This is your brain on drugs

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• Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can certainly vouch for amphetamines*.

  *in controlled amounts for people with ADHD

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t consider pharmaceuticals “drugs”. I tend to draw a line between medication and recreation.

    but that’s just my opinion

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    • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is the line you draw based on the intent of the user or the intent of the provider?

      Like, for instance, if someone with ADHD uses caffeine to help them focus better, is that medication? Or, if someone tries a hallucinogen with the intention of opening their mind, is that medication?

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    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, you can get pharmaceutical heroin and pharmaceutical meth and while you’re not going to experience quite the same levels of harm since it’d be pure and clean, the addiction will still deal the same damage as the street stuff

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• FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Salvia is maybe the most dangerous drug for someone like me. I don’t like feeling altered, never really enjoyed my experiences with marijuana because I wanted it to be over after awhile. But salvia? Intense hallucination but it only lasts like 15 minutes? Sign me up.

  Back when it was legal I smoked some. Once it hit, the world kinda wobbled like the glass on the building in the Matrix after the helicopter crashes. I was in an easy chair. All the shadows in the room were orange and yellow static and then my TV, which was off, expanded to indefinite size, turning the wall to my left into a black void. My chair lifted up, turned, and I flew into that black void, which was outer space. I had a BLAST. I was yelling and hooting as I blasted through the cosmos. Then I backed out, my chair settled back into my living room. I felt thirsty and so wanted to get a drink from the jug of Kool-aid I’d made that was in the fridge. I stood up and was like 12-feet tall or something. I remember feeling like I was reaching down into what felt like a doll house fridge to retrieve the jug. As I drank, I returned to normal size. The trip was over, no side effects.

  I never did it again. I figured I’d had a good experience and didn’t want to risk it. I had friends who did it and they felt like their skin was an itchy suit and they tried to unzip themselves to get out of it. Nope.

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  • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One of my best friends smoked some shortly after my experience. They were transported to Jurassic Park and were screaming for the Baby Jesus to run from a triceratops. “Run baby Jesus, RUN!” stands as one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard someone yell.

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ya, skip salvia. I’ve never had a harder trip I enjoyed less

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I fully support this message, except can skip the salvia

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What you don’t like being transported to the evil clown dimension?

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Great description. Its so sudden, and the feeling of falling away from reality is intense. I wish I could draw what I saw and share it with other people.

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tried it once, and found it to be intensely lacking in any sort of… well anything.

    My brain told me everything was tiny, and I heard a whomp whomp whomp whomp for a few minutes and that was it. It tasted like smoking grass clippings over a campfire, and I went “well its a fun plant to grow but I wont be harvesting it again”

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  • PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Came here to say the exact same thing. Everyone I know who as done it goes it’s the most extreme 15-20 minutes of your life. You really need to be in a safe space with a babysitter

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have never in my life heard a positive story about smoking salvia. It’s like that fear flower from batman.

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  • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And if you do salvia, please measure that shit out on scales and follow dosage recommendations from more experienced psychonauts.

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  • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s pretty strong stuff…for like 5 minutes

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• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Be very careful with MDMA when you are on antidepressants. Can cause something called serotonin syndrome.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In general look up drug interactions for your recreationals and prescriptions. It’s not much work and can spare you a very bad time

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• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  MDMA and ketamine are worth a try as well.

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    although the ketamine should be used with care and under supervision the first time. correct dosing can be tricky, and getting it wrong can be go very badly.

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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Research first. Use a scale. Sit down.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Salvia is something people try. I have not met anyone who has used it long term, one anecdote on a job site about classmates doing it on the regular, but I think it was an exaggeration.

  Saliva hallucinations are intense, short lived and the ones I had were quite unpleasant.

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  • bright@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The experience reports i read about it are all bad to neutral. It doesn’t belong on the list of good drugs

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    • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It did absolutely nothing for me. a couple friends sampled the same stash and claimed it was wild, but I didn’t even get a mild buzz.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “ones”? That would seem to imply you did it more than once.

    My cousin gave me a gallon bag of the stuff once… it was all he had left and he just wanted to be done with it. I packed a bowl in my bong and had a huge hit. It last about 10 minutes and I saw some pretty fun stuff (stuffed animals getting up and dancing), but the overall experience was not fun. I handed the rest of the gallon bag off to a friend. That was over 20 years ago and I’m pretty sure that same bag is probably still being passed around.

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Twice. I am a fan of confirming things.

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  • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    short lived

    I remember reading a trip report from a guy that thought he was a ceiling fan for 15 years

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A roommate thought he flew to pluto and back in the span of a robot chicken episode.

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Salvia is a trip man. I remember doing it once and it felt like the room I was in flipped 90 degrees and I was holding the arm out the couch like my life depended on it.

  Taken a lot of drugs but only take ADHD meds now and the occasional spliff. Been hooked on coke and it’s just meh now. Been hooked on Xanax and nearly died but still miss them.

  Ketamine is mid. Would love to try heroin if it wouldn’t ruin my life.

  Mollie was amazing back in the day but couldn’t hardly that now.

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Salvia made me feel like I was my car door, and my tongue, and I was spinning like a coin.

    I did not like that experience. I felt like I ran a mile afterwards.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s crazy isn’t it.

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• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah… I don’t even do caffeine, lol

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  • Una@europe.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bet you do oxygen.

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    • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I heard everyone who tried it ends up dead. Better steer clear of that stuff.

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  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My condolences

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• texture@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wrong sub, this is sageadvice

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Chonging DMT out of a crack pipe is probably one of the worst things I’ve ever tasted

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  • Twofacetony@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Burnt lips and the bad taste sure are worth the experience though. But yeah… the taste was gnarly

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Caffeine and alcohol

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