Welcome to our channel: Drugslab

October 21, 2016 11:01 AM

Drugslab is an educational YouTube channel about drugs. On this YouTube channel we will take in the drugs you want us to try. We do this in the name of science so we can show you what the effects of drugs are on the human body. ... Besides our weekly experiment, we provide you of safe methods of use, safe doses, the effects, the risks and very useful do's and don'ts when high on drugs. Given by experienced epicureans. Light it up people, in the name of science! Peace. Dutch language, English subtitles, links inside.

Magic mushrooms - do's and don'ts | 1:29
Rens trips on magic mushrooms | 11:04

MDMA crystals - Do's and dont's | 0:55
Nellie dances on MDMA crystals | 10:43

Ketamine (special K ) - do's and don'ts | 1:02
Bastiaan sniffs ketamine (special K) | 10:18

Nitrous oxide (N20) - Do's and don'ts | 0:48
Rens & Bastiaan fly high on nitrous oxide (N20) | 10:33

2C-B - Do's and don'ts | 1:26
Nellie trips on 2C-B | 10:20

Spacecake (cannabis / THC) - Do's and don'ts | 0:58
Bastiaan eats spacecake (cannabis / THC) | 10:12

Ecstasy (XTC / MDMA) Do's and don'ts | 1:19
Rens tries Ecstasy (XTC / MDMA) | 11:08

posted by Blasdelb (26 comments total)

white people can get away with anything
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:04 AM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

You realize that this isn't made in the US?
posted by I-baLL at 11:10 AM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

yes, the dutch speaking dutchskies was a give away
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:14 AM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

This is charming, and a useful public service. In a more sensible world they would receive government funding for this project.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 11:20 AM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]

You realize that this isn't made in the US?

It's not like most most of this stuff is legal where they're doing it.
posted by Mitrovarr at 11:21 AM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Otherwise known in Dutch as vrijdag.
posted by 1adam12 at 11:21 AM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

"It's not like most most of this stuff is legal where they're doing it."

I don't know the legalities of it but they do seem to be on the Netherlands' version of PBS.
posted by I-baLL at 12:12 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

"This is charming, and a useful public service. In a more sensible world they would receive government funding for this project."

This seems to be the case as they're on BNN.
posted by I-baLL at 12:13 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

It's interesting to watch this in Dutch, as often listening to Dutch I can't shake the sensation that English is being spoken, but I am on a debilitating amount of drugs.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:18 PM on October 21, 2016 [30 favorites]

If I used all those various drugs would I be as charming and animated and joyous as those two?
They sure make me want to try them all
posted by Postroad at 12:24 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

Should that be parsed as “drugs lab” or “drug slab”?
posted by acb at 12:24 PM on October 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

often listening to Dutch I can't shake the sensation that English is being spoken, but I am on a debilitating amount of drugs.

I found it to be like brushing something with your fingers that you can almost, but not quite, reach. Like if I only focused a bit more it'd just snap into focus and I'd be able to understand it.

This turns out to not be true.
posted by 1adam12 at 12:29 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Nellie dancing on MDMA really makes me want to take some MDMA.
posted by Justinian at 12:52 PM on October 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Should that be parsed as “drugs lab” or “drug slab”?

Dr. Ugslab.
posted by Strange Interlude at 1:54 PM on October 21, 2016 [10 favorites]

This is funded by the government. The program is "Spuiten en slikken" ("Squirt and swallow") and is supported by Dutch national television. It's a program designed to educate young people about sex and drugs, and often includes experiments (like taking MDMA or swallowing semen).
posted by stillmoving at 2:03 PM on October 21, 2016 [9 favorites]

this is actually, like, a Republican's nightmare conspiracy theory about PBS, except it's real.

If there are Dutch people on Metafilter I would really be interested in understanding the context for this show. How did it get funded, is it controversial? Does this reflect the broader drug policy in the country? Is there widespread use of the drugs featured on this show?
posted by vogon_poet at 2:55 PM on October 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

That was a pretty middling 'shroom trip. But, they're such cute kids, it's all good.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:02 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Ha, love this/them.
posted by nikoniko at 3:17 PM on October 21, 2016

This is so cute. I could spend all day watching these.
posted by euphoria066 at 3:33 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

I just like it that this FPP boils down to "Drugslab" by Blasdelb.

Drugslab
Blasdelb
Drugslab
Blasdelb

It's... hypnotic

Thanks, Blasdelb!
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:48 PM on October 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

Theme to Peg+Cat [warning] 10:00

At around 4:20 the strongest desires for Ketamine are produced.
posted by clavdivs at 8:36 PM on October 21, 2016

Aw, 2CB. <3 Such good memories of college. I lol'd at "Now I totally understand Harry Potter." And of course gabba, because Netherlands.

This is maybe the best thing I've watched in a couple of weeks at least. "PiHKaL" and "wholesome" don't usually go together in my mind, but the fact that they do here and it feels so natural makes me really, really happy.
posted by en forme de poire at 12:30 AM on October 22, 2016

That's actually really interesting about 2CB not depleting you in the same way as MDMA -- I guess it's an agonist, not a releasing agent? I hadn't realized that, but it makes sense with the lack of a hangover.
posted by en forme de poire at 12:58 AM on October 22, 2016

If there are Dutch people on Metafilter I would really be interested in understanding the context for this show. How did it get funded, is it controversial? Does this reflect the broader drug policy in the country? Is there widespread use of the drugs featured on this show?

The way public broadcasting works in the Netherlands is that there isn't a state broadcaster, nor something like the BBC, but that there are a multitude of independent broadcasters which share the available public tv and radio channels. BNN is one of them, founded in 1997 by Bart de Graaff[1], a television personality and producer who'd previously had had his own pretend network under the same name for a different broadcaster. BNN was founded explicitely as a broadcaster for young adults, who were underserved by the traditional politically (VARA, AVRO) or religious (KRO, NCRV, VPRO) orientated broadcasters.

Spuiten en Slikken hasn't been that controversial as far as I'm aware, as it is fairly tame despite its subject matter and approaches it in an educational rather than exploitative manner.

Drugs policy in the Netherlands has gotten more conservative in the last twenty years: while our politicians didn't have the guts to extend the tolerance policy and finally legalise some drugs, other countries caught up and surpassed us. Hell, even the drinking age got raised from sixteen to eighteen. Despite this soft drug use is fairly common and mostly uncontroversial, you got your various synthetic stimulants for the dance crowd and things like heroin are not particularly common, with the biggest problem there being an aging population of long term addicts having to be taken care of.

[1] A rather interesting guy. Thanks to a bacterial infection at age nine after a traffic accident his kidneys got damaged which in turn cause a growing disorder which made him look like a perennial twelve year old. He finally got a donor kidney in 1997, the same year he founded BNN and it made him hyper active and go through what looked like a belated puberty, which was reflected in a lot of the programs he made for BNN, like the Teringtubbies, a sex and drugs spoof of the Teletubbies. Sadly he died in 2002
posted by MartinWisse at 4:32 AM on October 22, 2016 [5 favorites]

Laudable and fun - but drinking from labware? Tsk tsk.
posted by Devonian at 6:23 AM on October 22, 2016 [2 favorites]

I love the J.K. Rowling "conspiracy" that comes up on 2C-B.

Laudable and fun - but drinking from labware? Tsk tsk.

I agree with you publicly, but, like all other labfolk, I have a couple pieces of kitchen borosilicate.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 12:52 PM on October 24, 2016 [2 favorites]