Community Intro
This community is now back and open for posting! Thanks to the Lemmy.world admins for granting me the mod role here.
My current goal for this community is for it to serve as the main, central community branching out into smaller, more substance-specific communities. Currently, the network is small, including:
- c/weed - Cannabis Discussion
- c/psy - Psychedelic Discussion
- c/drank - Alcohol Discussion
- c/opi - Opiate Discussion
I’m also open to suggestions for other communities, and in need of people to help moderate them. (Lemmy usually doesn’t require much, if any, moderation, but I’d still like to have a team of people anyway.)
Rules
The most critical rule for this and all related communities is NO SOURCING. Asking where to buy any drugs, including unregulated drugs, even in a “hey hit me up in DM’s” sort of way, could get us shut down or worse. This is the regular old clearnet internet, the mods here and the Lemmy.world admins still have to worry about the law. It’s not a moral thing and it is prohibition bullshit, but it’s the world we’ve got for now, so work with us there please.
Aside from that, just be as kind as you can be to the people who are kind to you, don’t recommend that people do anything which is more dangerous than drug use already inherently is (ie dangerous doses or combos), and we’ll be good. (Note that these topics can still be discussed, people just shouldn’t be encouraged to participate in behaviors which could cause them harm.)
Also, minors are not permitted to use c/Drugs or any of our networked communities. I don’t think there are too many minors on Lemmy, but doesn’t hurt to clarify that anyway.
Welcome again to c/Drugs!
Concept Credit
The concept and structure for the network of drug-related communities comes from my experience on 420chan over a decade ago (I am old). For those unfamiliar with 420chan, it was nothing like 4chan. It was the old internet, so it still had its problems (ie racism, which obviously won’t be permitted here). But for example, it had a dedicated (supportive) transgender board and issued permanent bans to people who posted loli content. By old-internet-anonymous-imageboard standards, it wasn’t the worst place to hang out.
It was also an important place for a weird young person like I was at the time, who wanted to know more about aspects of the world which were presented as taboo, but also wanted to know what was genuinely unsafe.
So thank you to Kirtaner and the mod team for all those fun years. When Kirt gets out of prison (for allegedly hacking the Texas Republican Party), if he wants me to stop using the old 420chan icons, just let me know. I just figured I’d do this because there are no plans to revive the original site and it serves an important function I think.