Try planting some,surely grains won’t be illegal in your country?

You would be surprised. Our politicians have a fanatical, irrational drive to outlaw anything related to marijuana.

I’m callin’ the COPS!

lol….

You would be surprised. Our politicians have a fanatical, irrational drive to outlaw anything related to marijuana.

Come to the united states then. It might be illegal, but it’s also everywhere, being smoked by everyone, including most of the cops I have met.

Obviously a tourist or a person who has never lived there. I did and I can tell the Dutch, while tolerating tourists coming over from Britain, Spain, the United States and getting stoned in their “Coffee Shops” I discovered while living there that the Dutch rarely habituate these places. Commonly I found the Dutch to be both in appearance and demeanor quite conservative.

So why do the Dutch tolerate such places when they, as a whole do not partake? Good business. Historically the Dutch empire was built on beer and tobacco. Marijuana is just another commodity sold for consumption.

Marijuana is cheap and LSD is not addictive. Your “research” is seriously lacking at the most basic level.

I know LSD is not addictive. I never meant to imply that it was.

Marijuana may be cheap but it’s still more than I’m willing pay! I’m also not really in a position where taking drugs would be beneficial to my career path, if you know what I mean.

I don’t know where the person who said tripping had to do with emotional turmoil got that - he evidently didn’t know how to prepare for a trip! Too many fools these days jumping in and using it as a party drug without proper preparation. I only experienced turmoil o0nce or twice, and it wasn’t caused by the drug, it was the people who were around being real jerks!
Psychedelia obviously ain’t what it used to be….

This is basically a fairly lame video.

Sincerely, the “face in the mirror” changes, I’ve gone through, and it can give you the sights of the different aspects of your existence. Colours and wave patterns, I´ve seen, and I think the aztec patterns somebody here said has seen it’s because that’s buried deep in you subconscience…

Now, If you want to research more about LCD effects, back in the times when it was just been discovered, a writer (Aldoust Huxley) made a thourough investigation of its effects and uses, even proposing to use it at school for “educational purposes” since it opens your mind at a subconscious level, making it easy to percieve different kind of things.

The book is called “The doors of perception” and there´s a compilation also of Huxley essays, speeches and writings about the use of LCD and other psichotropic drugs. I highly recommend it.

I’m off the drugs nowadays but I smoked weed for a good 4 years or so and I really enjoyed it. I try to stay away from it now because I have responsibilities and commitments but if you want to try it - why the heck not. Like some people here have said, “you might learn something about yourself”.

A friend of mine once told me the world would never be the same after you’ve tripped. I didn’t realise just how little I understood that statement until a year or so afterwards when I did. It’s an experience that a lot of people will, sadly, never have.

In a book I read recently the author is writing of the barrier between the conscious and subconscious mind. The subconscious mind senses everything that is going on around you. This is way too much for the conscious to process so the barrier filters and only lets in a fraction of everything you are sensing.

One theory is that with hallucinogenic drugs this barrier is weakened or disappears completely. That is why colors are more vivid, things are sharper and you are feeling and sensing much more. It also partially explains much of the introspection.

This doesn’t touch on why things change shape etc, but it is a way to look at the indescribable deeper draws of tripping.

I concur with the other comment made earlier…not to be taken lightly and has effects far beyond the visual. Strong medicine.

I had worse nightmares when I was a drunk.

Purple three eyed elephants and worse!

I also thought this clip was a bit dark, and I don’t think that’s representative of all experiences I’ve had or heard of.
As I said, it must be hard to demonstrate the feelings of mass of intense feelings and the dislocation of normal sense-tactile-and-thought relationships.

The sound is good. But I would like to hear more of a split between different tracks as if each were separated at different levels in the room (as if bass were more dense and held down and treble were higher and more bouyant; like water and vinegar). There might also be more of an enthralling, intricate side to the music which makes it both recognizable and completely new, giving clearer pictures of what the composer or musicians intended. Sound also affects visuals (and emotions), making what is seen in the environment change and gain meaning in relation to the sound (yes, that hardly sounds different that the experience we’re normally [un]aware of).

As others mentioned: it’s too focused on the visual. What is more important is what is happening inside. Taste, touch, smell, arousal, fear, ecstasy, time-dilation…but then these are all words for an experience, an emptiness and a fullness.

Also, saying what it is like on a trip is too normative. If you read what most of the people that commented on this video wrote, you’ll see that they took their own experiences and made conclusions about general tendencies. We can each suggest what might be missing but none of us can say what “it is like” except for ourselves. And that is the psychedelic experience: it is only you you meet, your own psyche (and that is why the experience in the video is only a small representation of the director’s experience). The video’s only a representation–an posteriori abstraction. It’s the best representation of the visual and auditory aspects of a trip that I’ve ever seen, but still not a simulation of the experience, sense, perception and awareness during a trip.

And you don’t have to pay for it. Just be at a party where people are passing a joint around and get your round or two. Be a ’scavenger smoker’

Shame shame…..

So yeah. Just do it.