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Message-ID: <230311Z26111993@anon.penet.fi>
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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From: an40496@anon.penet.fi (Holden Caulfield)
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 22:55:37 UTC
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Subject: Re: Desirable Blotter Adulterants
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From: Nathan.Bowen <Nathan.Bowen@mixcom.mixcom.com>
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Subject: Desirable Blotter Adulterants
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Message-ID: <1993Nov26.142751.3778@mixcom.mixcom.com>
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Nathan.Bowen <Nathan.Bowen@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
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> A few acquaintances of mine have been known to say things
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>about how their last hit of acid had "too much strychnine," or to
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>say that one shouldn't let acid sit around too long because "it
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>decomposes into rat poison." It wasn't too difficult to dispell
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>those rumors, at least among the reasonable folk. However, a few
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>other myths about adulterants haven't died out.
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>Another says he can get it laced with heroin. A few people believe
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>they have taken blotter laced with PCP. In general, this all
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>sounds _very_ unlikely to me, but my stand is based on intuition
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>and a sense that there's just not enough capacity on a square of
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>blotter for significant "lacing" with anything other than LSD.
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> Does anyone have any references to respectable studies done
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>on this subject? I don't need strychnine information, it's the
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>"desirable" adulterants that I'm discussing. Some people _want_
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>their acid "laced with speed", or heroin, or PCP. I don't doubt
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>that there are several different strengths of blotter going around
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>this area. I would even believe that there are batches in
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>circulation that are composed, in some amount, of other LSD-related
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>compounds. But I find it hard to be genuinely worried about
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>finding blotter that's been dusted with PCP.
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>
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> Any and all information you can provide would be appreciated.
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A reference: "The Physician's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs" by David E. Smith
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and Richard Seymour. I had it out from the library here recently and can
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provide ISBN or publisher if necessary. David Smith is the editor (and
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founder) of The Journal of Psychoactive [previously Psychedelic] Drugs, and is
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also the founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, and pioneer of the talk-
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down method of treatment for LSD panic attacks, and is not likely to be
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propagating scare stories and urban legends (However, there are a number of
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minor mistakes in the book that really shouldn't be made by someone who knows
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what they are talking about, for example, "ketamine" is listed among the other
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names for PCP, without the fairly important clarification that this is a
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different chemical, albeit with similar effects.)
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Anyway, they say DOB, 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine, is potent enought to
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be used in blotter form, and has been found in blotter form. The blotters
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are described as "golden tiles"- a yellow and white checkerboard design, and
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"golden eagles"- a yellow bird on green background, something like that.
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I don't recall the area where these were found (or if that was in the book),
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the book was published sometime in the early eighties. By the way, I
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can remember all this off the top of my head because I had read on this
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group that only LSD is active enough to be put on a blotter, so by buying
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blotter LSD you didn't have to worry much about substitutes or adulterants,
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and so I was very interested when I read about blotter DOB.
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However, the effective, typical dose that Seymour and Smith quote is 1-5 mg.
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5 mg sounds high for a blotter, would 1 mg be plausible? I think 1-5 mg also
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agrees with what I've read elsewhere.
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It seems to me that someone selling blotter DOB might pass it off as LSD,
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simply because LSD is known and accepted. I believe the duration, and
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probably other aspects of the trip too are different from LSD, but the effect
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is LSD-like in a general sense, or so I read. I would imagine that an
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inexperienced LSD user could take DOB and not know the difference. Maybe
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DOB is fairly desirable on its own anyway. However, there is a very
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undesirable side effect, vascular spasms, I forget the details, but it's
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very bad. I can't remember if this is the result of normal doses or
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very high doses. Something about one case involving a death ( I think,
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but I'll look the book up and get the details as they give them) , another
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involving amputation of legs. I have read elsewhere that if the problem
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had been correctly treated at first the amputations would have unecessary.
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One of them was aware it was DOB, the other thought it was LSD.
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I would imagine that people aware of the potential for vascular spasms would
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probably not knowingly take DOB.
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