[NDlurker]

Bath salts were synthetic cathinones. Sold online as plant food and bath salts because they were not for human consumption ;) And then they started getting sold in head shops and gas stations. Some are highly addictive, some are more benign. Methylone was a great cheap MDMA alternative and is one of the drugs that Trump signed an executive order to fast track studying for PTSD.

As a guy posting on a nerd message board, you'd probably enjoy the nerdiness of the guys on Bluelight and places like that getting money together to have Chinese labs synthesize the chemicals they theorized would get em high.

[jambalaya8]

Am curious, do you personally feel mdma would be more therapeutic with friends or at a therapy clinic? I find the use of mdma or lsd or shrooms weird in a formalised environment. Some of the stuff makes sense (like drugs used to desensitise people with PTSD to certain triggers (when it doesn't backfire spectacularly; guessing we don't hear as much about that just the not-formalised experiences of it)) to me, but I don't see how it translates for a lot of people (eg, people not in a semi-predictable environment; people in wartime generally either are around bombings or shootings or not, whereas people with other sorts of PTSD have more trust issues; I could see drug use backfiring for almost anyone but the former group. Generally non-complex PTSD responds better, yet it is fairly rare).

Still surprised tv hasn't brought us a show like Breaking Bad but with designer drugs (the newer 21 Jump Street movies don't count).

I might check that site out but more because I like reading case studies about outlying things than any particular interest in drugs. Thanks.