The Addicts' Lounge IV - fast times at Ridgemont, high - General

[QUOTE=Revelificent;51712619]We all secretly have OCD as well as drug problems. [editline]22nd January 2017[/editline] While I respect you for posting this and explaining, I'm going to have to disagree for the most part. It sounds like you need to work on relaxing while you drive. I understand the stress, especially being someone who's neck almost snapped in half because of a stupid accident I caused. However, driving under the influence is never a good thing and it will always end in you being less coherent than you should be. Perhaps even more so than needing to relax while you drive, it sounds like you could have anxiety problems that might need to be managed with a psychologists help. Part of being able to drive is not constantly worrying about everything that might happen. Your brain being too focused on things OTHER than what you are actually doing while driving is a big cause of accidents. I don't feel that drug use to calm your nerves is a proper response.[/QUOTE] I definitely agree that in the end, i am still impaired. While sober i have found ways to control this negative thought loop and irrational worry, my method is typically to just say to myself "theres nothing to worry about" and that "everybody else is worse" mentality, it helps a lot. I only have this anxiety when im behind the wheel though and nowhere else suprisingly. I have also taught myself a lesson while super high a few days ago, and that lesson being: just relax and be confortable while driving and i will make much better decisions and have improved and less irrational judgment. I have been remembering back to that lesson while driving sober and my driving has improved significantly for the better as well. Ive been driving for a year and some more but only started smoking weed seriously since 2 months ago. edit: i must also say my overall anxiety levels have noticeably gone down in my sober state since smoking weed as well

I need advice fast. People say the brown/green part of extended release concertas are the slow release mechanism. If I eat it just in case some of the good part was stuck to it will it still slow the release of the other concerta that I eat? Does it act through some kind of chemical inhibition or is it just like a physical sponge that slowly lets it out so eating it by itself does nothing?

[QUOTE=sourcegamer101;51712895]I definitely agree that in the end, i am still impaired. While sober i have found ways to control this negative thought loop and irrational worry, my method is typically to just say to myself "theres nothing to worry about" and that "everybody else is worse" mentality, it helps a lot. I only have this anxiety when im behind the wheel though and nowhere else suprisingly. I have also taught myself a lesson while super high a few days ago, and that lesson being: just relax and be confortable while driving and i will make much better decisions and have improved and less irrational judgment. I have been remembering back to that lesson while driving sober and my driving has improved significantly for the better as well. Ive been driving for a year and some more but only started smoking weed seriously since 2 months ago. edit: i must also say my overall anxiety levels have noticeably gone down in my sober state since smoking weed as well[/QUOTE]You sound like you've got a good handle on it too be honest man. Best of luck to you.

[QUOTE=cis.joshb;51713309]I need advice fast. People say the brown/green part of extended release concertas are the slow release mechanism. If I eat it just in case some of the good part was stuck to it will it still slow the release of the other concerta that I eat? Does it act through some kind of chemical inhibition or is it just like a physical sponge that slowly lets it out so eating it by itself does nothing?[/QUOTE] I don't think there are any slow release methods that involve chemical inhibition but I don't know for sure. all I know is that if you split a pill in half, you can break the extended release function (extended release by coating the pill will stop working for example). it doesn't work for every method however (micro-encapsulation for example). [url]http://www.ismp.org/Tools/DoNotCrush.pdf[/url] check this out. it's a pdf containing the pills you shouldn't crush since it breaks the extended release mechanism. concerta is on it.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51713345]I don't think there are any slow release methods that involve chemical inhibition but I don't know for sure. all I know is that if you split a pill in half, you can break the extended release function (extended release by coating the pill will stop working for example). it doesn't work for every method however (micro-encapsulation for example). [url]http://www.ismp.org/Tools/DoNotCrush.pdf[/url] check this out. it's a pdf containing the pills you shouldn't crush since it breaks the extended release mechanism. concerta is on it.[/QUOTE] so if I crush it and eat all the pieces in case there is some of the ritalin parts still stuck to the ER part, it will not cause any less effects than eating without the brown piece, correct?

[QUOTE=cis.joshb;51713352]so if I crush it and eat all the pieces in case there is some of the ritalin parts still stuck to the ER part, it will not cause any less effects than eating without the brown piece, correct?[/QUOTE] I've never had an extended release pill before so I'm not the most knowledgeable, but from some googling around I can't find any controlled release methods that involves having the XR part in a specific part of the pill. I believe it's usually a form of coating on the outside so once its broken, it won't be extended release anymore. so yeah, I believe if you crush it and bomb it or whatever, you'll get the full effect by eating it all [t]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--McqxnIrOFM/UXpqarIpiNI/AAAAAAAABE4/us12kVxj6B8/s1600/Screen+shot+2013-04-26+at+6.51.33+AM.png[/t]

Ever since I was a little kid I hated waiting around for anything, like an abnormal amount (but I guess all kids are so I don't know really). In pre-k and kingergarten I would really hate having to sit in my seat and be still more than the other kids and my teacher was actually really kind and accommodated me and allowed me to get up and walk around the class room a couple time a class or something like that (not even sure if I remember this or have just been told about it, but I know it happens and I remember that teachers name to this day). Also like I would absolutely dread with all my soul long car rides because I would get so bored it would be uncomfortable like I had to have different shit to give my attention to. Same thing with long ass plane rides (which developed into bad anxiety around flying because of me losing my faith and for some reason being afraid of dying in a plane crash and never experiencing conscious thought again and shit but that's a different story, I have been healing that for a while and acid really helped that existential fear and wondering) Anyways, I also can never dedicate my attention to anything that takes time. I haven't played video games in weeks because I can't enjoy them, I always stop after 2 minutes and do something else like flip through articles or facepunch threads or 4chan boards or youtube videos. The key is stuff that you flip from topic to topic fast, even wikipedia articles and stuff. I can't even sit down and watch a movie by myself because I will never finish it, I just don't have the motivation even though my life would be happier if I was appreciating art like that on a regular basis instead of what I usually do (which is fun and valuable too, but it's like all I do, other than hang out with homies to get food or do some drugs/go to a concert, or with a chick to get some food or get drunk). Also this happens with work and assignments at college and stuff. I just can't pay attention in class no matter hard I try. Like sometimes I get lucky and the topic interests me somewhat, but it always seems to go so slow that I pull out my phone and get distracted for a second and then the whole topic of the lesson moves on without me. I hate any time that I have to sit still with nothing to do, I always finish tests early because I detest waiting around checking through my answers, it bores me a lot and I wanna switch to an activity like putting my head down and imagining or flipping through shit on my phone. I also procrastinate on assignments like a lot. (This could just be me being a lazy fucker though, it's what I always assumed). Like I literally will not start until the last second I possibly can because any time I try I'll switch to something else because working on homework is boring as fuck unless it's in like a subject I'm interested (and even then sometimes I'll just hold it off to the end cause I can't focus on it, but doing it won't be as done in the morning right before class cause it's interesting and I'll be under pressure). It also manifests itself in real life chores. I've never been able to keep a to do list in my head without getting distracted from it and ending up doing something else. This has been going on since a kid and I've been yelled at my parents hundreds of times for forgetting to do a chore or clean up after myself or forgetting homework or just forgetting something they told me cause my attention was elsewhere on accident. Also currently at my dorm room I usually let it get pretty messy until it's unpresentable and then clean it until it's spotless right before I'm going to have any company. [sp]letting work pile up is a sympton of ADD, and the fact that it's not boring as schoolwork but just super easy quick tasks like throwing clothes in my hamper, might indicate that the problem is like deeper than just a guy who doesnt like doing hard work[/sp] Why do I mention all of this? These all seem to be symptoms of ADD. Is this normal for everyone, for this kind of issue to be basically the hardest part of your life? I mean getting focused enough to do boring work seems like it has to be the hardest part of everyone's life from my perspective, so maybe I'm not abnormal, but I feel like the level that this affects me may be at a clinical level. I have tried ADHD prescription meds (speak of the devil) and they made me able to focus a lot, almost be interesting in a slightly boring subject, and get a lot more work done in a small amount of time without getting distracted, just powering through it like I've always wanted to be able to do. Also weed kind of allows me to be able to sit around with nothing to do but it still kind of comes back, just maybe a little less when I'm high cause it's a form of entertainment that gives me varying different kinds of stimulus. The weed helps a little bit but obviously I'm not dependent since I get through the most boring part of my life (classes) without being high. I smoke weed everyday by the way but all of these symptoms were present far before that and honestly I have tons of time that I'm just sitting around in my room and could be working but I just fuck around instead cause I can't keep my attention on stuff. TLDR: I know everyone deals with this kind of thing, but is the amount I deal with indicative of a clinical level of symptoms/possible ADD? I'm living a function, happy life, but I feel like it could be more fulfilling if I could dedicate my attention better, and I could perform in school a lot better and secure a lot better future for myself.

[QUOTE=sourcegamer101;51710988]gonna get hate on this, but i will try to be levelheaded, reasonable and self aware: i enjoy driving high than sober. like, i feel like i drive better more fluidly, natural, and relaxed. does it mean i actually do? probably not, but here's the shortest way i can describe this: i dont feel the pressure. I dont feel the anxiety of driving at all and what people are thinking about me. i dont overthink every single scenario or circumstance while on the road and i am just insanely focused on my surroundings and the road. if i have a location or place in my brain i need to go to, then i am hardwired to go there. I am not concerned about every single mishap that could happen along the way. i am way less concerned about the drivers or people around me. This doesn't mean i dont care at all or completely disregard them, i will still keep my distance, give someone the right of way when its theirs, look out for pedestrians, etc. but i care and think less about irrational negative thoughts like some random car running a red and tboning me or some dude jumping in front of my car, etc. The car literally feels like an extension of me and i use it as such. i am not afraid to push past these irrational mental barriers my brain has put there by anxiety. This means yes i am more careless, but i am more careless about things i dont need to be caring about in the first place. so i may push the speed limit a bit (situational), pull into parking spots faster, go into driveways faster, take left/right hand turns faster, and my stopping distance may be shorter (situational). aside from speedlimits and stopping distance being dependent on situation, i am not gonna be in any danger by doing this, i really just feel like i am in a comfortable controllable rollercoaster Does this mean i should drive high still? hell no. do i really perform better high than sober? probably not. but thats the point. I am really, in short, less anxious when i drive high. I'd definitely forget things id usually remember sober, and risks like that could mean i end up forgetting something very important that could end up being my downfall, which is why i trust my gut. if i am too high to drive, then i probably shouldn't drive at all. if im high and i am confident that i can perform the cognitive and physically demanding task, then i will.[/QUOTE] I would never do it myself, but I've been in cars with high people driving before many times and never been in an accident. Like, it is unsafe, but way better than drunk driving at least. I feel like high drivers are safer because they are afraid of being caught too.

[QUOTE=matt000024;51713630]I would never do it myself, but I've been in cars with high people driving before many times and never been in an accident. Like, it is unsafe, but way better than drunk driving at least. I feel like high drivers are safer because they are afraid of being caught too.[/QUOTE] according to a vice article I read the other day the average high is like the equivalent of a .03-.05 on driving impairment or something like that. It definitely said it was below the legal limit.

you folks got any tips and tricks for crushing crystals into nice, snort friendly powder? got myself some ketamine and its all shardy opposed to finely ground like I've gotten earlier. I've tried using two gift cards earlier on some shardy MDMA but that shit flew everywhere when the shards got crushed by the pressure.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51714033]you folks got any tips and tricks for crushing crystals into nice, snort friendly powder? got myself some ketamine and its all shardy opposed to finely ground like I've gotten earlier. I've tried using two gift cards earlier on some shardy MDMA but that shit flew everywhere when the shards got crushed by the pressure.[/QUOTE] Use a card, but in the baggy?

[QUOTE=SataniX;51714222]Use a card, but in the baggy?[/QUOTE] the bag got holes in it and ketamine fell out on the table :( at least it didn't fly everywhere but now I have no bag to have it in

[QUOTE=PredGD;51714033]you folks got any tips and tricks for crushing crystals into nice, snort friendly powder? got myself some ketamine and its all shardy opposed to finely ground like I've gotten earlier. I've tried using two gift cards earlier on some shardy MDMA but that shit flew everywhere when the shards got crushed by the pressure.[/QUOTE] Try getting a piece of printing paper, rip it in half and fold the half, put in the substance and close the half, roll a cylinder of sorts over it, you will get very fine powder this way. I use this to crush up black powder and matchheads all the time.

[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;51714281]Try getting a piece of printing paper, rip it in half and fold the half, put in the substance and close the half, roll a cylinder of sorts over it, you will get very fine powder this way. I use this to crush up black powder and matchheads all the time.[/QUOTE] thnks, this worked surprisingly well. goodbye reality

got one of those launch box thingamajigs

Would making a vape be a good first electronics project in a long while?

[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;51716563]Would making a vape be a good first electronics project in a long while?[/QUOTE] no [editline]24th January 2017[/editline] u will die

[QUOTE=Garb;51716793]no [editline]24th January 2017[/editline] u will die[/QUOTE] lol how

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smoking then doing landscaping or house cleaning after is so fucking fun

[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;51716563]Would making a vape be a good first electronics project in a long while?[/QUOTE] If you really want to, make sure that the air path either doesn't pass over electronics at all, or at least not after it's heated, and generally be very conisderate of the materials you're using, don't wanna accidentally give yourself metal poisoning [editline]23rd January 2017[/editline] I haven't been smoking much lately, I went dry about a week ago and since then I've only been re-vaping weed, which is considerably less effective so my tolerance has been decreasing, and then the past few days I've barely smoked at all and today I've been feeling fan-fucking-tastic, so much energy, my memory seems to be returning to normal levels, and my mood is so much higher, so much less anxiety I've been dancing and cleaning the fuck outta my room, and I'm starting to feel what I would usually want from weed while sober, just that internal euphoria, that energy in your chest that goes out in relaxing yet empowering waves

I always thought concerta was shitty. 150mg and a passed test later I still think it's shitty.

they weren't kidding when they said ketamine builds a stubborn as fuck tolerance. haven't done it in like what, 3-4 months, and 300mg didn't hole me.

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[QUOTE=PredGD;51718721]they weren't kidding when they said ketamine builds a stubborn as fuck tolerance. haven't done it in like what, 3-4 months, and 300mg didn't hole me.[/QUOTE] howthe fuck doyou find ketamine man, I've seen a lot of shit around my area but never ket

I'd try ket if it wasnt for the fact that I stick the fuck away from addictive substances

[QUOTE=cis.joshb;51718866]howthe fuck doyou find ketamine man, I've seen a lot of shit around my area but never ket[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.torproject.org/"]onions[/URL] my friend ketamine seems to be a fairly niche drug to be honest, I don't often read about it on forums or reddit so I'm not surprised it's hard to come by. it was pretty hard to find via onions as well but luckily about 6 months ago we got a single vendor who pretty much has a monopoly on the norwegian DNM when it comes to ketamine. am I snorting this stuff wrong or is it normal to get a clogged as fuck nose? I've usually been able to take 6 fat lines in each nostril before it becomes impossible to put more into them over the course of a few hours but last night I was already having difficulties at my first redose. I think thats what kept me from kholing, I'd weigh out 300mg for redoses but I was never able to snort the last line before the other lines started to kick in. is the nose damage cumulative? wasn't fun to wake up to a completely clogged and bloody nose today [editline]24th January 2017[/editline] also, weed is a lot of fun on ketamine. ketamine to me tends to feel very grey and washed out, smoking some weed brings the colors back in a way. I don't think I've ever felt so chill and careless as I did yesterday when I started vaping, god damn pure bliss. just lying in my bed and listening to my tunes while watching the room constantly change. I'd be in my living room and suddenly I was in a new house, then I'd watch my curtains become a spaceship flying to outer space and suddenly I would be in outer space, damn it's crazy. ketamine can make me worried and anxious by itself but weed took it all away. I always get this crazy feeling that everyone in the world knows I'm on ketamine while I'm skirting the hole or in the hole so I keep having these moments where I watch my outer door like a guard dog, waiting for something to knock it down to bust me. [editline]24th January 2017[/editline] fuck I want more ketamine. I realized yesterday that this drug is the ultimate drug to use when you want to escape reality and your problems. with any other drug you still know what your problems are if you first think about them, with ketamine? you don't even know what you are or where you are. you don't even know what you did before you did the drug, all you know is that you're confused as fuck and that you have some very fragmented memories that you can't piece together to anything that makes sense.

previously posted that at some point me and a few friends would all be tripping for the first time together. we finally set a time for this friday but i have a question about dosing/ability to up your dose after you drop. since we're all first time, they're mainly comfortable taking half a tab but said they'd want to take the other half if it wasn't really doing much for them/wanted more of an experience. i was wondering if there was a sort of specific time-frame that you'd have to take the other half in? or if doing this would be a waste and they'd just have to deal with the effects of half a tab. everywhere else i've looked for this question people have given a multitude of answers so i was wondering what everyone here's thoughts were for reference the tabs are +-100ug

[QUOTE=VIOLATION_SNG;51719680]previously posted that at some point me and a few friends would all be tripping for the first time together. we finally set a time for this friday but i have a question about dosing/ability to up your dose after you drop. since we're all first time, they're mainly comfortable taking half a tab but said they'd want to take the other half if it wasn't really doing much for them/wanted more of an experience. i was wondering if there was a sort of specific time-frame that you'd have to take the other half in? or if doing this would be a waste and they'd just have to deal with the effects of half a tab. everywhere else i've looked for this question people have given a multitude of answers so i was wondering what everyone here's thoughts were for reference the tabs are +-100ug[/QUOTE] LSD builds an immediate and big tolerance. I think the general idea is that you can drop more within an hour after the first drop without losing too much to the tolerance, but you'll still miss out on some of the effects you'd otherwise get if all of it was dropped at once. 50uq isn't gonna be much of a trip by the way and its probably safe to assume that the tabs you have are not actually 100uq. personally I'd go for a full tab but don't do it if you're feeling unsure about it.