Adventures in Shrooming
What is the psilocybin content of any particular dried mushroom? Does anybody know?
Category: Addictive Substances
Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
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Ayahuasca Bros
What is it about having consumed hallucinogenic tea in a remote forest clearing, and as a result, spending the next few hours first vomiting, then hallucinating, and finally alternating between euphoria and intense fear, that could possibly transform the user into better, more effective corporate leader?
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How’s Your Memory Working?
As it turned out, that old stereotype of the pothead who can’t recall what you just said? There’s some truth to it.
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The Pot Docs
The real aim was always making recreational use fully legal.
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Heard of HPPD?
A whole range of psychedelic substances can apparently trigger HPPD
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The Psychonaut as CEO
It appears to attract younger CEO’s from industries such as technology, entertainment, and high finance. It’s here that we encounter language such as ‘visioning’, ‘aspirationalizing’, and ‘future-proofing’, whatever that may be.
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Cannabis as Commerce
…we made a popular drug of abuse legal, widely available in shops and online, and proceed to market the heck out of it– did we really think that the number of users would go down?
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Pot & Potency (again)
Of course, if he’s buying drugs off the Internet, they could contain just about any level of THC. How do we know the maker even checked the THC level? Or cared, for that matter?
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Cocaine’s Comeback?
As of 2023, some 14.2% of Americans over the age of 12 acknowledge having tried cocaine at least once. Among illegal drugs, that still ranks second only to marijuana
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More about “The Pink Stuff”
…pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
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A Prime Time Role for N2O
…teens are ‘the ultimate herd animals’ when it came to experimentation with drugs. “They’ll try something they know to be risky, simply because they’ve heard others have tried it. It’s as if they’re convinced they’ll fall behind if they don’t.”
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Warning Labels on Liquor — Worth the Effort?
Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
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