That para-near enough anything on an alpha-methylphenethylamine is a bad bloody idea., the more electronegative, looks like the worse it gets....I shudder to think what would come of 4-nitroamphetamine.
Plenty of stuff about SAR.
Its too bad more drug users don't pay some attention to what they are taking and how it works, too many people just suck it down and hope for the best,
Unfortunately too much about GBL and barbs.
Quite a lot about the american political system, and US culture...although possibly not entirely a good thing, but just as well I know, seeing as how my former stalker, and now the love of my life, lives over in the states. Not that I would ever go against her wishes, and be disrespectful enough to bring drugs to her home and put her in danger through exposing her to the fascist jackbooted thugs like the DEA and the laws they enforce in the first place, but things are so different there. Over here, it doesn't mean shit all but there, in the name of ostensibly 'stopping people hurting themselves' the fuckers are willing to ruin people's lives and those of their family, or kill people for it.
I have realised that most people who use don't stop to think about anything beyond perhaps different routes of taking drug X might produce a slower/steeper comeup, alter the dose-response curve (not that they would realise the abstract concept), or that too frequent use of some drugs can produce an addiction, etc.
Too many people are ignorant when it comes to drugs, on one hand, those who just lump everything together without thinking at all, 'drugs are bad', and fail to realise that alcohol is a drug, which they most likely use, as are nicotine and caffeine, I have shocked a fair few people when I explain just how deadly a poison nicotine is, for example. And there are quite a lot who think 'pills' are a different drug to MDMA, they think bugger all of necking a few pills, but the same people would fucking shit a brass brick at the thought of taking extacy, and even think MDMA is a different drug entirely.
Learned plenty of stuff about neuroscience thanks to the creation of ADD.
And perhaps most importantly, a ton of info on how to use safely, I have made a few damn nasty mistakes when I was younger due to being careless, irresponsible or ill educated, but since have learned to for instance, take a test dose, working up from inactive levels of a drug I either haven't taken before, or that is newly developed, how in some cases there is a direct antagonist of the drug which can be used to fully reverse the effects, to have somebody present for certain forms of experimentation, and having refined my knowledge of neuropharmacology, how to predict potential hazardous interactions between drugs.
Most of my drug using friends turn to me first if they have questions of any sort, want to know how something works, if something is 'safe' to take either on its own, or with something else. I have definately saved quite a lot of people from doing something that would have ended in tears, wasting drugs, and very probably, saved a few lives.
I have had the knowledge I gained through BL, and the hive get me some odd reactions though from some user friends, along the lines of 'how the fuck do you know all this stuff', or users that are fine smoking weed, taking benzos, doing coke or pills being highly suspicious to do with some drug with a name that looks like vomit from a can of IUPAC alphabetti spaghetti, quite a few people are fine with 'pills' or 'MDMA', but probably wouldn't dare try '1-(3,4-benzodioxolyl)-2-aminopropane
I tried using one of the nightshades when I was much younger, and was 'overly' cautious in dosing, it had no effect, and looking for more info here, thankfully dissuaded me from any further attempt.
Too right PhillipThylamine, never touched mephedrone, I realised right away what a disaster it was going to be, solely from its chemical structure, but these days, almost everything I take, aside from various plants, is some sort of novel chemical, I very, very rarely ever see a dealer, not a bad thing in my opinion, it saves having to meet shady bastards in dark alleys, most of what I use is completely legal, and it is DEFINATELY better not having to wait on some freezing street corner with my bollocks turning blue waiting for some lazy bastard to show up, if they can be bothered.
Debatable, perhaps, but I think there is a better standard of quality delivered from vendors, rather than dealers, yes there are some shady fuckers around, but at least some judge of standards can often be made through common sense observation, and knowing the supplier, rather than hoping some ratbag who drives a beat up old ford focus doesn't think its better to make a quick few quid ripping somebody off once, who will either beat you senseless or stab you for the trouble, than to provide consistent quality service, which will speak for itself and have customers return again and again.