The Big & Dandy 'Age and Psychedelics' thread

[PepperSocks]

....I think there have been a few threads and a poll on this same topic before though

Ya, to the OP, search for a thread titled "Age of first effective psychedelic experience" It's pretty recent, this thread might get closed.

 

[Nibiru]

Around 7g of mushrooms at 13.

 

[mdmantpa]

^Thats kind of fucked up whoever gave you that big of a dose at such a young age. I was tripping balls off of a bit less than 2g. Hopefully it wasnt a really bad or overwhelming experience

 

[Excido]

Really mine would've been age 16, oral weed yes you heard me. But other than that HBWR at 17.

 

[straycatphizzle]

Age 14- Mushrooms.

I split an 1/8th with a friend and had one of the most intense trips of my life, more so than when I eat 7-8g nowadays.


....I think there have been a few threads and a poll on this same topic before though

can i ask a question, how are u doin g in school now? or in life for that matter?

 

[straycatphizzle]

Around 7g of mushrooms at 13.

bro, where are u in life now? i just want to know because im 14 years old and im curious

 

[mdmantpa]

hahaha its kind of funny you ask that...

I was expelled from high school when I was 15

Remained in and out of detention centers and rehabs until I was 18

Was expelled from college, then became homeless and smoking crack at 18

Got into another good university, but started shooting heroin and was arrested for distribution, awaiting prison at 19

almost 20 in a few days and I am broke, living in a halfway house, cant get a job, dont have a car, and enrolled in a local community college, waiting to be sentenced to prison.

between the ages of 14-19 I had also OD'ed 13 times, ended up in jail 3 times, and went to rehab 10 different times.

Not to say this will happen to you, but you asked about my life.

I would wait and really apply yourself in school, you can always experiment in college once you have physically and mentally matured more. If you do try drugs I would HIGHLY recommend staying away from anything other than weed/hallucinogens, as drug addiction is a real bitch.

 

[nearjat]

I just fucking LOL'd hard, not at your experiences, but because straycat was probably hoping to see an example of someone who used psychedelics at a young age and had a normal life.

Me:
I don't really count DXM 3rd plateau at 15

So I'd say two hits of LSD at 16

 

[mdmantpa]

yeah well sorry to disappoint, but my life has been anything but normal so far...by no means is that a bad thing though

 

[nearjat]

Yeah, shit gets rough man, but at least I'm not 'normal'.

 

[Nibiru]

I'm 22. I'm successful according to my own standards. Never developed a serious addiction but was a heavy, heavy pot smoker until I gave it up for good (I hope) less than a year ago. I never was formally educated, dropped out of high school with two course credits needed to graduate and got them later (well, halfway through the last one now). But I'm alright. I make enough money to survive and stay very happy. I live in the country, live off of farming, people think I am okay for the most part and I spend most of my spare time working as an environmental activist, or making art. I don't use drugs barely at all anymore, but I've used all sorts of drugs, including amphetamines, MDMA, psychedelics, cannabis and opiates. The only thing that has ever been an excessively negative influence on my life was cannabis, and it was the only drug I ever developed a habit of.

Were psychedelic drugs a mistake? No, but that's relative to my life. I've had some pretty strange circumstances in my life, including a very strong and accepting family presence, and a wierd cultural background. By a lot of peoples' standards, I'm probably just a wierd hippie. By my own standards and my family's standards I'm doing just fine, even though I'm not rich and without any real formal education. And I don't use drugs anymore, for the most part. Although I could see myself eating some mushrooms or cactus sometime not so soon, I really have taken enough drugs, psychedelic or otherwise and feel that I got enough of it out of my system at a young age because I was allowed to without taboos or shame around it. At the same time, I did a lot of retarded shit that almost made me dead when I was younger and stupider, and I wouldn't like to see people do the same.

Really it's all relative to your background, your personality, and your life, and I don't expect anybody to have had as peculiar an upbringing and life as I have.

 

[straycatphizzle]

I just fucking LOL'd hard, not at your experiences, but because straycat was probably hoping to see an example of someone who used psychedelics at a young age and had a normal life.

Me:
I don't really count DXM 3rd plateau at 15

So I'd say two hits of LSD at 16

hahaha u hit the nail on the head buddy, im not worried about having a normal life, in all of these, i see they had some other terrible habit. but hey, i mean im not doing any psychiedlics till im at least 15

 

[mdmantpa]

hahahahahaha

I'm sorry but that gave a good laugh, because there is such a difference between 14 and 15...

not trying to rag on ya too hard, but at least 17-20 would be a better age to hold off until IMO.

but I do applaud you on waiting, and taking the initiative to find out info for yourself instead of just shoving drugs into your body like most kids at your age do (including my former self)

 

[jamaica0535]

1.5 hits of LSD at 16

I am now 18, attending a decent university in the Fall, i have had my current job for nearly 2 years, i do decently in school despite my lack of caring.... I sleep a lot but still have an A/B average, i guess you could say i don't apply myself but i didn't apply myself before the drugs anyways....

 

[straycatphizzle]

hahahahahaha

I'm sorry but that gave a good laugh, because there is such a difference between 14 and 15...

not trying to rag on ya too hard, but at least 17-20 would be a better age to hold off until IMO.

but I do applaud you on waiting, and taking the initiative to find out info for yourself instead of just shoving drugs into your body like most kids at your age do (including my former self)

i didnt mean do, i meant try haha. ill do probably nothing more than 1.5 grams of mushrooms and half a tab of acid to test my tolerance and than do nothing until im in college, except for weed, but weed i wud not do on a regular basis. dont worry about it man. i know what im doing, i know that uve been thru more and probably know more than me, but doing that small an amount once when ur 15 will not hurt u.

 

[Thou]

Panoleus Cyanescans (a mere gram) at age 14. Made me the compassionate caring soul I am today.

If only I wouldn't have jumped on the MDMA bandwagon a year later, might have been wiser to wait on that one, no regrets however.

The fungus wasn't an isolated incident however, became a regular fortnightly user for around 8 months. Some of my fonder memories.

 

[Mr-Tambourine-Man]

First REAL trip besides pot, 17 years old, 5.5 grams of mushrooms. Total trainwreck of a hellish trip but was quite a spiritual awakening. Got me started on the path.

My story exactly, just one year earlier. I spent six hours crying under the covers but I came out eventually... and the world never looked quite the same. Gotta love psylocybin.

 

[swilow]

LSD/MDMA 14 or 15.

OP, don't try and use this to justify what your trying to justify man. Seriously, why do you want to be a "psychonaut"?

 

[malakaix]

LSD at 18.

 

[masaz]

Mushrooms when I was about sixteen, am nearly twenty two now. We ate them at a friend's house on a night before wandering off to our school nearby. Had a kinda bad trip for a number of reasons, didn't have my first 'proper' experience until a year later. I think it went badly because I was in a funny mood, had possibly been drinking in the day (I don't recall) and I didn't quite take enough so I was left with the odd visual and a bad panic attack.

I did accidentally eat a lump of hash when I was fourteen or fifteen though which I suppose I'd class as a fairly psychedelic experience. It was rather interesting as it was at school during classes and I was torn between enjoying it and then being terrified. Have always loved eating hash since that though, once I found out what it was.