5 Wild Things I Learned Analyzing 23,000 Illegal Drugs

I founded a community program called Get Your Drugs Tested in my hometown of Vancouver, Canada. We have a storefront where anyone can come and get their drugs analyzed for free, plus we also accept samples by mail. We pay for it all with revenue from our medicinal cannabis dispensary, one of the few pre-legalization legacy weed shops still operating.People drop by with a teeny-tiny sample of pretty much any kind of pill or drug, which we analyze with a fancy spectrometer and give them results in about ten minutes. Unlike the way your roommates take samples from your stash, we give it back when we’re done with it. We can’t test herbs like cannabis or kratom, but we can and will analyze everything else. Which is kind of important, because …

That Molly You Bought Might Contain Something Else

Let’s start by talking psychedelics. We’ve tested about 400 samples of LSD, and our results show that when it’s on a blotter, you’re pretty safe. Out of the samples that show something fishy, we’ve had a couple show up as inert and just one that seemed to have a different psychedelic on it than LSD. However, when you’ve got yourself a white powder, you run a little more risk.

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Dana Larsen

Dana Larsen is the author of "Green Buds and Hash" and "Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone" and a well-known Vancouver cannabis activist, businessman and politician. He served ten years as editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, is the co-founder of the Vancouver Seed Bank, founder of the Vancouver Dispensary Society, and Vice President of the Canadian Association of Cannabis Dispensaries. Larsen was a founding member of the BC Marijuana Party and the Canadian Marijuana Party. In 2003 he joined the NDP, running as an NDP candidate in 2008. In 2011, he ran for the Leadership of the BC NDP. Larsen is also founder and director of Sensible BC, Canada’s largest grassroots cannabis reform organization.

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