on the OP, If you really do a lot of reading on the whole counterculture movement there was a heavy amount of introspection and such right at the heart. LSD is a very introspective drug in many ways (again refer to Huxley “Doors of Perception”) and lets face it, people just are not that actively introspective these days. The 60’s (actually the era lasting from 64’ to 76’ or so) were a time of looking inward, then you had the 80’s (post disco) where you were not looking inward or outward but looking into mirrors and at people to see how they were looking at you (accumulation of wealth or the outward signs of wealth) the 90’s (Grunge decade) was a good attempt at throwing off the 80’s but never really got to the movement feeling of the 60’s (more of a pissed off at your paren’ts for selling out era than anything else) and now we have the 00’s (love the name) I have no clue what this ear is going to be like.
Pot is still going strong mainly because while it may have gotten better over tha past 30 years, it still is not an all consuming thing the way that LSD is or was and therefore it is more of a side dish. LSD is so mucking powerful in and of itself that you have to really desire it specifically and all the baggage that comes with it. Pot being more benign can be had with most any experience as a sort of an aside.
Personal LSD update: I bought a vial of about 80 drops a week or so after that last thread fizzled out and only managed to get really great visuals after doing over 5 “hits”. The physical side of that was so disconcerting that I got queasy and had motion sickness to a small degree (did not uke). Dropped about 9 “hits” three weeks back and watched “The Cell” (ok, bad idea) and I am in no hurry to drop again in the near future. Still have half a vial in the freezer and have been sharing liberally with friends (doling out much smaller doese than I use myself). All in all this is just not the same stuff that I used to really enjoy. It takes huge amounts to “get off” visually and those same amounts have really negative physical impact (I guess if you are a person who likes to feel like you are on a roller coaster then you would like it). I will probably wait another month or two before riding it again mainly because I’m a bit cynical about experience and do admit that when there is something that you can only get by wading through a mess of hell to get it if you still want it knowing that then it is worth it, but for most of you I would advise REM sleep and leave off on the search for “real” hallucenogens. I would do the same but I lost my ability for lucid dreaming after my last concussion and therefore this is as close to godhead as I can get anymore.
LOL I see one thing hasn’t changed since the 60s. The rumors about street acid are still flying around. Remember Woodstock? “Hey guys, watch out for that brown acid…”
Sure, my friend got a book on which ones make you high with pictures of course, went to a local school & found them growing there & got herself a jar of them. Spiffy.
LSD? Sure, its still around. Not very potent but the laws for possession of it are extreme now, really not worth it.
Personally, I did my share of acid and shrooms in college (graduated in '93), so it was certainly available then. I don’t have an earlier benchmark to gauge the effects, but I generally had a fine time with one or two hits of acid. Visual and audio hallucinations, the whole bit. Shrooms were much less pleasant and had a higher “bad trip” average for me.
Ecstacy really ended my drug days. Whereas acid was pretty much acid (it is so cheap there’s no profit in substituting anything else except maybe nothing at all), speed was quite often sold as ecstacy. Expecting a nice touchy-feely X trip and getting three days of teeth-grinding speed heebie-jeebies is a real turn-off.
What I tell my kid, and any other youngster I can force to listen:
If you can’t get there behind a six pack of beer and a couple of fat doobs, don’t go.
I prefer a drug that will sit around and visit for a while, and then go away. Acid is cool for about an hour, and tiresome for another four or five. Patterns, uh huh. Wall breathing. Yep. Wish I could read.
Ecstasty is nothing new, first surfaced as MDA (we were totally stuck on three letter names for stuff) and is a checmical analog that somewhat combines mescaline and methamphetamine. Not bad, not great, good beat, easy to dance to, give it a 82. More or less faded away to resurface as XTC. The good shit is ok, the bad shit kills, as in dead. Being bored is a drag. Being dead is permanent.
You cannot trust a pusher, even if he is your friend, unless you friend has a PhD is psychopharmocology.
Truly organic 'shrooms are a blessing, and, along with the ubiquitous Weed, further evidence that God is a hippie.
Since four years ago? I mean, all that was there in '96, but I knew several people who slung pot and shrooms for pocket money. Unless they finally busted the big dog since then – and he had a [sub]low[/sub] profile.
I’ve been in Sf off and on for most of my life. I’ve been here solidly for the last 4 years. It’s changed quite a bit. Though you can still find a fair ammount of drug dealers around Reggae in the Park and such.
