part for me
 
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