[dsrtsage]

Sign me up. I am so many years out of college that mushrooms are almost impossible to obtain. And I would ohh so love to do a yearly camping trip deep deep deep in the desert on a nice 85 degree night, 40 miles from the nearest humans.

[WMarshal]

“Sign me up. I am so many years out of college that mushrooms are almost impossible to obtain. And I would ohh so love to do a yearly camping trip deep deep deep in the desert on a nice 85 degree night, 40 miles from the nearest humans.”

I do not know if you’d want to trip out on ‘shrooms in certain parts of Arizona. The Sonoran desert is full of jumping cholla cactus which is nasty stuff. It would be a tragedy to wander through a patch of it while tripping. Trust me, you’d only do it once.

[TauntedTiger]

I’ll bring my headlamps and flashlights. Don’t let the know-it-all worry wart poop on the fun.

[sushiman]

Shrooms were legal here in Japan until around 2004 . For me , taken in small doses , after work for example , they were the perfect “ high “ . I felt more at peace with myself and the world , smiled a lot more lol , but at the same time was totally alert / functional / etc...There was one time in Tokyo , though , when a friend and I did a few too many and ended up laughing all the way from Shinjuku in Tokyo , on a crowded late evening train mind you , to my pal’s place in Kanagawa - a 45 minute ride ! ^_^

[Karl Spooner]

I think it’s still legal to buy spore kits for research purposes. You just can’t let them grow because it then becomes a schedule 1 drug like heroin.

[wardaddy]

You can get them where I live

Folks grow them for bonnaroo

1200-2000 a pound

150-200 an ounce

20 a gram

I hear they are hard to grow

Has to be really dark etc

And the closet shrooms are not as potent as the real deal outdoors

Cattle and horse feed fungicide has about wiped them out

They were ubiquitous when I grew up in Deep South in the 70s

I took plenty including Kesey style “tests” ....in high school and at Ole Miss and in the mountains out west etc

Concerts and water skiing and so forth

I have known all my life there are positive attributes to some hallucinogens as well as psychotropic downsides....big downsides

Very few folks here understand it......I was more of the Prankster mold and admired early stellar travelers like Kesey and Stewart Brand in particular

Intelligent inquisitive folks

I hated tripping with goofy along for the ride types who were just silly but they usually navigated as well as folks like me searching

This is nothing new.......folks have used mind altering so called insights forever

Timothy Leary’s dead.
No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in.
Timothy Leary’s dead.
No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in.
He’ll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.

Leary was an egotistical sexual predator frankly ...a charlatan

It’s funny though on a pretty conservative forum a fair number of folks who’ve tripped

I know a buttload of conservatives down here who’ve tripped

Some who still do

In their 60s

I have a friend I’ve known since 1966 in grade school

A neurologist.....very bright....trips once a year at a time of his choosing just to keep his mind open to more learning he claims...he’s 64

Goes to deer camp in the summer when no one is there just he and his wife

I’m not advising it don’t get me wrong but I know what I felt and how it transformed me in some ways...ways I appreciate

[PIF]

Amanita muscaria
Found in season in the forests of the Pacific Northwest - Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham / Olympic Peninsula / Kitsap Peninsula - no need to find some desert.