Doesn't it get annoying when people tell you that RCs are dangerous and that you shouldn't be doing them?
Ha. Usually when people try to talk smack about RCs (or drugs generally) I ask them to produce the toxicology studies they are referring to and then I put them in their place. I drop knowledge on they bitch asses. That and I usually tell them I don't harass them about their dietary choices so they best step. the fuck. back. hehe. <3 Although, two things I think make drugs dangerous: 1. Not knowing the identity or purity of the compound you are working with. Among other things, this makes accurate dosing annoying/impossible.
2. The cultural conversations that surround drugs and their use often sets up a set of expectations in the users. A striking example of this is the use of amphetamines. d and l salt mixes of amphetamines are given to children because they need to focus or are too hyper. College students also capitalize on amphetamine salt mixes as a tool for productivity enhancement. It's very sad/ironic the mainstream conversations on cognitive enhancement identifies adderall as a nooptropic agent --LMTO. This is one side of the cultural conversation that creates expectation and many people embody and live this expectation out with adderall. Now let's talk about meth. Meth will ruin your life. Meth'll turn an otherwise happy heterosexual boy with everything to live for into a toothless cocksucking HIV+ faggot/addict with hep C who will do anything and compromise every relationship just so he can get another hit of tweak. It's very strange, because methamphetamine has been no stranger to being used as filler in ecstasy pills, and indeed some people don't consider it good ecstasy [shoutout to you kids in Oakland ^_^] unless it's a MDMA + (meth)amphetamine containing pill, and yet the rave scene has a different set of conversations about people who use copious amount of ecstasy --they're burnt out, e-tarded, or emotionally stunted through constant acts of age regression play and too much happy hardcore...or dubstep if you're that guy. Assuming all three communities are on amphetamines, to what extent are these behavioral stereotypes directly correlated with use of amphetamines? To what extent is the drug just a psychic prop that allows people to live out their fantasies or culturally defined expectations?
Going off on a bit of a tangent, but regarding the way conversations around drugs shape experiences, one of the things I'm wary of and try to distance myself from is the etheogenic/psuedo-spiritual (and largely heteronormative) mainstream psychedelic crowd that for me all too often seems like over-privileged white people trying to forget (or perhaps have already forgotten) their own histories and buy and consume all that is foreign in desperate attempts to become The Exotic Other. that's like. so domesticated. OMGlike4real. The flip side though is there's the self-destroying hedonists in psychedelia, who I resonate with because there is so much beauty in tragedy, but I must distance myself from them too, because I choose to live exuberantly, asymmetrically, and in balance. I am a researcher, a pioneer, and I humbly hope that this might blog might help change the tone within the community and in wider cultural conversations about what psychedelics, and RCs particularly, are, what they do, and what they can be used for.
