>>7892

I just use the standard Tor browser (torproject.org/download) installed on my main laptop and connected through my home wifi. I make sure Javascript is disabled through the about:config screen. If I was the paranoid type, I'd buy a second hand wifi dongle and a mobile broadband simcard with cash and use a dedicated laptop running Tails (tails.boum.org).

Unless you are selling, or buying large amounts, I wouldn't worry too much. The only thing I would say is that Tor is probably compromised so assume everything you do on there is being spied on by YMCA lad – so no searching for bomb making instructions or extremist Eskimo material etc. And always PGP any personal details like your address (gpg4usb.org is easy to use).

I've been buying small amounts of weed / shrooms / lsd / mdma since the original Silkroad launched and have never had any problems with the police.

As for the post, I've had two orders go missing – not sure if the postman stole them or the vendor didn't send them. I've had an order mistakenly delivered to my neighbours house. I've had to collect an order from the local sorting office because the stamp fell off en route and I had to pay a delivery / admin fee. I've also had an ounce of weed from Mexico confiscated by customs – all that happened was they sent me a note telling me they had my package and I was potentially a very naughty boy – no knock at the door by the po-po or follow-up of any kind. I've probably ordered 200+ times over the years so not too shabby.

Nowadays I mainly order from UK and Spanish vendors and avoid having things shipped from countries like the Netherlands and Canada. My main concern is Darknet markets running off with my Bitcoins. Needless to say, never leave Bitcoins sitting in your market wallet!

If you want to find out more, checkout the links in the sidebar @ reddit.com/r/darknetmarkets (I'd ignore most of the reviews as itz 99% shills). Also checkout deepdotweb.com.

>>7894

Cheers for this post ladm8. With the psychoactive ban closing down all the RC vendors I think I'll have to start using the darknet markets. Weed is no trouble, but almost anything else is just too much hassle to get the old fashioned way these days.

I'm certainly the paranoid type, but I think it stands to reason that Da Fedz are going to be after the sellers, rather than the guys ordering a few grams of shoobs on occasion.

Getting some free Shivapuri national park stuff next week. Post YouTube and similar for me to watch.

Last one before bed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LIO138Z-A

I'm stoned and I listen to Souvlaki Space Station every night

So... I tried weed yesterday for the first time. Ended with a trip to the A&E...

I smoked one. Just one blunt thing. Fast forward 10 minutes and really bad sweating. I was convinced I was having a heart attack. Felt like my whole body was shutting down. I become slow and just felt like blacking out. Dry mouth, nausea, etc.

Doctors and nurses laughed at me and said I was fine. I took a cab home and slept. Woke up today feeling fine but still a bit weird.

What the fuck happened?

>>7983

A panic attack.

>>7984
That's it? If I were to try it again, what should I do differently?

>>7985
Don't smoke a whole blunt to yourself for a start. Just have a few puffs.

>>7983

Yeah, you have no frame of reference and had no one to guide you through it so you panicked. Come to us first if you don't have friends to do it with. In future when you feel nauseated eat something sweet, as cannabis lowers your blood sugar, and when you feel hungry eat something with high carb content.

Modern strains are so ridiculously strong that a couple of puffs is enough. Smoke one blunt over a full night and you'll have a much smoother experience. A 5mg diazepam, for either a) what you just experienced as an emergency or b) when you're finished for the night, is highly recommended so you don't have an anxiety dream and wake up in the middle of the night with the room spinning feeling like the Devil is pulling out your soul through your kneecaps.

>>7985
> That's it?

Panic attacks are no laughing matter, people think it's something akin to "Ooh I had such a panic this morning when I couldn't find my keys" but in reality it's your body dropping feet first into fight or flight mode leaving you feeling like either you're going insane (depersonalization and derealization) and/or going to die. The really fun bit is that the symptoms are practically identical to a heart attack and can only be told apart via an ECG.

But yeah, follow >>7986's advice next time. Just have a puff and then wait for a bit, if you feel ok or don't feel it too much have another puff and so on. Weed tolerance is extremely rapid so the difference between what people who've been smoking for years and someone who hasn't smoked before / hasn't smoked in months can handle is massive. I don't smoke very often so when I do smoke I'm really fairly baked in two or three puffs.

>>7983
Weed is shit and for kids and *other* people anyway. Leave it alone. It's not enjoyable, it's just an indicator of being a tryhard cunt.

>>7999
A bit like your post.

>>8000
sick burn cuz

>>8001
Whinge bitterly about "other" people some more.

>>8002
Ok, they're uneducated, uncivilised, come from and produce broken families and generally make anywhere they inhabit worse.

>>8003
A bit like you're making this thread worse.

>>8004
I have no qualms about making things worse for druggy cunts.

>>8005
Are you here from the fifties?

>>8006
I fucking wish.

You are Peter Hitchens (fresh off the Mail on Sunday's Xmas piss up) and I claim my five pounds.

>>8009
Then what causes you to have such reactionary views toward people who use drugs?

>>8011
Exposure to them I guess.

Bumping in response to some of the latest developments with the two kids.

I'm curious if this is a natural softening of media opinion towards the cause after positive results in other countries, or if some PR wizardry is going on behind the scenes. Given the amount of money to be made in a potential future industry, I don't think it too outlandish that strings are being pulled behind the scenes. And if the blues are in power during this, then plenty of connected people will have advance notice of legislative efforts.

Any of you /boo/lads got an opinion?

>>8126
Ooh you're onto something. Britain's new post-brexit strategy for economic growth: To be Europe's weed tourism destination.

Or it's just WH working an angle to run for leader next time.

>>8126

Honestly, I think this is barely a conspiracy. We absolutely know that politicians tell their friends and benefactors what's happening behind the scenes, and it'd be no shock at all to discover that if/when the law is changed and it's announced, there are already well connected businessmen with warehouses full of grow lights just waiting to go.

As long as it ends up cheaper than on dream market I couldn't give a toss, though.

You can't introduce the Psychoactive Substances Bill one year and turn around and legalise recreational weed two years later. They might relax the rules a little bit for serious and genuine medical cases but that's about it.

>>8126

Alfie Dingley's family fell arse-first into a perfectly engineered grassroots campaign. The pro-legalisation mob jumped on first, seeing it as an ideal sob story to push their cause. That created a secondary wave of sentimental populist support - the chavs need some sick kiddie to weep over now that Alfie Evans is dead. Tabloid editors don't care about the cannabis angle (they don't care about anything, they're a nihilistic void of indescribable depravity), but they know that they can spin two or three weeks worth of headlines out of a sob story. Moral crusades make their readers feel virtuous for buying the paper, which is good for brand loyalty.

Javid has granted the Dingley family a special license and called for a "review" on cannabis legislation, which is the standard political strategy for kicking the can down the road. It doesn't commit him to actually do anything, but he can pretend that he might do something for however long it takes for public interest to die off.

Hague's comments are a welcome distraction from the raging shitstorm that the government are facing on all fronts. He's well-known enough that his comments attract attention, but as a life peer he's very well protected if his comments miss the mark and provoke a backlash. He's also an ideal vessel to feel out the opinion of the Tory broadsheets and their readership; legalising or decriminalising cannabis could be a useful option post-Brexit to free up police and customs resources and boost the treasury. It wouldn't be popular among the Tory faithful, but that might be a price worth paying if Brexit goes tits up. I'm not necessarily saying that his comments were orchestrated by the party, but he has earned a few brownie points at the very least.

I've always thought that the tax benefits of legalising cannabis are massively over-estimated.
What you gain in tax, you lose in overall productivity because (with a few outliers) everyone who becomes a heavy user also becomes a massive waste of space.

I'm all for decriminalisation, and I do think that very occasional use is harmless or even good for you in some ways. But people who've smoked for too long, even once they've stopped, are just different, and in my experience drag everyone else around them down.

>>8132

Isn’t that just people?

>>8132

As a stoner myself (ex-420 smoke weed erry day dickhead, currently just an occasional joint with mates) I definitely agree that it changes a person and I think the full legalisation "but tax!" lot are a set of bellends.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily always a negative change, it's just a change. You can clean up your act after being an alcoholic and it's like it's like turning over a new leaf. But once you've been a pothead, you're a pothead. You're more prone to use the word dude and let people get away with things non-stoners would get angry about. You like Pink Floyd more than the average person.

What I'm saying is we need proper research, long term studies. That can't happen while it's fully illegal.

>>8132

There's very little evidence to suggest that decriminalisation or legalisation leads to a significant long-term increase in the number of users. Possession of small quantities of cannabis is legal in Portugal and the Netherlands, but both countries have a lower rate of cannabis use than the UK. There was a small increase in drug use after decriminalisation in Portugal, but rates of drug use are now lower among 16-25 year olds than before decriminalisation.

Anecdotally, it seems that decriminalisation (as part of a broader shift from criminalisation to medicalisation of drug use) removes a lot of the cachet and mystique of drug use for young people. I've spoken to a lot of young people from the Netherlands, many of whom see drug use as being a bit boring and old-fashioned.

>>8134
> You can clean up your act after being an alcoholic and it's like it's like turning over a new leaf.

Bollocks to that. From me and from every alcoholic in recovery who still goes to meetings day after day because even after ten years they still want a bloody drink.

> But once you've been a pothead, you're a pothead.

Well it's certainly fucked whatever meager intelligence you were born with, anyway.

>>8134
Just because you think it changed you negatively doesn't mean that others feel the same way. I fear your comments about alcoholism give you away as a twat. Also, nobody actually calls it pot.

I've been out of this game for a good few years now, but I'm back. I'm surprised at how much the subculture has changed. I guess this is partly down to growing global legalisation and decriminalization.

Quality has improved and the choice of product has improved massively. It's so nice to be able to choose wether to get a buzzy sativa or more stoney indica.

I really don't like amnesia and silver haze, because they make me very anxious. However I do like some sativa such as JH and tangie but without a wide choice its hard to get one which works for me.

The other thing which has changed in recent times is the rise of portable vaporizers. I tried a volcano once in Amsterdam in 2003 but that was quite an exotic experience and not something I could have ever afforded at the time.
I now have a few of my own, butane and battery powered. My god are they efficient. I used to blow through a Q in a week or two. If I only use my Vapcap M i can make a Q last at least 3 months now.

>>8194
I forgot to mention concentrates.

I've not tried anything like this yet but dabbing and oil pens is a whole new world which didn't exist 10 years ago.

Weed has come a long way since my extended T-break.

>>8194

The mere fact I can buy Sativa CBD pills for my chronic (heh) joint paint nowadays means the amount of opiates I take is minimal, but it's an expensive game. I strongly suspect Phizer might put a stop to medicinal use on a large scale in this country, purely because it would interupt their monopoly on the pain relief market.

Now then stonerlads.

I used to smoke a fair bit of weed. Well, to be fair I still do compared to your average person, but I find that these days it's not doing anything good for me, besides bringing on a lot of anxiety. It's been increasingly difficult to get stoned without retreating into my own head and dwelling on unpleasant thoughts.

The obvious solution is "just don't smoke weed then" but honestly, I have practically stopped already. I have maybe a joint every few weeks now, long gone are the smoke weed erry day times. Throughout my early 20s I'd smoke a lot, but for the last three or four years my use has been declining as I find myself enjoying it less and less.

Trouble is I just kind of miss it, and in the social circles I'm a part of, people are much more enthusiastic about a smoking session than, say, going out to the pub. That in itself is a pretty shit situation, but I digress. How do I stop the anxiety getting on top of me and enjoy weed again lads. I've tried acquiring more indica based strains rather than sativa, but even those are pretty heady nowadays. Everyone's mental about this Jamaican girl starscout haze nonsense nowadays and I definitely need something more mellow.

Any of you had similar experience?

>>8264
Somewhat yes. I got to a point of not really enjoying a smoke unless totally alone. Just toking with the GF brought on uncomfortable thinking and anxiety. After a couple of egged-on situations with mates where my experience quickly switched from the typical stoned fun to needing to be alone in a dark room, I figured weed wasn't suited for me any more and let it go. That was after best part of a decade being a regular, almost daily stoner.

You could consider experimenting with different administration routes - edibles, vapourising, solvent extracts.. "dabbing" is that what it’s called now? These all gave me quite varying experiences.

Perhaps it’s best to consider that, as difficult as it is to accept, for many people puffin’ da ‘erb long term does not seem to be that psychologically sustainable.

>>8264

Back in my day it was all Thai stick and squidgy black, which in retrospect turned out to have THC/CBD ratios of close to 50/50. These days, even the supposedly high-CBD strains are more like 80/20, simply because of the insanely high level of THC. The most popular strain around my way seems to be lemon haze, which is a recipe for psychosis at ~19% THC and <0.1% CBD. You could mix in some CBD extract, I suppose.

>>8267

Out of interest what era are you referring to, my smoking days/daze where early mid 90s
Sqidge was everywhere but even back then Thai sticks were spoke of in reverent terms but as something from the past and not available. Maybe just my area?

This is the closest thing to an /A/ general so fuck you I'm posting here.

Let's say I've got loads of codeine that were given as a prescription to someone who doesn't want them. You can get high on this stuff aye? What's the best way to go about it? I'm guessing you don't really want to just swallow eight at once. It's actual codeine phosphate, 15mg, not the daft paracetamol stuff.

I'm not really bothered if it's a good or bad idea, I'm just a bit bored lately and like to try things to see what the craic is.

It's fucking weird seeing this cringey thread I made over a decade ago. Christ.

>>8532

It's served us well, we didn't even need a Mk.II.

Wonder how many of the posters ITT still smoke though, or if we've all grown out of it.

>>8533

Tragically all dead of a weed overdose, as is tradition. RIP.

>>8533
I'm only 30 but I still smoke daily and have done since before this thread. It's getting to the point where I'm questioning how much damage has been done and how much there is left to be done.

>>8531
Phosphate is basically the pure stuff, so you don't need to fuck around with cold water extraction. You could pop them all and be safe. LD50 is 800mg, liver stops processing around 500mg, and you get a decent feeling around 100mg. So it's really up to you as to what kind of buzz you want and whether it's a one off for a few mild experiences.

Fuck me, just remembering how I learned to do CWE off either here or britchan when I was 16.

>>8535

Cheers fam, good to know. Guess I can just neck a few and see what it does without worrying. I've just popped four, so I'll expect that to be quite mild, and if it's not unpleasant I'll add another two or another four and see what it's like next time.

Oh, and I'm generally not the addictive type but I'm curious how strong the addictive potential is with this stuff? I'm not intending to over do it, but I do have quite a lot (several boxes) to hand.

I’m going to be very high from tomorrow lunchtime until sometime ne t week. Recommend interesting, and unusual, YouTube documentaries and porn.

>>8547
There's a great porn game free on steam called "FarmD"

>>8584
I'll opt out by stabbing your dog to death.