badweather
Greenlighter
Greetings all!
I've been a psychonaut since the 70's (born at the very beginning of the 60's), spent almost 6 years in prison for cannabis and LSD, got out by winning my appeal in '97 (was scheduled for release in 2001). I spent years learning the practice of drug law in the process (though I'm now out of date I think). The reason many people were released early on LSD charges were the revision of the sentencing guidelines to count one hit of LSD as 800 micrograms instead of just weighing the paper. This all went down after a kid got caught with 20 hits of acid and the cops weighed the sugar cubes they were on. This resulted in nearly a life sentence for 20 hits. Naturally this outraged mothers in California where the case was being tried and resulted in significant downward departures for many of us imprisoned for LSD after much pressure was brought to bear against the sentencing commission.
I have little experience with many of the new drugs available today but absolutely love reading about them, am interested in someday trying some of them and even more interested in the fact that there is renewed interest in them in the scientific community. Finally the war on drugs seems like it's coming to an end.
I'm a strong supporter of our right to self medicate as well as our right to alter our state of consciousness. I play music, write poetry, and consider myself a radical, anarchist, social activist.
Cannabinoids are why I found Bluelight. Looking up the vapor points of various cannabinoids and terpinoids led me here. Mostly because of a discussion with friends regarding the differences between ingestion methods (vaporization or smoking) and how they both alter the entourage effect by differences in temperature. Smoking is faster but destroys a little of it perhaps (speculation on my part here) and the slower, more economical vaporizer takes far longer to get at all the cannabinoids especially the high vapor temp ones like cannabichromene and THCV both of which vaporize at 428 degrees (cellulose combusts at 451).
Incidentally, I started smoking cannabis when I was 11 years old. By the time I was 13 or so I considered myself a medical user because of a diagnosis of ADHD. Marijuana did what the dexemyl and the ritalin were supposed to do (but didn't) and I swore off Big Pharma from then on. I knew by the time I was twelve that I was going to prison someday and pretty much steeled myself for the inevitability. I started growing weed at 14 in the ravine behind my house and then eventually on the uninhabited islands on the Mississippi river. I didn't stop till I was finally thrown in prison at the end of 91 when I was 29. It was a good run and I'm proud of all that I've done regarding the supplying of cannabis and psychedelics to my friends over the years. Since I've gotten out of prison, I haven't grown a single plant. Hoping that is changing though I might have to change states... I'm not interested in fighting another ten years to finally be able to smoke on my death bed legally in my birth state.
Probably more of an intro than was needed but after reading the rules of engagement here at BL I realized I'd neglected doing it which is unusual for me. I value these forums whatever their subject might be and the dedication of those that make them just about the best feature of the internet IMHO.
Thank you all for what you're doing here.
I've been a psychonaut since the 70's (born at the very beginning of the 60's), spent almost 6 years in prison for cannabis and LSD, got out by winning my appeal in '97 (was scheduled for release in 2001). I spent years learning the practice of drug law in the process (though I'm now out of date I think). The reason many people were released early on LSD charges were the revision of the sentencing guidelines to count one hit of LSD as 800 micrograms instead of just weighing the paper. This all went down after a kid got caught with 20 hits of acid and the cops weighed the sugar cubes they were on. This resulted in nearly a life sentence for 20 hits. Naturally this outraged mothers in California where the case was being tried and resulted in significant downward departures for many of us imprisoned for LSD after much pressure was brought to bear against the sentencing commission.
I have little experience with many of the new drugs available today but absolutely love reading about them, am interested in someday trying some of them and even more interested in the fact that there is renewed interest in them in the scientific community. Finally the war on drugs seems like it's coming to an end.
I'm a strong supporter of our right to self medicate as well as our right to alter our state of consciousness. I play music, write poetry, and consider myself a radical, anarchist, social activist.
Cannabinoids are why I found Bluelight. Looking up the vapor points of various cannabinoids and terpinoids led me here. Mostly because of a discussion with friends regarding the differences between ingestion methods (vaporization or smoking) and how they both alter the entourage effect by differences in temperature. Smoking is faster but destroys a little of it perhaps (speculation on my part here) and the slower, more economical vaporizer takes far longer to get at all the cannabinoids especially the high vapor temp ones like cannabichromene and THCV both of which vaporize at 428 degrees (cellulose combusts at 451).
Incidentally, I started smoking cannabis when I was 11 years old. By the time I was 13 or so I considered myself a medical user because of a diagnosis of ADHD. Marijuana did what the dexemyl and the ritalin were supposed to do (but didn't) and I swore off Big Pharma from then on. I knew by the time I was twelve that I was going to prison someday and pretty much steeled myself for the inevitability. I started growing weed at 14 in the ravine behind my house and then eventually on the uninhabited islands on the Mississippi river. I didn't stop till I was finally thrown in prison at the end of 91 when I was 29. It was a good run and I'm proud of all that I've done regarding the supplying of cannabis and psychedelics to my friends over the years. Since I've gotten out of prison, I haven't grown a single plant. Hoping that is changing though I might have to change states... I'm not interested in fighting another ten years to finally be able to smoke on my death bed legally in my birth state.
Probably more of an intro than was needed but after reading the rules of engagement here at BL I realized I'd neglected doing it which is unusual for me. I value these forums whatever their subject might be and the dedication of those that make them just about the best feature of the internet IMHO.
Thank you all for what you're doing here.
