this shit is like 500-750 for an infusion lol. insane.
ill stick to snorting random isomers and pretending its helping me thanks
Psilocybin and DMT are both super accessible to source and use safely, with neither being neurotoxic. Psilocybe mushrooms are the easiest kind to grow in passive bedroom conditions and the /r/unclebens tek. It's simple to dose at any level with microdoses being like an antidepressant/antianxiety that works and large doses being 3-4 hour meditation while camping. DMT involves working with a couple chemicals you have to be careful with (lye and lighter fluid), but Mimosa hostilis bark powder refined twice using an acid-to-base tek will give you a very safe psychedelic that lasts five minutes and then makes the world a warm summer morning for the rest of the day.
RCs scare the shit out of me. I'll use some of Shulgin's but those labs are completely amoral and those substances are interacting with us in novel ways. Too many unknowns for me, like buying MDMA in any form except crystalline.
I'm too anxious to use psychedelics to treat my anxiety because I'm anxious that my anxiety will make it a bad trip :kitty-cri-screm:
The ouroboros of mental illness
That's where microdosing comes in. A recreational dose of psilocybin is 1-3.5g, with 1 being such a gentle psychedelic experience that it's just feeling curious and introspective while visual details like light shimmering on tree leaves stands out more. A microdose is 0.1-0.4g. Zero visuals, but your vision is sharper and you have a better eye for patterns. Zero loss of control or cognitive impact, but in anxious situations it's like having a single beer. You won't have scattered and trippy thoughts but creative and systemic thinking feels much more natural. A microdose day for me is one where I go on a hike and everything is interesting, engaging, intricate, and easy to deal with. I can perceive the ecological patterns and every flower looks 30% more beautiful, with the motivation to sit down and study/photograph it as if in a low-grade zen state.
There are contraindications for psilocybin certainly- mental illnesses more serious than depression and anxiety especially if there is a psychosis component. Short of that, you wouldn't get any kind of trip from such a low dose. It's just the psychedelic headspace of being in love with an interconnected world and the energy of a pot of coffee.
edit: You also apparently can with DMT but I haven't tried it myself because a recreational dose is in the 0.03-0.05g range and cutting 1/10th of an amount as small as 30mg is hard with my scale.
When people struggle in clinical trials, or when someone goes to the ER for a bad time with psychedelics recreationally, doctors typically administer benzodiazepines to calm their anxiety and tone down the trip. Anecdotally, this is said to kill the "headspace" of the trip almost entirely even as some other aspects, like visual disturbances, persist.
Sometimes doctors will offer to prescribe a few benzos to patients with anxiety when they describe a specific limited scenario that triggers panic attacks, such as an upcoming flight that will be complicated by an intense phobia of flying.
Check out GordoTek on youtube. Great info on easy techniques.
It sucks that when I wanted to learn how to cultivate mushrooms I was immediately put on a watchlist
2f-DCK and a ton of other analogues are cheap and easy to get (unscheduled) and fun to see which tend to help with depression the most. At least they were easy to get a year ago when I stocked up. There's also DXM which has serotonergic activity to boot.
Very understandable. I felt the risk (for me personally) wasn't any higher than the street drugs I'd used, in some ways were even lesser. And the RC's were cheaper and not illegal, so the benefits outweighed the risks, but it's absolutely a concern and something everyone would have to weigh out for themselves.
Note that if you are looking to try DXM for treating depression and are on an SSRI or SNRI (or any other drug that prevents serotonin reuptake or causes increased production), do not take it if you haven't completely stepped off of the medication in question (and made sure that you've gotten past the half-life for having it in your system). Serotonin syndrome is bad news.
Not sure if SSRI/SNRIs interact with ket. Probably wanna check that too.
Very late response, but I just wanted to say you're absolutely right, thank you for saying that, and I really should have mentioned that in my comment. I feel kinda bad that I didn't, actually.
It's cool - I just keep a long list of drugs I can't try so it stays at front of mind.
Radlib ivermectin? It's literally horse meds too right? Though ketamine is not used for COVID as far as I know.
Or is ketamine actually helpful for humans? Its for mental health right?
We're all mammals and share close versions of the same proteins so it makes sense that drug targets can work in more than one species.
little bit of both. it is a horse tranquilizer. it's was a schedule 1 drug for humans, I believe. but now it's schedule 3. but they're starting to open up clinical trials for it the same way they're doing for lsd. it was popularly abused for a long time. But they are starting to discover applications of it for treating PTSD and severe anxiety that doesn't respond to other treatments. It isn't and shouldn't be a first choice, but it's helpful to have a variety of options because everyone is different and PTSD in particular is notoriously hard to treat.
the cost is absolutely INSANE better to just hit the onion fields and find a $120 unopened vial of ketaforte or something. you'll get like 10x the doses
I heard someone say that ketamine is cheap and easily available but i have no idea how to get it. Anyone know?
Legally it's not cheap. It's always a ridiculous rip off. Illegally, how cheap and easy it is to get is highly dependent on where you're located or how good of friends you are with a veterinarian. There's always the darknet, though, so maybe that's what the someone you heard was referring to.
I was literally a welder who moonlighted as a planetarium lecturer and also produced electronic music. I'm kinda bi, but mostly het :deeper-sadness: . However, I live outside the city and I only have K, PCP, and PCE analogues. God I'm such a fucking poser. sigh. So close, yet so far away.
Right there with you if you manage to source it haha (I am not joking.)
