PsychedelicPeptide
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any recommendations on how not to "ruin" a drug for oneself?
The absolute best habit I have found to prevent excess drug use is to commit yourself to personal health (high quality diet) and most specifically exercise, 4 to 5 times a week. I'm not talking a walk in the park either: get a gym membership or build one in your garage. Then commit to an hour-long or more bout with weights (especially free weights, anything difficult) and doing intense cardio (running, running and more running) work every week day.
The thing is, if you truly get yourself to care and improve your health, you won't be able to do it high on drugs or on a comedown. Exercising on something like MXE, or even drugs like benzos, ambien, opiates and extending really into strong stimulants like amphetamines as well just doesn't work well. Additionally exercise on the day or two after heavy use of a drug like MXE is going to be a lot harder. You can do it, but you will be slacking.
So you can use your commitment to exercise to help keep you off the drugs, or at least until Friday night comes around. Then go balls out and get the most out of the experience. And if you want, go balls out Saturday night too. Just remember rest Sunday and get back to your schedule on Monday.
The time exercising will help immensely at repairing your mind (due to increasing blood flow, speeding repair processes) and restrengthening your body in preparation for the next drug experience. If you think about it, you are doing them to help each other so that in the end you get the most from the drug experience and maintain your health simultaneously. In my opinion, this is how it has to be done, else you will end up excessively burnt out at some point, addicted, dysfunctional, etc. even from use every weekend for weeks on end. The brain just needs the blood flow stimulation...
And of course you can not do it, whatever that's fine, but expect to pay the price eventually. I do it just like I wrote it up though. It's not perfect and it is hard at times, but sitting on your ass doing drugs all the time is must worse.
Just an additional factoid, I've heard tribal people in the Amazon/wherever far South strongly believe in preparing their body physically for their intense spiritual drug experiences.