A man who has taken 182 different drugs so he could tell people about the effects described the worst trip he'd ever taken in his life.
Dominic Milton Trott is the author of The Drug Users Bible, in which he has recorded his usage of the various drugs he's taken over the years as a guide for other people so they can be safer.
He's written down the dosage, method of ingestion and the effects he felt while on the drug, believing that rather than launching an attempt to get people to stop taking drugs that was doomed to failure he may as well teach people something about using them safely.
He once told UNILAD: “Education saves lives. I felt that the government should have really written something like this.
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"They should provide this information; it should be taught somehow through the system to people who are going to take drugs or might take drugs. And it isn’t.
“And, you know… I thought, I really have got to do this. And I've got to do this, because nobody else is doing it.”
In a recent appearance on The Happy Hour Podcast, Dominic spoke about his drug use and the worst trip he'd ever experienced because of it.
When he spoke about his worst trip he talked about the time he 'went for bhang lassi', which he described as 'a sort of yoghurt drink with hash in it'.
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"I said 'a lassi light' because I knew edibles can be really powerful with cannabis, a lot stronger than smoking it. You've got to be really careful, especially if you're inexperienced.
"I wasn't inexperienced, but even so I thought 'I'll have a lassi, I've got to try it, I want to document it', but I don't want to be completely off me head so can I have a bhang lassi light please.
"They gave me this bhang lassi which definitely wasn't a bhang lassi light and I drank it out of this clay thing and started walking round the streets. I was alright for half an hour thinking 'oh what a lovely day, look at this, look at that' and then I knew I was suddenly going.
"Every thought had a sinister edge to it and it was starting to become really overwhelming because A: it was hot, and B: it was an Indian city so it was absolutely mental, always noisy."
He explained that he 'managed to recognise I'm having a traumatic time' and ended up going to the nearby river to sit by it.
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However, as he sat there he saw 'real dead bodies' as part of a burial ritual which left him 'horrified' and 'completely paranoid by this point'.
Running back to town he flagged down a tuk-tuk and struggled to tell it to take him back to his hotel, with the journey back feeling like an 'ultimate hell ride' where he thought he might die at any point.
Finally making it back to his hotel, Dominic collapsed onto his bed and decided 'never again' would he go for the bhang lassi.
While there are some things you try only once, the bloke has also said he will never be adding fentanyl to his tally of 182 drugs taken as he's seen how little is needed to be fatal.
Joe Harker