When I first moved to OR in 1975 I had some biker buddies with cubensis shrooms that were vac sealed in 3lb coffee tins.They were nice and mellow, weren't near as potent as the local liberty caps we would pic in the dairy fields. 10 to 15 fingernail size shrooms would fuck you up. They all tasted like shit didn't they.
I'm 64 now and don't have the desire to trip any more, but you sure got my memory goin..
Yeah I'm 43 but I still like to do them once and a while. Keeps me in sync with mother nature and reminds me of what's important (like family).
Plus there's nothing better then shrooms and sex. (It brings out the neanderthal in me)
Shrooms have saved me thousands of dollars over the years.
Back in the summer of 84 or 85, I was living on the farm and cutting a couple of yards. Stayed on the river mostly. Had lots of free time, but rarely had beer or smoke money. But that was the best year ever for magic mushrooms. We dried a lot and even sent a couple of pounds of them to NOLA in a weed for shrooms swap. We also tripped a lot. I was not long home from the Navy and used to window pane, and was drinking a lot of the Electric Cool Aid as we called it. Got a little too much and did some serious kidney damage. Being broke with no insurance, I had to stop doing what made it hurt. Right away that was to stop drinking tea. Being a true southerner, I drank close to a gallon a day. Not any longer. That shit would fuck me up so bad. Sick to your stomach type pain. After one time I learned what was causing it, and I stopped.
So a year or so later I notice a six pack of beer is starting to hurt. Also if I have too many sodas. So I cut back. When it hurts, it hurts like hell, so I learned the warning symptoms. It got to where a couple of beers were hurting me, so I all but gave them up. Just drinking one a week. Same with sodas. But because of my cheap ass friends, I was still buying a six pack a week. Back then I had a taste for the dark German beers, so that was 6-7 bucks for one beer you could say. When I got to thinking about it, I didn't ever buy another soda or beer. That was about 23-24 years ago. Lots of money saved. Not to mention all the corn syrup not drank.
These days I drink nothing but water and coffee. Haven't had any kidney pain in years.
I have seen the good and bad in tripping. You don't need to do it if you anything heavy on your mind. I have had pretty bad trips just picking up off the vibes of the folks around you. And I've seen several folks who had pretty well hid emotional problems have them come out for everyone to see. A young man kept yelling "where's my Dad?" as we floated down the river filled with weekend tubers. As soon as we saw one of his close friends at a landing, we got him out of there. He seemed fine before the Electric Cool Aid.
