things I have done a lot of, but wish I hadn't:
alcohol (18-20 addict, occasional beer afterwards)
weed (occasional 15-20)
speed (recreational 17 once, script for add at 20)
Things that i have tried, but don't want to do again:
cigs (14 pointless?)
opium (20, fun twice, but not my thing)
coke (20, twice, I AM THE BEAST!!! and fuck its not cheap)
DXM (20, once in combo with shrooms, big death trip)
MDMA (18 twice, incredible and life-changing, but a dead end)
crap pills sold as mdma (a couple)
high dose harmaline (once, 19 spewed my head off)
salvia (19 straight leaf, no effects)
things that I will continue to use:
shrooms (19 maybe half a dozen times, not my favorite, but every now and then...)
bufotenin [yopo] (21 four times so far, and it really grows on you, you learn to handle the pain. yopo drains you a lot less than other trips, probably because its so short (45min))
mescaline [pedro] (20 tried once, calls for more inquiry)
Ayahuasca (19 9 times, this is the be all and end all of psychedelics in my opinion, i can see myself using the medicine for a long time to come)
I don't think I'm looking for any new drugs (although if someone handed me a bag of 2cb powder, i'd have a hard time saying no)
DEFINITELY Won't do: heroin, crack, pcp, kets, datura, meth.
What I look for in altered states: experience that facilitates personal expression, religious experiences, general euphoria/relaxation, lethe.
What I try to avoid: Addiction potential, high toxicity, long term side effects, substances that are high priorities for the DEA, just "getting fucked up".
Gateway drugs: Marijuana was a gateway drug to alcohol, which really messed me up (almost died a couple times, did a lot of dumb stuff. Alcohol is the most dangerous drug i've tried [for me at least]). MDMA was a gateway drug to shrooms, which was in turn the gateway to ayahuasca which got me over the whole alcohol issue. Full circle, sorta. None of what I did was necessary, but if I could do it again, I'd roll once, shroom a few times, and then stick to aya and pedro.