marichiko

Never tried amanita. Do know that it contains strichnine and enough of that will kill you as good as any other poison. Same goes for Datura. The Spanish call it "widow's weed" for good reason. LOVED amphetamines in college. They were great for finals and all nighter term papers. Loved 'em so much that I knew I'd better stay away from them. Alcohol - went through a time when Jack Daniel's was the best lover I ever had. Then Jack proved fickle and turned on me. Giving him up was one of the hardest things I ever did. Now I stick to a couple of glasses of wine. Pot always just made me paranoid. I guess it's great for some folks, but I'm not one of them. Valium, and the other tranquilizers I liked almost as much as Jack, but they gobbled up too many of my memory cells and these days I need my last two remaining memory cells desperately, so I refuse when a doc want to gives me a script for ANY tranquilizer. Psychedelics I wouldn't go near when I was young. I figured I was teetering close to the edge as it was. Why risk going on a trip to a foreign land that might prove highly unpleasant and find that my passport had been revoked when I wanted to go home? I saw this happen to a couple of my friends who ended up in psych wards. No thanks.

I have had two very profound spiritual experiences in my life and each time I was neither stoned, drunk, nor high. Those experiences impacted me profoundly and neither I nor anyone else can merely write them off as some drug side effect. I have friends, however, who swear that psychedelics brought them closer to God. Well, who am I to question someone else's spiritual experience? If they feel it helped them, great for them.

Its true enough that there's tons of information on various drugs out there everywhere. People just have to live and learn, and hopefully survive the learning experience.