Due to my surgery recovery, I’m actually getting around to this post in a timely manner. Don’t forget, 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: Aftermath
My flight got in on time, but I only made it to my first panel talk with 10 minutes to get on stage. One of the panelists couldn’t make it as he was stuck in Israel, but I honestly don’t think he could’ve added anything of substance to the conversation. Myself and Reggie from Oakland Hyphae held it down with Cat Packer, and it felt amazing to be on the stage with other Black folks in similar lines of work. Check out Oakland Hyphae on Substack! The second panel went well, too, but the first one about drug checking and safe sourcing was my favorite. We really got to flex our drug checking work.
Rebel Analytics—LIVE! Get Affordable Kits and Access to Laboratory Drug Checking Services
Just plugging my drug checking service and shop, Rebel Analytics, again. I will be promoting this a lot harder in July, while I enjoy some downtime during hysterectomy recovery. Please share any posts on the Instagram or TikTok that already exist. Let your friends know to support because it allows testing services to scale to a more accessible degree. TikTok keeps fucking up my screen name update and then I have to wait 30 days to fix it. Maybe my July, I will be able to sync it to be the same as the IG handle @rebel.analytics.
Support Honest, Affordable, and Accurate Purity Testing Kits
I won’t spend too much time talking about this, but feel free to read through what’s going on between Purity Test Kits and Miraculix, a German-based company that’s resorting to unfair or deceptive trade practices, price gouging, .empty legal threats to other purity test kit companies in the market, etc. All scientific literature on these reagents are public domain and cannot be trademarked. They are raising funds to cover legal fees.
Drug Checking at Dripping Festival
The testing services were majorly busy on Friday night, and steady on Saturday. I tested over 100 substances in a little over 2 days, in 5ish hour shifts. Shout out to my partner in nearly everything I do these days for keeping the queue organized and collecting samples for me when it was impossible to keep up in the conditions that I was working in (power outages, overlapping chaos with the medical team, etc.). Despite the challenges, it’s been a pleasure providing services every year since its start in 2023. We’re going to have a lot more of the kinks ironed out next year, for sure. For those that wanted to see the test results, here is an isolated spreadsheet that has just the necessary information.
Tusi Research GCMS Results
The gist of research has concluded that what is sold as Tusi in NYC is most commonly MDMA and Ketamine, occasionally with Caffeine. The original cocktail is a blend of these 3 things, so this is not surprising to me. What’s most surprising is that out of the 6 collected samples from different sources, they were all generally “as expected”. I have definitely seen less accurate blends, as well as the one outlier that had some bullshit like heroin in it.
Studio Acquired for Lab and Art Project Usage
Stumbled upon the opportunity to spread out in a space that I can dedicate to all my important projects that have taken over my life and my living space. This came rather abruptly and unexpectedly, but I was able to move in early and set up what I had available before surgery. More to come, and soon I’ll be working from there, meaning testing services will be in a bit more convenient location for many participants. Excited to see how this will improve my workflow and productivity!
That’s all, folks! 🫡