I agree with this - 100 mics (if we're talking LSD) wouldn't be an excessively small dose for someone that hasn't tried it before - acid is one psychedelic that can be incredibly immersive at even rather low dosages I feel.
When you start getting into higher dose ranges (I never knew how many mics, but always used to double drop as a rule...until I came across decently laid stuff, where a couple of tabs had me drifting off into indescribable states where I was watching the earliest forms of single-celled life evolve into modern creatures - which sounds fun, and was fun - but would be tough to integrate on the way back down, for your first trip).
IMO when you are trying acid, you want to still be lucid; listening tp music, playing with different sensory stimuli (I like wandering around in mohair sweaters, or fooling around with silk scarves (tactile things) and eating fruit (my god!) - laughing my arse off - things that can get a bit consumed by the intensity and confusing, in higher dosages.
I am a "hard head" with psychs too - I don't even want to elaborate on the kind of tolerance I have to certain things - but for a first time, 100 mics should be a pretty good go 'round (assuming that what you have/can get is 100 mics.
Then again 160 shouldn't be too overwhelming - but for the sake of HR, and also good enjoyment of the experience (high dose adventures into unfamiliar realms can come once you have a bit more familiarity with the stuff I reckon) I don't think 100 mics (or was it 80 you were saying dan?) is really anywhere near that not-quite-there discomfort realm. I would imagine that is more in the threshold dose range (30-50 mics maybe? There is no accounting for how weak some acid can be at times - then some good board comes along and blows you away!)
YMMV and all that. If you are planning on leaving the house at any stage, I would consider the lower dose option (unless absolutely no interaction wih non-trippers is likely). I find it hard to understand small-talk, or how to complete simple cash transactions on any reasonable dose of acid (even buying a drink or whatever; the abstraction of exchanging currency - which I can't count - for an item of some nature, which I don't understand - is just too hard!)
YMMV and all the usual disclaimers - but LSD (like all psychs) needs to be respected. Underestimate her at your own peril (but have fun whatever you do)!
Set and setting is probably just as (if not more) important than dose size. I've had some amazing trips off 1/4 tab (of very strong blotter, mind you) and some uninspiring 4 or 5 tab doses, simply based on what I was doing and where my head was at.
But I'd save the psychonaut stuff for subsequent trips, personally. I've had more intense psychs, but acid is kinda unique in it's particular form of intensity, IME anyway.
Been a while since I dropped acid - this makes me want to get some so I can watch the paisley walls etc. enjoy!!!
And mattnotrik - don't snort tramadol. It's best taken orally, as it is broken metabolised in the liver into a few things, including o-desmethyltramadol (did I spell that right?) which is more active than tram, so 1st pass metabolism is your friend in this case.
I hope I have that right (not a scientist- not even close) but it's not a drug I would entertain the thought of snorting. It never did shit for me anyway - except potentiate other (weak) opies.
Just don't mix it with any of the many things it is dangerous in combo with...
