News Colorado becomes second state to legalize “magic mushrooms”

[BourbonMac]

I'm in MA and want this so bad. I can get shrooms pretty easily but I haven't found any lately. They are a godscend anti-depressant. Fuck SSRIs, SNRIs and all that shit, seriously. This needs to be legalized as medicine in general. I mean yeah, you could take too much and hallucinate, but I'm pretty sure that's the case with just about any traditional anti-depressant and many other legal drugs anyway like DXM or Benadryl. Take too much Benadryl and you will be so much more far gone than shrooms could ever put you, or just die.

 

[LucidSDreamr]

It might though, I know many people who’ve given up addictions to other drugs because of a psychedelic experience. I don’t think we should discount the ripple effect these drugs can have in society.

-GC

I know people that like a nice shot of dilauded and benzo to smooth out the tail end of a trip.

The motivation to be my best self and. Not do drugs fades with the psychedelic high in a true addict.

But I always liked psychs more recreational than mushrooms better like acid or 2cb.

 

[Nas47]

So it became some legal med,prescribing by specialist..you could grown ur own&share in clubs etc...but without to have access from some kinda stores..(like mj)..that is great.a good step&choise in general.

 

[RUC4]

I still think of Michael Jackson every time I see mj. I can't get that to change. lol

I personally have never taken mushrooms. I have a friend who does them whenever he can and he loves the feeling. I never went far with psychedelics because I had a bad microdot experience at 17, and less than a year before that, I got some weed laced with PCP (that I was unaware of) and had a really bad trip that last While. Idk if I smoked too much or if it was because I didn't choose it, I flipped out for a night and day. It was not fun. I was looking down at myself, but couldn't connect the idea that that was me. I wasn't in control of myself. It was REALLY horrible.

I've heard that mushrooms can be micro dosed for treatment for depression, anxiety, etc., but it's a very new treatment and idk what the success rate is and long term benefits of it. I honestly believe the earth provides everything we need. Whatever ails you, the earth provides a cure...you just have to find it. I'm not sure at this point in my life, I'd be interested in trying them, but it's a fascinating subject.

And I think @thegreenhand mentioned Oregon has already done this. I really think more research needs to be done about their many applications. And, of course, I don't think they should be illegal, or any drugs. Especially plants. How is anyone going to tell me what plants I'm allowed to eat. It's crazy. If I choose to eat 60 mushrooms and trip my life away for 20 days, it's my right, so long as I'm not harming anyone.

 

[Mycophile]

I discovered early on that strong doses even sufficing only an eighth can induce psychosis in me to the point I lose all conscious control and twice was brought to the psych unit in the hospital by police but it was nothing criminal lol they just dropped me off had the misfortune of running into them when my wits were gone

That being said I believe in legalizing nature for sure and have ignored the laws and grown them in NY for personal use did think of selling but wouldn't tell you about it however I decided not to sell honestly like I believe in the government telling me what I can do with nature lol or really what drugs are good for me I also learned early on the system wants to slap a diagnosis on me for profit their medicine is not my medicine though

Sorry that really sucks. I don't think that's common, but I guess it can happen.

I plan on growing them in the future.

 

[BourbonMac]

I still think of Michael Jackson every time I see mj. I can't get that to change. lol

I personally have never taken mushrooms. I have a friend who does them whenever he can and he loves the feeling. I never went far with psychedelics because I had a bad microdot experience at 17, and less than a year before that, I got some weed laced with PCP (that I was unaware of) and had a really bad trip that last While. Idk if I smoked too much or if it was because I didn't choose it, I flipped out for a night and day. It was not fun. I was looking down at myself, but couldn't connect the idea that that was me. I wasn't in control of myself. It was REALLY horrible.

I've heard that mushrooms can be micro dosed for treatment for depression, anxiety, etc., but it's a very new treatment and idk what the success rate is and long term benefits of it. I honestly believe the earth provides everything we need. Whatever ails you, the earth provides a cure...you just have to find it. I'm not sure at this point in my life, I'd be interested in trying them, but it's a fascinating subject.

And I think @thegreenhand mentioned Oregon has already done this. I really think more research needs to be done about their many applications. And, of course, I don't think they should be illegal, or any drugs. Especially plants. How is anyone going to tell me what plants I'm allowed to eat. It's crazy. If I choose to eat 60 mushrooms and trip my life away for 20 days, it's my right, so long as I'm not harming anyone.

Damn, sorry to hear about that PCP and shit. I had weed laced with cocaine when I was 17 and it freaked me out bad, and I think contributed to a psychotic break that lasted for 2ish months. I think even just smoking too much really strong weed after being a straight edge all my life contributed to severe depersonalization/derealization. I couldn't connect to anything in my life anymore, I felt like a ghost, my body was moving but it was like I wasn't moving it.

This just happens in some teens, our brains just aren't ready for it, and I was always already a bit out there anyway, realizing later in life I have C-PTSD, and I think it was maybe worsened a bit by this experience. However it was always there even before. Once I got diagnosed it made so much sense why I would dissociate so much. I always saw it as intense daydreaming, at least at school, but really there was something very wrong, and once I started smoking weed it really exacerbated things.

I took mushrooms for my first time that summer, very questionable timing. After awhile I surrendered and thought maybe I'd never get better, but it seemed like after that experience, I started coming back. It was only 1.5g or 2g but still, I soon began to feel clarity again. I had immense brain fog and everything looked dark. Then I could get high without having those weird episodes, suddenly it was just pure bliss, like going to a magical land. I think THC maybe had a more psychedelic aspect to it when I was newer to it. It still does, but I never feel like I'm in another reality that same way. I think the friends I smoked with would all get the same way, we'd just get so out of it.

I'm guessing when you talk about microdot you mean acid. I've only taken acid once 6.5 years ago, and it was interesting and not necessarily a bad trip but there was something freaky about it. And ever since then, occasionally, I'll move my hand and see a transparent trail momentarily. It might happen once a week or something. Mushrooms have never done this to me. Well, except for a time a few months ago when I took some in a very bad set and setting, saw a bunch of kalaidoscopic skeletons, like a skull face surrounded by bones in a kalaidoscopic pattern, it was very, very weird and they were everywhere.

Low doses are absolutely incredible. I don't have experience in microdosing LSD, but I genuinely feel that LSD is just unsafe. I guess the synthetic aspect of it is what turns me off. You've heard of acid casualties, but how many mushroom casualties?

 

[RUC4]

I'm guessing when you talk about microdot you mean acid. I've only taken acid once 6.5 years ago, and it was interesting and not necessarily a bad trip but there was something freaky about it.

You’re half-right. A microdot was a 90’s thing. It’s ecstasy and acid together in one little pill.

You've heard of acid casualties, but how many mushroom casualties?

I have not heard of this. Are you referring to people becoming a casualty aka dying from it?

 

[BourbonMac]

Nah, like they take too much acid and never really come back. The guy in my profile picture, Syd Barrett, is the most well-known acid casualty. He was taking it a lot in 1967 but one day at the end of July before their 3rd appearance at Top of the Pops, he showed up to his girlfriends house, barefoot, feet cut open, knees trembling, pale, and completely gone. Supposedly he lived with people who'd spike him a lot without him knowing.

However I believe in the end it was Mandrax, a quaalude that contained diphenhydramine that he took excessively for like 5 years that really did him in, he eventually lost the ability to function entirely. But either way, acid really messed him up. A lot of people in the late 60s were a victim to this. Acid was the happening thing and a lot of people thought it was the answer to finding yourself, finding the meaning of life. It was a dangerous time and lots of ignorance over drugs. PCP was called the peace pill when it first hit Haight Ashbury. But yeah, Syd really was never entirely the same after that one fateful day where he disappeared for a weekend, no one could find him, and then he just shows up in horrible shape.

That profile picture of mine was taken in 1969 well into his quaalude addiction, but he'd still take acid sometimes. Some people found him to be pretty normal, others found him very strange. I think he'd have periods where he'd suddenly become more himself again but then retreat back into this twilight of catatonia, worsened my quaaludes. I've read quite a few books on him, he's one of my favorite musicians. He was the founder of Pink Floyd and was responsible for 90% of their first album, and most of their songs after he left were often referring to him. His solo album songs are often very sad and you can tell he's crying out for help, and even in one song, saying "I tattooed my brain all the way. Won't you miss me, wouldn't you miss me at all?!" He was aware of what happened to him, but the music scene really stressed him out too. There's rumors he had schizophrenia that he developed from taking acid but I don't believe that. His bandmates assigned that to him but he was never diagnosed with it and it wasn't in his genetics.

 

[somnilicious]

Legalize Papaver Somniferum!! I'm not a criminal. Fuck the cartels and fuck Fentanyl!

 

[ongos]

What's the first state?

But city-wise, I've read awhile ago that Ann Arbor, MI legalized magic mushrooms too.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

You’re half-right. A microdot was a 90’s thing. It’s ecstasy and acid together in one little pill.

For the record, microdots have been in circulation since the 60s and typically only contain LSD. But I’m sure mixed ones went about at other times. I’ve never seen micro dots in my ten or so years… eleven? Since I started tripping.

 

[RUC4]

For the record, microdots have been in circulation since the 60s and typically only contain LSD. But I’m sure mixed ones went about at other times. I’ve never seen micro dots in my ten or so years… eleven? Since I started tripping.

I did not know that. I was told I bought one with ecstasy but who knows
Yeah I haven’t even heard of them in 20 years. I wasn’t into tripping since the microdot night so, I wouldn’t have noticed them.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I did not know that. I was told I bought one with ecstasy but who knows
Yeah I haven’t even heard of them in 20 years. I wasn’t into tripping since the microdot night so, I wouldn’t have noticed them.

You don’t see them much on the black market today but the major LSD-analogue vendors sold them in microdots till they got busted this past month.

Orange Barrels in the 1960s are the most famous I can think of; purportedly ALD-52 but I think they were just strong acid hits and Nick Sand and his partner were just trying to legal loophole the law the way we are today, albeit just as unsuccessfully as all these RC vendors hehe.

 

[thegreenhand]

What's the first state?

oregon has medical legalization on the way. the infrastructure for it is still developing. i also believe it's only synthetic psilocybin being medicalized, no fungi.

But city-wise, I've read awhile ago that Ann Arbor, MI legalized magic mushrooms too.

ann arbor was only decriminalization. lots of cities have done this now. there's a an organization known as Decriminalize Nature that has been quite active in this sort of activism. i personally find the natural vs. synthetic distinction of theirs unhelpful and stigmatizing. but i digress..

For the record, microdots have been in circulation since the 60s and typically only contain LSD. But I’m sure mixed ones went about at other times. I’ve never seen micro dots in my ten or so years… eleven? Since I started tripping.

this is my understanding of microdots as well. i'm sure tablets with multiple substaces have been made before, but i don't think that's what the term typically refers to.

I have not heard of this. Are you referring to people becoming a casualty aka dying from it?

acid casualty generally means someone who has taken a lot of LSD in their past and never really was the same after (and not in the cheery, uplifting way). i suppose it's a form of psychosis in one sense, but it's certainly not the rumored schizophrenia cause by 'hallucinogens' that lay people warn you about.

i don't think an overdose from LSD has ever actually been documented. i could be wrong about that tho.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

i don't think an overdose from LSD has ever actually been documented. i could be wrong about that tho.

There's something on Erowid about 9 or so people ODing on LSD because I guess they travelled in the right/wrong circles and thought the powder they were snooting was cocaine... when in fact, it was LSD. So literally many milligrams per person. Not one died. Just two nights in the psych ward IIRC.

They tried to claim it killed an elephant in the 1960s but they also happened to shoot it up with tranqs of all sorts shortly before it "ODed".

 

[G_Chem]

There's something on Erowid about 9 or so people ODing on LSD because I guess they travelled in the right/wrong circles and thought the powder they were snooting was cocaine... when in fact, it was LSD. So literally many milligrams per person. Not one died. Just two nights in the psych ward IIRC.

They tried to claim it killed an elephant in the 1960s but they also happened to shoot it up with tranqs of all sorts shortly before it "ODed".

Yea in an effort to reverse the OD pumped him full of antipsychotics if I recall right. Then blamed it on the LSD..

I’d rather been one of those people who snorted LSD thinking it was cocaine than one of the few who snorted NBome’s thinking it was cocaine. Then again anyone who snorts another’s drugs may in some way deserve the karma they receive. My mom and step dad took my bupe pills once and each popped an 8 no tolerance, you can be rest assured they tasted karma that day lol.

-GC

 

[sohrah]

About damn time hope it spreads like wildfire not that I want to see a wildfire horrific destruction but I hope the old ignorance of the white man will reform itself or burn down swiftly in a raging blaze of science based policy this fire was not started on accident jk what am I saying and why lol white man saw Indian using mushroom for supernatural purposes got scared his God out of his Bible said do away with that black magic same with mescaline cacti

 

[SaviorMoney]

German weed legalisation status, pending for 330 days..........
I am so fucking jelly. Fuck all of you

I don't mean that. But yeah fuck you

Germany is going for nationwide legalization though. We still don't have that. The states that have legalized is a great start but we really haven't won yet.

For instance, I live in Illinois. Weed is legal here but, it is still considered illegal on the federal level so, a federal agent could sit in a dispensary parking lot and arrest every person that walks out. That would pretty much be a waste of time because they really wouldn't prosecute any of those people but, they still could be arrested.

Plus, employers can still drug test their employees and fire them for testing positive for marijuana. We have made a lot of progress but, until we have full federal legalization, we aren't there yet. Germany will probably get there before us.

 

[SaviorMoney]

Yea in an effort to reverse the OD pumped him full of antipsychotics if I recall right. Then blamed it on the LSD..

I’d rather been one of those people who snorted LSD thinking it was cocaine than one of the few who snorted NBome’s thinking it was cocaine. Then again anyone who snorts another’s drugs may in some way deserve the karma they receive. My mom and step dad took my bupe pills once and each popped an 8 no tolerance, you can be rest assured they tasted karma that day lol.

-GC

That's funny shit. My mom threw her back out and I gave her like a little sliver of one of my subutex tabs. She just sat in her chair, staring at the TV for about 5 hours. The next day, she said "you take a whole one of those everyday?" I just laughed and said "I take 2" She was shocked

 

[G_Chem]

That's funny shit. My mom threw her back out and I gave her like a little sliver of one of my subutex tabs. She just sat in her chair, staring at the TV for about 5 hours. The next day, she said "you take a whole one of those everyday?" I just laughed and said "I take 2" She was shocked

My dad who used to take 320mg oxy and 400mg morphine a day at one point, I gave him like .25mg or less, and he said he felt dizzy for 2 days! Of course at that point he had no opiate tolerance but still!

My first time was also rough. I had quit heroin for a couple months and had zero tolerance. My buddy gave me an 8 to try. I didn’t feel nothing for 3hrs so went to sleep.

Next thing I know I fall out of bed dizzy as fuck, my phone is going crazy and I realize I’m a couple hours late for work. I had slept 14hrs non stop and when I woke proceeded to puke the rest of the night lol, fun stuff.

When I quit my 100$ a day heroin habit I only needed 1-2mg.

-GC