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Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by spinchange on Saturday January 24, 2015 @12:08PM (#8940149)
That's all entirely fair to point out - clearly serious breaches happen, even in heavily regulated environments! I don't think failings in those arenas undermine the notion that legal risk and quality/authenticity risk of illegal drugs is very often intertwined.

I think even folks over at Erowid advise caution in dealing with these things. In that regard, conflating legal risk & qualitative risk isn't really a non sequitur. That's really all I was trying to say.

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Re:LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006) by learnstats2 on Saturday January 24, 2015 @12:39PM (#8940268)
I understand your point, but - as you identify - LSD users are more aware of the risks and have a higher perception of risk.

Although I don't have evidence either way, my suspicion is that this results in a comparatively low risk in truth. It's not immediate that the legal status impacts on the risk at all.

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