14 + Shrooms

[sandman_i_am]

I know some of you will tell me to hold off on the drugs until 18 or so. But, I'm 100% sure that I'm mentally ready to start tripping.

Every fourteen-year-old believes that he is mature for his age, but he's wrong. I thought I was mature at fourteen, but over a decade later I realize how naive and ill-equipped I was to deal with the world around me sober and clean. I didn't start using until I was 24, and even then I ran into some troubles. My DOC were any psychedelics that I could obtain, and I have easily experienced over a dozen different types.

You are going to do whatever the hell you want to do, anyway. Your mind is already made up. I can't say anything to give you pause for thought or to dissuade you from tripping while you are basically still a child. I think that, if you truly are mature for your age, you will know that you shouldn't be doing what you plan on doing.

If you must trip, save the shrooms for a nice spring day when you have no obligations and you have a full day to rest and integrate your experience the next day. It might also help to trip with someone who has actually experienced what you are going to use.

9th grade lol. And don't worry I'm not one of those stupid shits or something; I'm 100% honors . You would think this is irrelevant, but I just think smarts shows an amount of maturity, know what I'm sayin'?

Not at all. Good grades do not amount to maturity. Maturity can only come from aging. I had been placed in honors courses since the fourth grade and I don't even want to think about the bad things that would have happened to me had I started using drugs around your age as a child.

Your lack of forbearance scares me a little, frankly. Whatever you do, be careful. If you have some maturity in you I believe that you will forgo tripping altogether until you have several more years of life in you.

Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not saying this to be mean. I'm just being very blunt. I'm quite honestly concerned for your well-being.

 

[IamMe90]

I'm not.

For god's sake he's a level headed kid with a bit of a precocious intellect (from what I can tell given his diction and syntax) and he's a bit bored.

mushrooms, and psychedelics in general, do not always have be a life changing, ego crushing experience. In fact, most of the time that is NOT the case. 2g of p. cubensis mushrooms certainly won't get you there.

I don't know where this phony distinction comes between 14 and 18 and how "maturity" plays into consuming mushrooms at all. At most, his experience simply won't be an incredibly indepth experience. Who cares? He'll probably have some fun.

Harm reduction is one thing, but it's actually peeving a bit that people really think he's going to have some life changing negative experience on 2g of mushrooms simply because he's 14. It sounds like all of you are vastly overestimating your own maturity if you really think this.

 

[DwayneHoover]

^ HA! Same page!

 

[slimvictor]

I was not recommending 1 gram because of his/her age.
It seems to be a good amount for first-timers.
My friend who was in his early 30's asked me to do shrooms with him for his first time.
(He had smoked weed about 10 times before that, but no other drugs apart from alcohol.
He weighs about 170 pounds.)
I have him a gram, and took 2.5 myself, and he definitely tripped harder than I did.
He began imitating me and our other friend, and how we were interacting, and lost his own personality. He could only answer us in the same voices we were using to talk, not in his own voice.
His experience was so strong that he might never do shrooms again.
He was freaked out for a long while, though he did enjoy many parts of the experience.
The shrooms were good (small, closed caps), but "just" cubensis.
Different people react differently to drugs.
Anyone who says that 2 grams will affect all people the same way clearly doesn't understand drugs and/or human physiology.
For a young first-timer, a gram seems like a good dose.
If it is not strong enough, he can easily try 1.5 grams or 2 grams the second time, right?
So why push things now?

 

[killermunchies]

The 1 gram vs 2 grams debate really comes down to the quality of shrooms people are basing their opinions off of. I've had some shrooms where 2 grams would barely be felt. Others can be much more potent. Still, I don't think 2 grams would be too much even for good shrooms, and 1 gram could be way too little. Just comes down to risk vs reward.

 

[atara]

Your brain is, incidentally, perfectly fine. There is basically no danger to any brain of any living creature from a typical therapeutic dose of psilocin.

Mentally, I am quite certain that you are not totally ready, and the experience itself would make this clear. It could prove to be a valuable learning experience, or rather traumatic. Don't be a fool, work your way up, starting with a threshold level of around a quarter of a gram. It takes several days for tolerance to subside between trips; take at least three days between any two attempts.