Would you or have you tried acid?

[Thunder Road]

Interesting.  I was thinking along the lines of "pure LSD" to begin with, but it seems like it's not all it's cracked up to be.  (Who knew?  Haha)

Anyway if a mod wants to move this to the Laid Back Lounge, that's fine.  That's probably where it belongs anyway, my apologies.

[Asmodean]

So... Are you having a pill-shaped hole in your heart, Thunder?

Don't take it the wrong way - I'm just curious because I don't seek a high (Not even through my use of nicotine) and therefor don't really understand people who do. Is there some semi-rational motivation behind it? What is it like? Like a craving for something you never had but could get your hands on?

[Tank]

Interesting.  I was thinking along the lines of "pure LSD" to begin with, but it seems like it's not all it's cracked up to be.  (Who knew?  Haha)

Anyway if a mod wants to move this to the Laid Back Lounge, that's fine.  That's probably where it belongs anyway, my apologies.

Your wish is my command.

[Sweetdeath]

I used to be curious because everyone talks about, but nah. I'm 26 now, and no longe have the desire for such things. I like to be in full control of my life

[Thunder Road]

So... Are you having a pill-shaped hole in your heart, Thunder?

Don't take it the wrong way - I'm just curious because I don't seek a high (Not even through my use of nicotine) and therefor don't really understand people who do. Is there some semi-rational motivation behind it? What is it like? Like a craving for something you never had but could get your hands on?

No, I wouldn't say that.  It's really just a curiosity, and nothing more.  Like it would be even better if there was some sort of LSD simulator that I could try for a little while and shut off when shit got too weird.

[xSilverPhinx]

So... Are you having a pill-shaped hole in your heart, Thunder?

Don't take it the wrong way - I'm just curious because I don't seek a high (Not even through my use of nicotine) and therefor don't really understand people who do. Is there some semi-rational motivation behind it? What is it like? Like a craving for something you never had but could get your hands on?

No, I wouldn't say that.  It's really just a curiosity, and nothing more.  Like it would be even better if there was some sort of LSD simulator that I could try for a little while and shut off when shit got too weird.

Me too. I wouldn't try it to get a high (assuming that it'll be a 'good trip'). Just curious to see what happens.

[Crow]

I wouldn't touch drugs again until I knew I was dying. In my first year at uni I experimented with a few drugs and partook in a medical MDMA trail, I had some amazing positive experiences (one would easily be classed as the best experience of my life) and one bad experience, drugs are fun but they can easily take over a persons life - luckily that never happened for me but have seen it ruin others lives. I wouldn't recommend anybody taking illicit drugs simply because you do not know what's in them, many are mixed with very harmful chemicals or laxatives which are very dangerous and just isn't worth the risk for a good time and have become more widespread recently as there is a higher demand but less product available. Drugs affect different people in different ways and you never know how the drugs will effect you until you have taken it, you may try it once and never touch it again but there is always that chance you will be the person that want more of the feeling and drugs will eventually take control.

[The Magic Pudding]

I wouldn't touch drugs again until I knew I was dying.

The grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine was funny, he used heroin I think.
He told the teenagers they'd have to be crazy to take drugs but old people like him would be crazy not to.

[Sweetdeath]

I guess in your 70's and 80's, you can do whatever you want. xD

[Gawen]

What does this have to do with "Life as an atheist"?

My experiences with LSD was back in the low 70's...when it was really LSD. Were I the same age now as I was then, you couldn't pay me to take the chemicals they say is "acid" today.

Are you sure you wouldn't be swept up in the whole culture, just as you were back in the day? You have the benefit of maturity to make the decision to abstain now. The youth today are just as carefree as they (we) were in the 70s.

I don't think pure acid (LSD) is very common these days. They mix it with MDMA and amphetamines and all sorts of other stuff and call it Ecstasy - a more tailored party drug and worlds apart from pure LSD.

I wouldn't say "swept up" was my experience...more like curiosity. Pot/weed/grass made me puke. I've smoked it a half dozen times in the past and all it did was make sick, sleepy and paranoid. But acid...acid back then was the mind altering hallucinogenic it was made out to be and "trippin'" would last 12 hours or more.  You saw...stuff. I tried PCP (back then it was called angel dust and got it while in Hong Kong) at the same time and found the hallucinations too powerful and never did it again. The acid people have been making today seems closer to rat poison.

I haven't done an illegal drug in many years.

Now, morphine.....*sigh* J/K

Would you, if you knew for sure that it would not physically harm you or anyone else?

Well, that's the trick, ain't it? One never knows...

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Did it a few times in the early 70's, when I was 18-19.  No acid since.  I would probably try it again after retirement in a controlled setting.  Some of it was phenomenal, some was scary.

[Wessik]

heheheh...no... I don't think I would... hehaha.

[Ali]

Now, morphine.....*sigh* J/K

LOL!  I get a little dreamy eyed thinking about oxycontin.  I've had it a couple of times, always for purely medical reasons.  But yeah, *sigh*  LOL!!!

[pytheas]

Please,

it is not a narcotic, and you never crave unadulterated powerfull entheogen psychedelics.
How you get it is, I am afraid, your problem.

In a lever-reward cage with lab rodents, if you place one beak with water and another beak  with sugar, or cocaine, or heroin, or caffeine, or nicotine -you get the drift /legality is a bullshit charade-
the result is the rodent tries both, and goes for a burnout with the spiked choice until it dies.

If however the choice is acid, the rodent tries both, freaks out, never uses the lever trick again, becomes non-compliant and tries nervously to escape the cage.

A very specific tool, like a micro pliers, that twiches a particular door (raphe nucleus 5HTR2a -I may be mistaken)-  half open when it is tightly regulated open and shut usually. This brief interlude of gaping swing is all it takes for lucy to walk in the sky of diamonds and unite in senses the kosmos that (apparently) surrounds her .(ok it activates and may induce dopamine rewards but they are weary and striken with intimidation and awe.)

prefer psilocybe semilanceata, the wild variety, or cubensis as some enlightened flemish civilisation has offered commercially.

ayahuasca , yopo and peyot, we move to the next level, long-lasting meaning and answers  can and are derived .

One needs to cultivate and gain wisdom of self prior to the journey. no substance can do that for you.
oe needs to be of stable construction, control along with self id will be lost, so freaking is counterindicated, just as it is with diving at 30m below sea with air taks in the maldives. you cannot change either your genes or your past psychodevelopment/trauma with these substances.

and by the way, I have, about 200 times, some old psychiatry book stupidly quoted "more than 25 times the subject becomes insane", do not try it for fun, fun can be had along with fear, intimidation and insight.
it will bring out what is hidden within. A yogi would not have a problem.

[Asmodean]

o.O You are talking about. What is?

Either it's late and The Asmo doesn't get it OR The Asmo doesn't get it because it requires a specklet of LSD to get.