Not scientific enough. Take it three times and average the results
LSD: Not Even Once
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#102This post is basically why I have no interest in doing drugs. The risk it could fuck me up or I have a very bad trip, however small, is not worth it.
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#103So let me get this straight. This person had a hard time on psilocybin and though they should try LSD? Jfc I think it's well known that things can go south really quickly on basically anything that alters your brain chemistry. Yes, these drugs alter your brain chemistry. And also, yes some people are way more sensitive than others. It's unfortunate this happened but to completely write off the potential psychedelics…
Does sound like they overdosed themselves.
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#104> Halfway through my trip, about 4 hours in, visual snow started appearing on everything.
> On top of that, the loudest tinnitus you could imagine.
This sounds more like a DO(C/M/B/I) trip than LSD.
> I had dabbled a bit before with psilocybin, and don’t think it changed my life in any real manner other than showing me what mental illness is.
The author had a negative experience with psilocybin, expected that that would be the case with other psychedelic drugs, and was angry that they proved themselves right?
> Fuck you, Jobs.
It is super easy to create a scapegoat to absolve yourself of any responsibility in your decision making process. You pretty much have to actively ignore a large amount of advice when doing cursory reading about psychedelics to arrive at “LSD Bad!” without a single thought or mention of set and setting.
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#105Thousands, if not millions, of people in India and increasingly across the world take Indian ginseng aka ashwagandha for anxiety and other psyche problems. My wife ate several kilos of the stuff during her BSc programme; it helped her with exams and general stress. At some point I was very anxious for a perfectly valid exogenous reason, and she recommended I take it. Three pills in (recommended daily dose, taken over…
Lol. Tylenol is over the counter and the wrong dose can literary kill your liver. Do you have links to those studies? I'm curious. I've tried Ashwagandha and stopped as it seemed to make me more anxious but YMMV.
A recent study with ample references: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/3921
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#106I think it's useful to consider this blog post as an anecdotal experience of someone who had a significant, traumatic experience with LSD for which they were entirely socially unprepared for even when those those experiences seemed to be known among those who take LSD (no one expressed surprise or confusion at their condition in their group). There is plenty of questions to ask here: why didn't this person's friends…
I feel like your questions are blaming the victim here. The temptation is real and not everyone has the greatest friends. LSD is actually dangerous.
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#107Not discrediting the author's experiences but those are pretty heavy doses to take for both shrooms and lsd if you're a newbie. Anyone willing to get into psychedelics should take as much caution as possible and begin with smaller safe (and hopefully tested) doses in a safe environment with people you trust to help lessen the possibility of adverse effects. This of course does not mean you are guaranteed to have a good trip without side effects but that's a risk you should always be aware of when taking any drug.
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#108Skill issue
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#109I think it's useful to consider this blog post as an anecdotal experience of someone who had a significant, traumatic experience with LSD for which they were entirely socially unprepared for even when those those experiences seemed to be known among those who take LSD (no one expressed surprise or confusion at their condition in their group). There is plenty of questions to ask here: why didn't this person's friends…
> What is going on in the cultural millieu of hallucinogenic drugs where someone can have a bad experience with one hallucinogen and then, knowing this, willingly take even more without seriously being warned against by friends or online resources?
In attempts to (rightly) justify legalization, we now first have to appeal to the puritan-descendant US society and persuade it that it has great medicinal potential (because recreational potential is not enough). Consequently, you see overly exaggerated headlines that tout these substances as a miracle cure. Which, honestly, it might be for some people with certain conditions in a specific settings.
But, a person then reads "a new LSD study" and might conclude that their psilocybin trip was not a success, but maybe the LSD is going to change their world for the better.
If we just legalize these non-toxic substances, the conversation around them changes. The same happened to cannabis (where still nowadays, many people use the "medicinal" angle to justify their recreational habits so that they are not judged by the society, despite cannabis being legal in a number of US states).
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#110> And I didn’t even learn anything cool from the trip. Fuck you, Jobs.
Sounds like you learned plenty. Also given how little time since, there's probably plenty of reflection and learnings yet to come too.