Obviously your druggie friends were more sophisticated than mine.
My experience in getting mushrooms was pretty strange. I wanted weed. It was summer in Michigan and supply was non-existent. I worked with a guy and his wife who were serious Buddhists. Only ones I’ve ever known who proselytized. They invited me and the missus over to chant with them, promising we would get whatever we chanted for
So I chanted for weed. The next day a friend stopped by and had scored some weed and mushrooms that he wanted to share.
It was a somewhat mind-blowing experience. After eating the mushrooms we went to see an on-campus showing of the Beatle’s Magical Mystery Tour, which really sucked, oddly enough. The walks there and back were very cool though. Patterns all over the landscape
Two things no Buddhist should ever do. I'll bet they were with Aum Shinrikyo, a weird Japanese Buddhist cult that mixes a number of traditions together.
I went with a group of friends to see 2001 Space Odyssey in a theater. We were all baked. At one point during the movie, one of the girls in our group turned to me and blurted out, “I love you,” then back to the movie. That was fun but the really trippy part was the stargate sequence. Whoa.
I don’t think they were sophisticated but this was the summer of 1980 in the south and getting high was what a lot of people were doing.
I was only there because on of my childhood friends was dating an older guy, so that was his circle, but not mine thankfully.