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Picking out a few horror stories and ignoring everything else is a bit too easy - it's not all that bad. How often do people measure, log how much or test pote
by stinos 11y ago
Picking out a few horror stories and ignoring everything else is a bit too easy - it's not all that bad.
How often do people measure, log how much or test potency? Never.
That is simply untrue.
I don't have any numbers of course. But from the people I actually know, including myself, almost everyone who was trying something new for the first time would first check what a normal dosage was and then take like 1/4th, or less depending on what type of drug, of that first just to see what to expect. We even had test kits for XTC pills which would check if they'd actually contain MDMA.
Moreover since a couple of years in the Netherlands there are labs to which you can send your drugs to get test results back about amount of active ingredients and so on.
This all just to illustrate there are in fact sensible drug users out there and not everyone, or everyone in a certain scene, just ingests/snorts whatever you give them.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoIts a much different situation in the Netherlands though. In the US, you have fear of criminal prosecution for recreational amounts; testing is (from my observations) non-existant unless you're an educated, proactive recreational drug user.
- ryanlol 11y agoOf which there exists a plenty, more so after the rise of Silk Road & Co.
- phaer 11y agoWhile you could still be prosecuted in Austria, there's at least one institution in Vienna which tests (recreational) drugs for users and is accepted by the local police for their harm-reduction. The catch is that they can't return your (mostly quite small) samples after testing for legal reasons. http://www.checkyourdrugs.at/ http://www.checkyourdrugs.at/ if you read german.
- paublyrne 11y ago* But from the people I actually know, including myself, almost everyone who was trying something new for the first time would first check what a normal dosage was and then take like 1/4th, or less depending on what type of drug, of that first just to see what to expect.* My younger self wouldn't recognise that kind of behaviour. The first time I took ecstasy, I ended up taking five pills over the night. That seems like bizarre, reckless behaviour to me now, but trying telling that to my younger self. He was bizarre and reckless.