A skilled geologist recognizes the rocks they can safely lick. Licking every rock is just stupid. Imagine licking asbest.
I believe licking asbestos is fairly unproblematic. You just really shouldn’t breathe in asbestos dust.
Asbestos definitely causes inflammation when tissues are exposed to it, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone lick asbestos. One exposure wouldn’t do much. That said I’m pretty sure the act of picking asbestos up and bringing it to your face and breathing it in would be the most dangerous part of that.
Just spit on it first
Good ol’ hawk tuah on that thang
YOU DON’T GET TO TELL ME WHAT ROCKS I CAN’T LICK! YOU’RE NOT MY FATHER!
Ha, unearthed.
The untold story: 1.) the grade was curved due to everyone’s low numbers
2.) no one wanted to get near the rocks to identify them because there was one weird mofo walking on all fours around the displays, randomly snarling and licking each one
Homeslice identified a few more than everybody else and his grade shot to the moon.
- the teacher didn’t want that mofo again in their class
3.) included were 2 previously unidentified specimens, which he also identified, somehow
Oh I know this one!
- profit !!!
As someone who does LSD whenever she can (Which is… sadly not as often as you’d think)
This doesn’t surprise me
do I have three days to burn on this
Your thought to yourself, probably
I really want to experiment with psychedelics but I have no idea where to even start on obtaining them lol
You’re on the internet. Halfway there.
*safely obtain them. I don’t know how to tell apart legit sites and honeypots, and as a trans girl in Texas I am really really really worried about potentially being arrested. So I don’t risk it, and I probably won’t until I meet someone I can trust irl who can help me get access tbh.
Get a lysergemide analogue from a reputable chem site. Chems.ca comes to mind as the most trustworthy in the USA.
Technically not illegal as long as you say you weren’t going to use it for human consumption. Research only.
Its more expensive than street L but depending on your sources most likely way, way cleaner. Its from a legitimate lab so you know its synthesized correctly.
Don’t use darkweb sites of any kind in Texas if you’re worried about getting in trouble. Just get the research chems they are cleaner than 100% of anything on a dark web market anyway. And also, technically legal.
a trans girl in Texas I am really really really worried about potentially being arrested
Okay, yeah, I can’t definitely understand that.
I’m unsure as to how much of this I can talk about here, but what online stores have going for them is often safety and reliability. Unless the markets are “cashing out”, they’re usually safe.
(“Cashing out” as in they have a functional market people use, then when it’s been going for a while, they’re decide to end it, they just stop relaying orders but keep the money that’s in escrow, usually still get action for some days/weeks, leading to huge profits.)
That being said, you’d need a safe mailbox to order to, so as not to order drugs to your own home.
But yeah, IRL can be better, especially because you can then have someone who instructs you or acts as a tripsitter if you feel like you like to have one.
IRL can also be worse, because you don’t really know what you’re getting for a certainty. Unlike with online traders, because you can choose someone who has hundreds of positive comments and a good rating.
People honest don’t know how easy getting drugs is in most parts of the world, which is what makes it hard for them, which in turn makes it easy for everyone who does know, because you can quite comfortably do your business in front of people who are totally oblivious to it.
But yeah. Don’t get arrested in Texas for drugs as a trans-girl, I strongly agree with that. Hope Harris wins and the US could perhaps improve a bit. Stay safe, sister. <3
I’ve found multiple friendly employees at vape shops in both Arkansas and Oklahoma, especially in the college cities of course. But that might be a productive avenue that’s worth trying out.
Best of luck from an ally not too far away!
I know they ain’t quite the same, but you might be better served at finding some spores. It’s the mushrooms that will get you in trouble.
Peyote might be an option given your locale.
I would love to try LSD, but I’m too worried about serotonin syndrome because of the medications I take.
Serotonin syndrome is somewhat of a phobia more than a rational fear with modern medications.
Unless you’re taking a MAOi, which I somewhat doubt (as they’re not really used anymore due ti safety concerns and whatnot), you should be alright.
Serotonin syndrome is still sort of in the recreational drug users mythos, because being too careful isn’t really harmful, and people don’t really understand neuropharmacology that much, so they tend “not to risk it.”
(MDMA and LSD are both serotonergic, but MDMA is more risky in terms of serotonin syndrome than LSD.)
I’m not suggesting anyone on medications reads this and thinks I’m saying it’s a risk-free thing, but since we be adopted SSRI instead of MAOi, it’s not nearly as big of a risk. MAOi and psychedelics was honestly very risky.
SSRI’s tend just to blunt the effects of psychedelics/mdma. If you keep to normal recreational doses, it should be fine. From the article:
Again, the real danger lies in what both Charlotte and Nilu describe as a chase to catch up with their friends who aren’t on antidepressants.
“You won’t be getting the euphoric, psychological effects you want by taking more, but you will be getting more of the physiological effects – higher blood pressure, higher heart rate and higher temperature, which is a bummer,” says Dr Sessa. “These are not normally dangerous. MDMA is a relatively safe drug. We know that because so many people take it and come to no harm. But in excessive doses, because you’re trying to overcome the effect of being on the SSRIs, these may become dangerous.”
So no need to be that worried about the side effects, but also while you’re on SSRI, the experience probably will be a bit muted and you might have some slight discomfort. Who knows, it’s a bit personal and depends on your meds. If you’re just on a rather low dose of SSRI, it might not really affect the trip at all.
Not trying to advice, just informing a bit as I’m pretty well versed on the subject even if I do say so myself.
It’s more complicated than that and I think it’s just not worth the risk. I have a nerve disorder which I take the medication for, and it’s three medications: an SNRI, a GABA analogue and an anticonvulsant. I just don’t know that adding LSD into a mix like that is a good idea, because even if none of those individually could cause it, collectively, who knows? It’s not like it’s a common mix.
But I do appreciate it.
I won’t pretend to have such deep knowledge as to claim to know they’re safe, but as far as I’m aware (which again, is some, but am not a medical professional), the N of the SNRI shouldn’t really be affected directly. But that doesn’t mean that if you get a little bit jittery when you’re going up that you won’t have increased norepinephrine which would then be blocked from reuptake.
So yeah, it’s somewhat more complicated. Anticonvulsants are basically what you’d use to come down from a trip (depending on which type, there’s a lot), so I don’t see any obvious risks in that either. GABA should likewise not be a problem, as not directly affected, and like anticonvulsants, some of them are used as anti-psychotics.
However with those meds, even if I could say it’s safe (whichever again, I can’t, but personally believe it to be of low risk, due to the things I’ve read concerning), I don’t know if I’d say it’s worth it, really.
Like you wouldn’t enjoy a night out if you had the flu, basically, but it wouldn’t be that risky. Even though like getting a bad case of pneumonia and not treating it might be fatal, but quite a small risk. Probably on the same level, these risks.
collectively, who knows?
No-one, honestly. But the internet is pretty hard at work on it.
Although they started with recreational polysubstance combinations, actual meds don’t appear on the list too often unless they can be uses recreationally.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polysubstance_combinations
But yeah, safety is #1 when using drugs.
As a former recreational user of many substances(not LSD though), I understand your hesitancy. I had many great experiences on shrooms so I tend to recommend that before LSD. I just think it’s not as intense and has a lower probability of negative interactions or experiences, but that’s just based on what I’ve seen/heard/read. There are knock off versions of shrooms in vape shops but I have no idea what they are like.
It comes around when it comes around. We don’t pick.
I figured you’d only really be able to buy it in bulk on the dark web.
Or just go to a festival
Until very recently festivals were a major source of LSD distribution in the U.S.
Not so much regular attendees buying 10 strips but people who know each other meeting up at various festivals to exchange larger quantities of dry, crystal LSD. I don’t know how much it’s changed in the last decade or so, probably not that much.
True! You used to be able to track LSD in the US by looking at the grateful dead tour schedule, matter of fact lmao.
Reminded me of the high geologist post
I like this thread/comic but I’m legitimately confused by ‘ace rights’ did we start forcing people to fuck or something? I hadn’t noticed lol
It is probably more about recognition, most people (in their minds) don’t recognize asexuality. Many folks thought I had something wrong with me (do you know how many erectile dysfunction or micropenis jokes I had to endure?) or I was attracted to them and was trying to hide it.
Yeah I get that and agree, but I think that language is important in these situations. That’s about something that has nothing to do with rights and minimalizes the actual civil rights issues that we DO have by association. I agree that education is important, but that has nothing to do with a legal fight for rights.
While I do agree, I also feel the need to point out that this is a meme, it doesn’t have any agenda other than “be funny” so probably not much thought has went into it.
Did you miss the whole “childless cat ladies” thing the GOP has been doing lately?
I think I did miss that, could you explain it for me please
Sorry, but they can still vote, right? This isn’t anything to do with ‘rights’.
I think its missing a comma, cause its common for shaggy phrases to end with “right scoob?”
I thought the same thing you did at first though.
That’s a very high quality post, I appreciate you sharing it
I feel dumb, I don’t get the ace bit. Was it just slang, like he’s cool, and then they swerved it? Or was there something that actually made the commentary think they were asexual in the image? Now I feel dumb and old.
Geode colouring matched Ace Flag colouring.
Ahhh, OK, I see it now, thanks very much.
All hail ace centaur
Are you telling me they put them in front of actual rocks and let them lick them in finals?
Yes. I have a geology degree. How else am I supposed to distinguish apatite from halite. I’ve licked many rocks. Mineralogy, petrology, and sedemenary Rocks and fossils all had finals that involved having 50 rocks in front of you to identify
Your fucking around about the licking part right?
Geologists identify rocks in the field that way sometimes.
https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-geologists-lick-rocks-70107
Not at all.
Interesting! Makes geology sound more fun for some reason.
Oh wow I’ve never expected that I’m used to university being full academia with no hands on on anything
Not hands. Tongue
Yeah geology is fun. Lots of hands on stuff, class camping trips out to the field usually once a semester at least. Then there’s field camp which is a couple months in the wilderness mapping outcrops and studying local geology. I think it’s one of the most fun majors you can do, but I’m biased.
Im sure it’s required. I got a geology buddy and he said this is pretty normal for identification of rocks. So I bet its a required skill to tell spicy rocks from rocky rocks.
Geology degree here - you identify some rocks by licking them. Licking most rocks will give you no information. But in a final, honestly, nobody would bat an eye if you licked all of them, just in case.
I have to know, how was sanitation handled? did you each student have an individual sample, or were you all licking a communal rock?
Individual samples and UV lights, though often there was a rock where multiple people would lick it. People probably don’t get sick from that often.
They’re licking rocks and you’re worried about sanitation?!?
"Well yes it looks like a rock, but it tastes like a metal
Was a thing when I took geo in first year, rock test (and the professor) was kinda a legend within engineering.
Fact
Plot twist: Wasn’t a Geology major, there was no test.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Oh hi Wendy did you know this is a crunch Santa Cecilia granite benchtop? crunch crunch
Why does this Venetian Pearl taste like blood?
yes please, hold it right there
In order for licking the rocks to help on the test, he must have already tasted them before.
I couldn’t do it, I’d be worried everyone could tell I was high. Tbf tho, no one called him out for licking rocks… sooooo idk. I’d just hate to be remembered as the rock licking guy
I once gave a speech on butterflies while stoned off my ass. Got really, REALLY fucking stoned, with a buddy cause I was pretty sure I didn’t have to go to that class that day. Checked the syllabus and turns out I had to go. We picked the subject of other people’s speech, and gave a 3 minute “speech” on butterflies, which I mostly just modified Mitch hedberg jokes to fit butterflies. Got the class laughing and got an A. 🤷🏼♂️
Mitch Hedberg jokes while high is a pretty smart move. Either that or you’re the only person who finds them funny and end up looking like an idiot.
Accepted behavior among geologists
I took a geology course in college. The raw giddiness the professor hit on seeing a very bland gray rock still makes me laugh thinking about it. Dude was starstruck by a large grey lump. I’m sure it was a very excellent rock, but I can’t recall now what made it so amazing. Something about glaciers.
I think he would have gladly licked the rock if he thought no one was looking.
I 100% believe the above.
I partied with geologists. Trust me they licked that rock. Totally what they do. I knew one that joked about keeping a few pebbles in his pocket of Gypsum or kaolinite or some other sedimentary rock to chew on to make a point about how much he was a geologist.
There is a whole tongue test is to tell if it’s bone or rock anyways. I bet the guy on LSD was to busy high to notice half his classmates were probably licking the rocks sober.
I concur
I knew someone who went to his german language classes on LSD and I couldn’t think of a worse clsss to do that in.
Imagine being perfectly fluent in German, but only when gorked out your damn orb.
So German?
It sounds like something I’d expect of a CIA expirement gone wrong.
Or gone right?
“That’s how I got the nickname ‘the Doc Ellis of geology’”
I was going to comment that Doc Ellis would be proud.
Typical Geology major.
You’re not wrong.
I know, had two Geology majors as college roomates. Dudes would just roll joints and stare at rocks. Well, my primotology roomate would do the same…
Definitely read this as his test was about lsd, was mighty confused until i scrolled back up and read it 3 more times
You think you’ve got the stones to become a geologist?
