It might have been a gravity bong made from Gatorade bottle or a line of a neighbor's crushed up ADD meds. But anyone who's tried drugs and alcohol has experienced that frightening but exhilarating ritual of their first time getting faded. Author Dominic Milton Trott has made it his life's mission to make sure everybody from nervous newbies to seasoned psychonauts know what they're getting into, one substance at a time.

Dominic Milton Trott is a writer and explorer who has traveled the world to investigate psychoactive botanicals and indigenous cultures. He is the author of The Drug Users Bible and The Honest Drug Book: A Chemical and Botanical Journey. And by his own count he has ingested nearly 200 types of drug. His "Ten Commandments of Safer Drug Use" can be found as a FREE PDF here.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:

https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/cannabis-overview

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4371873-map-where-marijuana-will-be-legal-in-2024/ 

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/more-states-set-to-legalize-marijuana-and-psychedelics-in-2024-as-federal-cannabis-scheduling-review-concludes/ 

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-gen-z-is-drinking-less 

https://marketcast.com/insights/gen-z-millennials-embrace-a-sober-curious-lifestyle/ 

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220920-why-gen-zers-are-growing-up-sober-curious 

https://news.yahoo.com/beer-drinking-america-falls-lowest-165441254.html 

https://manhattan.institute/article/the-challenge-of-fentanyl-meth-and-other-synthetic-drugs 

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2023-07-08/fda-widens-door-to-research-on-psychedelics-like-ketamine-lsd-for-treatment-of-ptsd-depression-and-other-conditions

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/07/03/mdma-psilocybin-and-ketamine-3-psychedelics-with-different-mental-health-use-cases/?sh=7b05b69a2e38

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23954347/psychedelics-bad-trips-ketamine-mdma-psilocybin-lsd-risks

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-portugals-drug-decriminalization-a-failure-or-success-the-answer-isnt-so-simple/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-drugs-decriminalization-heroin-crack/

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