Any experiences with tea sticks?

[Ton]

Hoi,
Azarius sells some tea sticks (which are joints right??) and I'm wondering if they really work. Does anyone have any experiences with this tea sticks? How was it? Is one joint for one person?

 

[Kitiem3000]

I ordered a bunch once, and yes, it are joints :grin:
I didn't really feel anything from them. The only two that worked where the white ones (barely) and the purple mushroomenhancers. Really liked the purple sticks. :smirk:
They also make cute jointholders afterwards. You allmost get the urge to 'collect them all!'

 

[tryptonaut]

I ordered the "wondermix" recently, the ones with amanita muscaria. I'll let you know how they are when I tried it (AFAIK they're not nearly as strong as when you eat the amanita mushrooms, but I guess they're a good start for further amanita exploration)

 

[Ton]

I ordered a bunch once, and yes, it are joints :grin:
I didn't really feel anything from them. The only two that worked where the white ones (barely) and the purple mushroomenhancers. Really liked the purple sticks. :smirk:
They also make cute jointholders afterwards. You allmost get the urge to 'collect them all!'

Hmm, sounds strange, a smartshops sells joints which doesn't seem to work. You just smoked the whole things and nothing happened?

 

[Kitiem3000]

I actually do know how to smoke a joint you know.
They just didn't work that well for me, but I assume you also have people who find them fantastic. Just not me.
Except the purples...

 

[tryptonaut]

Hmm, sounds strange, a smartshops sells joints which doesn't seem to work.

Sounds strange? Why? I can roll a joint with tobacco and it "doesn't work" (but still tobacco is a drug and it definitely works for somebody who is a non-smoker...). A "joint" doesn't mean there's weed in it and there is no weed in the tea sticks. The strongest I guess is the one with amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - a very potent drug, yet not so potent when smoked.

 

[tryptonaut]

I promised to tell you if the wondermix tea stick works, here we go: I got a slight buzz from it. Not worth smoking that whole big joint for such a slight buzz (I'd rather drink a beer :alc: )

 

[themoles]

same here ... i barely felt anything and im not even used
to smoking. i wonder if one could eat it or pour hot water
over it and drink it.

 

[tryptonaut]

I think the amount of amanita muscaria in one joint is something like 1/16 of a cap or less, plus there's some other herbs in it (so you can smoke it). As an orally active amount I think I recall you have to take at least 1/4 of a cap. I've been reading that for a really mind-blowing amanita experience you'd need to eat around 6 full-sized caps (probably not for the weak-at-heart...)

 

[Kitiem3000]

Maybe we've been at it all wrong and we really are supposed to make tea with it :grin:

 

[themoles]

SIX full sized caps? :shocked:
haha no way, unless you want to end up in hell (or the
hospital). all guides i read call for 1-3 caps and in the
very beginning even less to check your threshold. i've got
one wondermix joint left ... guess you're right, wouldn't
be enough

 

[tryptonaut]

I read it on www.jamesarthur.net in an excerpt of his book "Mushrooms and Mankind" where he writes (commenting some buddhist (?) relief that shows something that looks like 6 amanita caps on the head of a person):

It may also be, symbolically, a dosage requirement. Six mushroom caps of this approximate size would, in my opinion, be a proper dosage. There is a sort of fail-Safe mechanism to this mushroom that has discouraged many a seeker. It is difficult to consume enough (and keep it down), of this mushroom, to get the desired effects. The amount you consume is all-important. So many times I have talked with people who have experimented with this mushroom and claimed no effects. Or at least not the drastic ones expected. I look at it as just another one of the ways this mushroom has remained relatively unknown, waiting for the time when it gets the attention and dedication it deserves.

Also in his recipe he recommends 4-6 caps for a full blown re-birth experience. I can't say if he's right or wrong, I never tried amanita so far...