Me and my friends found this drug conceptually hilarious back in the day and used to crack a lot of jokes about it.
Its apparently almost as strong as LSD, takes hours to start working and the effect lasts several days. Worse in every respect. Why would anyone ever choose it?
Mislabeled and tainted RCs became enough of a risk when fentanyl and fentanyl analogs started gaining popularity that the guys I knew who were ordering from overseas just stopped messing with RCs. It's disappointing that it ended up like that. 2009-12 I had access to pure and dirt cheap 2C-E, methylone, 4-ACO-DMT, the JWHs, ketamine, methoxetamine, LSD (I don't think there were any analogs available yet?). It was a crazy time.
Yuuuuuuup this right here. That's right when I was in university and was definitely the peak. Maybe a bit before when mephedrone was big. I feel like I aged out of it at just the right time. Now I don't even recognize the names of what's going around.
I hung out with people who got various powder packages in the mail at that time. It was interesting, but already I knew it wasn't my scene. Still I learned a lot of names and watched the use on occasion. Looking at it now I'm glad it was then and I didn't have to worry about the various opioids getting mixed in. I don't think I thought enough about the consequences even though I worried about my friends dealing with various manners of contamination.
This was when I was in college/just out of college too. Most of the guys I knew who became dealers were students and concert promoters and most of the customers were hippy and rave kids. This group was into Bitcoin early on because of silk road. But a lot of this stuff predates Bitcoin and was sold on the clearnet as plant food and bath salts. That's where the term bath salts came from. It wasn't necessarily one cathinone, it was just like this isn't for human consumption, it's just bath salts. The stuff would be shipped here either hidden in other objects or just mislabeled as common chemicals. I only know of one guy who got a package confiscated, but he was using a fake ID to rent mailboxes so wasn't a big deal. Oh yeah, fake IDs were big back then too. I'm in my mid/late 30s now and I wonder what kind of devious shit the kids are getting up to these days. Anyway, the paranoia from being involved in all of this was part of what lead me to leave the country to clear my head. The funny thing with that is I almost got involved in the same shit in Australia because I met this meth dealer who had heard about methylone but didn't have a source. I was talking to someone back home about setting up some deals that we'd route through the US but I figured that was a bad idea and I didn't want to go to prison in another country. Anyway, things chilled out and I'm just a dude working a blue collar job and I eat THC gummies every now and then. Speaking of THC gummies, wow, marijuana has been legal in the US since 2018. I was in that industry for a couple years but my business was too small to survive. Thanks for reading rambling thoughts as I drink my morning coffee.
