Agreed - though the term 'shaman' has a cringey undertone to it nowadays for me, but that is another discussion - I think if you do introduce someone to something like DMT or LSD without them enquiring about it on their own first, you'd better know what the fuck you are doing.
Not quite good enough for me. Interesting paper though.
Ether and ethanol exhibit pretty broad spectrum effects on a bunch of ion channels in ways that reflect the pharmacology of gaseous anesthetics.
Sure thing. Whoever it is called the book Into The Flood. Here's a link to it, though do note that it's not under a secure socket layer: http://marisafulper.com/images/IntoTheFlood/TPC_IntoTheFlood.pdf
It's not morally objectionable to endorse something with the potential to be dangerous, you know, so long as you do it with appropriate cautions and warnings as needed. For example, it can be dangerous to skydive and the threat of death is undeniably present when one throws oneself from a plane, and yet no one is seen as being a monster for advocating people should try skydiving perhaps—contingent on safety & such—because they see the thrill as being worthy of the minimal amount of danger you're actually in if you're educated sufficiently on the topic, up to and including have experience with tandem skydiving. You see what I'm saying?
And that's how I feel when I read a post on here ignorantly rambling on about how meth 100% for sure causes people to turn into toothless spider-monkeyed, depraved criminals like the personification of a Superjail! intro the very moment they set eyes on a shard of crystal meth. It's just simply not true. I mean, consider Reefer Madness for a moment and remember the effect smear campaigns and other propaganda can have on public opinion of certain subjects.
Yeah I guess you bring up a good point. It's not entirely accurate to refer to GHB as a “disso” no matter how casual the connection attempts to be. I appreciate you being a stickler for the truth here. It doesn't really change my point much if I need to reclassify my list a little bit. Call GHB “GABA-ergic” then if you insist and classify it with benzos and ethyl alcohol if that makes more sense to you. Hell, cocaine get classified as a “narcotic” by the U.S. govt. despite being a CNS stimulant on the basis that it anesthetizes.
Gonna reach out anyway though, I'd like to at least be in contact.
Well I'm referring to the language used in the 1914 Harrison Narcotic Act in the United States which classified cocaine along with opium and Heroin as “narcotics”. Again, as I understand it, cocaine wound up on the list because it was a known anesthetic in a time when anesthesia was not at all common, as scary as that is… And that's kind of my point: taxonomy is tedious and if someone has a spirited and solid argument, I'm not one to argue on the subject of taxonomy…
Yeah I briefly considered a piperidine dissociative class compound but we're talking about suggestions for a drug-naive individual and I'm just not so sure rare-ish dissociatives are a great option.
That one does not sound like a winner to me. You know? No thanks on the Olney's Lesions… no my idea of a fun weekend… Again: we're making suggestions for the drug-naive let's not forget, so challenging suggestions like this, or like Jimson Weed or something are pretty much out…
I can't say I would recommend Salvia either though, nor Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.
Again: I totally understand that. No need to explain. I've been plagiarized before on the Internet and I fuckin' hated it.
See what I mean? You didn't even know about that publication. That's my point – knowingly or not, you're endorsing drug use—albeit of the responsible variety—by having published numerous trip reports spanning some two decades, and this despite having overcome a serious drug problem in the past. You're a glowing, shining endorsement that drugs can be—and oftentimes are—used the right way, and that self-discipline in this regard is very much possible, doable, attainable, and in your case like many others, real.EDIT: Upon checking it out, actually that's pretty cool.
Yeah it's a buzzword, but just because something is trite doesn't make it untrue.
Yeah approaching psychedelics with any kind of insouciance or carelessness can create situations that easily spin out of control. I also see what you’re saying about how it’s strange so many people easily endorse psychedelics, which all things considered can be pretty fucking heavy on mind-altering effects that on the far end of the spectrum can end in delirium (but usually stays within some boundaries of consciousness). Meanwhile, relatively unspectacular drugs like a low-level opiate or benzo are viewed as being some giant drug problem that’s all but guaranteed to ruin anyone’s life regardless of their approach toward using.
When I said
One way to self check is asking yourself, "If I got called to life suddenly, would I be able to live and if I were, what would my life be?"
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One way to self check is asking yourself, "If you had to live life
Ahh gotta love synthetic cannabinoids there’s nothing like being hooked on potpourri I used to smoke 7g a day and living life in near constant paranoia because it was cheap
So 7g a day seems like a lot. I've heard that JWH-018 is quite good though, actually.
I really don’t know to be honest. I’ve heard stories about people getting pretty fucked up even dying on some small doses of the rc in em. I personally never really had an issue other than the blatant fact that I definitely had a problem. Jwh-018 was the shit though man we’re talking early days when it just hit the market they was the good stuff went away pretty quickly though at least around me
Psychedelics and/or cannabis imo