Sorry if I'm re-covering old ground - I couldn't find anything with a cursory search:
I just recently used myself as a guinea pig in testing a strain of morning glory that I hadn't read as usually being on the list of good psychoactive strains. Usually the best ones are considered to be "Heavenly Blue", "Pearly Gates" & "Flying Saucers", right? Well recently a local horticultural supplier had organically grown morning glory seeds of the "Milky Way" strain as a discount line, ridiculously cheap. They are listed as being another cultivar of
I. tricolor so especially as they have another wacky "celestial" name I thought they'd be worth investigating. I couldn't find any clues on the web so I decided to try them for myself and report the result here.
I bought a few packets of seed just over a month ago but at the time I had had a moderate trip on "Heavenly Blues" and microdosed on LSD a couple of times to help with a creative writing project (I was given one small dose by a friend and couldn't be bothered to take it all at once and have an annoying weak ass trip and I find microdosing helps the creative imagination necessary for productive writing without being distracting or ruining concentration so I decided to put the lucy to constructive use) over the course of about 2 weeks so I waited until last weekend to try them as I didn't want tolerance to weigh in as a factor.
I decided on the fairly conservative dose of approx. 220 seeds, which I dosed simply by grinding and swallowing, washed down with orange juice. Please note that I seem to be lucky in being spared the worst of the nausea that some people find so distressing. I don't actually mind vomiting once on MG, I feel like is a cleansing sort of purge but if I don't feel like dealing with it I pre-load with metaclopramide (which is far better than motion-sickness tablets for dealing with drug-induced nausea) and this eliminates the nausea and leaves just a minor amount of stomach discomfort, so little I hardly notice it. I did that in this case since I wasn't at all sure I'd trip and didn't want the negative effects and no positives. By wussing out like this I can't comment on the relative amount of nausea but that wasn't what I was principally interested in anyway.
I wasn't expecting much from this dose so when I started to get small alerts at 30 minutes post ingestion, along with the mild anxiety that I often feel when coming up on psychs before they really get going I was ready to write it off as placebo. A +/- situation on the Shulgin scale and therefore not definitive evidence for significant psychoactivity.
1 hour after ingestion BIG waves of euphoria started to hit, along with the only negative symptoms I experienced, namely a slightly roiled stomach (no biggy there) and some cramping in my limbs due to the vasoconstriction. I was feeling way too happy to be too hacked off with the cramps and they were mild enough that I was able to simply walk them off. On the walk I took for this reason I noticed definite colour enhancement. I smiled to myself as I realised that I was properly in for a trip and got in to the mindstate of almost childlike wonder which is most conducive to a good tripping experience for me.
2 hours in and I am properly up on the morning glory "Milky Ways". OEVs are very noticeable, lots of visual patterning and items in my field of vision morphing, especially my own hands for some reason. I put some music on and it is 100 times better than usual. CEVs are less impressive for some reason, some nice colourful and complex geometric patterning but not all that bright or striking really. At this point I have definitely reached a ++ on the Shulgin scale. I am reminded of all the reasons why I prefer MG seeds to HBWR, I find them much more visual, energetic and easier on my body, whereas HBWR tend to be quite sedating, more of a "stone" with fewer visual elements and a heavier body load. Incidentally, just as a matter of interest (not that closer to LSD is necessarily better, LSAs have their own strengths and weaknesses) these "Milky Way" seeds provided the closest experience to a moderate dose of LSD that I've ever had from any substance containing LSAs. It was really very similar, more so even than "Heavenly Blues" although the overall strength of the effects was probably just a little bit less. Great fun
The effects peaked at between 2hrs 30min and 3hrs after ingestion. There followed a good solid peak lasting just over 4hrs in total duration and then a gradual comedown over another 3hrs. At this point, just over 10hrs after ingestion the remaining effects were minimal and the "leftover" CEVs were making sleep difficult and it was past 1am, so not wanting to feel too rough the following day I took 10mg nitrazepam in order to sleep. With this help I slept fine and just had a pleasant "afterglow"-type feeling for the first few hours of the day after. I'd say the peak effects were a really solid ++, even verging on a +++ at times.
All in all it was a very rewarding and actually highly recreational experience. I don't normally take psychedelics recreationally, using them for mental exploration and self-discovery in general. This trip reminded me that sometimes it's good to take yourself less seriously and have a bit of
fun lol. I am going back to the store tomorrow to buy as many packets as I can within reason, as morning glory "Milky Way" seeds are definitely an organic psychedelic that I want in my arsenal. Next month (I prefer to let my tolerance get down as far as possible in between MG trips so I don't have to swallow too much manky seed powder!) however I may take 220 "Heavenly Blue" seeds 'cause it's a while since I took less than 350 of them and I want to do a more direct comparison of potency between similar amounts of "Milky Way" and "Heavenly Blue". I'll post any conclusions I reach here, natch
Oh, I almost forgot, I had the shits a little bit the following morning but it really wasn't bad enough to be any hassle.
Peace, Ethnobot