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Misc Why is blotter paper (or gel tabs) so rare outside of psychedelics?

Esperighanto

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Hey guys,

Just wondering if anybody here knows why more things outside of psychedelics don't move on blotter paper? PCP and tons of its variants such as 3-HO-PCP, mephenaqualone, a variety of potent muscle relaxants like tizanidine, synthetic cannabinoids as well as semi-synthetics like [THC/HHC]-[P/H/B/P-O/H-O/B-O], methamphetamine, desoxypipradol, and I'm sure a million other things are potent enough to fit on blotter. Blotter is a notoriously inaccurate RoA if it's applied foolishly, but gel tabs are hard to fuck up making. Why would people still press things like mephenaqualone, tizanidine, methamphetamine intended for oral consumption (like pressed Adderall is), benzos, etc. when that just makes them harder to hide from authorities and therefore more difficult to traffic and more difficult to possess.

Recently a single DN vendor has picked up on this reality and is moving 100% of their products on paper now, and it includes nitazenes (used to include fent), synthetic cannabinoids of mysterious unknown chemical identity, and benzodiazepines. "Prison paper" has always been a thin for spice, but benzos seemingly took a long ass time to catch up to the fact that a full sheet of blotter only requires 20mg of clobromazolam or clonazolam to make 100 200ug doses.

Fitting 10mg of DOM, 12mg of THC-H, and 1.5mg of Etizolam on a single tab has not been problematic at all, and my first run-ins with 3-HO-PCP were in the form of gel tabs. Is there any reason that the market drive of increasing stealth hasn't led anything that can fit on paper, to be impregnated into blotter instead of pressed into bulky ass highly irregular pills like dirty thirties, pressed xannies, pressed addies, etc?

Edit: Just realized this might fit better in the Drug Culture focus forum, if somebody wants to scoot it over there please do, my apologies if Other Drugs was the wrong location for this thread.
 
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