Ha, before legal highs in packets were even invented, there was a little brown book called legal highs (funnily enough)
It had all kinds of mad swag that me and my mates tried all the ones we could find, funny i can't remember any of them being good (such as Weed, Acid, Smack, Temazepam, Methadone etc etc etc),
Stromoniom/thorn Apple:-
really obscure and fucked up trips of no enjoyment, not bad trips, just plenty hallucinations, Nae buzz. 2 days of adventures that took about 15 year to find out what actually happened, nuts.
There was a big list of stuff that fucked you similarly and it's all grown in botanical gardens, not recommended, unless you're young dumb and full of cum.
Belladonna aka Deadly Nightshade:-
Brutal, shitty near death experience every time we tried it.
Not recommended unless you like death.
Nutmeg:-
According to the book you had to grate 6 fresh whole nutmegs and somehow eat it lol, it tastes fuckin horrible atleast a million times worse than E, i gave up trying to get it in me after about a millionth of a teaspoon, but talked 1 mate into getting the lot in him. Nowt happened till the next day, be woke up looking stoned out his face and said the buzz was like eating hash! Just as well after eating all that horribleness
Flyagaric/Aminita muscaria:-
Ho Ho! the preparation methods were plentiful and all were tried, every time we just puked and puked for hours and hours, zero buzz, just pure puke.
We fucked about with poppy seeds and etc, but we could buy opium then so it was a non starter really.
I mind at the time ppl said a lot of these were available in herbal type cigarettes that you made a tea from, maybe this would have been a more positive route as we were getting the actual plants and boiling loads of roots and etc.
If i want a good gouch I'll get morphine sulphate, or smack(heroin) if it's confirmed good.
If i wanna bounce off walls and make a general pest of myself I'll get a handful of Diazepam or temazepam add a bit alcohol for extra sway if you want arrested, and if you fancy a visit to the high court for dropping a slab on someone's head (this happened) try the banned and hard to get sodium pentathol, Tuinol, up-Johns or nembutal, all are aka "indictment pills", many an abuser will tell you tales of "waking up"(lol) in the police station caught red handed doing some mad shit or other, but was usually very serious.
If i wanna feel like I've smoked weed, I'll just get some weed, that's a no-brainer for me, fk smoking some obscure chemical on the off chance that it's like weed, NA!
if i wanna rush out my face, tingle from top to toe and generally feel brilliant I'll get some E, prefer Molly, but pills are adorable to
In conclusion, for me, legal highs were and are, total shit. Why oh Why you would subject yourself to this weird alchemy to try get the hit of "actual" drugs?
"In order to stay legal" is not an answer, you want proper fucked, you need proper gear, well, maybe not if you're a libertine chemist, but for us mere libertines, the actual drug is a must.
Peace out