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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by cnp on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:00PM (#6567018)
I think an important piece of information that is missing from the experiment is the name of the vendor who he purchased the tabs from. For those with an interest in high-quality LSD, Silk Road was the place to go, and certain vendors were repeatedly tested, both laboratory-wise as well as via trip-tests.

(Let me take a moment and say RIP to SR; legitimate, multilayered good-faith efforts at harm-reduction were just dramatically reduced.)

But continuing, knowing the vendor, as well as his overall reputation, would add credence to the 100ug assumption.

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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by gwern on Thursday October 17, 2013 @05:22PM (#6568214)
> I think an important piece of information that is missing from the experiment is the name of the vendor who he purchased the tabs from.

VitaCat. For all the details you could want, see http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#lsd-case-study

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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by dsrguru on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:23PM (#6569586)
Thanks for responding. I'm no longer skeptical!
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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by gwern on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:45PM (#6569666)
I didn't include it in the original writeup because I thought 'well, it's not like SR sellers are household names and anyone would go "oh! VitaCat! I know that dude, he's good stuff"'. Guess I was wrong...

/edits writeup to be more explicit about the LSD source.

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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by dsrguru on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:09AM (#6569722)
It's not that I know of the specific seller. I have never consumed LSD. I have never been on the SR and now obviously never will. However, you included so many details to demonstrate the rigor of your process, yet you didn't explain how you knew you were even using LSD, which seems to be far and away the single most important detail of the experiment. Now you have!
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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by cnp on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:40PM (#6569283)
Thank you.
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