Actually, cannabis in general and THC in particular share aspects of multiple classes of psychotropic. (see this diagram) It is a depressant, stimulant and psychedelic, among other things. It’s really in a class of its own. To say that it has no psychonautic potential or that it is in no...

Please don’t take my concise wording as a dismissal or belittlement toward you and the intensity of your experience; that was in no way my intent. Going from your original post, all that I could glean of your experience were the worrisome and frightening physical symptoms. As the elements...

The symptoms you describe are quite common and are indicative of an uncomfortably strong reaction to cannabis. THC among other cannabinoids is a rather powerful vasodilator (expands the arterial muscles increasing blood-flow to peripheral tissues and decreasing blood pressure) which obviously...

I should also note that if you have epilepsy or any neurological disorder that you avoid this mushroom (and probably most other psychoactives for that matter)

Just to clear this up a bit; Amanita muscaria contains muscimol/ibotenic acid, completely different psychoactive compounds to psilocybin containing fungi. Ibotenic acid is converted into muscimol with heating/drying/boiling, and muscimol acts as a GABA agonist, while psilocybin is a serotonergic...

Based on the scant information you provided about your friend, its sounds like acute anaemia or hypotension. If I remember correctly, psilocin’s affect on the brain can have downstream histaminergic side effects. Does your friend have any known allergies or food sensitivities? Does he...

Yes; you must cleanse the internal debris that obstruct the revelation of knowledge. The work of control is really about tempering yourself, allowing the experience to guide the growth process naturally. If you pull hard on the reins and tenuous threads of your own ego structure, the...

Vaporise hash oil in a glass pipe; can’t be beat.

No need for humidity. Low nitrogen cacti/succulent fertiliser. Will remain dormant during the winter months. Don't need full sun, more direct light they receive the lighter green they will become. Still, good to have more light than in a dark corner indoors. Like all plants, sun/water/food...

Dose when no one else is there, or when everyone is asleep. Probably not the best idea. Unsympathetic environments, especially one so uncongenial as a hotel, could introduce complications. It’s important to pay attention to the setting; it most certainly benefits the experience. If your...

Thanks for that Echos, it was really refreshing. :)

I’m not saying whether you or anyone else should or should not take psychedelics. I’m simply stating that the possibility of enjoyable experiences entail the possibility of difficult ones. If you’re reluctant to take the good with the bad, then perhaps it is better to not take them at all than...

I just wonder how you ever plan to get good results without proper measurement. It will simply take a lot of trial and error I suppose. It’s just harder to know what went wrong if you don’t know all the relevant variables. As for alternative teks, there are many out there floating around; new...

I think it entails sensitivity to sensation, to feeling, to experience. The problem seems to be desensitisation. Overstimulation with the trivial; total cognitive saturation beyond the point where we can feel the consequences of our actions toward each other and the world. It’s the direct...

There's your problem.

How are you measuring Ph?

That’s true, but power stems from within, not from without. We only have the power to know who we are. Amen. Indeed. People confer power to others, to concepts and institutions, because it creates comfort in irresponsibility and a sense of belonging to an entity greater than oneself. it...

I just see it as escapist, and it aids in destroying the potential for the integration of primordial fears which arise in the form of anxiety in such immersive states. But hey, if you’re unwilling to look at those things, even if they seem irrational, then maybe you shouldn’t be taking...

If you consider psychedelics as catalysts for the revaluation of base human ideals and assumptions, contrasted with the current prohibitive model of denying the exploration of consciousness and all its boundary dissolving ramifications, then I struggle to see how the two can be consolidated...