Hey all! I have been SWAMPED with new and exciting opportunities, as well as new projects. It’s been hard to remember to recap everything at the end of the month. As always, you can support by contributing on my Open Collective or signing up for a paid Substack subscription. You can also use my links to directly CashApp or Venmo funds. If you’re international and need PayPal, I can provide this on request.
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Psychedelic Science 2025 Updates
In the last two roundups, I mentioned that I will be attending Psychedelic Science in June to be on a panel on Friday titled: “Stronger Together: How Communities Can Build Systems of Care for Safety and Resilience”. After finally receiving communication from the conference organizers, they’ve agreed to modify the agreement to accommodate my request. They’ve also offered to reimburse the costs of the flight. I’m hoping that will help reduce the stress I have felt around trying to honor my commitment to the panel I was asked to participate in. Additionally, I’ve been asked to speak on another panel called ”Safe Sourcing in a Risky World: The Realities of the Unregulated Market + Do-It-Yourself Drug Checking Options and Updates”. I’m not entirely sure what value I add to this conversation. I am the only harm reduction and drug checking expert on the panel, but my involvement seems like an afterthought to explain drug checking kits and services which feels very basic. I’m hoping that it’ll be an opportunity to promote my work—that is, if my flight is not delayed and I can arrive there on time. It is around 12:15pm and my flight lands around 10:30am.
Rebel Analytics—LIVE! Get Affordable Kits and Access to Laboratory Drug Checking Services
June 1st I launched my drug checking service and shop, Rebel Analytics. I’ll be slowly getting folks enrolled in the Chemical Analysis Program. Even though not everyone will be eligible at this time, I encourage folks to order from the shop and have accounts created. That way when I expand to accommodate more participants, your applications will be highly considered. CAP will only be available to designated groups/individuals with invites and customers that have purchased drug checking kits from the shop as part of this pilot.
Grassroots Harm Reduction and Purity Test Kits
For folks that aren’t aware, I have been behind the scenes managing Grassroots Harm Reduction and Purity Test Kits’ digital marketing. While technically “competitors” in the context of our products, I couldn’t have launched my shop without the help of Emanuel Sferios. After having been exploited, betrayed, and abandoned by DanceSafe myself (and blocked by Mitchell Gomez I guess during his post termination crash out), Emanuel wanted to extend paid opportunities to me to do things I’m highly qualified to do, which is greatly appreciated.
Research Collaboration w/ Kykeon Analytics
As of June 1st, I will be assisting Kykeon Analytics with a research project in which I will be sourcing various different substances assessing quality and presumably also helping build out the library with new reference scans. This isn’t something the general public will have access to, but just know it’ll be one of many things keeping me busy for the next couple of months at least.
DPA Panel Talk During ACDC: New Drugs and Markets Session 4: Exploring New Horizons
The Drug Policy Alliance hosted an online webinar that coincided with the timing of the Alliance for Collaborative Drug Checking summit. I was one of the panelists, alongside Yarelix Estrada, Hayley Thompson, Clare Schmidt, and Louise Vincent. The sessions were recorded and will be released on YouTube in the future, from what I was told. As soon as I am given access to the footage, I will share it around.
What are the most promising harm reduction interventions that can provide timely information and strategies to stay safe for the people who most need it? How can we scale up community drug checking given current technological, financial, political, and logistical barriers to these technologies? How might we use drug checking to shift the drug supply from the ground up? What do models of safe supply have to offer? How can we think outside of the box and usher in a new era of drug policy reform that addresses these new drugs and new markets? We will envision how to harness our knowledge and resources to reduce the harms of the unpredictable drug supply and protect ourselves, the people we love, and the people most harmed by drug prohibition.
Reconnecting With The David Prize
In 2022, I was a David Prize finalist. While I wasn’t a winner, it resulted in the donation purchase of the FTIR Spectrometer which has allowed me to do all kinds of really exciting and impactful work. The David Prize team is deceptively small—literally 3 people running the show, and a handful of funders and advisors that do who knows what besides throw money at the opportunity and judge the applicants. I spent a couple of hours of my day speaking with some folks in the community about where our work is today, and conjuring up collaborations. While past attempts to work with the Office of Nightlife yielded very little, it appears that some things there have changed, and Anne del Castillo had some helpful suggestions for me. I’m hoping to follow up on these conversations, touch base again with Diana Mora (owner of Friends and Lovers), and the David Prize team (including the social media manager) to find new and efficient ways to support this work.
Monitoring Test Results, and Tusi Research
Usually I end these roundups with bizarre and/or concerning test results, however, I have not had any problematic samples of late—yet. I will be conducting more research over time, which I may or may not be able to share results of in this manner, or in “real time”. However, I have started to post ~1 minute ASMR video of me testing substances to my Instagram and TikTok for Rebel Analytics. This will primarily be my format moving forward as it’s very easy to generate and seems to resonate with followers. If you would like to see misc. test results, I may occasionally release some reports. Folks who are sending samples my way already have access to their results, as well as it’s being integrated into the Test Result Lookup system. There may come a time where all the results will be a bit more public, but in the meantime, don’t worry about it, sweetheart!
For those attending, see you again at Dripping. I will be onsite with Tyroil.
That’s all, folks! 🫡