If you wanna be cute I guess you can say caffeine. But, I’m really looking for what the average boomer would consider a drug. For me, its psilocybin mushrooms a few times a year. Weed here and there too

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    Mushrooms a few times a year are great. LSD is also beautiful but you really need to plan a full weekend for the experience (start early on Saturday and recover Sunday) to get the most out of it.

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      Thats fair. I always pick weed over booze because I consider all the calories in booze. But, then I smoke weed and eat 4 dinners anyway so its a wash.

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        At least the 4 dinners aren’t empty calories, so there’s that. They actually contain stuff that’s good for you. So not really a wash. Plus excess eating doesn’t damage your body to nearly the same degree as a similar number of calories in alcohol form, you can just exercise it away, or shift eating habits to account for it.

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    I did LSD for a few months when I lived with a few friends, I loved that stuff.

    LSA is pretty cool too and you can make it yourself without any risk of poisoning. Not sure about the rules so I won’t explain how unless someone says it’s cool lol

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    Weed.

    I have this spot on a low mountain that overlooks the valley I live in. A big boulder sits wedged into the mountainside with a lone scraggly pine giving it some shade. I just like to sit there sometimes, smoke and think. Relaxes me from all the stress I feel.

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    Alcohol is the obly “proper” recreational drug I’ve tried so tjat has to be it. I’d like to try some others but them veing illegal makes it hsrdr. Me being very drunk while typing this might have something to do with somethkng

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    Caffeine.

    Edit: damn, I didn’t read the body before submitting. You got me OP, but I’m actually straight edge!

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    Weed for regular use. But mushrooms changed my life. Can’t trip regularly though or I’m pretty sure I’d understand so much I couldn’t even semi-function in the world anymore.

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    Gen X here…MDMA late 80s, early 90s when the quality was good, and the party’s still underground.

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      The quality of MDMA has never been better! It went through a rough patch with tons of BZP/TFMPP being passed off as legit pressies in the late 00s, but after a new extraction method was discovered in the mid 2010s, your standard pill is like 200-350mg (80s and 90s pills were 80-100mg)

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    Definitely mushrooms.

    The first time my friends and I tried them we took a LOT, and went walking through the woods by my house. It was a wild trip, and I’ll never forget it.

    I’ve only gotten my hands on them a few times since then, and never took as many, but even only taking 1-2g, everything just makes you feel happy and giggly like a kid who stayed up too late.

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        I’ve never had open eye visuals like portrayed on tv. The strongest visual i saw with open eyes is a tree bark pattern looking exquisitely detailed but still looking like tree bark. And that level of visual only happened like twice. Even taking a full eighth which produces a strong altered state of mind doesn’t give me open eye hallucinations.

        Do you know a way to increase the likelihood of open eye visuals?

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          Look at trees blowing in the wind lol. Thats how I always kick start the waves. Not like you’ll see rainbow elephants or anything but everything starts tracking, vibrating and pulsing.

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          Maybe lemon tek method might help. Or just find some DMT or 2-CB, which have been by far the strongest visuals for me.

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          Sometimes the visuals are tricky and it isn’t until much later you realize that maybe that tree wasn’t ACTUALLY shaped like a chicken.

          I’ve also heard to drink orange juice, and avoid dairy, but those could be myths.

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    In my 40s. I partake in alcohol here and there.

    A CBD/THC gummy is not only good for relaxation, but I’ve found that it helps with runny nose issues when I’m sick and stops the mucus drainage because it dries me up.

    In general though, weed is great in an edible form. I don’t smoke it.