Colorado Proposition 122 Election Results: Decriminalize and Regulate Certain Psychedelics
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51% Yes - 49% No

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As soon as it kicks in, I'm growing pounds of psilocybin to give away. At least five colonies in a constant rotation. :vot

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That one I'm curious about. It's not a drug I'd try myself but we have a huge addiction epidemic here. Growing some iboga could be interesting.

      • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah definitely interesting. I've heard that your body needs to be completely clean of opiates before using or it will be a bad time/life threatening. Not sure though

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's that physical risk that concerns me. If someone doesn't have a personal/familial history of hallucinatory mental illness and they understand set/setting, I'm totally fine giving away psilocybin because the worst that will happen is some nausea and anxiety. For most it'll just be a beautiful experience if not their first good day in a while, especially at the 2-2.5g I normally give out. Ibogaine's contraindications are more severe so I'd only feel comfortable supplying clinics who can properly screen patients for safety.

          • TheCaconym [any]
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            2 years ago

            I've become extremely wary of gifting DMT now for a similar reason - there's no physical danger, but it's so extremely intense an experience it can easily give you PTSD depending on set & setting / buried trauma.

            Shrooms though, I'm fine with too.

            • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Tbh I had a much more intense experience taking an 8th of shrooms than my 2 DMT trips. I had to take a benzo with the shrooms at one point because i was spiraling

              • TheCaconym [any]
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                2 years ago

                Believe me, you likely didn't breakthrough; I find the term slightly overhyped but there is a threshold where you're simply somewhere else at some point.

                With that being said, with very large doses shrooms do tend to be just as intense, of course; and it's been called "orally available DMT" for that reason IIRC, I think by Nick Sand. So who knows.

                • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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                  2 years ago

                  You're right, I didn't break through on dmt. Since then I haven't really had the ability to source or really the want to source. I haven't done psychedelics in like 6 or 7 years and am a little afraid to get back into it lol

                  • TheCaconym [any]
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                    2 years ago

                    am a little afraid to get back into it

                    I'm taking DMT (at this point for purposes I'd describe as spiritual) semi-regularly and I'm slightly shaking in fear before doing it every time.

                    I haven’t done psychedelics in like 6 or 7 years

                    If ever you feel the want (which might be never), it really is easy to extract. It's in fact much easier to source by yourself than, say, shrooms - I still shudder about my bacterial monotubs before I started having some success growing those.

                    • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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                      2 years ago

                      I actually have a connect to get shrooms if I wanted at pretty much any time even though I haven't used it, so if I went back in that direction I would probably go for shrooms

                      • TheCaconym [any]
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                        2 years ago

                        Fair enough; mind you, if you're ever looking for a fun hobby, shroom growing is fascinating. Doesn't have to be psych ones, even growing edible ones is neat.

                        • happybadger [he/him]
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                          2 years ago

                          While I'm going to do Psilocybe cubenesis workshops once this comes into effect, it's only because I want to create a rhizomatic outgrowth of gift giving for intentionally therapeutic use. The culinary mushrooms are where I see the real radical value of teaching fungiculture. It's a kind of easy gardening people can do indoors with a very healthy product grown on waste that replaces meat and sells for a high premium. There's a lot of potential in healing the separation of town and country if culinary fungiculture becomes more widespread and people with limited space can take an active role in their food production with purely local inputs.

          • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Definitely, it doesn't seem like a drug that should be taken on a whim. Should definitely be administered at least with a trained professional sitter or something

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Ibogain I know only cause someone told me they used it to self medicate to get off Opioids. Can't really say if it works or not cause we only were in the same hostel for a weekend. Didn't drink, smoke, nor use any other drug during that time as far as I know but was really into doing individual sports.
            Did recommend a good beach to dive, too.

          • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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            2 years ago

            Ibogaine is also apparently very rough on your body and not really a fun experience for most for that reason. In my early twenties I might have been interested when I had whole lists of drugs I wanted to try someday, but I don't think there's actually much point to it recreationally.