Even if some people add irresponsible behavior on top of this being a difficult to handle substance, the whole point is that it influences your actions in a way that can render the best intentions in the world that you may have irrelevant.
So what you say may read like a strong thing on paper, in reality I think you should be prepared to see it fall apart.
You are arguing that if your approach (i.e. the steps of preparation to deal with the experience) is to act as safe and responsibly as that nothing considerably dangerous can happen, you should change this approach in advance to also incorporate failure of the approach itself into it. This is a fallacy and not possible. The primary outcome is the entire elimination of critical failures. It already accomodates for failures of combinations of individual steps, and nothing further can be done or needs to be done.
I believe what you were actually trying to say is, that you should not be overconfident and incorporate safety measures, while you were assuming that no safety measure can ever be sufficient enough to deal with this substance. Hence you should still
expect failure. This is on the one hand untrue, considering reasonable risk assessments. On the other, sufficient safety measures are already part of responsible behavior that eliminate danger. Even if it means in the end, that no considerable amounts of the drug can be taken at all. That the method is safe,
is the foremost reality taking place. Whereas having a meaningful trip is the desired outcome, which is at danger not to occur.
If you can't tap your mental potential through meditation or proper but modest use of psychedelics I don't think you are doing it right. Otherwise you would probably see that you don't need much at all to do that yourself.
Sensory deprivation and/or just taking the special time to float in an oceanic experience - how does that not show unlimited potential? How are you bored?
This is a general argument against all psychedelic drugs, stating that they are basically (or in a certain light) superflous and you can just gain the same things without them. I just want to say quite frankly to this, that people don't have unlimited livespans to meditate 10 hours a day for decades and that hallucinogenics are just very reasonable shortcuts. You gain a lot in much more intensity and speed, while accepting a certain risk and loss of detail in return. All hallucinogenics work just like this in terms of mental exploration. It is not feasible at all to gain as much from meditation as it is from meditation plus drugs in your lifetime.
And I don't believe that there is such a thing as an universal method that can just do anything. Drugs can do a part and meditation can and there is a certain larger overlap between the two. To gain the most, you have to just do all approaches the way it makes most sense, without disregarding one in favor of the other.
Maybe you are not, being curious and wanting to explore is fine... but what makes you think that deliriants have the answers?
I think that regardless of the half-life of the drug of your choosing, if something like this is what you want, you will need the same precautions. Nibbling off an hour does not make it safe to squeeze it into an agenda to be able to do it without certain safety measures.
I am not sure what you are saying. There are many answers and different drugs have different effects. If you like to explore different countries then maybe one day you might want to explore Antarctica as well. Just because it is cold there and somewhat dangerous doesn't make it inherently invalid. But you probably don't want to book a flight that picks you up 3 month later, but maybe after 3 days instead. What can a researcher learn with his research base off that continent, maybe with just a solid tent, staying there 3 month instead of just a day or two taking samples?
The half-life is just a very simple pragmatic consideration, concerning living an everyday life and especially concerning to profit from the experience. Datura just acts so long that it is quite inhumane and superflous to remain in that state of mind for the entire time.
I would advise against natural extractions as apparently potency can vary almost by an order of magnitude. So it would require making a homogenic standardized product if not a synthetic / pharmaceutical product. Then some titration with always the same precautions. So it will be serious effort, if what you said was as serious.
I don't even want to take any plant-based materials. That you have to create homogenous preparations and slowly touch up the dosage over the course of weeks is simple 1:1 knowledge about datura trips, that you will find anywhere, and can reason yourself if you just inform yourself about the plant. Anyone who does not even know this will just end up acting irresponsibly.
Some of the dissociatives currently sold can also cause amnesia / mania and very erratic or dangerous behavior when used improperly, still they seem like a much better option. But while I do not like recommendation of drugs, it seems like you are skipping a few things here assuming that they are not the right means, or just because you cannot find them perhaps?
I don't mean to tell you how many psychedelics you have tried, but it comes across as hasty writing off a lot of great drugs in favor of something like.. deliriants..
It seems to me that you were skipping a few things. Namely that we already cleared that cautious, responsible and informed behavior must be a given. You could write a whole book about how you can make the many options available for deliriants and dissociatives safe and what dangers they have etc. ... but that is just plainly off topic imho.
Also I want to try this particular substance/effect class (or however you may call it) and I am or were not skipping or disregarding any other. It seems to me that you just want to divert me from taking datura-alike drugs at all. But the very topic is
about finding datura-alike drugs (with less grave disadvantages). So it seems confusing to me.
