Hello, So I'm curious as to how much scrutiny "watched chemicals and items" really go through. There have been plenty of people who order everything they need to extract DMT or synth MDMA online and then been busted with intent to manufacture.
About 8-9 years ago we ordered everything we needed off of amazon acid, lye, hexane, another solvent, a separation funnel. Got the mimosa hostilis from a shroomery trusted vendor. I don't believe I even used crypto to pay for it. Had no run-ins with law enforcement over that. I suppose there was luck involved in that looking back now.
I also see talk about getting chemistry glassware like it's a sketchy thing? Not sure if a "Watched Item List" is a real thing but if it was, many peoples attitude seem to put chemistry equipment on that list.
my homie order an entire 24/40 glass distillation set-up, a buchner funnel with filter papers, and a large separation funnel off amazon this year with no questions from law enforcement. They ordered a solvent recently too, not sure if that will change anything. But like I said, I see this undertone of paranoia when people talk about purchasing chemistry equipment which I feel like there shouldn't be when purchasing just glass?
obviously if your buying precursors then law enforcement will 100% start being curious as to what your doing with it, lol that e-bay sassafras oil just screams booby-trap. But as far just buying a distillation set-up, basic lab grade solvents and acids, is there really much to worry about?
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Assume that nothing you do or write with technology or say near it is private. Just because it isn't private doesn't mean that there is a person assigned to your case or that the government wants to spend the time, money and manpower to go after you.
When PF, the spore vendor who pioneered the use of vermiculite as a contamination barrier in clandestine mycology, took out an ad in the back of High Time it took about two weeks for the government to start collecting the names and addresses of all his incoming and outgoing mail. This was reported during his trial. I am not aware of this information being used to prosecute people, I even ordered spores from him in the late 90s and never had any knocks at my door. I don't know of anyone who did, but those purchases were not private.
Today the government collects more information than ever before. Vast amounts and in insane detail but, generally speaking, that information is not used as the basis for investigation unless large amounts of money, violence, child exploitation or terrorism is involved.
That being said if police have cause to enter any place where you have something like a DMT extraction or a synthesis going on they are probably going to prosecute you for it. They aren't really after the little guy, but they do track us. They have a mail monitoring program like never before, now too. They have terahertz postal scanners, made by TeraSense Group, Inc, whose resolution abilities are powerful. Such scanners are used in the archaeological community with AI to read ancient scrolls without opening them and they can also identify some chemical samples. A couple of years ago when they started slowing down the mail and it was accused of being to delay mail-in voting, it was actually to facilitate the widespread installation of terahertz scanning technology as part of a new postal inspection program that coordinates with social media data and other forms of data. High speed machines put the mail through the scanners too fast to use properly so they slowed it down to allow this technology to be used.
Everything you send and receive in the mail is rather well monitored, but as with most other forms of data collection that does not mean they are coming after you for root bark orders or chemistry equipment and supplies. If you order a lot or keep ordering some or get a lot of drugs in the mail then they may decide to act, typically through further investigation. They focus on and confiscate large shipments of drugs and money and allow a lot of contraband through the system. They also focus largely on those who produce and sell but do not typically go after end users.
The reality is that you have no realistic expectation of privacy in today's digital world, chemical watch list or otherwise. Though just because the government doesn't bust you doesn't mean they don't have dirt on you.
Nearly everyone in society today carries a state of the art surveillance device on their person. As mentioned, your mail is not private either. Nor is anything you post online. Nor are text messages or phone calls private. There are also plenty of cases of information being obtained and used against terrorists, human traffickers, high level drug dealers and child pornographers that were made using data from what was thought by those people to have been encrypted via messaging service or application or a device. My understanding is that it is actually illegal to make an encrypted app, they all must have a backdoor and there are gag orders covering this so that it is not well or widely known. Having an iPhone instead of an Android does nothing to protect you from data collection, for example.
Keep in mind that investigations and prosecutions cost money and take a lot of time. Sometimes investigations will go on for many years before an arrest is made, but those cost a decent amount of money and do not target the average person who uses psychedelics or even someone who grows mushrooms for personal use.
The more suspicious your behavior becomes, though, the more the government interest in that behavior grows. Eventually it can reach a point where someone is assigned to look into you. Your own false sense of security is one of the more effective tools in the kit of law enforcement and there is an effort to keep the reality of data collection private and out of public awareness.
Online data that incriminates and mail or traffic that does so typically leads to a step of communication interception and collection. This is then used to identify, typically, when a suspect is in transit with contraband like drugs or money. There are NDAs in place that prevent local law enforcement from mentioning, in their police reports and court cases, that interception technology, like a Stingray device, played a role in their investigation. The police can actually be prosecuted by the Federal government for sharing that information.
What typically happens is that when a suspect is known to have drugs or money they are then tracked, that information is given to local law enforcement and the person is pulled over for any number of traffic laws, like an improper lane change. After that, typically, a dog is used. This works because a dog cannot be put on a witness stand, so the dog does not need to alert at all because the handler already knows that the person has what they are after and they use the dog to create probable cause by just stating that the dog alerted, leaving the part about mail tracking, social media data collection and communication interception out of the probable cause scenario. All of this is coordinated and done via what are called Fusion Centers where Federal authorities work with, and provide intelligence data to, local law enforcement with the help of impressive state of the art technologies to pull this off.
Be careful, stay safe and good luck!
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