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Psychedelics (particularly tabs) are not as safe anymore because of increased availability of cheap designer drugs that have similar effects to LSD, but are muc

Psychedelics (particularly tabs) are not as safe anymore because of increased availability of cheap designer drugs that have similar effects to LSD, but are much less safe. The NBOMEs and bromo dragonfly are two examples of such drugs that have been implicated in accidental deaths. I was reminded of this recently when an old acquaintance of mine who was a heroin addict died. I assumed it must have been the usual H + fentanyl OD, but he actually had a heart attack after taking some psychedelic tabs

qwerty456127 8y ago
Nice point. Nevertheless there is much less sense in taking these if better options are available (opiate addicts are usually forced to take whatever they can find by their urge) and the information is well-available (e.g. the second link on Google to bromo dragonfly leads to PsychonautWiki wich immediately shows you an honest warning banner: "Bromo-DragonFLY is linked to an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths", it also says "it produces unusually long effects which reportedly can last up to several days" - I doubt many people are brave enough to go this deep, even and especially if I were an opiate addict I wouldn't dare), people have all it takes to make up their minds so the mere fact of availability is not a death sentence. There indeed is, however, a problem of dishonest or ignorant dealers selling really dangerous substances like that to ignorant or naïve people telling them just that's acid or kind of but I believe this problem would be much less widespread if people could get safe psychedelics legally or even if the black market itself was allowed to develop healthier so dealers had to establish reputation and care about the customers experience. Also, as far as I understand, the major reason for this kind of drugs to be developed and marketed is because classic psychedelics are too hard to produce for underground labs so they have to consider cheaper and easier alternatives.

qwerty456127 8y ago

Nice point. Nevertheless there is much less sense in taking these if better options are available (opiate addicts are usually forced to take whatever they can find by their urge) and the information is well-available (e.g. the second link on Google to bromo dragonfly leads to PsychonautWiki wich immediately shows you an honest warning banner: "Bromo-DragonFLY is linked to an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths", it also says "it produces unusually long effects which reportedly can last up to several days" - I doubt many people are brave enough to go this deep, even and especially if I were an opiate addict I wouldn't dare), people have all it takes to make up their minds so the mere fact of availability is not a death sentence. There indeed is, however, a problem of dishonest or ignorant dealers selling really dangerous substances like that to ignorant or naïve people telling them just that's acid or kind of but I believe this problem would be much less widespread if people could get safe psychedelics legally or even if the black market itself was allowed to develop healthier so dealers had to establish reputation and care about the customers experience. Also, as far as I understand, the major reason for this kind of drugs to be developed and marketed is because classic psychedelics are too hard to produce for underground labs so they have to consider cheaper and easier alternatives.