Poker Pro Anthony 'holdplz' Spinella Arrested for Possession of 20,000 LSD Hits

[BeerAndPoker]

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Poker Pro Anthony 'holdplz' Spinella Arrested for Possession of 20,000 LSD Hits

Poker pro, Anthony ‘holdplz’ Spinella was arrested earlier this week in Framingham, Massachusetts for possessing and intent to sell 20,000 hits of LSD, Ecstasy and nitrous oxide in a case reportedly tied to a California drug dealer. Police arrested Spinella, 24, of Waxhaw, North Carolina and two other men, Daniel Karabchievsky, 21, of Newton; Jared Joseph Roberge, 23, of Brooklineon Saturday, Nov. 3, at 6:50 a.m., after an investigation, prosecutor Maggie Pastuszak said in Framingham District Court.

From Wicked Local (Newton):

A detective was watching Roberge and Spinella on Franklin Street and saw them twice duck behind cars when police cruisers drove by, the prosecutor said.

The pair got into a car and drove off, and the detective pulled them over on Pearl Street.

"[The detective] observed a blue nitrous oxide canister near Spinella's legs, as well as several balloons," Pastuszak said.

Balloons are typically filled with the nitrous oxide and then sold, she said.

The officer noticed that Spinella appeared to be trying to hide something in his jacket: a plastic bag containing a crystal-like material, later identified as Ecstasy, Pastuszak said.

While police were speaking to Spinella and Roberge, who was driving, Karabchievsky walked up to the car. He admitted to police he was with Spinella and Roberge.

In an odd twist, Spinella was overheard at the police station speaking to someone on his cellphone advising the person on the other end that ‘police had confiscated some, but not all, of the drugs’. Roberge was overheard calling his brother, asking him to contact the man the money was wired to for bail money, Pastuszak said.

Each of the men were charged with possession of LSD with the intent to distribute, possession of nitrous oxide, possession of Ecstasy and conspiracy to violate state drug laws. Roberge was also charged with driving with a suspended license.

Pastuszak asked Judge Robert Greco to hold Spinella on $5,000 bail and Roberge and Karabchievsky on $3,000 bail.

Police seized $15000 as part of the investigation.

In April 2011, Spinella won the 2011 Battle at the Beach, Pompano Beach and its $174,870 cash prize. He also cashed out in three of this year's World Series of Poker events.

- Ace King, Gambling911.com
Submitted by Ace King on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 12:46

[unchainedghost]

Good to see there is some liquid floating through the area. They must have been acting like retards from the way the article reads.

[JimmyG_415]

Spinella was overheard at the police station speaking to someone on his cellphone advising the person on the other end that ‘police had confiscated some, but not all, of the drugs’.

Wow.........he can be added to the stupid criminals list.

guess they got them all, now.

[Crowe Diddly]

I've never been a tripping guy, no experience with acid at all, and I know small amounts are quite powerful, but is this number correct?

20 fl oz = 591.471 ml

591.471 / 20000 = ~ 0.03 ml

Is that all it takes for one dose of liquid LSD? 1 milliliter of LSD is 33ish doses?

[Corrigan]

I mean you can dilute it to whatever you want. But you need a vanishingly small quantity of LSD. It is one of the most powerful drugs by weight in the world

Usual dose for LSD is 100 micrograms. That is .0001 grams

Just insane when you think about it

[Corrigan]

From erowid

Liquid
LSD is soluble in water and other solvents, though liquid LSD is usually water based. Liquid LSD is used in the creation of blotter tabs. A single drop of potent liquid LSD could be 50 times a normal dose, although it is generally diluted to the point where a single drop is equal to approximately one dose. This varies greatly from batch to batch, and is sometimes a weak dose while othertimes a very strong dose. Liquid LSD is uncommon. Be extremely careful when dealing with it as there is no way to gauge it's potency. It is frequently stored in small dropper bottles, one precaution...when you reach the end of the bottle, don't rinse it out and assume that what remains is a small dose. There can still be many doses left along the inside surfaces and taking them all at once can lead to some unexpectedly strong and possibly very uncomfortable experiences.

[Dan Druff]

It is not clear from the article, but were they already under investigation when this happened?

Or were they really so stupid that they drew attention to themselves by ducking behind cars when police cruisers drove by?

If it's the latter...

[408Mike]

I mean you can dilute it to whatever you want. But you need a vanishingly small quantity of LSD. It is one of the most powerful drugs by weight in the world

Usual dose for LSD is 100 micrograms. That is .0001 grams

Just insane when you think about it

What's insane is how much the guy who created it consumed his first trip. What was it, like a drinking glass full or something? Ugh, I can't even imagine....

Also, if I remember correctly, LSD is not well understood in terms of how exactly it works and what exactly is happening in the user etc. It wouldn't surprise me if each individual has a unique response to it, as one own unique bio-chemical makeup is certainly going to be as widely varied as the differences in each users set and setting, a factor PROVEN to elicit a predictable variation in response vector. (IE "be careful who you trip with", meaning you can have a really awesome trip with the right people and setting, or a really *REALLY* bad one, situationally depedent on ones set and setting at the time of onset)

Anywho, can we turn this thread into a trip report for whomever would be so bold?

Also, Corrigan you being probably the only person aside from myself that I know who's done both LSD and DMT, you have the distinction of also having drank ayahuasca. Curious since the duration for that and lsd is pretty similar, what was the difference in overall experience? I keep hearing "it's way stronger" but wouldn't that mean more lsd will, at some point, produce a very similar experience?

I keep getting curious to try the tea, and I can get it, so just wondering....if I should try it. I've candy and hippy flipped plenty and loved both, you can be sure I've gone fairly deep down the rabbit hole, itching to go perhaps just a little deeper now. Looking for something much more spiritual, something that can awaken my existential soul if that makes sense.

Last (gotta make each post STREEEEETCH sadly) where the fuck is "brooklineon"?

Jared Joseph Roberge, 23, of Brooklineon

[Corrigan]

I would get a little bit more centered/grounded/get your life in order before I fooled with this stuff Mike. I mean that in the nicest way.

[unchainedghost]

If I'm bored enough at work later today i will post my last experience, it was kind of a horror show

[Kuntmissioner]

"be careful who you trip with", meaning you can have a really awesome trip with the right people and setting, or a really *REALLY* bad one, situationally depedent on ones set and setting at the time of onset

Situation and company should be equally considered with dose when contemplating a trip. IMO.

Last (gotta make each post STREEEEETCH sadly) where the fuck is "brooklineon"?

Jared Joseph Roberge, 23, of Brooklineon

"brooklineon" = Brookline MA

[BetCheckBet]

What's insane is how much the guy who created it consumed his first trip. What was it, like a drinking glass full or something? Ugh, I can't even imagine....

Also, if I remember correctly, LSD is not well understood in terms of how exactly it works and what exactly is happening in the user etc. It wouldn't surprise me if each individual has a unique response to it, as one own unique bio-chemical makeup is certainly going to be as widely varied as the differences in each users set and setting, a factor PROVEN to elicit a predictable variation in response vector. (IE "be careful who you trip with", meaning you can have a really awesome trip with the right people and setting, or a really *REALLY* bad one, situationally depedent on ones set and setting at the time of onset)

Anywho, can we turn this thread into a trip report for whomever would be so bold?

Also, Corrigan you being probably the only person aside from myself that I know who's done both LSD and DMT, you have the distinction of also having drank ayahuasca. Curious since the duration for that and lsd is pretty similar, what was the difference in overall experience? I keep hearing "it's way stronger" but wouldn't that mean more lsd will, at some point, produce a very similar experience?

I keep getting curious to try the tea, and I can get it, so just wondering....if I should try it. I've candy and hippy flipped plenty and loved both, you can be sure I've gone fairly deep down the rabbit hole, itching to go perhaps just a little deeper now. Looking for something much more spiritual, something that can awaken my existential soul if that makes sense.

Last (gotta make each post STREEEEETCH sadly) where the fuck is "brooklineon"?

Jared Joseph Roberge, 23, of Brooklineon

Not quite a glass. More like 2 hits...

"Bicycle Day"


Bicycle Day Celebration Blotter
April 19, 1943, Hofmann performed a self-experiment to determine the true effects of LSD, intentionally ingesting 0.25 milligrams (250 micrograms) of the substance, an amount he predicted to be a threshold dose (an actual threshold dose is 20 micrograms).[7] Less than an hour later, Hofmann experienced sudden and intense changes in perception. He asked his laboratory assistant to escort him home and, as use of motor vehicles was prohibited because of wartime restrictions, they had to make the journey on a bicycle. On the way, Hofmann’s condition rapidly deteriorated as he struggled with feelings of anxiety, alternating in his beliefs that the next-door neighbor was a malevolent witch, that he was going insane, and that the LSD had poisoned him. When the house doctor arrived, however, he could detect no physical abnormalities, save for a pair of incredibly dilated pupils. Hofmann was reassured, and soon his terror began to give way to a sense of good fortune and enjoyment, as he later wrote...


"... little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ..."

The events of the first LSD trip, now known as “Bicycle Day”, after the bicycle ride home, proved to Hofmann that he had indeed made a significant discovery: a psychoactive substance with extraordinary potency, capable of causing significant shifts of consciousness in incredibly low doses. Hofmann foresaw the drug as a powerful psychiatric tool; because of its intense and introspective nature, he couldn’t imagine anyone using it recreationally.[8] Bicycle day is increasingly observed in psychedelic communities as a day to celebrate the discovery of LSD.

The celebration of Bicycle Day originated in DeKalb, IL., in 1984, when Thomas B. Roberts, then a Professor at Northern Illinois University, invented the name "Bicycle Day" founded the first Bicycle Day celebration at his home. Several years later, he sent an announcement made by one of his students [9] to friends and Internet lists, thus propagating the idea and the celebration. His original intent was to commemorate Hofmann's original, accidental exposure on April 16th, but that date fell midweek and was not a good time for the party, so he chose the 19th to honor Hofmann's first intentional exposure.[10]

[Kuntmissioner]

Spinella

and his cohorts:

[Muck Ficon]

What's insane is how much the guy who created it consumed his first trip. What was it, like a drinking glass full or something? Ugh, I can't even imagine....

Also, if I remember correctly, LSD is not well understood in terms of how exactly it works and what exactly is happening in the user etc. It wouldn't surprise me if each individual has a unique response to it, as one own unique bio-chemical makeup is certainly going to be as widely varied as the differences in each users set and setting, a factor PROVEN to elicit a predictable variation in response vector. (IE "be careful who you trip with", meaning you can have a really awesome trip with the right people and setting, or a really *REALLY* bad one, situationally depedent on ones set and setting at the time of onset)

Anywho, can we turn this thread into a trip report for whomever would be so bold?

Also, Corrigan you being probably the only person aside from myself that I know who's done both LSD and DMT, you have the distinction of also having drank ayahuasca. Curious since the duration for that and lsd is pretty similar, what was the difference in overall experience? I keep hearing "it's way stronger" but wouldn't that mean more lsd will, at some point, produce a very similar experience?

I keep getting curious to try the tea, and I can get it, so just wondering....if I should try it. I've candy and hippy flipped plenty and loved both, you can be sure I've gone fairly deep down the rabbit hole, itching to go perhaps just a little deeper now. Looking for something much more spiritual, something that can awaken my existential soul if that makes sense.

Last (gotta make each post STREEEEETCH sadly) where the fuck is "brooklineon"?

Jared Joseph Roberge, 23, of Brooklineon