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Anyone here miss using cannabis and tripping?

PriestTheyCalledHim

PriestTheyCalledHim

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Does anyone else here miss using cannabis, and tripping?

I happen to at times; but I haven't used any sort of cannabis for years, and I haven't tripped on either LSD or mushrooms for over a decade.

Boredom is a big factor for me and wanting to use. When I get bored I miss using herb and getting stoned, or taking LSD or mushrooms and tripping; but I haven't used any cannabis or hash in years, and don't even have any access to it or psychedelics, and do not own any paraphernalia anymore.

Even if I did have access to herb or a friend was smoking some and offered me some, or offered me some mushrooms I would decline since getting stoned or tripping right now would not help, and I'd be giving up years of sobriety.

Can anyone else relate?
 
I use mushrooms a few times a year for pleasure, as a tool against addiction, and for spiritual ends. I recieve benefits from this and have not identified any negative consequences. One of the benefits I recieve is a respite from constant sobriety. I have not received any sort of addictive push and in fact it has done the opposite and I recieve relief from addictive pushes. The trips give me insight on how I have been looking at things wrong and provide a sort of mechanism clearing for me that seems to refresh my soul.

But my aproach to addiction did not include a great emphasis on long strings of sobriety. After all I consume caffeine and nicotine regularly so im not sober anyway. I focus on living a peaceful life free from active addiction and changing, refining, and maintaining the way i think and perceive the world. I also focus on remaining psychologically healthy and address any wounds or issues promptly if they arise.

I know many people who when they smoke grass get uncomfortable and this increases their desire to drink alcohol. Unless you really enjoyed grass this may be a very probable outcome from an experiment like that.

SL --> TDS
 
I miss cannabis a lot. I don't miss tripping. I kind of feel like I had some nice trips or whatever, but no real desire to repeat.

W/ cannabis, the couple/few times that I've smoked since my heart surgeries I felt a strong 'awareness' of my lack of health, and I also felt anxiety/panic.
I used to enjoy cannabis as part of my routine, and regular occasional use. Was a positive experience, relieved stress, made things more enjoyable etc.. etc...
If it wasn't banned by the government, I would put in the effort to find out which strains if any I could use.
It just isn't worth the trouble for me at this point.
 
I dont miss pot too much, as I always got way too paranoid on it , but I do kind of missing tripping, although Im not sure I would even do one hit of acid now that Im in my 40s, friends and I used to trip balls like every day, got up to taking about 15 hits at once to get a normal trip. we got some really really good white blotter at a dead show back in 1992, got 5 sheets for $200...they were handed to us still damp from being dipped too!

My best all time trip was with my best friend at the time, we each took like 12-15 hits of that white blotter, and smoked a few Js that we later found out had been laced with something, we thought PCP, but not sure, it was a CRAZY night to say the least...partied at my GFs house most of that night, but then went back to my friends house...he was starting to freak out and was pacing the floor, he picked up the phone and dialed 911, but hung up...well, 15 minutes later 3 cops show up at his house, we are tripping extremely hard...my friend had to be strapped down by EMTs, the cops kept asking me where the rest of the acid was, but luckily I had left the sheets at my GFs house, well hidden, so I just kept saying we didnt have anymore.

I still remember this big cop talking to me, and I was seeing his words come out of his mouth in like comic strip 'bubbles' they would float around the cops head as he was speaking LOL...They took my friend to the hospital and let me go, as Neither of us had any drugs on us.my friend was out within hours and much better shape. we gave him shit (jokingly) for a long time after that about dialing 911 and then hanging up!!

I used to LOVE acid, but not sure what it would do to me if I used it today, plus, I have no idea how strong the acid of today is, compared to the shit we got back then.
 
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I enjoyed cannabis for many years on a daily basis but it became inextricably blended, quite literally with my use of tobacco so when I chose to give that up more than 10 years ago that had to go too.

I occasional miss it but it had become daily heavy use and not healthy for my mind or body. I've found that once I loose control of a substance like that there is no way back to moderate use.
 
^Detroit, I'm not the best judge since I've never been on opiates but if life got any brighter, I'd go blind. I swear it must be my age and having had so much death around me, but I just look out my window sometimes and think how the world looks so shiny and inviting and full of possibility and I get scared of not having enough time to explore it the way I want to.

@Priest: I would be a little worried that it is boredom that makes you want to trip or smoke. Make sure that you have given yourself years of developing other ways to touch mystery, have adventures, relax, energize, have deep thoughts, get way into things that interest you, etc. I gave up both tripping and pot years and years ago and I never missed them because I made sure my life was the life I wanted--and don't get me wrong, I've cleaned motel rooms endlessly for a living so I don't mean it was always magically a great life. What I mean is that tripping showed me what was there--all around me, all the time, 100% free and I kept pursuing that place inside and that feeling in nature throughout my life. I made choices about where to live and what kind of people I wanted to be around and then the shitty jobs weren't so intolerable and I never felt bored (well, TBH cleaning toilets in a motel took some serious daydreaming to counteract the boredom). As I am now getting close to qualifying for a senior discount everywhere (8o) I have added edibles back in for sleep about once a week or less and occasional hilarity with one particular friend but I would never want to have to depend on any substance to make life interesting or beautiful or meaningful--it's all those already.
 
I miss using drugs sometimes period... but the consequences of me using those drugs outweighs the desire to use at this point.

When it comes to missing tripping/rolling, I miss the experience of tripping at concerts and raves/clubs more then the actual drug.

I very much went through a huge grieving process when I first stopped using. It was like a breakup.
 
herbavore said:
^Detroit, I'm not the best judge since I've never been on opiates but if life got any brighter, I'd go blind. I swear it must be my age and having had so much death around me, but I just look out my window sometimes and think how the world looks so shiny and inviting and full of possibility and I get scared of not having enough time to explore it the way I want to.

@Priest: I would be a little worried that it is boredom that makes you want to trip or smoke. Make sure that you have given yourself years of developing other ways to touch mystery, have adventures, relax, energize, have deep thoughts, get way into things that interest you, etc. I gave up both tripping and pot years and years ago and I never missed them because I made sure my life was the life I wanted--and don't get me wrong, I've cleaned motel rooms endlessly for a living so I don't mean it was always magically a great life. What I mean is that tripping showed me what was there--all around me, all the time, 100% free and I kept pursuing that place inside and that feeling in nature throughout my life. I made choices about where to live and what kind of people I wanted to be around and then the shitty jobs weren't so intolerable and I never felt bored (well, TBH cleaning toilets in a motel took some serious daydreaming to counteract the boredom). As I am now getting close to qualifying for a senior discount everywhere (8o) I have added edibles back in for sleep about once a week or less and occasional hilarity with one particular friend but I would never want to have to depend on any substance to make life interesting or beautiful or meaningful--it's all those already.
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Your a good poster. Im drinking watching king of queens right now. Great show.
 
OK it turns out I don't really miss cannabis and tripping on psychedelics. I realized that despite having used cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms further use of these psychedelics would not be the same as when I had first tried them at high doses and they were new to me, and that there's no real reason to chase after a high/experience that's not going to happen again.

I also am in my early 30s and have goals I want to accomplish, and tripping, or even just using cannabis does take up a lot of time.
 
I miss being able to smoke pot. It used to be great, but now it just makes me fucking paranoid. It sucks because it's free for me and readily available
 
I don't miss any of it one bit. I started drugging at 14. When I stopped I was 24 or so. Many, many days of fun, dread, ups and downs.
Toward the end of my cannabis use, every time I smoked I'd get a headache. Paranoia too. Didn't like that the munchies were making me fat. I used to obsess about my body. Weed wasn't so much my thing like the harder drugs were.
But I gotta admit the very best days of my life were on drugs.
 
I have used Cannabis since i was 11 i think and i first tripped on shrooms when i was 14 i think. I'm 32 now and i still smoke Cannabis everyday and trip a few times a year atleast. I find Cannabis and psilocybin to have a therapeutic effect when it comes to my mood so i don't intend on quitting either. I figure as long as i lay off the booze and coke i'll be okay for the most part cause those 2 drugs where the ones that blew the most holes in my brain.
 
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