Psilocycbin

[Unisaw]

I have never done any substance of this nature, but found this article interesting.

NYT: Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In

The Reader's Comments are fascinating

[seremtan]

done mushrooms and acid

shrooms were fun, but the experience wasn't remotely spiritual. acid was meh, goes on too long and just gets tiresome toward the end

[phantasmagoria]

we made some tea with mushrooms and all they they did was make us vomit. I think we picked the wrong ones

[seremtan]

^ depends on how fresh they were. unfresh = useless

[ToxicBug]

did acid a year ago, it was awesome. psychedelics are the shit imo, but acid is impossible to find in montreal :/

[mrd]

acid was meh, goes on too long and just gets tiresome toward the end

Are you retarded? Acid is fuckin' sweet.

Psilocybin, LSD and I think one other one (DMT, and maybe weed too?) are all tryptamines... they have some pretty interesting effects on the brain. LSD in particular, there are tons of interesting connections between that and various facets of our brain. If you want a mind-fuck, go read up about the connection between LSD and the pineal gland in our brain, and also the historical evolutionary importance of the pineal gland in mammals in general. Gives a whole new meaning to the "third eye."

I've done LSD about a dozen times, never had a bad trip or experience, each time was a blast. While I won't say I had any life changing experiences, I definitely had some memorable ones. Some of my favourite memories include playing acoustic guitar, hiking up a mountain with a couple close friends, camping and just sitting around shooting the shit whilst listening to good music.

I think the inventor of LSD (Hofmann) also did some work regarding the healing/revealing properties of the chemical.

[mrd]

The Reader's Comments are fascinating

Anyone who has experimented with hallucinogens will defend their power to transform! I haven't done it in years but I'm all for it. But dropping acid in a clinical setting just isn't right. They need to be upstate on a gorgeous autumn afternoon, in a field, where they can feel every blade of grass under their bare feet and watch the colors explode. Have you ever hugged a dead sunflower under a sunbeam and felt the presence of God flow through you as you lost your mind?

[ToxicBug]

The Reader's Comments are fascinating

Anyone who has experimented with hallucinogens will defend their power to transform! I haven't done it in years but I'm all for it. But dropping acid in a clinical setting just isn't right. They need to be upstate on a gorgeous autumn afternoon, in a field, where they can feel every blade of grass under their bare feet and watch the colors explode. Have you ever hugged a dead sunflower under a sunbeam and felt the presence of God flow through you as you lost your mind?

a lot of truth to that, acid + nature = win


edit: btw, i wouldn't say i felt the presence of god in a religious sense, but at one point i did feel the presence of an infinite source of positive energy. the word that came to my mind at that moment was "impulse".

[mjrpes]

Albert Hofmann is a perfect example of how dangerous these drugs can be. He led a successful and fulfilling life and died at 102 years without any loss of mental cognition.

[mrd]

Albert Hofmann is a perfect example of how dangerous these drugs can be. He led a successful and fulfilling life and died at 102 years without any loss of mental cognition.

[Unisaw]

The discovery of psilocybin mushrooms by a westerner was by a JP Morgan banker - R. Gordan Wasson. This guy travelled to a Mexican Indian village in 1955 to share 'holy communion" where "divine mushrooms" were consumed. Do you think he brought home a boatload and they're still chewing on them on Wall Street?

R. Gordan Wasson

My Wasson and his wife published an illustrated book in 1957 "Mushrooms Russia and History". In 1957 it was priced at $125 for one of 500 copies. Check it out here and see the illustrations. Quite nice:

Mushrooms Russia and History

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

in soviet russia, hallucinogenic mushrooms take you.

[Big Kahuna Burger]

PuFFNSTuFF

[[xeno]Julios]

planning on doing these for the first time. Just waiting for a nice summer day, gonna go biking in the don valley up to the sports fields in sunnybrook park and enjoy the view

check it yo:

http://tinyurl.com/2u4tpfn

[Captain]

lol drugs...

[fKd]

mazda?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/2 ... 20970.html

[[xeno]Julios]

ROFL

[Captain]

[Eraser]

Albert Hofmann is a perfect example of how dangerous these drugs can be. He led a successful and fulfilling life and died at 102 years without any loss of mental cognition.

You're joking right?

[scared?]

bunch of morons in this thread...

[Ryoki]

Tried mushrooms a few times, indeed excellent fun. Imo everyone should try it (in a proper nature setting) at least once in their life.

LSD i've always found a bit scary, the thought of a 6-8 hour trip does not appeal to me.

[Zyte]

Well since we had some incidents here where tourists went apeshit on shrooms (e.g. dude butchering a dog to free it's soul), they are no longer sold at smartshops.

Being too late for shrooms, i tried an equivalent with a mate, some truffles/philosophers stones. I think we were too cautious with the portions though, because we basically felt really high and randomly burst out in laughter, like smoking the MJ for the first times. But not a trip of some sort. Still fun times though..

[Ryoki]

You can still get them in smartshops in Amsterdam i think..?

The whole criminalization thing is such bullshit. That tourist (and all the others that threw themselves off of buildings / set themselves on fire which led to the criminalization) were on a cocktail of basically everything they could get their hands on. Somehow they blamed the shrooms though.

[seremtan]

6-8 hour trip

if only. purple microdot = your entire day gone from lunchtime to midnight

[Ryoki]

haha jesus, fun times :\