^ Gotta admit I was very impressed my first time I had 4-AcO-DMT. Much less anxiety than mushrooms, like toned down, mild LSD in it's cleanliness. As time went on it just became apparent phenethylamines just mesh with me better, it still sits in the collection for possible future revisit.
what offer lsd that shrooms lack? ergoloids intrigues me...
There's a positive, mood lifting effect whereas shrooms can more easily go the other direction. What sets LSD apart from all other phens or trypts is the
clarity of it all. It's so clean and bright, but almost piercingly so; I tend to get tension headaches from smiling so much and seeing things so incredibly clearly. That's what makes LSD so great, but the latter reasons are why it's not my #1.
It's incredibly clean and clear, but almost in a certain way 'cold' or 'sterile'; I find certain phenethylamines strike a nice balance. Tyrptamines seem to lack that empathogenic warmth I look for in a good therapeutic trip; they're trippy and wild no doubt, but I'm usually not colour chasing or going into psychonautics.
2C-T-2 currently holds top spot for balance of warm empathogen, yet clear and immensely deep.
I've only had mescaline as an evaporated alcohol cactus extract, nice effect, but really weak. Would like to try a nice 350mg cap of mescaline sometime though.
Allylescaline is available but won't go there for a bit.
Like someone mentioned, we all seem to have shrooms as our first psychs because they're so available and at that age we view them as 'mild', 'natural' drugs and thus on the same acceptability level as weed. Man I would have much rather had some 2C-B at that point in time; talk about learning to swim by being thrown off a ship.