Thanks for sharing, especially for the hint with using UV light. I have some remarks; spent a couple of evenings since friday researching NBOMes after getting suspicious after trips from a friend dropping four small tears on waffles for me. I registered at this site for discussing this.
Speaking for myself, I completely missed the fact that something like NBOME was even possible since the early 2010s. After decades of (sporadically) dropping acid I felt completely safe from getting harmful trips, because lsd works in such small quantities that it was impossible to slip one something else or deliberately try to poison someone or pass a substitute. Well, as I learned last friday, not anymore. I know some other veteran frybabies paying close attention to what's going on on the street, but they learned about NBOMEs from me. I guess that especially the older guys knowing their acid are susceptible for a false sense of safety, so getting the word out to them is important. (Disturbingly, the boomer friend who shared drops from his stash from a tiny plastic bottle the size of a soy sauce dispenser you get from sushi takeouts, has not picked up the phone in almost a week.)
This is how I got suspicious:
- the drops had a strong minty taste -- lsd is soluble in water, whereas nbome is not; eucalyptus oil is a popular solvent for hydrophobic (oily) substances what nbome apparently is
- the high had a fairly strong physical (~ ecstasy) component that I never experienced on earlier (pre-NBOMe) trips -- I also felt a little shaky on my legs and something was going on with circulation
- the onset was unusually rapid, at least for me -- after 20 minutes I was sure that the trip would happen (usually 60 minutes)
- no lsd-specific hangover after getting up from bed whatsoever -- for me, that's feeling pleasantly touched (~ touched to tears) by clouds and leaves for ca. 12 hours after getting up
Apart from that, the trips could easily pass for true frying, so NBOM is an incredibly faithful substitute. And much easier to make than actual lsd; even seasoned chemists with access to an industrial-strength lab reportedly feel challenged with lsd. It would be good style if dealers were honest about selling the more dangerous (but enjoyable) 25I-NBOMe instead of claiming that it was lsd.
What this means for you (up for debate, I'm new to this, so feel free to correct me):
1.) There is no reason to dilute acid with anything else but water.
If your trip has a taste or is obviously not dissolved in water, that's probably evidence that you did not get lsd.
2.) If you know your acid and feel that something is off, it actually might be different, because NBOMe is at work.
In such a case,
do not drop more in order to enhance the trip. Also:
NBOMe is most certainly the wrong drug to try out what's gonna happen if you really overdo it or for party dares, what has been a tradition with acid since the days of Hunter S. Thompson's youth. What's more, you have a decision to make. Since NBOMe is fairly new and long-term effects are unknown at this point, and since selling NBOMe as lsd is a fairly seductive business proposition for dealers, you might refrain from tripping acid (or "acid") altogether until more research is sourced.
As for the UV light - real lsd glows in blacklight - there is not much to be found on the web, but this article is very useful if true:
https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_testing2.shtml The article is very specific on wavelength: 254nm (and) 365nm. I ordered this 365nm lamp last friday from amazon and it came in the mail today:
https://www.amazon.com/DARKBEAM-Rechargeable-Ultraviolet-Anti-Counterfeit-Fluorescent/dp/B09XV2WRXT/
Unfortunately, without access to a sample, I cannot verify anything, but the lamp obviously works. (And revealed that I'm not as good a toilet cleaner as I thought I was, btw. Brrr.) HOWEVER,
EVEN IF A SAMPLE GLOWS IN THE DARK, MIND THE FACT THAT SLY DEALERS MIGHT USE A SOLVENT THAT GLOWS IN THE DARK IN ORDER TO COVER UP THE NBOME. For that reason, I will experiment with eucalyptus oil and menthol in order to see if either glows without any lsd. (Found nothing on the matter on the web.) And since lsd works on the microgram-level, perhaps a (toy) microscope is a good idea.
As for warning other people, I found the
wikipedia-article fairly useful and comprehensible, so there you go with a primer for friends:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25I-NBOMe
Getting slipped NBOMe as lsd is in all likelihood more than a remote possibility these days, because NBOMe can easily pass as lsd, but is easier to make (always important for underground chemists). On the other hand, if it weren't for the fairly narrow gap between effective dose and harmful dose and for the lack of research into long-term effects, NBOMe would be a really good substitute for frybabies. I'M NOT ENDORSING DRUG USE, BUT IF YOU ARE READING THIS FORUM YOU ARE PROBABLY BEYOND REDEMPTION ANYWAY.
