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* BaitAndSwitch: Due to the less than legal nature of drug use in many locations and the lack of recourse, quite a few dealers/sellers engage in this, and quite a few users end up with less than optimal substances and experiences for this reason.
* BeatBag: Sometimes people get these. Usually results in nothing or, if the substance is dangerous/has worse effects, something in Train Wrecks and Trip Disasters.
** In a combination of BaitAndSwitch and BeatBag, there is a substance called "PMA" that is often passed off as MDMA/ecstasy. This substance is ''incredibly dangerous'' because its lethal dose is far closer to its effective dose than actual MDMA, and its effects are barely similar to MDMA, which makes it a very dangerous trap - a user who is unfamiliar with the symptoms of a PMA high may just assume they got cut or low-quality MDMA. So these users take another pill so they can get high (rather than realize they were ripped off and not touch the rest of the pills from that seller/in that lot), which with MDMA would likely ''not'' kill them, but with PMA has a near 50 percent chance of doing so.

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[[http://www.erowid.org Erowid]] is one of the first places to go if you're looking for information about the effects and uses of almost any psychoactive drug (prescription or not, legal, illegal, or anywhere in between) and you want to avoid [[ArtisticLicensePharmacology erroneous depictions]] [[MarijuanaIsLSD of drugs]] [[ScareEmStraight in fiction]]. It is one of the biggest databases of such information on the internet, and most databases contain enough information from enough points of view to provide a well-rounded view of the subject.

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!!This website provides examples of:

* AccentuateTheNegative: [[TheSmokingSection The tobacco vault]]. That said it's for fairly good reason: there ''are'' relatively few people for whom, pre-addiction development, tobacco has any pleasurable psychoactive effect.
* TheAlcoholic: See the alcohol vault for a few stories....
* YouFailPharmacologyForever: Both averted (the research and information, using the site for research, some user accounts) and played straight (some OTHER user accounts, usually resulting in said account being in the "Train Wrecks and Trip Disasters" section.)
* AwesomeByAnalysis: You! No, really, if you go here and look around to understand your viewpoint (whether you think DrugsAreBad or EverybodyMustGetStoned or anything anywhere in between), rather than just mindlessly swallow what the government or your friends tell you, you are awesome.
* ButtMonkey: Some substances, and usually for good reason. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Datura, crystal meth, PMA, and tobacco]] are some of the biggest.
* DrugsAreBad: Averted ("Glowing Experiences" and "Health" have some good stories) AND played heartbreakingly straight ("Addiction," "Difficult Experiences," "Train Wrecks and Trip Disasters,") sometimes in the same vault. The entire point of the site is neutral, nuanced information about drugs and substances and plants, so you will see everything from the most positive stories about drugs that are almost universally dangerous (e.g. someone {{squee}}ing over crystal meth) to the most negative rants on drugs that are generally helpful (e.g. someone ranting about how their roomie's psych meds didn't get them high). The best way to use the site is to review the information all neutrally, or, failing that, to assume that a drug with very few positive experiences or where almost all the positive experiences have major warnings may be "bad" for most users.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Cannabis in and of itself is the substance with the most positive experiences, health-related usages, etcetera, and the ''least'' addiction/habituation and train wrecks and trip disasters stories. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because weed is arguably the safest psychoactive drug with the exception of certain individual health circumstances (such as some heart conditions or a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia). 
* OffTheWagon: The "Addiction/Habituation" stories.
* TaughtByExperience: The entire point of having user experiences in every vault.
* TearJerker: Some of the "Difficult Experiences" and "Train Wrecks and Trip Disasters" stories.
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