To the OP, when you talk about 'legal highs' that is a wide spectrum of drugs ranging from plants (herbs/spices), OTC chemicals or RC's which are also legal (harder to obtain perhaps).
(PODS)
1) The best herbal high for me (in that I could use the effects for absolutley any situation from learning to driving to relaxing) is the poppy pod, which I always take whole...meaning I take 2-3 pods remove the stemy part on the bottom, crush them up in a coffee grinder and this comes out to about 3-4 full tablespoons of powder (fine, finely crushed). I find this way you get 100% out of ur material and I can compare a tea of 8 pods to 2 'whole' pods my way in the grinder (way longer lasting too). Downside to pods is addiction , constipation (and every other physical aspect you can think of associated with opiates), they contain more than codeine and morphine so at times too much of the other chemicals can cause extreme nausea and headaches......careful of mold & tolerence as well b/c with low tolerence pods are very
worth it price wise (priced at say $1-$2 per pod for the biggest size pod) and if 2-3 pods are taken at once using the method I described then one will be fucked/nodding (the whole bit) for basically the whole day/ 6-9hrs so you will be doing at most 5-7 pods a day to get fucked up proper 24/7. When you get a tolerence from pods alone, instead of my normal routine of dosing 2-3 pods 'whole' 2 to 4 times a day in about 2-3 months I started to dose 8-10 pods at once 3-5 times a day so not only did my dose incerease but my frequency as well...this qualifies as another 'down'!
NITROUS OXIDE (N20)
2) Something which is ridiculously expensive if you use from whipped cream cans but only 50 cents per whippet/can if you know where to look. The only disadvantage to this is the short duration however it goes excellent with all drugs in combination and itself its incredibly powerful and excellent for almost any activities due to the recreational value, however you can try to push past that to the medical level where things start to get crazy. Best is to use it only with a few hits a day though many report psychological addiction during the first 15 minutes of effects...basically till it wears off though many people know this so they do not re-dose untill midnight. I know people that went through 150 hits/whippets in a couple hours due to the re-dose factor...just be careful there.
(KRATOM v.s. LSA)
3) My number 3 from the plants/herbs category is a tie between Kratom and LSA since I like both equally. I have only had LSA from Morning Glory about 3-5 times out of which only 2 times were effective and 1 time where I tripped out to the equivalent of about 180mcg-200mcg LSD (but way more gentle and I actually would preffer LSA over LSD if I had a source for pure LSA). The down side to Morning Glory is the nausea, if enough is taken you will throw up before you will even absorb the chemicals and if not you will have stomach pains/discomfort at times during and after the trip. I haven't tried HBW seeds but all general reports indicate that its much gentler in terms of physical effects then Morning Glory seeds. Downside to Kratom is that you can't really nod out from but physically you get all the opiate effects so expect to get an uplifting oxy/fentanyl/hydromorphone (synthetic, semi-synthetic) buzz. Also you have got to wonder what are the full spectrum of symptoms that occur from Kratom consumption in relation to the coloring of the skin...for those that do not know, people who are regular users of Kratom report their skin turning blue/green...this is a symptom that something is not in order with the liver. That doesn't mean the worst or that Kratom causes liver damage (like Kava Kava..reason it was discontinued in Canada) or anything extreme but it can affect the liver enzymes and in time this could lead to liver failiure/misfunction. Anyways conclusion: I would take LSA over Kratom anyday if it was in powder/extract form but so far considering its Kratom or Morning Glory no contest Kratom (horrible taste too but u get used to it), although after HBW I might change my mind.
(VALERIAN)
4) A very mild but at times very useful remedy for stress is the herb Valerian which I've had good results with. Of course this herb is most effective in effects when the person is stressed b/c if the person is feeling normal and simply wants to feel more mellow the effect will not be as intense as if that person had a rushy or stressed mind, or an agited body. Also it works well on those suffering from insomnia however I can speak from experience when I tell you that for insomnia this drug is most effective in relatively large doses b/c this herb isn't meant for such serious conditions/not that strong but it will definatley help in those conditions.
To get the most from Valerian it's best to do it rare as possible (only when needed)...reasons are that more you use it the less potential it has for passing over the line of tranquilizing to sedating. If you only want to use it for stress you can use it everyday but you will find that if you DO have a restless night a regular insomnia dose will not have the same effect if you would not have taken it as often. It really does loose it's magic after a few tries, maybe due to its relation to the GABA family I know that tolerence goes up as fast as with benzos so best advice is to limit the frequency, also Valerian is best taken at once rather than a bit every few hours esp for insomnia. I find that if a dose for stress is 750mg-1,000mg then you would need about 2,000mg-3,000mg for insomnia, best taken at once.
RC'S
5) I really enjoy many diffent RC's from methylone, mephedrone to 2C-T-7. My favorites are 4-aco-dmt, DPT, 2C-I and mephedrone.
CWE
6) OTC wise the best is a CWE of Tylenol 1 or Aspirin with Codeine, along with a few beers to combat the caffeine (best with a low tolerence or no tolerence at all..to codeine that is).
DXM
7) Although I don't use anymore and haven't since I was 17 I got to admit that DXM is a lovely drug....at every plateau. The 4th plateau i've only experienced at the most 2-3 times which may have been more 3rd plaeau and just borderline 4th however I have had at least 1 4th plateau experience which was absolutley beautiful, divine, spiritual and very deep...the only problem I had from that experience was loss of memory once ther trip was over (even though during the trip I had 'crystal clear' memory so to speak as I would loop around at times). However this is normal I have observed with psychedelics esp with mushrooms....I always have a divine and heavenly experience on high doses but in the end of the trip I either don't have use for what I've learend (no matter how profound) OR there is the memory factor which makes it hard to remeber what you've learnt during the trip. Even so with the loss of memory on the 4th plateu, there are some moments in the experience that are completley undescribable and incredibly beautiful that simply cannot be forgotten (such as my experience of having contacted a holy, devine, 'scary' looking though very clam and warming female creature which was supposed to be a messanger of God (not God himself) and once contacted she was at my disposal for a relatively short period of time for me to ask any questions I wanted like those that do not have an answer about life, death, the universe, God, multiple Gods, religion, etc. Not only did I ask a ton of questions, every single question was answered beautifully and I was also asked if I understood and if I need a different 'translation' of the answer in different words or in different languages she spoke in both as well as a whole different language (i speak 2 languages)....that seemed to be a mix of every language on earth (like a word having roots from both latin, slavic, roman, chineese, etc), speaking in a high pitched sound and also sounding as if talking on a bad radio signal so there was some static there as well. This voice could be decifered only in that state of mind and also due to the gentle nature of this DXM female creature that I still believe in (as in what happend during that period was real, not a product of DXM but rather TRIGGERED by DXM). Not only did I and this warm, motherly creature did a session of questions and answers but for what seemed like a beautiful 1hr or so but me and this creature even took a break from these things and simply sat and had a conversation between each other, all this taking place in room somewhere in the universe but the questions took place in a different place. At the begining however when this creature presented itself, she immediatley told me who she was and no to worry as well as what she was there for. I should add that when I was talking to her I felt her touching me and this feeling was the most incredible euphoric feeling I have felt so far & i've smoked fentanyl, heroin, crack and crank (i know a thing or 2 ahout euphoria). This experience was simply orgasmic and incredibly euphoric so much that I haven't had an MDMA experience come to this level of psychedelic euphoria and the most MDMA i've done was about 1.8g-2.0g pure MDMA during the course of about two days going on to third...about 1g a night (so from 9pm-10pm till 9-10am next day). The only other time I came close to the experiening this state of mind (though not fully) was with about 1 or 2 50mg-60mg Ketamine bumps taken 15min of each other (the theory behind this is to let the 1st bump kick in before you decide to take another), about 20min after the 2nd bump (giving the 2nd bump enought time to peak by now) I took about 3 huge nitrous oxide (N2O) hits (from whippets using balloons....later got the dispenser) one after another as fast as I could I remeber by the second hit as I was taking the 3rd hit in my lungs I was catapulted so bad into a different state that I didn't even inhale the 3rd hit properly. For about 3-4 minutes in real time and about 20 minutes in my time the room I was in was no longer, I was in space and the television noise as well as people speaking in the room no longer became deciferable, rather different shade/levels of static.....INTENSE STATIC (audio), also I felt once the N2O wore off I was borderline K-wholing by now though I never fully k-wholed on K so far, I felt like I knew that place from the DXM 3rd and 4th plateau experiences and I am sure that if I had the power to take another hit of N2O or smoke weed OR better yet taken another bump of K I surely would have made contact with another entity though I'm not sure if it would have been that friendly.
3rd level plateau DXM trips are not so profoundly spiritual and deeply intense to the point of entering a different world HOWEVER on the 3rd plateau most people, at least in my case everytime I hit the 3rd I would leave my body. This out of body experience people describe when you read about it always sounded scary as fuck to me, even if the state of mind was doped up/mellowed/sedated, etc. In reality maybe the 1st time this happend I guess I found it special however it never had the 'alien' or 'medical' association with it, rather one of my first times i went out of body I didn't hover above the bed I was laying in (though I could obiously see myself laying there, not too well as the lights were off), instead I remember I was flying either around or right around/on top of buildings of a big style city such as New York with skyscrapers....I would get a rush when nearly sratching the buildins but mostly I would observe from the top the bottom as in the crowds, the fields...yea I even went over farming country, eveything....
Another out of body I had was intensly scarry...I left my body from the room in my apartment and I knew for a fact that my parents were talking between each other in the living room b/c I had left them about 10 minutes previous to peaking fully and retreating. I went hovering over them (they couldn't see me) but I carefully heard and saw everything they were discussing...they were talking about a new house we were buying. I had perfect memory on this trip and the next day one of my parent started to tell me we found a house, but before I even heard where the house was I asked my parents if the house was located on a specific street that i remebered from the night before as I was hoovering over them.....needless to say she was shocked that I knew and she eventually assumed that I overheard them while one of them was talking about it.
2nd plateaus can get one pretty fucked up and screwed. Having tried MDMA over 100 times I can compare this buzz to an alcohol mixed with MDMA (125-130mg is an eye rolling dose, so something like 70mg...a weak roll though a definite 'pushy' positive vibe) or maybe methylone would be a better comparison as in more mellow but longer than bk-mdma obiously. There really isn't too much memory loss on this level though its always possible, like with alcohol
1st plateaus are very pleasurable and I would even use them as a way to get 'psychedelically' stimulated. The end result should be like a low dose of codeine (50-60mg with no tolerence) and a buzz that makes you motivated, uplifted, outgoing, sociable along with tactile sensation that one may get on MDMA where certain things feel more pleasurable, most notorious for DXM is when you stretch and when you yawn (there is always a direct relation to the cosmos when those 2 bodily functions occur).
As long as you do not overdose and end up borderline 2nd plateau...better to end up with medium 1st rather than try to get full on 1st plateau and go past it.
The only one that is horrible without any medical or recreational application is Benadryl and Gravol....complete delerium and its more common than not to end up in the hospital from a dose/trip on either or those...or any of the other antihistamines like claritin, allegra, list is endless.
I also tried the muscle relaxant found in Robaxin (sp?) and it sucked by all standards esp compared to Soma but it had 'some' effect like potentating opiates.
