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Still don't know why anyone wants to try RCs

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Does anyone actually enjoy these?

I still can't believe the police haven't seen past the intricate and sophisticated disguising mechanism (bath salts) and decided to introduce some form of legislation.

These vendors guys, so damn clever.

I wonder if somewhere there is a website which sells actual bath salts that people mistake for legal highs=D. Why go to a supermarket and get some when you can find a poorly researched chemical on the Internet to relax in the bath with.

This post might seem like a belittling of the idea. In reality I just fear for people's safety, I don't think it's less cool to do something legal, because in reality they are more harmful for your health and less enjoyable.
 
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not all rc's are the same. not all rc users buy bath salts.
i think pretty often its just that people find it interesting to try something, to have an experience they'ver never had before.
also, price, legality und purity issues play a big role.
 
I don't think i've met anyone (myself included) that has done a legal high because they were looking for something new.

Maybe an assertion, but I think most of the people who do buy them are just looking for a suitable legal replacement
 
We (informed RC fans) don't as a rule buy anything other than extremely pure substances that are properly labelled. That means no 'party pills', bath salts, legal highs, etc. Unless its a reputable vendor that I can confirm via other RC users is selling proper compounds, and sells them by their proper name with MSDS, ideally NMR/HPLC spectra as well, it shouldn't be bought, period.

As long as those rules are satisfied, there is a whole *galaxy* of fascinating flavors of psychedelic, stimulant, and empathogenic compounds out there. So, if you can get pure, responsibly sold compounds, why *not* use RCs?
 
To be fair, the only legal highs I have tried have been stimulants or dissociatives.

Hallucinogenics just aren't my thing.
 
"informed RC fans"

well, give me your opinion on what is good and what isn't.

Because the only ones I have tried are the ones which are renowned as some of the most popular (6-APB, B2 and 4-MEO-PCP)

Can't help but laugh at the irony of the word informed, being informed about something that has very low research and most of the time the only information you have about it is the feedback of others!
 
This type of thread belongs more in Druf Culture so I'm going to move it there.

IMO, most of what the media calls 'Bath Salts' nowadays is not a packet mixed with dangerous combinations of cathinones and strange amphetamines, but rather actual chemicals bought online and shipped to the customers house. These chemicals are sometimes sold in brand name packets, but most people who are into RC's are going to want to buy a specific chemical.

As for why RC's (which includes a vast range of chemicals from cannabinoids to dissociatives to amphetamines and opiates, is that they are often cheaper than 'the' real thing, are relatively pure (at least that's been my experience) and some of them are truly incredibly euphoric. Two examples that come to mind are 4MCC (Mephedrone) and MDPV- I had gotten heavily hooked on IV cocaine use. A friend of mine and her boy friend gave me a small capsule filled with 150mg of PV and 5mg weighed out to try right then and there. Sure enough I shot it up and the rush was so similar to cocaine that I couldn't believe it. I never asked for the source to buy it on my own but I was given it one or two more times until I found a vendor and bought a 2grams of that and it nearly made me to insane by the time I ran out. Luckily, a week after placing my order MDPV became banned in the statei lived in so I couldn't get anymore. The same thing happened with 4MCC, though I found that chemical to be a little less demonic than 'PeeV', but still, it was super euphoric (more so than cocaine or PV) and it was incredibly addictive.

I'm not attempting to romanticize these drugs-I had no control over either and MDPV really left me fucked up every time I got a hold of some-but I think that people see 'RC's' as this catalogue of mysterious drugs that you buy at a truck stop and then smoke out of a crack pipe with your buddy, after which one of you gets your face ripped off-that's not the truth...but that doesn't mean that the availability of certain highly potent compounds is a good idea, and due to people's greed I think a lot of people have gotten hurt because of these drugs...and ruined the availability of the rather benign and innocent ones for everyone else.
 
Maybe I used the incorrect term, none of the legal highs have been branded! I'm a big researcher. And have been curious to try a couple. These are all bought from reputable sources of vendors from people here on Bluelight.

But when you've experienced the tried and tested, sitting in a pub having 6-7 pints (not a marijuana smoker) just for it to wear off and it still doesn't work, you know that the whole legal situation behind it is completely fucked up and it makes you incredible cynical

Seriously, just not for me. And I now look down on anyone who enjoys them because I can't understand why they would develop such an enjoyment from them.
 
in reality they are more harmful for your health and less enjoyable.

That's rather broad statement. WHAT is more harmful than WHAT? And less to enjoyable to WHO?

I think Deinonychus summed it up nicely. Bath salts and 'legal high' products are unreliable mystery cocktails, which I wouldn't touch. However, many people out there buying "real" drugs or classic drugs or whatever you wanna call them, are also getting unreliable substances which are frequently cut, or are not at all what they're supposed to be - especially in the case of "ecstasy" which is a virtually meaningless term now as a description for MDMA.

What about cocaine? How many average recreational users can actually say they're getting high purity, relatively uncut stuff?

Informed RC users with good sources (-not always easy to find-) can often get relatively pure substances, and for a fraction of the price of street drugs.

It's important to distinguish specific RCs from generic 'legal highs' and bath salts.
 
B2 - very similar to meow meow, moreish, very long lasting, awake long after the feeling's gone. Prolonged higher heart rate.
6-APB - no euphoria, stimulation for 24 hours from a normal dose.
4-MEO-PCP - to be fair, i'm sure if I was a ketamine fan I would enjoy this, but i'm not, so it wasn't my thing, and I suffered from derealization for days after.

MDMA - shorter lasting. I can sleep pretty much after 6 hours, don't have to waste another day just trying to get tired. Generally safer, the science is clear for everyone to see. Pretty much the only drug that experts recommend being legalized.
 
There are so many RCs that you can't really put them all in one group and say they are all shit (or great). There are some really good ones, some really bad ones and everything in between.
 
At the end of the day, I think this all stems from the fact that in a world where protecting it's citizen's importance is a priority, you can order something through the post that can cause more damage than something which is illegal and you can be arrested for.

If RCs are banned, I would not care.
 
why do you want to regulate what people do to themselves?

the drug war is a disaster, and law enforcement was meant to protect people from other people, not themselves.

why is law enforcement allowed to regulate what a person chooses to do? why not allow police to regulate other institutions such as schools and church?

you claim youre "a big researcher", but the chems you described that you have 'researched' are very new on the market. in fact, the way you speak tells me you are lacking any significant evidence or even a general idea of the nature of these compounds and some of the things you are saying.

these compounds, they cover a VERY broad spectrum of modes of action. they also differ in structure significantly, and you cant just ban all of these under a general rule because there is no fine line. if there was, it would have been done a long time ago, along with increasing crime and violence... just like prohibition of alcohol.

also, some of these compounds actually do have significant research if you attended a university or had access to chem journals. some even dating back to 1960 or earlier.

dont forget, the combined injuries/deaths/violence/rape/suicide related to all "drugs" does not even come close to alcohol + tobacco. it is simply negligible.
 
I wonder if somewhere there is a website which sells actual bath salts that people mistake for legal highs=D.
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jokes aside i think this is were the laws have failed and the so called war on drugs. fact is people will always woant to get high and if the dont have access to proper drugs then they will go for htr next best thing. i think its also for some people wanting to experiendce somethin new where i can see the appeal.
 
Every synthetic substance was a research chemical at one point. Why did people try them? RESEARCH.


/thread imo
 
I don't think i've met anyone (myself included) that has done a legal high because they were looking for something new.

Maybe an assertion, but I think most of the people who do buy them are just looking for a suitable legal replacement

I did. Legality had a bit to do with it but I saw AMT and researched it. I decided it was for me and tried it, it was my first psychedelic.
 
Research chemicals are cheap, pure, novel, quasi-legal, and relatively easy to get. Cocaine's purity has gone to shit in general. MDMA is nowhere to be found in some places anymore. And the prevalence and purity of crystal meth is way off now too. Even actual crack is hard to find now. Street dealing is dead.
 
Let's demonstrate some absurdities and render these arguments false and foolish, shall we?

"informed RC fans"

well, give me your opinion on what is good and what isn't.

Because the only ones I have tried are the ones which are renowned as some of the most popular (6-APB, B2 and 4-MEO-PCP)

Yup, cause popularity makes it all okay. According to your posts in this thread, it's reckless to use RCs... unless they are renowned/popular. That's some top-shelf logic there, for sure.

Can't help but laugh at the irony of the word informed, being informed about something that has very low research and most of the time the only information you have about it is the feedback of others!

Except that many of the research chemicals I use are psychedelics, and very many of them have been comprehensively studied by the Shulgins. But that's irrelevant anyway because your argument is fundamentally flawed. Unless you abstain from all drugs, specifically drugs bought on the black market, you cannot speak ill of others' use of any given compound do to 'lack of research' or 'potential for contamination/toxicity', because those factors apply to street drugs just as much.

As for 'relying on the testimony of others', is that not what you're doing when you say RCs are bad, except for when they are renowned? if you use research chemicals at all you accept some risk, but that again applies to drugs bought on the street as well.

By relying on the testimony of scientifically trained individuals such as the Shulgins or Nichols, and supplementing that with the accounts provided by trusted, knowledgeable individuals I am friends with, I am being responsible by *managing* that risk, which is a *calculated* risk. You on the other hand are relying on popularity alone by choosing to excuse your use of 'renowned' RCs, and the 'wisdom' of the crowd does not exceed or even equal the wisdom of knowledgeable and scientifically trained individuals.

Maybe I used the incorrect term, none of the legal highs have been branded! I'm a big researcher. And have been curious to try a couple. These are all bought from reputable sources of vendors from people here on Bluelight.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. My earlier reference to *responsibly* using RCs meant buying only extremely pure compounds sold by their chemical names. Buying branded/brand-name RCs is dangerous, and anything sold explicitly as a 'legal high' should be completely avoided, doubly so if the active ingredients are not specified.

But when you've experienced the tried and tested, sitting in a pub having 6-7 pints (not a marijuana smoker) just for it to wear off and it still doesn't work, you know that the whole legal situation behind it is completely fucked up and it makes you incredible cynical

Still not understanding. Are you talking about drinking and/or waiting for a 'legal high' to wear off?

Seriously, just not for me. And I now look down on anyone who enjoys them because I can't understand why they would develop such an enjoyment from them.

That's fine if they're not for you, though I would wager you have bought a 'legal high' or 'party powder', etc., or some similarly unscrupulous, dangerous, and irresponsible (both as a vendor and as a user) product. Thus you might sing a different tune if you had the opportunity to use a properly-labelled, highly pure RC. All the same, no matter your opinion, talking trash about people that enjoy RCs is just plain wrong. It's rude, small-minded, egocentric, and hypocritical to boot since you've admitted to using 'renowned' RCs yourself.

Tell me, what the hell should it matter to you what I choose to put into my body? Why does my personal choice, which completely lacks any effect on you at all, make you mad/make you look down on me? I'm serious here, I'd like to hear your justification for such an immature and absurd stance.

At the end of the day, I think this all stems from the fact that in a world where protecting it's citizen's importance is a priority, you can order something through the post that can cause more damage than something which is illegal and you can be arrested for.

This is backward in every way I can imagine.

First, protecting my freedom to do as I please is incredibly critical to the continued success of our country. What possible good can come from *not* protecting individual liberty for a country's citizens? Further, in the US, I *don't* have the freedom to do what I want to my own body as long as it doesn't harm others. Examples being street drugs being illegal, gay marriage being illegal in many places (I'm not gay but I want people who *are* gay to have every freedom I have), the illegal nature of prostitution, etc.

Second, and more relevant that gay marriage or prostitution is the fact that RCs *are* illegal as soon as you think about putting them into your body! And indeed they are just as equally illegal as any street drug when I do consume an RC, even if it is legal to possess provided human or animal consumption is not the plan.

Third, how the hell are RCs any more dangerous or harmful than an illegal street drug? Please, enlighten me.

Finally, the integrity of our mail is critical! Would you be okay with the government just opening up your mail on a whim? Because the USPS is federal, they need a *federal* warrant to open your mail, which has a much higher barrier to successfully being requested than a state warrant. Really though, I imagine you would be just fine with the Feds or even just your mail carrier opening and perusing your mail at their leisure, right?

If RCs are banned, I would not care.

Now hold on a minute. You just said that RCs 'can cause more damage than something which is illegal'. So if that we're true, then you would object to them just as strenuously whether they are legal or not, because your objection to them is based in accordance with the level of danger that you perceive them to possess, am I right? Thus either the 'greater level of danger' is a falsehood and a straw-man, or else you are simply incapable of logically persuing an argument. Which is it gonna be then?

And seriously, do you prefer all drugs to be banned? Or all drugs to be legal? Because you can't have it both ways in some ill-conceived half-measure, because an argument for banning RCs or legalization of all drugs is logically built upon an ethical belief in the abstract: either it is wrong to get high, or else it is wrong to stop people from putting chemicals into their bodies when nobody else but the user has the potential to be harmed. So thus take your pick: either all drugs should be legal or they should all be illegal. Or the third option: you've shown yourself to be incapable of sound argument construction and logical deduction... for a second time!

To everybody elss: I don't mean to be an ass, nor am I trying to feed what may be an outright troll. I'm simply demonstrating just how many inconsistencies there are in this fellow's stated opinions. I don't even have to poke holes in his arguments, as the holes are already there, and in seriously large quantities at that!
 
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Well I think the main reason people do RC's is because of how accessible they are. If you're living in an area where you don't have any contacts for drugs then it's so much easier to just buy them online. I think RC's are inevitably a bad thing though, some of them aren't even tested on animals and there's a possibility that it'll really harm some people.
 
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