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But you got ahold of it despite its legality. Ironic, no? These drugs should be treated as seriously as any other (know your drug!). Some will fail to do that,

But you got ahold of it despite its legality. Ironic, no? These drugs should be treated as seriously as any other (know your drug!). Some will fail to do that, but that is how it goes. The moment I hear "drug X caused this bad thing to happen" I think of how much suffering alcohol consumption does globally on a daily basis. That tempers all associated concerns.

Cougher 7y ago
"That tempers all associated concerns." Until you compare the number of sufferers as a percentage of users, there is no tempering of concerns here.
- dunmalg 7y ago
  One might say the same thing about building a significant degree concern based upon random anecdotes.
GordonS 7y ago
There is also the issue of QA in the supply chain (to be clear, by making this comment I'm not necessarily saying that the GP in particular didn't have pure DMT). I've seen multiple studies, mostly looking at pills sold as MDMA, which examined the actual content of samples of street drugs, and the findings were not exactly surprising - almost all samples were not pure (I mean, aside from cutting agents!) MDMA, often containing significant amounts of amphetamine. In a legal, regulated marketplace, there are guarantees of quality, which would represent a huge increase in safety for drug users. With a legal marketplace, production would also shift from global cartels to local businesses - improving lives, creating local jobs and increasing tax revenues. The fact is that there will always be a market for drugs - people have afterall used drugs for millennia - so why not accept that and try to make something better of it? There are of course risks to taking any drugs, just as there are with alcohol - but the potential for good by legalising is staggering.
kasi 7y ago
Fair - my suggestion would be to legalize it, but similarly to cannabis where consumer needs to be an adult and it needs to be sold with warnings.

Cougher 7y ago

"That tempers all associated concerns." Until you compare the number of sufferers as a percentage of users, there is no tempering of concerns here.

dunmalg 7y ago
One might say the same thing about building a significant degree concern based upon random anecdotes.

GordonS 7y ago

There is also the issue of QA in the supply chain (to be clear, by making this comment I'm not necessarily saying that the GP in particular didn't have pure DMT). I've seen multiple studies, mostly looking at pills sold as MDMA, which examined the actual content of samples of street drugs, and the findings were not exactly surprising - almost all samples were not pure (I mean, aside from cutting agents!) MDMA, often containing significant amounts of amphetamine. In a legal, regulated marketplace, there are guarantees of quality, which would represent a huge increase in safety for drug users. With a legal marketplace, production would also shift from global cartels to local businesses - improving lives, creating local jobs and increasing tax revenues. The fact is that there will always be a market for drugs - people have afterall used drugs for millennia - so why not accept that and try to make something better of it? There are of course risks to taking any drugs, just as there are with alcohol - but the potential for good by legalising is staggering.

kasi 7y ago

Fair - my suggestion would be to legalize it, but similarly to cannabis where consumer needs to be an adult and it needs to be sold with warnings.