Pot? LSD? Psilocybin? X?

I couldn't agree w/you more. Well said, too.

I understand. I think my point is that in my experience I have had horrible dealings with man made illicit drugs and usually good experiences with pot and mushrooms though I agree an overdose of shrooms can be toxic though no one has ever od'd on marijuana, but who knows.

but I dont' think i would even think to compare arsenic to pot or shrooms myself. but I get your point. was just talking from my experience. I do not trust things made in laboratroies by god knows who. Case in point was my ex who gave me something called 2CT7 that is unscheduled and probably being tested by the government. He said he had tried it before and had not. I tripped for over 16 hours. I don't know why I bothered to try this but I was in a very manic state that year and did a lot of stupid things.

You'd think the 'study' would have given him some direction on coping skills. I mean if I was bing ass raped by some alien alligators in a DMT hallucination I would have simply thought about something else. PLUS anyone who takes beyond the threshold dose (he was in the 'high' dose experiment) on thier first go around IS in my oppinion being irresponsible.

But that type of thing does happen all the time. I mean the first time I tripped it was 3 hits of Liquid LSD and I was a bug stuck to an alien love wall. Fortunately it was completely normal to have this type of experience in the setting I had chosen and I had a marvelous time.

It's true that the 'come down' from anything can be hard even for a person who is not bi-polar. What it really comes down to is being informed and taking the right vitamin supplements to speed your recovery. For some people it really is easier to just stay away from them altogether.

Personally I know that there are people out there, bi-polar people, who are in there teens and 20's where everything your regular 'friends' are doing is somthing on the no no list.

I can't have a drink at the club, I can't do drugs, I can't stay up late, fuck I can't even have a fucking soda because of the caffiene. People are so 'worried about me' I might as well be a ten year old. And if I get mad about this well then 'I need to calm down' because maybe I haven't been taking my meds or I'm having a hypomanic episode or that's my perception and have I talked to my doctor about these psychotic symptoms.

I guess what I mean is. Sometimes you can't take it and some of us do act out and do make choices that aren't the best for us. Or give in to the friends that goad us for being a 'drag'. I suppose I'd rather they know not to take 2CI if you are on lithium cuz you could have a seizure than just trying to scare them with random stories about alien alligator ass rape. I'd rather they have the facts about what is safer to take than just rolling the dice like I have so many times on whatever combo their brain says sounds good.

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Sorry it's just something I feel strongly about.