The Trip Report 17/01
Even if you know exactly what you’re taking, drug use is never safe — that said, it’s much safer when you do.
Through the work of organisations such as WEDINOS, The Loop, and SaferParty, we know a little more about the drugs in circulation. The report provided below is a summary of their findings over the last week. This report is primarily UK-focused and couldn’t possibly cover everything, so if you find something I’ve missed please contact me and I’ll get it updated.
The absence of a product from this list doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be there; you might have something more dangerous than anything listed, but it just hasn’t been reported yet. A vital tool for any drug user is a testkit, which allows you to identify roughly what is actually in your stash. You can find them here and if you need any help interpreting your results, DoseTest also offers a result resource here.
Final note: This report does not constitute medical advice. Some harm-reduction tips are offered, but if in doubt then for God’s sake, seek medical attention.
Standing Warnings
As the drug supply has degraded, our list of standing warnings has grown. Rather than give you the same information at the top of every report, you can find a dedicated article here and we’ll tell you here of any updates.
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: Mexedrone
Sold as: Mephedrone
Location: Stoke
Advice: The first thing you’d notice with this substitution is that you wouldn’t notice it — mg for mg, mexedrone is about 3x less potent than mephedrone so you’d need to dose much harder than expected to get to the same level of intensity. If you did (which would be a fairly serious breach of basic harm reduction protocols — why keep dosing when the drug clearly isn’t what you expected?) then you’d find that it’s much more “MDMA-ish” than mephedrone, offering less stimulation/euphoria relative to the loved-up qualities that MDMA and MDA afford.
Unfortunately, test results are pretty much identical between these two as far as we can see, so this will be hard to check using your testkit. So long as you start low/go slow, it’ll quickly become clear that something is amiss with your mephedrone and you can adjust your plan accordingly.
Source: https://www.wedinos.org/db/samples/ (ref: W023261)
Mexedrone info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Mexedrone
Warning: Adulterated Substance
Substance: Amphetamine and 4-FA
Sold as: Amphetamine
Location: Cambridge
Advice: This is an odd ‘un — 4-FA can be pretty dangerous stuff, particularly at higher doses where it has been associated with random cases of anything from brain zaps to fatal haemorrhages, but you’d have overdosed from the speed before even reaching an average dose in this mix.
It’d be pretty difficult to test this with your reagents, (4-FA is 4-fluoroamphetamine, just a single fluorine atom away from being regular speed), so it’s fortunate that the case isn’t particularly serious.
Source: https://www.wedinos.org/db/samples/ (ref: W023487)
Amphetamine info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Amphetamine
4-FA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/4-FA
Warning: Extremely High Dose — 250mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Zurich
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://www.saferparty.ch/warnungen/pop-smoke-rapper-040122
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Mislabelled Substance
Substance: 5-MeO-DiPT
Sold as: Methylone
Location: Bern
Advice: To make it clear how serious an issue you could be facing here, I’m just gonna tell you the average dose of these drugs: for methylone it’s ~180mg, and for 5-MeO-DiPT it’s about 12mg.
Yeah. I looked through the Erowid vaults to see if anyone had dosed that high, and couldn’t find anyone taking more than 30mg. At this dose, an experienced user reported an experience which was visually similar to high-dose LSD. To understand what a big deal that is, we need to be clear: 5-MeO-DiPT, aka Foxy Methoxy, is a sex drug. It has very little visual presence relative to its powerful physical and sensual effects, so for it to have equivalent visuals to high-dose LSD we can only imagine how intense the physical component must be at that 30mg dose.
You would potentially be taking six times that. God help any poor bastard who unknowingly swallows this capsule, and Hell mend the lascivious sod who does it on purpose (it can also cause hypertension and muscle spasms, so even the horniest tripper should still avoid a heroic dose of this stuff). Seriously, this could be a really dangerous substitution for the physical and mental health of anyone who takes it.
Usual harm reduction protocols aren’t that helpful with a dose differential this big. Fortunately, we can break the streak of the last few mislabellings, this is pretty easy to test: methylone will turn your Marquis reagent bright yellow, while 5-MeO-DiPT will turn it an orangey-green instead.
Source: https://www.saferparty.ch/warnungen/5-meo-dipt-verkauft-als-methylon-050122
5-MeO-DiPT info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/5-MeO-DiPT
Warning: High Dose — 209mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Zurich
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://www.saferparty.ch/warnungen/the-punisher-070122
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
Warning: Extremely High Dose — 265mg
Substance: MDMA
Location: Barcelona
Advice: These pills are generally intended to contain more than one dose and as such, most come with a breakline. If you spot a pill on The Trip report, odds are you’ll want to snap it and have a half or even less to have the best experience.
Once you’re already up, you’ll want to avoid redosing, stay cool and maintain adequate hydration. Many users will dehydrate through sweat, but sweating also sheds electrolytes and some users have suffered from hyponatremia from drinking only water to replenish themselves. If possible, find a sports drink like Lucozade or, if no other solutions are available, add a pinch of salt to the occasional glass of water.
Source: https://energycontrol.org/analisis-de-sustancias/
MDMA info: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/MDMA
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