Wanted to go into town to buy something from the head shop, but hadn't enough money for both the product I wanted, and a tram ticket to manchester city center. So I waited around at the station, until somebody returning from there dumped their ticket. Checked a couple, and eventually got a passenger's discarded return ticket.
Got there, on my free ride, only to find that the half gram ethylphenidate bags were £12 not half the price of the full gram ones (only had a tenner on me). But the guys that work there know my face, and that I spend a fair bit when I shop there, and that I go in there quite frequently, so were happy to let me off the two quid until monday when I planned to go in there anyhow.
Just wanted a little pick me up, for a couple of days so to speak. The head shop staff/owner recognized a loyal customer. I don't usually want to do business with head shops, save for the likes of pipes, bong downpipes, books etc. As I have a virulent dislike of the whole shitty business model of the 'research chemical' proprietary products. As far as I'm concerned, the sort of compounds sold, should be freely available, as they are, but they should never be branded. I.e if for instance, 5-n-ethyl-aminopropylbenzofuran (aka 5-EAPB, the benzofuran homolog of MDE, where the methylenedioxy ring is substituted for a benzofuran, 1 oxygen, rather than two in the ring attached to the phenyl ring of MDxx, the other methylenedioxy oxygen replaced by carbon, and in the case of 5-EAPB, the entire secondary ring system shifted up a position on the phenyl ring, from 3,4-methylenedioxy to a 5,6-benzofuran, in this case, the 5-position oxygen were it 5,6-methylenedioxy rather than the single oxygen of the benzofuran, is where the O is, rather than the 6-position. The MDA homolog, got sold until banned, under the name 'benzo fury', and now theres a 'benzo fury xtreme'. Thats the sort of shit I don't like. These things should not be marketed, but sold as-is, under their real names, not some stupid fucking branding.)
But this place is pretty decent, and they know what they are selling. I don't think they would sell something they didn't know the identity of. Like, their branded cannabinoid products are all ones that, despite the obvious intent of being smoked, weed leaf packaging and flavoring etc., nevertheless list the chemical ingredients, and in most cases even the inert carrier plant material species used, and how much of each is present by percentage/per weight of inert carrier.
And they seem to have some sense of responsibility about what they sell too. So I do buy there sometimes, if I just want a (albeit fucking pricy) synthetic smoke NOW, same day, rather than buying bulk chemical online, which is far, far cheaper. But then I'd have to wait a day for next day shipping etc. This place refuses to stock/sell certain things, the sort of things that could well prove dangerous to incautious users that go solely seeking something to get off on, without knowing really what they are doing.
