only so many?

Well it convinced me some, so worthwhile I suppose.

 

Yeah, I agree that RCs are, in many case still a pandora's box. Who knows what the long term affects look like. Though a couple have pretty extensive use, none have been studied in much depth. And of course, those doing them make bad study subjects, since most who use RCs are using a variety of substances. Still, I'm up for the risks. What's life without a little risk? Course, if I had children, people relying on me, I would likely be a little less cavalier with my life and well-being.

 

I guess that if some RC's came my way I would not be super adverse to trying them, but not multiple times like I would with LSD, Mushrooms or mescaline. But I would most likely be curious enough to try.

Of all the substances that I have used/abused over the years I would have to say that weed has had the biggest overall negative effect in my life as a whole. Now I tend to "bing" smoke, get a quarter of some killer bud and smoke till it's gone then lay off for a couple of months. Not the best pattern of use, actually I would classify such use as abuse.

So you see Peter I am far from perfect and do have my own issues with drugs. But the issues I have are the result of my mis-use of the substance, not the substance itself.

 

Huh. That actually seems to me like the healthiest kind of use for THC. Habitual use seems way more likely to be problematic. Depending on what one considers 'harm'. I mean, habitual use has positive effects on some folks. Calms them down, makes them relaxed and generally more able to enjoy life. That's cool. But most of the downsides of thc are intensified by daily use. It does take a toll on the lungs, though not to the degree of nicotine. And it's effects on memory, cognitive functioning, and reaction time are well documented, and greatly potentiated by daily use.

If you do a bunch occasionally, you get high, you have aftereffects that last a week or 2, then you're done and back to normal. If you smoke daily, the negative effects never really go away.

 

My problem is that if funds and weed are available I tend to smoke non-stop. I'm a pot-aholic, three hits of good bud and I'm off and running until I run out, and it often takes a very concerted effort of will for me to stop, or lack of funds/weed. If I stop and don't smoke any for about a week I can stay away for as long as I choose. It's a pattern I am not proud of and I classify it as abuse more do to my approach rather than the frequency of use.
I will also admit that in the past I have spent years of my life stoned. It has even cost me a job, that was a real slap in the face and when I decided to slow it the fuck down.
I also enjoy it more with occasional use rather than it being a constant daily thing. That has got to be the one thing that I really lack will power to control the way I would like. If I have it, I smoke it.
My neighbor who is a few years older than me can make a quarter last months, for me about a week at most.

My last binge I went through a half ounce in less than two weeks by myself. In my mind that is excessive, especially at $125 a quarter and it's REALLY potent bud.

 

Don't feel bad, at least it's not nicotine. Only drug I've ever taken that I regret, despite having tried, like, everything at least once. And yeah, I mean really everything, barring some of the more obscure RCs. Including all the really bad ones. Heroin, coke, meth, pcp... Tried em all once, just to see what the deal was. Nicotine's the only one I regret, as it's the only one that hooked me. Want to quit so badly, don't know how.

 

Dude you are more deluded than ever.

 

My wife would also do LSD with me homie, that's how I roll.
I've always been introverted, and have over thought things since I could talk.
Psychedelics rarely take me to any other sort of reality dude. They show me what this reality truly is. They also show me myself Peter, which I'm sure you've been confronted with as well (which could explain why your trips went like they did ).
I've also tripped hundreds and hundreds of times. Probably close to 300 on lucy. No idea with other various RCs, DMT, and shrooms.

 

lol

SINGLE lsd experience. see what im gettin at. in these patients that got 'treated' there quantity of trips were quite low. and in an extremely theraputic session. always guided by professional.

would the subsequent use of lsd made a difference to that test result do u think?
in other words, do u think that if those people that did the single hit of acid and quit alchole; if they kept doin acid, do u think all of that first trip wouldve gone out the window? and they would get carried away n lost in somthing else? i sure think thats possible.

the first time i did acid was so amazing. it opened my mind, was incredible. i made self discoveries, i questioned my own beleifs about not beleiving in god, n realised that just because u beleive in somthing 100% doesnt make it real.

i would think that lsd does have a hi chance of obuse, because well there is nothing like it. u trip out and make all these amazing discoveries, then u have an mad 2 week + afterglow of amazing thoughts. n feel like god.
then u want to trip again, to see what else u can discover. like ur on the brink of somthing, so much exitement, like everything is new and amazing. like ur discovering the world again for the first time. fascination in everything. i loved that soooo much.

thats why i think there is potential for abuse.
whilst not physically addictive, its highly psychologically addictive, for me i felt that way. so much so, that it is hard not to continue taking acid for the rest of my life. but i know if i kept doing it, i would have lost it. thats half the reason i stopped. i did like 13 hits in a week n a half, n started hearing voices, and had a bit of a psychotic dissociative episode one night out drinking with mates... was weird. so it was then i realised i should stop. for my mental state. n the hits we had were all straight from a vial. 2 hits n youd be under water, everything waving. 3 hits and i had colours streaming round the car, and into my body from the head deck in my car. with visions so powerfull they came over me with open eyes, visions of utopias...
waking up out of a dream for the first time?
but apart from that i loved the shit.