magic mushrooms in the UK

Dry are certainly alot nicer to eat.

hello caitlin.

Another time we bought them legally from a stall at reading festival - Philosopher's Stones. They tasted really horrible but we had a great time on them.

sounds like they worked pretty well to me

although i'm not sure i WANT to think i'm turning into a goat. not at this stage of my life. or at any stage of my life.

but chicken cuppa soup is the ideal way to brew them up.

worst idea eva was my mates who decided to wash them down with lemon tango.

I too have been confused about why it's only now that they seem to be on widespread open sale.

Giving info - like, where to score what? How much of a dose is too much? What to do when you think you're a goat? Molecular structure? Historical contributions to art because of?

"Don't do drugs, kids! Umm...unless they're legal! Then go ahead and get fucked up - the Student Life office would like to remind you that it is indeed an integral part of the college experience...but they're too fucked up at the moment to write anything cognizant down."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1095822,00.html

seems odd that it is legal, and that there has not been more crackdown.

it's like the south park episode where everyone tells the kids that the time for experimentation is in college, mmm-k?

Any reason not to take a trusted friend up on an offer of a pot of tea and a trip sometime

i don't like tea

I wish I'd taken more advantage of this loophole era when you could just buy them in shops. Probably got them about 4 times?

they're rubbish you'd have to spend about £100 to get any effect

^ this was complete bollocks btw. my wife completely lost the ability to speak once, she had to write things down and she is not a lightweight

xxp
Psilocybin tea is vile and always made me want to vomit, on the other hand LSD lasts way too long and is a mare if you are still tripping long into the next day. I wouldn't touch either with a bargepole these days tbh.

You need very high quality trusted friends to help you if a trip becomes becomes a bad psychological squeeze, and this stuff isn't for everyone imo.

Can you micro-dose? Or at least take a tiny bit first and work your way up but not in the course of a few days but like one little bit one day then maybe whenever the next time is try a little more?

Never gone the tea route, but I imagine it would be difficult to gauge the amount you’re ingesting? Too much is... too fucking much.

had some indelibly wonderful experiences with shrooms
back at the time this thread was started, which i look back on with great fondness

that said, it was probably only wonderful through carefully weighted measurements and gently increasing the dose, as infinity suggested, so i dunno if tea would be good for a first timer

I don't know, I've always had a cavalier disregard for caution with psychedelics. They're just the best

Jealous of that. Heaven and hell, in my experiences. Dark times the most harrowing moments of my life. Don’t regret it though.

Never made tea, it's easier to just get it over with and chew them up and swallow.

Of course, I had a cast iron stomach when I was eating them regularly, now I might be more prone to getting sick.

Yeah idg the attempts to make it palatable by mixing it with food or drink. Hold your nose, throw it down the hatch, chase it with a drink. It’s nothing.

I always felt it was one of those things I should keep away from...

The number of times I'd express some sort of creative idea I had, but whoever I was telling would roll their eyes and go 'eh, lay off the acid Mann' (e.g. a song where everyone feels the need to rise up and take back the means of production but are hampered by being bicycles)..

Not being in too many creative enterprises these days, I guess i don't need it now, and back then I didn't need it either.

Growing your own shrooms, then drying, powdering, and filling them into gelatine capsules, is neither hard nor expensive, and resolves all the taste and dosage issues.

we clearly have different levels of estimation for effort

If that method turned shit into gold I still wouldn't be fucked doing it tbh

Stronger is better ime. When I had access, I really liked the strong Hawaiian ones that came on quickly. Some of the weaker types were not so good as they didn’t have enough uplift to take you fully out of your current concerns. There’s nothing worse that sitting in your apartment with the same depressing thoughts going round in your mind - but this time on shrooms.

psychedelics turn the shit of human consciousness into the gold of knowledge of the godhead, man

*tokes spliff, goes back to staring at a piece of cat litter on the living room floor*

I'm awful easygoing tho and have no worries so xp

find most of my worries were replaced with "i'm tripping balls this is fucking awesome :D :D :D"

If you’re with a trusted, experienced friend and are solidly of the “no worries” mental disposition, yeah, you should absolutely do it.

yeah, tripping is just straight-up fun, i wish i’d had the opportunities to try more types of psychedelics back in my youth

not to get all timothy leary but it’s also an experience i wish more people in general had tried cuz it’s pretty instructive to realise just how easily your everyday sensorium can be tweaked and just how much of what you take for granted about what you see, feel, hear, taste and touch every day is an illusion you’ve simply become accustomed to

okay i failed at not sounding like a raddled old hippy but fuck it

I wouldn't do it these days, I'm too concerned that the flimsy B+Q decking that's keeping me from sinking into the swamp might be an illusion - but it's possibly a very necessary one. But I had some some serious fun and terror with LSD in my youth.

xp

Haha. It really is impossible to talk about the (legitimately instructive and profound) insights you can have on this stuff without sounding horribly cliche. Needs to be experience firsthand.

The small handful of times i tried this (shrooms or acid) ranged from no perceptible effect to horrible introspective paranoia, the feeling that everyone was looking at me and judging my every word and facial expression. I wouldn't have said I'm a super anxious person, no more than the average shut-in nerd on this site anyway. Maybe that is in fact pretty anxious.

Mix the shrooms into a smoothie. Really nice, micro dose it as well so it's just a night of laughs - don't get carried away

itt: a bunch of ilxors realise how much they miss tripping, gofundme a bulk purchase of shrooms for the board

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I wouldn't have said I'm a super anxious person, no more than the average shut-in nerd on this site anyway. Maybe that is in fact pretty anxious.

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I wouldn't put myself as avg for the site tbh so I can avoid this explosive q

tried it again for the first time in years on my birthday last year. we got up and went on a big walk. I definitely felt more anxious, more self-conscious and more cynical about the experience than when I was younger, especially when it involved being around other members of the public. walking through the streets and negotiating traffic was not much fun. reaching nature and larking about in the woods was a lot better. Despite everything, it was a lot of fun

being in a natural environment, even if it’s just a park, is prob the best way to maximise the experience ime

had a deeply awesome experience in kelvingrove park once which has stayed with me ever since, then on the way home spent way too long staring in pie-eyes half-awe, half-fear at a large statue of a tyrannosaurus rex which was then on display in front of glasgow uni

it were a good day, that