I think bluelight has enough jaded, cynical, close minded fucks as it is, I don't see why everyone is so eager to turn this kid into another one....
If you want to learn about DXM, experiment with it however you see fit. If you think the potential for possible future harm outweighs any possible benefit, forget about it and go do something safer.
This is a pattern I have seen in people over and over again: Whatever the person's first few drug experiences are, those will ground them in a sort of Frame of Reference that they tend to stick to as they move on and try other drugs. People who start off smoking weed, cigarettes, drinking, etc. (most people) are generally scared of high dose pyschedelics and find many of the effects unpleasant simply due to the intense fear that can be produced. They have bad trips because they believe in the concept of a 'bad trip'. Most people I know who use drugs fall into this category.
Then there are people who get into drugs more out of curiosity and wanting to experiment with the drug for its own sake. They deviate from their natural course greatly and seek out drugs that normally they would never come across. They do this simply because they find the idea of the altered consciousness incredibly intriguing and mystifying, and don't really care about social views or money or things outside of the actual experience.... These people, prior to doing drugs, find psychedelics the most interesting and tend to seek them out primarily. When they finally begin to use psychedelics, even at high doses, they experience little if any fear at all, because they do not view the experiences as being inherently fearful or unpleasant. Social impact connected to drugs is minimal, hence they have not done common drugs like alcohol and marijuana previously. They just at one point in their life became fascinated by the concept of the new and alien experiences they saw drugs as capable of producing.
These people can do large amounts of psychedelics safely precisely because of their ignorance. They rarely encounter harm as they are cautious and logical with the details, but once they start tripping, they do not worry about being scared or doing something dangerous. They just enjoy the mystery, the new experience, new life...
The more people are exposed to drugs, the more they try to learn about them in ways other than doing the drug, the more biased they become, the more subjective their interperetation of drugs becomes. The more they percieve themselves as knowledgable, the less they actually know. They go from liking psychedelics, to starting to fear them, to moving on to drugs that produce pleasure, stimulants and speed, to fearing and disliking the negative effects of those drugs too, to opioids, the seemingly most pleasurable and initially harmless drug class, to abandoning drugs alltogether...
THAT is why we have a prohibitionist society, because older members are jaded and experienced with drugs, and that experience gets passed down in words and social customs instead of actually being renewed. They go from seeing all drugs as inherently neutral to seeing a few drugs as inherently bad and a few as good. Why is it that the most "hardcore" drug users, who have used over time, move towards opiates? Heroin? Subjectively, a drugs effects don't get more pussy than opiates...Warm, happy, seductive, mamma-will-make-it-all-better feeling somehow encased in a hardcore, tough, badass exterior.... No longer do they want the wild, intense unknown of LSD or DXM, they want the predictable, soft, gentle, guaranteed-happy hug of opiates. They see unknown experiences as "potentially dangerous, must avoid", and they don't want others to have these experiences either, they to just say "No no NO you don't know what you're dealing with, you're in way over your head, take my word for it kid, that shit is dangerous, it is not a toy, don't mess with it! If you get burned by it, it might come back to burn me somehow..." The government preaches that, and so do most elder members of bluelight, albeit without noticing. They have good intentions, they are just blinded by past experience, refusing to comprehend something new, refusing to ignore and forget what they think they already know for sure... They want to restrict the freedoms of others, because THEY know better, THEY don't want these weak naive kids trying to find things out for themselves, but hate it when other people just tell them to thoughtlessly accept something.
So computer collector or whatever your name is, ignore these people, find things out for yourself...Fuck, ignore me, go have your own experiences. Read erowid a bit, learn only enough to be safe on the most basic levels, and beyond that let your intelligence guide you. Don't take anything a DARE officer tells you as the truth, or a BlueLight Online Drug Forum Moderator either, they're equally laughable at the end of the day...They aren't wrong, or dumb, or any better or worse than anyone else, but they're at a different point of the cycle, looking at themselves, not you...
Fuck it all. I'd say skim the erowid DXM FAQ and throw back a 4oz of Robo Max, but really what you want to do is all that matters - ignore all these people feigning superiority, (me included), the joke's on them!
And yes, DXM is very different from any other psychedelic drugs I've ever taken. Doesn't mean it's not a good experience (at least in my opinion).