How to use drugs - safely - from the guy who tried them all | Dominic Milton Trott
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- How to take drugs safely, with the author of “The Drug Users Bible” Dominic Milton Trott
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Over a 10 year period, Dominic Milton Trott self-administered 157 psychoactive drugs and documented his experiences on each one. He then created the book, The Drug User’s Bible, to inform curious minds about safe drug use.
With steadily increasing rates of both illicit drug use and overdose deaths, one can easily argue that the country is losing the War on Drugs. And making matters worse is the fact that illicit drug research is incredibly scarce, due to the legal difficulty of obtaining substances.
In Trott’s opinion, overdose deaths occur primarily because people lack access to information on safe drug use. So with a focus on harm reduction and risk mitigation, his book documents things like onset time, dosing, and the duration of effects.
This episode is from Dope Science, a Freethink original series about exploring the latest scientific research around illicit drugs and how shifts in cultural attitudes are unlocking new opportunities for improving the health of millions of people.
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I’m glad the “take a lot of drugs and write a book about it” model is finally being employed by scientists.
Read some famous books from people in the 19th and 20th century and you will see that plenty of people have done that lol.
Maybe not scientists but like....Edgar Allen Poe ........Lewis Carol...etc
@@Yuri92001 Mr Trott is also not even a scientist. PIKHAL is perhaps the most famous and (in my opinion) best example of a real scientist doing a bunch of drugs and writing a book about it.
Dude basically copied Erowid and wrote a book. Literally the same mission statement in his book. Making money off of plagiarizing a non-profit effort is not cool.
@@ThatGuy-kz3fx actually these "obscure" compounds are everywhere if you know where to look.
@@consciousmatter7584 yeah I don't really buy the whole responsibility and promotion of safe use thing. Dude saw an opportunity and took it. Nothing too noble about that.
Are people who don't do basic research online really gonna read an entire book?
Happy new year btw guys
Why is no one talking about how his initials are literally DMT ....
Lol for real 😂 what a guy!
holy sh1t. I didn't catch that. hahaa.. thanks.
Joe Rogan has just entered the chat
😂
Because coincidence is not that interesting
"Always remember you can take more. You can't take less."
Wise words.
No shit
I was actually given this advice to weight loss and it’s very affective!
Duhhh everybody knows that just always start low you can always take more laiter i say that when i was 15... i mean common everybody knows that, or are people realy that stupid?..
@Samich what it means is that if you end up taking too much you cant take it out of your system, however, if you take too little to feel anything you could just take a little bit more.
Been a staple phrase on bluelight and erowid for a long time.
This guy has probably already saved more lives than any “war on drugs”.
May have added to it as well :(
Probably not seeing how important opium was in history.
If the “war on drugs” had never existed, we would know way more, and no lives would’ve been lost.
War kill people, it never been meant to save people
@@vivienpandart are you 12 by any chance?
Congratulations on producing such an valuable tome. The authorities choice/s in keeping the general public, uninformed about drugs, is SO DANGEROUS. They idiotically think that if they make them illegal, people will simply ignore the subject. In my experience, when something is illicit, it promotes attraction to it, from intelligent people.❤ Hopefully you have saved many lives.
D.A.R.E
@@St.Calamity Isn't it ironic, before my DARE classes, I knew what all of these things were, but had no desire to try them. But after the officer told us his scary stories, that were very obviously extremely exaggerated, some outright fabricated. I now had a desire to try them. If only to learn the truth. Had I been taught the truth from the start, I may or may not have found myself trying the same drugs. But I would certainly not have been going into it with a distrust for the people that I should be able to trust, and the things that I should be able to trust that I know the truth about.
I did bet hooked, and I did get clean. But what gets me is in the beginning, when I was a kid, my interest in drugs was to find out what the truth was. We certainly knew that we weren't getting that from DARE, as soon as weed didn't make us instantly turn into the picture that they tried painting for us.
LMFAO drugs have been scientfiically proven to kill you quickly even if you dont die from a high, you'd eventually die from the effects to your body the life expectancy of a opiod/DMT user is 32
@@St.Calamity DARE actually increased the drug problems by creating interest. And just saying, "Don't do drugs!" isn't really educating anyone.
To the person who commented that,' the life expectancy of an opioid/DMT user is 32' for your information, i have used both drugs, and am a strong opioid addict, and have been for many years, and i am 54 years of age!! Goose!
This guy is the definition of "Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park." - Anthony Bourdain
Even temples need some amusement
Said the man who killed himself. 😢
This is the best harm reduction video I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of them!
Super informative, level-headed approach, just fantastic!
there is no real harm reduction in this video, little to no information of how to take a drug safely, the best Harm reduction channel out there is The Drug Classroom. All this video was, is a add for his book about harm reduction
@@torba23 he went over some points from the book so what the fk are u even saying, it's like being so dumb you try with this braindead fallacy take to go against it
@@wasd3108 the only drug that this video provided any safety guidelines for was Heroin as that was the only drug where they showed different dosage, there is no information about cross drug use safety guidelines, there is no information about how to safely ingest different drugs, little information about testing drugs with test kits, there was no information about recommended break periods from the drug or different dosage required for different route of administration. If you think you can watch this video as a form of Harm reduction before ingesting a drug then you are an idiot.
@@torba23 it's a video that normalises discussion about drug use by a normal-looking person with an educating tone. It definitely is harm reduction
What bloody legend. I wish I had a book like this when I was younger it would have saved some bad experiences and hospital trips.
Would you have read it?
Damn dude. Hospital trips? What the hell did you do?
London or Manchester? I lived in London for 15 years. So many drugs.
I tried my fair share, but cautiously. I don't know if it was a blessing or a curse but as much fun as i had, i had atypical reactions to a few of them. Never understood why. Then, years later, i get a diagnosis of ADHD. So, yeah ... Cocaine makes me calm and focused (as do all stimulants), unlike people with normal frontal cortexes. And i suspect it explains my slightly wacky reaction to psychedelics, MDMA, and ketamine.
I tried everything but after realizing I rarely experienced what everyone can else was raving about, i just stuck to beer and cannabis.
Ppp0
Keeping of drugs stop ban trips and trips to the hospital.
@@BradleyUK58 you misspelled both "off" and "bad"
Psilocybin, LSD, and ketamine are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues.
I feel like, especially these days, everybody is struggling with mental health and could benefit from careful/intentional therapeutic use of substances like psychedelics
I've been dealing with anxiety until I met cole.shroom, an excellent mycologist
@@geraldjoseph4427 I’ve heard a lot about how good his products are, I need to purchase, is he on insta?
Psychedelic's definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, they really helped me.
This whole thing is new to me, I'm just finding my way around it.
Of course the engineering mind will find ways to bring data, safety procedures, PPEs even to getting high ... not a bad idea, actually
*human mind, you fellow indian.
Haha yeah, basically just anyone with even a little common sense and a device to use google with
Well we just found someone who shouldn’t be taking any.
Better then randomly dying 😅
Don't need PPE as a software engineer
As a pharmacist, this is truly inspiring
Yes it could be a great money spinner for many they could build a whole industry of selling drugs to kids like they did with tobbaco alcohol.
Lol
Lol Pharmacist’s don’t like letting people get high 😂
To get more patients hooked on opiodes?
@@t_c5266 pharmacists aren't responsible for the prescription a doctor writes or doesn't write to his patients smh 😒
Do you expect every pharmacist to do a check up on every customer who comes in with a pain med prescription, diagnose their actual pain level and just refuse them if they disagree with the doctor?
(which is basically impossible anyway since you can't actually be sure whether the patient is in a lot of pain or is just lying to score meds in the first place)
You can blame doctors and pharmaceutical representatives for the opioid crisis, but not pharmacists.
drugs have done more harm to people and communities by being stigmatized, illegal, and unregulated than they could ever do if drugs were legal and regulated and if the public was actually well educated.
@piusstanley I highly suggest not doing mushrooms and adderall at the same time, bad experience IMO.
Can confirm. Tripping while talking a million miles a minute isn’t fun. You also become insanely annoying to those around you.
@@tinobenson6903 And if either of those two substances are likely to cause you strong anxiety, then it's pretty easy for things to spiral into the "bad trip". See? Drug education is useful.
@@icecreamget I personally prefer to take Magic Mushrooms on Adderall, to each his own.
@@icecreamget haven’t done mushrooms and adderall together but mushrooms and concerta was not fun. Not terrible, but I wouldn’t do it again.
People from the future will use this book as medical literature. No kidding either. This guy has really accomplished something.
@Dmk Nero bartards 🤣
I'm not a degenerate junkie and even I know many books about drugs exist uploaded for the world to see. Just know where to search
Nothing he did was new
People in the future will laugh at this book.
I feel like as a social work student and a future social worker I need this book. This is how we help people. People are always going to experiment with drugs let's help them do it safely.
It's nice someone made such a book!
Knowledge is very important!
Honestly we can’t accurately determine the risks to the human body without human trials. He did an amazing thing for the scientific community as far as reactions in drugs and the feelings they cause. Very informative and could helo a lot of people.
Glad I've done most the steps he's talked about with my experiences. This man is bettering humanity and saving lives, and having fun while doing it, this guy is living the dream lol
I would not let this guy near my kids.
@@BradleyUK58 I feel sorry for your kids
Ok ok now I can't stop lol. Thanks so much for that!🤣
@@BradleyUK58 no sane parent would let a drug junkie near their kids. Its just common sense
@@galacticguardian2783
Unfortunately many do and there are many parents that are junkies themselves whose kids lose their childhood by having to take Over the role of adults in the home.
Go do some work for a drug outreach as I did you will see the massive damage drug addicted parents do to to their children.
You are right these parents are not sane parents but they are junkies for a multitude of reasons and many today where introduced to and exposed drugs as children themselves others became addicts to block out their lives or terrible things that happened in their lives childhood abuse one I worked with had a stepfather that decapitated her dogs in front of her as a child another man turned to a life of drink because his family was burned to death in a house fire another who was a top surgeon turned to drink because he lost a child on the operating theatre these are just some I worked with the youngest hardened heroin addict in the area I worked in was only 12 years old.
On the other hand o e if those I worked with got of heroin became a pastor and now has a good life another got of heroin went to work on the oil rigs got a home a wife now has a family and us doing well.
Unfortunately success stories are few and far between.
When I was younger and getting into drugs, I had the same mindset as him and wanted to try everything and try to help people out. I was very serious about researching everything rigorously beforehand, and Erowid was my best friend. I've spent weeks of my life on that website. After a long era of drug use which has mostly ended for me, the best advice I can give are the same, test and source your drugs carefully, research the dose and potential effects and take them safely, always start small, and DON'T take drugs to make you feel better about life - that's how addictions develop.
Erowid, oh man. I almost forgot about that site. Spent a lot of time browsing through it during my teen years haha.
How about don’t take them at all?
@@BradleyUK58 that is a perfectly reasonable choice that is up to anyone to make. There are plenty of reasons to, including significant benefits, and plenty of reasons not to.
That was a great line: don’t take drugs to make you feel better about life, that’s how addictions develop.
@@brandonmiles8174 The negatives out way the "benefits"
I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free,the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did
[Myco_tray]
Got psychs
@@sarahh321 Is he on on Instagram or what?
All the problems that these compounds can help solve, and the potential for peace they have.
@@Jerryberger9235 Yeah, he's got chocolate bars, magic mushrooms and other psych's
@@sarahh321 Thanks, I’ll get some right away
The worst drug of all : running away from pain, from lack of better alternatives
Thanks~~~~
I'm so glad there is a plethora of info out there now. When I was growing up, it was a talk to Frank pamphlet and word of mouth.
Erowid lead the front on getting detailed unbiased info out there and had great user reports so you could decide if X is for you or not.
Yeah he basically stole erowids non-profit idea and turned it into a cash grab.
@@consciousmatter7584 i dont know a anything about this story but every story you post on errowid is their legal property so its not a suprising thing
My cousin is nicknamed Frank because of his dust consumption years ago.
I kid you not.
@J C take your fairytales elsewhere thanks 👍
The UK has absolutely primitive drug legislation and the wilful creation of a taboo surrounding any illicit substance has led to so much ignorance, subsequent misery and negative consequences. We have some of the highest amounts of drug consumption and drug related deaths in Europe. Every MP who has had a part in where we are now has blood on their hands.
3:40 Can't emphasise enough how IMPORTANT this is
*This is a beautiful video and very informative! I totally agree that we need more education on drugs and safe ways of using it. We need more dialogue among people, so that we all become conscious as how we can use substances in a more holistic way! Let's spread love and joy to this world, we all need it!*
😁🙏✌️
Amen
It's not really the use that's dangerous other than dose, it's more about keeping your life on track and never crossing the line into addiction which is extremely hard for certain brains.
I for one have an addictive personality, it makes experimentation very dicey
you need some hamza in your life
Do you think this could help drug safety?
making commonly used (relatively safe) substances legal (mdma, ketamine, coke, weed, mushrooms, lsd) would save more lives. However, in this environment harm, reduction and drug use education is the key. There was a lot of things done. For example in festivals in Europe, you can test your substances. Or if there is some bad pill around, there are flyers.
Illegality hands the market over to crims, and the risk and profits leads to deaths, cheating and dodgy product. Unfortunately, a lot of humans will sit on their ass and just switch off if easily available and cheap, tricky.
Never known an addict who wasn't abused, neglected, as child... More difficult source problem and avoided by blaming 'drugs'.
Sounds like a book I’d buy! I’m psychedelic therapist specialized in shrooms, dmt and changa, studying LSD now as it shows interesting results for fibromyalgia. Knowledge is the answer, it's time this war on drugs ends already.
Hopefully the war on drugs never ends 🙏
A book teaching and listing the use and precautions for such potent substances is so important for harm reduction. Glad it exists as a recourse.
He seems like a genuine guy, glad he got this platform
Was very fortunate to have erowid as a resource, discovered it at 18, and thankfully hadn't done anything stupid up until that point. Education saves lives peeps
Amazing!! Glad you aren't hooked on any of them!! I get the impression that when you took these, you were in a safe place.
As someone who has used LSD for around 10 times now, it's really been a life changing experience, and definitely for the better. I've improved my lifestyle, I get a feeling of appreciation just by walking outdoors, and my love for my wife has never been higher. I wish psychedelics weren't such a taboo, they have so much potential when used safely.
Look up👆👆👆that's where I get some nice quality one
its amazing that at parties people arent even aware of the simple fact of drink more water ! ive stopped people from overheating many times
Hey I’ve actually talked to this guy. Chill dude with great information and even better stories
Glad they did a video with him. His book really is a great thing to have around and a good read that can be by category
I've had so many horrible and supposedly rare reactions to prescription medications and hospital meds that the thought of drugs being recreational doesn't even make sense to me
I was too scared to take paracetamol for 5 years after the last time a doctor convinced to have IV stematil
I'm gonna keep this in my "to watch" list, and will watch it again before I go to Amsterdam
Buy the book instead. Not much to go on in this video. As a former drug user and member of the medical community. I highly suggest getting to know what you might be doing before you go. Get testing strips to check for impurities, cutting agents, and most importantly fentanyl. Trust me when I say I've seen it happen too many times where tourists will come to Denver, Colorado and get too high in an unfamiliar place and be extremely uncomfortable and have a very bad reaction. Take it everything LOW AND SLOW. That means low doses to begin with and don't mix and match. Have a safety plan. Places to go, people to contact. Read up on the local drug laws and stay safe. Buying a sack in a club bathroom is exactly what not to do. Be safe and have fun, psyconauts.
lol, i feel this brother - just moved back to japan and this video makes me miss the foreign sensibilities of positive drug cultures
Nice. I also think it would be good to buy the book. Amsterdam has stores, so don't buy anything on the street. "Smart Shops" are where you can get psychedelics and other things. Don't smoke salvia divinorum in public. Me and my friends learned the hard way. 🤦♂️🤣
I lived a year in Amsterdam. Feel free to ask me anything.
Reminds me of that artist who tried to make the same painting but each time on a different drug. Wish I remembered his name.
Bryan Lewis Saunders?
Sharing knowledge on drugs is definetily more useful than hiding them because people who is gonna do it will actually do it anyways so why not give them the information?
But some people still might say that it will make more people do drugs, which is fair in my opinion but in my opinion, it's worth saving more people.
It's a shame that he didn't describe the effect of Changa, by far the most interesting drug of them all. It's basically DMT but way less intense than vaped DMT.
I did describe it in the book, but I absolutely agree that the experience was particularly interesting.
My favorite form of harm reduction is knowledge. He is absolutely right ignorance kills!
What a hero man.
This dude is either no fun at partys or the most fun at parties. On one hand he could bring the best drugs hes tried and know are safe or he just sits there and tells you your acid is nothing in comparison to some random plant in Indonesia that makes god real
This guy is saving more lives than any police force could dream of. He's actually educating people and in doing so is making them a crap ton safer
No he is not.
@@BradleyUK58 leave your bubble
@@afonsomartins6311
I am not in a bubble I worked as a addiction outreach worker in
Possil Glasgow one of the most drug infested areas of the city.
I have seen what drugs do to young people and their families.
Stop being so naive.
@@BradleyUK58nice job missing the point. no fucking shit heroin, meth, crack cocaine, and opiates are harmful overall to communities and individuals. you shouldn’t take them, but if you do, it’s better to be informed and take precautions. simple concept that will certainly help prevent ODs and other scary situations.
@@Rapidbeatsofficial
Utter nonsense I have seen the devastation drugs do to communities and heard the same nonsense from drug dealers and those that make money out of drugs and want to make it an industry.
Controlling drugs is nonsense and won’t make them less harmful it will only make them more attractive and more available to new generations of young people who will no matter how much paper advice is punted out will continue to become addicted to them.
Do you really want a drugged up community?
Our governments do they can make money out of it and have a community that is suitably sedated and can pose no threat to their overreaches.
Get out if your bubble Rapid wake up pushing drugs is just another way our governments can exert control over populations.
I was brought up in drug infested communities and worked for years trying to get kids of drugs making them legal and more available will simply increase their abuse you are obviously listening to the tripe punted out by the pharmaceutical companies that will make millions out of drugs.
The new industries that are being made out of abortion and the mutilation of kids are other industries being built by our politicians and elite to control and cull populations.
And no these are no conspiracy theories that nonsense has been well debunked by those pushing these agendas themselves.
Those pushing these agendas on communities are downright evil.
Replacing drug addiction with more drugs racism with more racism population control by abortion and the mutilation of kids is fascism at its worse and these agendas are not new they are typical marxist divide and conquer agendas designed to destroy communities that they see as needing to be rebuilt into their demented utopian worldview of what communities should be.
The WEF our politicians and elite are working together with the corrupt EU UN and judiciary in our countries to effect CCP style control over our populations and they don’t give a hoot how many lives it will cost.
Just look at the worries the WEF have been talking about and their proposed solutions the WEF and the EU are rising fascist dictatorships full stop.
The wish to legalise drugs to the populations is only a small part of their agenda lets get it straight these people want to world as their playground and us as their servants period.
Look at the countries where drug laws have been relaxed has their drug problem get better?
Some of the most liberal countries have the highest rate of youth suicide on the planet should we no be asking why instead of looking to destroy more lives?
I feel for todays kids the adult that have a duty to protect them and give them a voice have completely abandoned them to the worst influences and reprobates in our counties and our communities.
Shame on every one of them these so called adults are so tied up with their own psychotic narcissistic egotistical demented lifestyles they are now a threat to not just our younger generations but to our countries and communities they are cowards of the worst kind that have abandoned their duty to be real men and many of todays women are no better and in many cases worse.
ODs and other scary situations will stop when our governments stop pushing the agendas that cause them those that are pushing the safe drug taking narrative are those that caused the problem in the first place now they can see a massive profit in controlling it they are just as much drug dealers than the criminal drug dealers we see on our streets.
Fortunately the tide is slowly turning people are as a result of the pandemic waking up to the control freaks in our world no that it is hitting them hard they understand those once called conspiracy theorists are now being shown to have been absolutely correct all along.
These elitist narcissistic reprobated can keep their sick agendas as for me and my family we will not comply.
I brought his book, and I highly recommend it, it is one of the best books about drug safety
I'm soon to enter retirement and information such as this will be invaluable. Thank you. 🍻
Hope the trips are fun and safe!
Have fun good sir!
have a great retirement, and please stay safe!
Lol. You'll have an interesting retirement
TRANSPARENCY AND HONESTY! There is hope in humanity.
This kind of books should be given Nobel prize for saving lifes.
I have never done narcotic drugs but younger age about six months anabolic steroids. I use then safely like "doctors orders ha ha".
They really work and I have euphoria and good feeling about them. Now 55 and nothing bad happened. It was short time. I knew what are safe doses. Overuse any drugs could harm you. There is "safety" way maybe? Or is it? I am not expert...
Yeah, without going into detail, lets just say that if you do proper research you can use all sorts of scary drugs without much of a side effect once you are clean. Not suggesting it, but it's both possible and not very difficult.
Bought a copy after watching this. Thanks dom.
wow this guy has risked his life to help research, thats really cool and brave of him.
Don't do drugs. But if you do, do it carefully.
Tremendous idea. Huge respect to this guy.
Thank you Dominic, people need to have all the facts! They always tell us how bad drugs are but the problem for me was they never told me how good they were. I was addicted to meth for a few years and alcohol for longer. plus the odd pills here and there and then some but I hope this book gets to many people! Cheers brother man!
Thanks dear for tripping so thoroughly and making the way sparkling clear, god bless you.
As an addict and alcoholic (clean) I find the existense of something like this amazing, but yet terrified about the thought of people would start using drugs more because there is professional information of "how, how much, risks" etc. But I go with the first emotion most, which is amazed. I will probably buy this book for a reference, maybe it could actually help a lot of people when they are using.
I can recommend you to where I get my stuff from an online store his got his got Shrooms, psychedelics, alongside other products well Refined ships to anywhere discreetly.
He's on Instagrams also on Telegram with the below handle as...
Mycopete..
People are going to try drugs regardless. It’s better for them to have the proper information so they don’t die. I think that’s more important.
@@theRealManDawg this kind of liberal thinking is going to be the bane of humanity
Yesss harm reduction is key. This guy is so respectable.
I’m big against drug use but this Genuinly opened my eyes on how it can be looked at a safer way and more of a co trolled way to experience things rather of a quick way to experience a high.
This man is legendary, had my copy for a while now and even if I have no intention of taking a certain drug I pull it out whenever a drug I'm not too familiar with comes up
Thank you sir. You are a hero.
This is the man that studied for the drug test
Got super high. Forgot what it was that got me high, imagined what if i was possesed, and proceeded to go the next 24 hours feeling like a passenger in my own body. Felt trapped behind the eyes, and any choice i made felt like my body did it on its own. At least once an hour i made a decision I knew was absolutely mine. Had a great time because: *high as balls* but it was a such a bizzare experience. First 2 hours felt like i was watching a movie through my own eyes and that i was just along for the ride. Broke myself out of it by slapping myself in the face, drinking a gallon of milk, doing pushups and then going to sleep. Pushups and pushing myself to failure made me feel like i was back in control again.
I'm glad this video is here. I won't know everything that goes on with everybody's lives and I may find out the hard way but at least I can recommend this video and keep them a little safer
Excellent work! Harm reduction is paramount. Alcohol is the drug which caused me the most problems because, when the police came to the school and told us all how drugs are bad and that they would kill you and ruin your life, they failed to mention that alcohol is one of the most dangerous around. Yet it is legal, is advertised, showing people having a good time, and is also socially and culturally encouraged. Harm reduction is key, given that people are always going to have a desire to alter their consciousness - the task at hand is to take drugs out of the black market to end the violence, provide legally and ethically sourced, pharmaceutical grade drugs to addicts so that they don't have to buy dangerous, potentially contaminated drugs on the streets made by manufacturers and distributed by dealers who don't care about the welfare of addicts or users (look at the opioid crisis in the USA and Canada, with fentanyl etc.) - and so they don't have to beg or steal to feed their habit. Also, drugs like MDMA should be able to be legally sourced for people who use the drug at raves and who lead normal, functioning lives, because you never know what is in those pills or if those crystals are MDMA, given the same reasons mentioned above about the black market manufacturers and dealers.
It is a complicated and controversial conclusion, but it is the only way to help addicts in dire situations but also to help functional, recreational drug users do so without risk of harm. And treatment must always be available for people who have issues relating to drugs - psychosocial treatment, which is attached to mental health services (the latter is especially crucial for addicts, given that most addictions are related to trauma in a person's early life).
Damn, I went to UCLA to study microbiology and then had a revelation back in 2011 and basically embarked on… the same mapping journey!
Nice to see a fellow psychonaut had done all the tedious work somewhere else in the matrix and neatly packaged it 🤗
I've never wanted to buy a book, until now.
Let me just point out that the animations on this video are amazing.
i remember hearing about this a long time ago from my brother, test it is the most important step, you don't need to send it to a lab if you're semi broke (although you should if you have the money). most test kits for the drug you would need are freely available online for less than $15. if you don't have $15 you shouldn't be wasting your money on hard drugs. If you plan on taking anything at all you should genuinely read this book, or at least the 10 commandments bit bc not all of it is covered here.
Who do you think supplies these $15 dollar test kits I would stake my life on them.
@@BradleyUK58 if you dont want to stake your life, send it to a real lab like i said or dont take it at all, this is for the people who dont have that money and would otherwise take the drugs with no test at all. Do you own research and buy it from a reputable site.
bro got the "how did we get here" achievement
I wish someone had thought of doing this sooner, it would have saved thousands of not millions of lives. We all know someone who’s been affected by uneducated drug use sadly.
I’m not a big drug user myself, only using cannabis sometimes and I very rarely drink. But it’s good to know the knowledge is out there if I ever did want to try something or know someone who wants to try something.
I learned some of this in the 90s from an old hippie friend of mine. I'm glad someone inadvertently brought back some of the old school rules designed to keep using fun and safe
This is super interesting. I'm wondering specifically about the dissociative effects I saw of some in the video, and ayahuasca I think was another. I don't intend to take anything without input from my psychiatrist but I might need to buy this book.
check out psyched substance he's all about risk mitigation and providing examples of what it may be like to take a drug also as a fighting addict he provides an authentic reality of what these substances can do to your life.
Psyched substance is indeed a fine channel, but he doesn't have much information about dissociatives. The Drug Classroom would be a better channel for those, the channel is less entertaining then Psyched substance but it's even more informative. The site psychonautwiki is also a great tool to use.
Just smoke the dmt. 3 hits to meet God or the aliens 👽
Psychiatry is a hit and miss field that does more damage to people than good
Drugs are not a good replacement for a good cognitive therapist.
@@BradleyUK58 It absolutely is not and every psychiatrist I've ever seen has told me to see a regular psychologist, but I know most people don't do that which I think plays more into the "hit and miss" side of it cause both fields are constantly saying they don't need the other on the research level which intrinsically I think people know you need both.
This is such an interesting topic. The ancients knew a lot about all these and used them regularly.
And built some of the greatest structures the world has ever seen.
I appreciate this man's efforts and I hope this encourages more research in such substances. Whether I'm for or against it, it's things like these that help our brothers and sisters stay safe.
Interestingly, this man recently celebrated his 26th birthday.
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Whaaat!?
aside from his old person glasses and his unfortunate male pattern balding, he looks 26 judging by his face and body
@@yeetskeet1581 26 is if u looks like me. this man is no 26. 😭
"Drugs have ruined my life. I'm 26 years old!"
Wow... it's not every day I come across someone that's done more drugs than me. I don't know the exact number, as I've relied on the black market for most of my use aaaaaand you don't always get what they tell you you're getting... but I've for sure tried over 100. Honestly, I'm lucky to be alive. ALWAYS TEST YOUR SUPPLY! I don't do hard drugs any longer. I stick to thc concentrates and an annual meditation session on mushrooms. It'd be neat to have a cup of coffee and smoke a joint with this guy... trade stories.
ty for this life saving contribution to humanity
Appreciate this work, the time and dedication a project like this must be to take on. This information is truly so valuable in a landscape that is so stigmatizing to people who use drugs.
Policy failure fuels the conditions that leave people increasingly vulnerable to these fatal mistakes. I find it to be the biggest offender in drug user deaths by not allowing access to necessary equipment a/o safety protocols and resources. It has always been people who use drugs takings care of each other like how you demonstrate in this book. I have started reading the Drug User Bible and perhaps it is included more explicitedly in there. Regardless I am so excited and appreciative of this huge commitment and foundation you laid out.
I work in harm reduction in the United States, in a part of the Country that only recently passed legislation allowing certain harm reduction services to become more accessible.
I can only imagine how long something like this took you in terms of hours spent. Thank you.
I am looking forward to a world where most people, most of the time, can make well informed, conscious choices around when, where, how and if to use drugs without being criminalised, stigmatised or judged as "less than".
you need some hamza in your life
We can already do that : it's called not taking drugs
@@yoannmorillas946 no one in the world doesn't take drugs - sugar, caffeine, alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs - all drugs. Of course, the word drug has no scientific definition, only a social construct.
If you take drugs you are less than
@@shaunshelly3314 Theres a difference between sugar and caffeine compared to meth and crack.
As someone who has also had lots of illicit drug experiences, I find the research and preparation part very enjoyable. You are more likely to have a good, safe experience armed with knowledge and confidence.
Lmao,all this promoters under every comment. Drug addicts are going insane
Drugs will still destroy your life.
No experience that robs you of the ability to have full control of your mind is a good experience.
When it comes to drugs it always baffles me how side effects are ignored when negative but pushed to the forefront when positive, like feeling slower in social situations o weed but then "munchies" being this so called amazing effect
Thank you
I have not yet wanted to take drugs (At least not ones that weren't administered or prescribed by doctors) but this is some valuable work!
@Adams still not interested. As I'm always I'll it would be very, very stupid.
Even if it weren't: I'm wouldn't want to. I don't even drink alcohol because I don't like it when I am not in control
157 is the angels wish. Your a legend. God bless u amen
Perfectly explaining why harm reduction is always better than prohibition
Well I think one thing that is important to note here is this guy clearly has a strong ability to plan, delay gratification, and self-control. As evidenced by him being a programmer that developed his own internet startup and taking the time to research and study these drugs. Not every has the same inhibitions that allow them to do something like take a highly addictive drug safely. I'm suggesting, for some people intention, knowledge, and will is not enough to avoid overdosing.
excellent, that book is desperately needed today
Thanks~~~~
Just make sure you know what your doing, be in a safe and calm environment or with friends etc, and make sure your mentally ok to take it to prevent bad trips or addiction.
@Harold Ralph Thanks for the plug, I’m not exactly looking for one but yh tanks
@Harold Ralph absolutely fair enough, no one should trust u or your plug tho and that’s a good thing yk
Thanks!
Nutmeg almost killed me. Ate 5 and got hospitalized for 3 days.
“the only difference between science and messing around is writing stuff down”
Resources like this are crucial. I was 16 when I first wanted to experiment with drugs and luckily I happened across Erowid which is basically this book but in website form. Experimenting with meth, heroin, mdma, pills, psychs, research chems etc I almost certainly would have been dead had it not been for erowid
How in the world do you druggies even find all that 😭?
@@Aziz.500 honestly don’t remember for sure I believe just when looking up dosages I stumbled across erowid. I was curious about drugs and their effects but didn’t want to form any addictions, die, or cause any serious long term issues so knowing effects, dosages, duration etc plus reading all the anecdotes was invaluable to that phase in my life
Can't lie, I was expecting this video to be far more in depth. Interesting guy and a valiant goal.
I did buy the book, strongly recommend
Wow! Mind blown! Responsibility .. not just looking to place blame! What a concept!?
Dude probably has saved more lives than the DEA ever has
Excellent video.
Thanks!
Thanks~~~~
Every child of school age should have access to this book.
Dominic, a great sequel would be drug interactions. Combining drugs sometimes produces radically different effects - sometimes for the better and sometimes the worse. The vast majority of "drug related deaths" are the consequence of drug interactions, not overdoses. In some cases the sametwo drugs will interact differently depending on how you ingest them and that even catches experienced people by surprise: for example, psychedelics plus cannabis - smoked versus eaten. DONT eat dope cake when you're tripping but smoking helps chill you out (if you smoke already). However I definitely don't suggest you write such a book by combining them yourself - just collect and catalogue the experiences of others. Given the death toll of drug combinations this would be an extremely valuable work and so far as I know nobody has done it before.
Personal experience says even smoking when tripping will potentiate the trip. Interactions on a physical level are important to consider, but subjective experiences vary by person.
Idk man. Edibles always treat me right
The BNF (British National Formulary) is a great resource for checking drug interactions, though there are other online services which can be used to check. I had a hard copy when I was studying pharmacology at uni, though it's useful to note it's always being updated.
A knowledge of pharmacy to gauge whether a certain drug is similar in function & mechanism to a prescribed one helps a lot, but I know most people won't have the knowledge to go with it, & even for those who do there can be unforeseen interactions/consequences.
Still, being informed is a very good way to save lives.
This is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot. You have inspired me to go and try this drugs in the correct way of doing it!
I have Dom's book on my night stand, a well informed users is a happy user
If more people would read and inform themselves we had less addiction problems.
What about not taking drugs in the first place ?
Well done 🙏❤️
Erowid is another good source for all things psychonaut. His little smirk talking about how ayahuasca is a visionary experience says it all, understating it for the sake of not sensationalizing it.