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[Grotto]

possession of 'shrooms' in Canada is not illegal as long as they are not dried. You can grow them and sell them fresh...just not dried....another perfect example of Canadian justice lunacy!

[Omkara]

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[Demophobe]

[VanIslander]

Isn't there evidence that Jesus of Nazareth did magic mushrooms?

[hermes.trismegistus]

[Omkara]

C'mon, now, Demophobe. I tell you what best I think, and you give me hell for it. Haven't you known or at least heard of those who've dabbled and not come out the same? It's the mind, not a toy.

Those who take the stuff as a part of their practice--if they're worth a damn--would not even discuss the proposition of shrooming or dosing without first 'educating' the aspirant. Nor is it a weekend program.

For some, it is correct to shroom; but, they are a minority. It requires a high level of maturity and a healthy constitution. Most people could not organize the contents of such an experience in such a way as to integrate it into the personality in a healthy and beneficial way. They lack a proper frame of reference. Moreover, what is under the surface is by far more vast than the categories of the mind can organize, for the primary categories of space and time do not apply. Hence, the entire ego identity (being a consequent of the spacio-temporal categories) can utterly dis-integrate.

But, the hell with it. Let's get loaded!

[jacl]

I could drink an endless supply of beer on glid. And it's best to do a hot knife when you start feeling the effects coming on. Brings it out.

[Demophobe]

[SPINOZA]

Quite right about the crack reference, Demophobe. It's a complete cliche now. A person can experiment with crack just like one smokes a cigarette for the first time in high school or gets drunk for the first time, without becoming hooked immediately and throwing your life away. There's a bizarre stigma with crack. Example: it's common parlance to say "are you on crack?" (are you nuts?), "put the crack pipe away" (stop talking BS) when really it just gets you high as a kite for 5 minutes. There's no real distortion of reality involved.

I've done mushies only once, a month before my 16th birthday. I'd already smoked weed a lot by that time and done acid, so I was prepared. Unfortunately I took a huge dose and went completely crazy for about 8 hours, but it included a lot of smack-like bouts of sleep. That's another big difference between shrooms and acid - the latter will keep you awake all night; shrooms you can sleep off.

Hermes is right. It's all about the setting. Even if the setting is perfect, some bizarre event (and you can guarantee you'll get one if you're tripping) can set you off into an abyss of paranoia and it's difficult to get out of it until the drugs wear off (several hours). But the dose is important too. Take too many shrooms or do a very big hit of acid and you're asking for trouble in my opinion. Depends on your personality too of course. If you've already got psychotic tendancies, hallucinogens can be bad news. I've had great trips, but only relatively mild doses (one of those 60s/70s trips would've messed me up) and had some bad ones. Bad trips are bloody awful. I prefer downers generally, but I wouldn't be averse to going on a trip to Cirrus Minor again if the opportunity presents itself.

[drumpounder]

Mushrooms are a great trip. I remember many years ago being with a friend who was wicked drunk. He was trying to steal a stop sign and the cops rolled by and nabbed us and through us in the drunk tank. He passed out and I sat on the bench howling with laughter all night, tears streaming down my face. You see, I hadn't touched a drop of booze. I was ripped on mushrooms. Man I thought those cops were idiots!!! Throwing me in the drunk tank and me not drunk. The memory still brings a smile to my face.

[re:cursive]

no comment...............................

[chest rockwell]

[endo]

[Qinella]

I've tripped a few dozen times, never once had a bad trip, never once experienced paranoia beyond the standard paranoia of being in public and having drugs in my possession (usually weed). One time during a 24-hour adventure, I was driving to Taco Bell with my friend during rush hour traffic in Tampa and came to a part of the road under major construction, so there were cops, flashing lights, orange and white stripes, detours, the whole works. Even in that situation, I kept it cool.

I've taken what some may call "heroic doses", and it's always been good. At that time, I was not what you would consider, completely sure of myself. In fact, I was in a world of confusion when sober.

All the advice people give about being in the right environment, around the right people, right music, no music, whatever.. it's not bad advice, but I've been through all different types of settings on LSD, psilocybin and ketamine, and the key element is just planting a reminder in a prominent position of your brain that pops in every few seconds and says to you, "YOU ARE ON DRUGS! STAY COOL!" And that's all.

I had some friends who got all spiritual with it. They'd go out into the woods all night and become one with nature. Had some other friends who would always party with it. Whatever's clever.

Q.

(At the Taco Bell, the booth behind us was occupied by a middle aged guy and his son. My friend had his back to them, so he couldn't see their freaked out facial expressions, hence his inability to understand why I kept whispering, "Stop saying the restaurant looks like a cartoon and the crunch of the taco vibrates through your entire body." )

[jacl]

I once ate a dozen donuts in one sitting on acid.

Another time, I coudln't even take more than two bites out of a subway sandwich. My friend in the same state with his sub said, "There's no pleasing us!"

I found that if you're down and out, not much money and/or sh1tty situation life-wise, that acid's the last thing that you should be taking. You just can't enjoy it as much.