Half eigth or full eigth?

In a few weeks I am going to take my first mushroom trip, the shrooms are from a trusted source and I know that they are safe. I have already done plenty of research or erowid.org and other sites and know plenty about psilocybin and its effects. I have already done acid, and took a tab of what an experienced tripper said was fairly strong acid. I was completely fine during the experience and enjoyed it alot. My question is for the first trip should I take an entire eigth or a half eigth? I will be completely mentally/emotionally prepared and in familiar/comfortable settings (my room/backyard). I know that I will be able to control myself, when I was on acid I managed to talk to my parents for a few minutes without a problem. I like the idea of buying an entire eigth and having half one weekend then the other half the next but am afraid that I will be dissapionted by the effects. What do you guys think?

 

Do an eighth, for sure.

 

the whole eighth, for sure.

 

definitly agree full 1/8

 

columbus acid is, as a general rule, shit. it's almost always similarly weak blank white blotter at an outrageous price. an "experienced tripper" would generally be someone a decade or more older than you who's been tripping since they were about your age, and no offence but even if someone's taken a lot of acid by the standards of drug users still in highschool, its still not likely to be a LOT of acid by most people's standards. all i'm saying is you probably should have taken more than one hit (say, two or three) to really get a feel for what acid's like. that said, i think you should definitely take a full eighth (and definitely make sure you don't settle for less than you pay for - mushrooms are a rip off as it is, so you have every right to demand that its on point. if its not weighed out in front of you, forget it) and you'll probably have a much better feel for psychedelics than you do from a single hit of acid.

i would consider myself moderately experienced as a tripped (about two to two and a half dozen mushroom trips, about ten or fifteen acid trips, about eight 2C-B trips, 5 DXM, two morning glory, one amt (sorta), one or two AL-LAD, one hippy flip, about 4 or 5 times rolling, about 10 strong Salvia divinorum trips) but even with that i realise i'm young and have only begun to get a glimpse of what good psychedelics (not bullshit poisons like dxm and the like) can offer, and i'm by no accounts an "experienced" tripper in terms of dosage and full range of effets and all that...perhaps experienced in the eyes of the general public. but if you ask an "experienced" tripper....say an old deadhead who started tripping over 30 years ago and probably tripped last month if not more recently, or someone who's just gotten back from spending a year or two on the road going to shows and festivals and gatherings...almost all of them will tell you this acid we have in our neck of the woods....it ain't shit....

 

i triped for the first time this weekend and my friend told me to take an eigth...well i did and come to find out they were really potent mushrooms...the ppl i was with said i should have started out reall same and seen the effects because with mushrooms its hard to tell how potent they are....since this was my first trip it was extremely intense...a complete ego loss...i freaked alittle but then got to a point that i enjoyed it...my advice to you would start small and if you dont feel the effects then eat more..its easier to do that then to take to much and freak out..peace and love

 

take the full eighth... I like the acid that is around columbus. Some white unperfed is pretty nice. Takes one to get visuals, but once is fairly weak for most peoples taste. Three or Four is a very good dose. I mean it definently could be better, but it works.

 

I'd go with the full 1/8th. Personally I think if you're going to take mushrooms and really experience them, you shouldn't short change yourself with just a half 1/8th. You will most likely be disappointed with a half eighth especially if you have had any intense psychadelic experiences before.

 

Thank you to all that replied, after reading your comments and other information on Erowid.org and Shroomery.org I have decided to go with the entire eigth. The problem is apparently the dude I was gonna buy from got arrested around six times the summer on pot charges, he also had a small grow operation. He was a well trusted source and nice guy, I just found this out because we live in different towns. There still is hope, shrooms are fairly common in that town and there are plenty of other people that would be willing to supply them. I'm still confident that what I will be getting will be safe, that dealer and all the other people I may possibly buy from are friends of a close friend who goes to their school. They usually try them out themselves before they sell them, which is a big relief. This should set me back a few weeks but thats fine with me, more time to research and mentally prepare myself. Thanks again.

 

before you eat that full eighth i want to tell you that i recently bought an eighth and the guy was like 'oh yeah you'll only need a gram these are really good from mexico' and i was like sure man whatever, so randomly i ate .5 grams (one cap) to test it out and had close to level 3 trip on that. .5 grams is like 1/7 of an eighth...


the moral is there IS a chance that they will be really strong so for the record i vote for you only eating half.

 

I will take that into consideration, I will be buying of people who trip on shrooms more than once a month. If they say I will only need half to get a fairly strong trip then thats what I'll do.

 

well, that is very uncommon, so eat the whole eighth.

 

Well it is confirmed that I will be recieving them around the eigth of September. My friend is going to buy an eigth as well and were gonna trip in his basement. Thanks to all that replied, your advice was greatly appreciated. I will be shure to post about my experience shortly after.

 

ripple23, maybe you have a low tolerance or something? The bombest mushrooms I have ever come across came nowhere near Level 3 at an eighth. You talking about shulgin's scale or the shroomery scale?

 

if they WERE from mexico, they were probably not cubensis, it would be more likely to be psilocybe mexicana. the traditional methods for using mushrooms from mexico and farther south tend to shun cubensis because they grow on dung, afaik. P. mexicana are highly favored, and quite a bit more potent to boot. different species, different doses.

 

and there's plenty of mushrooms around for sale, you don't need to wait. i don't get it.

oh well. i got to say, this isn't directed at you because i don't know you, but young drug users around here tend to REALLY piss me off. they'll rip you off, they're shady as hell, they make asses of themselves by doing lots of coricidin and whippits and things in public places, all that stuff. this kid crack head jack or something like that....i don't know if you know him but he's a complete douche. even people out of highschool and around my age aren't to be trusted. just wait till you're older and grow your own, man. it really is the way to go. unless you really want to be tainted by all this "hey we're rebels! now lets go get fucked up!" horseshit.

 

^ I know there are alot of dealers in the Westerville/Gahanna area but I'm fine with waiting, they're coming from a source I personally know in Worthington and this guy has never ripped me off. I don't like the risk of buying from people I dont know so if its that or going without weed for a while then I'll go without. Usually all I have to do is give the money to a friend who gives it to the dealer and wait. Takes next to all the risk away from me. I know what you mean about some of the people around here, I've met a few people my age that are addicted to oxycontin or coke. People at my highschool skip class to smoke pot or ciggs in the basement, auditorium or bathrooms all the time, its fairly normal to smell pot smoke from the vents. Just seeing some of my peers serves as motivation to me to never touch hard drugs.

 

it depends, if all youve done is weed, than expect intersity like you've never experienced. If you tend to freak out a lot, start like a half an eigth. If you can controll yourself easily and dont get paranoid, go for the full eigth

 

You may have smoked some pot that went through my hands if you live over in Westerville, I sold an oz. and a half to a guy over there. The other dealer I know over there buys from a friend of mine, who buys from the same guy I buy from. Just keep in mind that there's probably only two "sources" from which the drugs at a small high school come. The biggest concern for you is getting your money's worth.
I've over in Arlington, and there isn't any traffic in hard drugs (heroin, coke, pcp, etc.); in fact, the hardest thing i've seen has been LSD or Peyote (whichever you consider harder). And those are *very* rare. My advice on buying shrooms or peyote is to know the source. Too many people would just buy shiitake/portabellos and lace them.

 

I personally knew the source so I wasnt worried, I got an eigth of just regular cubensis. Well here's the story of my first trip. I ate a large stem and a small stem just to see if they would do anything and within an hour I felt a small buzz and colours and lights seemed to be a bit brighter. This was around 6 pm, my parents had decided to make me go to the home football game at my highschool, right before we left at around 7:30 I had another peice of a stem and reluctantly headed off with my parents. I felt a bit stronger of a buzz as we walked there, as if I had smoked a bowl. The game went by fine, I did not hallucinate or have any visuals yet colours were certianly much brighter along with lights, watching the sunset from the stands was pretty nice also. At about 9:35 pm we were tired of watching my school's football team get their ass kicked and left. We got home at around 9:50 pm and I grabbed a slice of pizza and large glass of water to finish off my eigth with. I ate a bit of pizza and downed the eigth, I didnt think they tasted that bad, and then drank about a pint of water, this was at 10 pm. It was the perfect night, my brother was at a sleepover, my dad in my parents room, my mom watching T.V. upstairs and my sister at a friends. I trooped off to the basement and turned on the T.V. and decided to lay on the couch and wait for the effects. The original Nutty Professor was on and I decided it would be a good movie to trip to due to the fact it was filmed in that early 60s technicolour film that is very bright, also there are tons of bright clours in the film and things like that. Within about 20 minutes I felt them hitting me, with waves of "energy" in my legs, this felt good and made me giggle a bit. I also noticed that the colours were getting even brighter, just seeing the guy's bright purple suit and the walls in the club made me burst out laughing. I looked up at one of my small surround sound speakers on the ceiling and noticed it was breathing, along with the walls, this made me laugh even more. The first thirty minutes were amazing, much "gentler" than acid, which I liked. I didnt have any quick changing emotions and mostly layed on my couch and laughed my ass off at the movie. I got up to get some water and felt like I was stoned, which was even better, I also decided to check out my pupils in the bathroom mirror, which were very dilated. I grabbed my guitar also, as I played it the neck seemed to be getting skinnier and skinnier to the point that the neck looked like it was two feet long, the huge P-90 pickups on it were also breathing. I messed with the tremelo arm alot and put it completely out of tune, which I didnt notice until the next morning. The peak ended around 12 pm along with the Nutty Professor. The next movie that came on was another early 60s movie filmed in technicolour, it was called, Where The Boys Are. I grabbed the remote to change but all the other channels seemed dull because they were not filmed in technicolour, so I switched back. Basically the movie is about some chicks that go to Florida for spring break and they meet a bunch of dudes. I finally experienced the awareness of one of the "games" people play in society, the dating game. It seemed that every two minutes the chicks were getting pissed at their dates and then in another two minutes getting back together with them and then starting the cycle again. Some of the dudes they were with were kinda funny, there was a scene with a jazz band, and I like jazz so I liked the scene. The names of the songs they played were pretty messed up, like "Dont Litter On the Streets Of Philadelphia" and it actually sounded good. Anyway after being such a happy and clean movie at the very end this one chick gets drugged and raped (film made in 1960) and then goes walking the streets and nearly gets hit by a car. For some reason I found this hilarious. The movie ended at around 2:30 am, it didnt really seem this late due to time dilation, the peak went by really slow and the comedown really fast. I went to sleep at 3 am and had no trouble falling asleep like acid. I also didnt feel really "off" the next day like acid. Overall I'd say my first trip was one of the best experiences of my life. My next one may be within a month, there is a chance I may be getting another eigth and tripping at the zoo with some friends. Thanks to the people who replied to this thread, you're advice was very helpful and I'm glad I took the entire eigth.