Keep it coming fellas, this all helps me to work through the concepts with a much greater clarity, your experiences and knowledge I hope will play a part in making this experiment a more thorough and serious scientific investigation and not just some over the top, passed out unconscious, cant remember a thing, failure that as some of you pointed out, it could easily become.
Because Cannabis is such a relaxed, familiar and happy drug, in some way taking it so seriously seems a little ironic, but instinct and impulse should never be ignored imo, and something is compelling me to hunt for a deeper dialog or a clearer seeing of the essence of this plant, that gives so much to so many.
I have started the abstaining already, another 2 months and i think that will about do it as far as dropping tolerance and removing some of the familiarity, if its not and the experiment fails, then I will cross that bridge when I come to it, but for me at the moment in life, 3 months is about the maximum time I am willing to invest.
I have thought about the panic attacks, and the paranoia, but these are well known things that THc has shown me many times and I have never been freaked out of threatened by them, they come in waves, and they pass, no different to lots of other drug rides, THC's ups and downs are pretty safe in my experience, and my experience is all I have to go on when it comes to being psychically and emotionally ready for any psychedelic adventure.
I also (to quote bill hicks) "have had my third eye squeegied quite clean" by adventures and meetings with the mushroom logos.
So the method of ingestion is still to be decided, everything else is falling into place.
I still think my hash cookie + huge joint combo will be appropriate.
Solipsis, your info was brilliant and has already added much to the scientific notes, thanks.
thanks everyone else for the encouragement