Mushrooms have been shown to be an effective treatment for ptsd and depression. Cannabis can also have medicinal properties but more like numbing pain relief/anxiety relief
As far as changing you, it depends... I think it can open you up to ideas you might not have considered previously, particularly the more psychedelic ones like lsd or mushrooms
Pot user here, it changed my life for the better. Stopped drinking nine years ago, and got into therapy. Pot stepped in when my therapist wanted me to think about medication. That was the last option for me.
Pot has been shown to help with inflammation as others have said, as well as reducing anxiety in others. It all depends on your own chemistry, though. Some people freak out on one hit from a joint, so it varies with individuals.
More studies are coming out that microdosing shrooms can help those with depression or PTSD, which I consider to be a huge benefit. In my experience, a shroom trip is beneficial once in a while…like another user said, it can kind of shuffle away the noise and bring you back to a present and harmonious state. But, like pot, you have to be in the right mindset.
My thoughts:
-pot: good shit, don’t overindulge, edibles over smoking
-shrooms: great, done sparingly (1-2 times a year)
-coke: never done it (nasal problems), short lasting, addicting, can fuck up your nose (friends’ experiences)
-lsd: know the origins, treat like a loaded gun, easily can go either way in terms of good/bad time
-molly: fun, but not worth the brain hangover the next day (you’re borrowing tomorrow’s happiness to add to today’s)
-meth: what are you, stupid?
-anything with a needle: what are you, really stupid?
It makes you weak mentally, physically and spiritually. There is nothing to gain for a healthy person and even the ill will not have as much benefit as is advertised.
People who try mushrooms, say its one of the top 5 experiences of their life, right up there with the birth of their first child...
You cant get addicted to mushrooms, basically because you quickly develop a high tolerance for them, and they quit working for you for a while.
I was curious about mushrooms for decades before i ever tried them.
A+++ would try again
Just remember “set and setting”
Meaning you want to have complete control of your surroundings.
No TV
No radio
No internet
Nothing that could be unexpected.
Your music library is OK, because you can control what plays and when.
Make sure you are clean, meaning freshly showered, shit, and shaved.
Make sure your surroundings are clean, meaning all your chores are done, the kitchen and bathroom are clean, laundry put away, bed is made, lawn is mowed.
Get all of your work done, so you can relax and forget about it for a while.
It may take weeks or months to get properly prepared, esp if you procrastinate.
What you DON’T want to do, is take a trip, only to discover that your house is a mess, and spend all your time compulsively cleaning yourself or your space.
Some of the most profound experiences of my life have been on shrooms specificly as opposed other psychedelics. Right up there with the birth of my children which I was mid-wife for.
I learned how electricity is generated by taking mushrooms after days of wondering how it worked, and then examining an alternator for a couple days before taking a heavy dose of P. Cubensis.
When I was younger I did some drugs, the worst was Quaalude 1981 in NYC. I just remember taking one and waking up next morning. In between an amnesia.
I never liked reefer (hamp). I liked coke, we had some very good from Colombia, the purest stuff. I also did a few LSD (acid).
Now being smarter and older (60), I still drink ethanol, mostly in form of wine. None other drugs at all. I quit smoking 15 years ago, that was a very good decision.
Better than drugs is meditation, it gets me into similar moods without the side effects. Last year I managed that my soul could leave my body, only for a short time though, but very impressive.
Do I advocate drugs? No, but drugs without the ritual and the shaman are dangerous. I lost too many people on heroin. And don't forget mediactions are also drugs, some of it deadly. You can take an aspirin per day to keep your blood thin, but not more than 100 mg, otherwise it is not good. Donald Trump takes 72 mg daily.
The best drugs are all manufactured in your brain. Your brain is a pharmacy. Emotions are drug dumps into your bloodstream combined with instincts.
You want the best drug experience ever? Here is what you do, men:
Lift. Lift at your max limit, low reps. Lift 3 times a week, about 20 minutes each time. Only do compound muscle group lifts. Avoid all muscle isolation lifts. Do dead lifts, overhead presses, squats, etc. Do you know what 5x5 is? Look it up.
You will get the most massive happy drugs dumped into your bloodstream you can't even imagine. Combine this with eating meats, animal fats, some vegetables and NEVER processed carbs, sugar, vegetable oils, or any processed foods (anything that comes with a label).
DMT expert here; I hacked reality with it and its analog 5-meo-dmt almost 20 years ago now, way, wayyyy before it was "cool". From what I learned through all that, I never let my guard down. Maintain Olympic-quality level fitness because when you warp into that state you better be fucking strong as Odin. There are entities there, seperate from yourself which have information. I was informed of a great calamity to come....in around 2005. And look what happened. The higher-ups use these techniques to one-up us, fight fire with fire.
I do not believe that it has healing properties enough to out weigh the negative consequences.
I am of Scandinavian ethnicity, notorious for tolerance of alcohol, self-limiting even unto death. Can you imagine Hildegard telling Olaf to get up on the damn roof and fix it, and oaf Olaf: “Mañana momma, I’m tokin’ wif ma bros.”. She’d have his guts for garters.
To those that say that mushrooms, LSD and Cannabis is beneficial; just remember the same Pharmakia industry that promotes the vaccines agrees with you about cannabis and mushrooms and they invented LSD.
Be careful where you source marijuana. Its biggest danger is not the plant itself, but the Bug Spray it's doused in when shipped from Mexico. Marijuana from Mexico often has dangerous levels of insect sprays and mold inhibitors to preserve it while in shipping.
I have a friend who has schizophrenia. It also runs in my family and I have a 27 year old cousin who has it.
Thus, I have a tendency to hallucinate easily.
Smoking weed isnt all sunshine and rainbows without any reprocussions.
THC is in the psychogenic family tree with LSD and I can NOT do edibles. Ill hullucinate and not the fun kind. Both people I mentioned above cant even touch the stuff. The friend, im pretty sure weed triggered it, as I was there during his decent. (He smoked compulsively in great excess)
Iv done mushrooms and LSD as well. Im extreamly sensitive to them both. I think they should be treated as spiritually cleansing experiances and not some fun time drug.
Weed helps me when im angry, having a bad day. But if im panicked, itll only make it worse and throw me into a panic attack. (Where Im likely to start to hullucinate) I have a friend who has seizure like panic attacks out of nowhere and weed actually helps her a ton.
Its all about your personalized brain chemistry and moderation. I smoke when I need too or socially. Definitely not a daily thing for me.
“ Governments legalizing marijuana makes me think there could be a hidden agenda to pacify people.”
? pacify -and- to stupify. It’s alright is you’re at this point though it’s in your best interest to avoid these things you can. To limit them if too can’t…
In greed there is charity (steal to feed your kids)
In charity there is greed (running costs of charity org)
In pleasure there is pain (too much of a good thing, hurt yourself)
Pain, pleasure (weird bdsm kinks, play/real fighting?/muscle growth)
Everything has an opposite, duality, interconnectedness, interdependence - any word you try and pick is never quite right because you're talking about the unknowable.
To rest a stick up, off from being flat, you need another stick to rest against it, both those sticks depend on each other, that is how everything is.
Bees need flowers and flowers need bees. Light and darkness need each other, they play with each other, an ever present, ever on going, dance. viewable to 'you' from this certain perspective at this certain time, but 'you' are so much more than just here and now, you are everything, you are just as much (if not maybe more if you wanna get your 'you' involved) everything as everything else is everything, and it's all everything.
On an infinitely diverse scale of perspectives from a school yard scrap, basketball brawl, football hooligan frenzy, all the way up to large scale war or whatever, all the sizes, there is a fundamental interplay at work, things we can classify as 'good' or 'evil' because we have developed a moral system - I won't go down this path.
I'd put beer on par with cannabis, but the effects potentially more mental for cannabis and physical for beer, always use with caution, you know your own body best, and can be honest with yourself regarding over use.
Is there truth out there? well shit. something like.. there is all our collective truths whose summation is the truth, over all times ... hm, nah I don't buy my own spiel there, and thats the problem with this spiritual dualistic type worldview that i can't turn off the way I think, can't always find a way to put things in to ways that are understood and can convey, but on some level you just 'feel' it.
Cannabis is probably not healthy for you, again moderation is going to be key here, it will pacify people yes, but it will also wake many people up into potentially taking action - however the slow gentle role out over time is a great way to get no rise up - ah I don't care about this part of the question enough, hope the near unfiltered stream of my brain was interest enough to read.
Mushrooms have been shown to be an effective treatment for ptsd and depression. Cannabis can also have medicinal properties but more like numbing pain relief/anxiety relief
As far as changing you, it depends... I think it can open you up to ideas you might not have considered previously, particularly the more psychedelic ones like lsd or mushrooms
Pot user here, it changed my life for the better. Stopped drinking nine years ago, and got into therapy. Pot stepped in when my therapist wanted me to think about medication. That was the last option for me. Pot has been shown to help with inflammation as others have said, as well as reducing anxiety in others. It all depends on your own chemistry, though. Some people freak out on one hit from a joint, so it varies with individuals. More studies are coming out that microdosing shrooms can help those with depression or PTSD, which I consider to be a huge benefit. In my experience, a shroom trip is beneficial once in a while…like another user said, it can kind of shuffle away the noise and bring you back to a present and harmonious state. But, like pot, you have to be in the right mindset. My thoughts:
-pot: good shit, don’t overindulge, edibles over smoking
-shrooms: great, done sparingly (1-2 times a year)
-coke: never done it (nasal problems), short lasting, addicting, can fuck up your nose (friends’ experiences)
-lsd: know the origins, treat like a loaded gun, easily can go either way in terms of good/bad time
-molly: fun, but not worth the brain hangover the next day (you’re borrowing tomorrow’s happiness to add to today’s)
-meth: what are you, stupid?
-anything with a needle: what are you, really stupid?
It makes you weak mentally, physically and spiritually. There is nothing to gain for a healthy person and even the ill will not have as much benefit as is advertised.
People who try mushrooms, say its one of the top 5 experiences of their life, right up there with the birth of their first child...
You cant get addicted to mushrooms, basically because you quickly develop a high tolerance for them, and they quit working for you for a while.
I was curious about mushrooms for decades before i ever tried them.
A+++ would try again
Just remember “set and setting”
Meaning you want to have complete control of your surroundings.
No TV
No radio
No internet
Nothing that could be unexpected.
Your music library is OK, because you can control what plays and when.
Make sure you are clean, meaning freshly showered, shit, and shaved.
Make sure your surroundings are clean, meaning all your chores are done, the kitchen and bathroom are clean, laundry put away, bed is made, lawn is mowed.
Get all of your work done, so you can relax and forget about it for a while.
It may take weeks or months to get properly prepared, esp if you procrastinate.
What you DON’T want to do, is take a trip, only to discover that your house is a mess, and spend all your time compulsively cleaning yourself or your space.
Some of the most profound experiences of my life have been on shrooms specificly as opposed other psychedelics. Right up there with the birth of my children which I was mid-wife for.
I learned how electricity is generated by taking mushrooms after days of wondering how it worked, and then examining an alternator for a couple days before taking a heavy dose of P. Cubensis.
When I was younger I did some drugs, the worst was Quaalude 1981 in NYC. I just remember taking one and waking up next morning. In between an amnesia. I never liked reefer (hamp). I liked coke, we had some very good from Colombia, the purest stuff. I also did a few LSD (acid).
Now being smarter and older (60), I still drink ethanol, mostly in form of wine. None other drugs at all. I quit smoking 15 years ago, that was a very good decision. Better than drugs is meditation, it gets me into similar moods without the side effects. Last year I managed that my soul could leave my body, only for a short time though, but very impressive.
Do I advocate drugs? No, but drugs without the ritual and the shaman are dangerous. I lost too many people on heroin. And don't forget mediactions are also drugs, some of it deadly. You can take an aspirin per day to keep your blood thin, but not more than 100 mg, otherwise it is not good. Donald Trump takes 72 mg daily.
The best drugs are all manufactured in your brain. Your brain is a pharmacy. Emotions are drug dumps into your bloodstream combined with instincts.
You want the best drug experience ever? Here is what you do, men:
Lift. Lift at your max limit, low reps. Lift 3 times a week, about 20 minutes each time. Only do compound muscle group lifts. Avoid all muscle isolation lifts. Do dead lifts, overhead presses, squats, etc. Do you know what 5x5 is? Look it up.
You will get the most massive happy drugs dumped into your bloodstream you can't even imagine. Combine this with eating meats, animal fats, some vegetables and NEVER processed carbs, sugar, vegetable oils, or any processed foods (anything that comes with a label).
You will feel like a GOD.
DMT expert here; I hacked reality with it and its analog 5-meo-dmt almost 20 years ago now, way, wayyyy before it was "cool". From what I learned through all that, I never let my guard down. Maintain Olympic-quality level fitness because when you warp into that state you better be fucking strong as Odin. There are entities there, seperate from yourself which have information. I was informed of a great calamity to come....in around 2005. And look what happened. The higher-ups use these techniques to one-up us, fight fire with fire.
check out traditional cannabis cultures and alcohol culture
Learn about the endocannabinoid system. It’s part of your body.
I do not believe that it has healing properties enough to out weigh the negative consequences.
I am of Scandinavian ethnicity, notorious for tolerance of alcohol, self-limiting even unto death. Can you imagine Hildegard telling Olaf to get up on the damn roof and fix it, and oaf Olaf: “Mañana momma, I’m tokin’ wif ma bros.”. She’d have his guts for garters.
To those that say that mushrooms, LSD and Cannabis is beneficial; just remember the same Pharmakia industry that promotes the vaccines agrees with you about cannabis and mushrooms and they invented LSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cross
Be careful where you source marijuana. Its biggest danger is not the plant itself, but the Bug Spray it's doused in when shipped from Mexico. Marijuana from Mexico often has dangerous levels of insect sprays and mold inhibitors to preserve it while in shipping.
I have a friend who has schizophrenia. It also runs in my family and I have a 27 year old cousin who has it.
Thus, I have a tendency to hallucinate easily.
Smoking weed isnt all sunshine and rainbows without any reprocussions.
THC is in the psychogenic family tree with LSD and I can NOT do edibles. Ill hullucinate and not the fun kind. Both people I mentioned above cant even touch the stuff. The friend, im pretty sure weed triggered it, as I was there during his decent. (He smoked compulsively in great excess)
Iv done mushrooms and LSD as well. Im extreamly sensitive to them both. I think they should be treated as spiritually cleansing experiances and not some fun time drug.
Weed helps me when im angry, having a bad day. But if im panicked, itll only make it worse and throw me into a panic attack. (Where Im likely to start to hullucinate) I have a friend who has seizure like panic attacks out of nowhere and weed actually helps her a ton.
Its all about your personalized brain chemistry and moderation. I smoke when I need too or socially. Definitely not a daily thing for me.
“ Governments legalizing marijuana makes me think there could be a hidden agenda to pacify people.”
? pacify -and- to stupify. It’s alright is you’re at this point though it’s in your best interest to avoid these things you can. To limit them if too can’t…
drugs are for degenerate losers who can't control themselves
Think of a Yin Yang symbol.
In greed there is charity (steal to feed your kids)
In charity there is greed (running costs of charity org)
In pleasure there is pain (too much of a good thing, hurt yourself)
Pain, pleasure (weird bdsm kinks, play/real fighting?/muscle growth)
Everything has an opposite, duality, interconnectedness, interdependence - any word you try and pick is never quite right because you're talking about the unknowable.
To rest a stick up, off from being flat, you need another stick to rest against it, both those sticks depend on each other, that is how everything is.
Bees need flowers and flowers need bees. Light and darkness need each other, they play with each other, an ever present, ever on going, dance. viewable to 'you' from this certain perspective at this certain time, but 'you' are so much more than just here and now, you are everything, you are just as much (if not maybe more if you wanna get your 'you' involved) everything as everything else is everything, and it's all everything.
On an infinitely diverse scale of perspectives from a school yard scrap, basketball brawl, football hooligan frenzy, all the way up to large scale war or whatever, all the sizes, there is a fundamental interplay at work, things we can classify as 'good' or 'evil' because we have developed a moral system - I won't go down this path.
I'd put beer on par with cannabis, but the effects potentially more mental for cannabis and physical for beer, always use with caution, you know your own body best, and can be honest with yourself regarding over use. Is there truth out there? well shit. something like.. there is all our collective truths whose summation is the truth, over all times ... hm, nah I don't buy my own spiel there, and thats the problem with this spiritual dualistic type worldview that i can't turn off the way I think, can't always find a way to put things in to ways that are understood and can convey, but on some level you just 'feel' it.
Cannabis is probably not healthy for you, again moderation is going to be key here, it will pacify people yes, but it will also wake many people up into potentially taking action - however the slow gentle role out over time is a great way to get no rise up - ah I don't care about this part of the question enough, hope the near unfiltered stream of my brain was interest enough to read.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PsilocybinMushrooms+unclebens/top/