Looks like the USA is still about $10 trillion higher in GDP than China.

The DD disks were writable so I don’t think CDs would have been a good alternative back then as CD burners were still decently expensive at the time.

Same for the big metal tea dispensers. I had some very nasty looking stuff come out of one of those while filling up a cup one time and it made me never trust fast food drinks again.

I used to not think it was much of a problem, because the people running the restaurant I worked at in highschool and college put such a strong emphasis on keeping everything clean so it never even croased crossed my mind that things could be that bad.

Alcohol, Cannabis, MDMA, LSD, mushrooms, Ketamine, 2C-B, and DMT in that order. I don’t know if there is anything else I’m interested in trying other than Mescaline and even then I’d probably only consider doing it if it was San Pedro.

In most states in the US it’s perfectly legal to own and possess spores of psilocybin/psilocin producing mushrooms, what’s technically illegal is growing and harvesting them. There are quite a few legal (check for your state) online sites where one could acquire spores for… mycology.

Also, it turns out, people have figured out how to grow a variety of mushrooms at home, culinary or otherwise, using different “teks” and it’s gotten to be pretty easy. If one were to be truly interested some simple searches would most likely turn up any information needed.

Yep, I’ve had two die on me, both within a year of purchase, for no real reason whatsoever. I’m never buying that brand again.