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How long before we see the "suicide dropped when lsd, magic mushrooms and MDMA are legalised"

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Well, the hangover after rolling can be pretty scary for someone who's already prone to depression.

Pre-load 5-HTP for a week

Yes! I wish this was known. Mine lasted a couple of days. Thought I'd never feel joy again.

It's a well known problem. Finishing the night with any kind of actual sex (not masturbation) greatly mitigates the depression stage.

Hey thats true actually ! Never noticed but all my best rolls were with some sort of sex included ^^

I once accidentally took about 500mg (tested). Felt depressed for weeks. Everything felt wrong on my skin. It gave me an understanding of what it means to be depressed. Few weeks later I was fine again. But definitely a scary experience. I began to hallucinate parts of conversations. Then the muscles (?) In my ear started to feel really painful. Then I realised I had actually taken too much

hallucinating on mdma is wild, no one seems to mention it really

Something like 10% of MDMA is converted to MDA on average (this varies heavily based on genetics) so it’s not super surprising. I totally agree it’s not talked about nearly enough though. I haven’t had visual hallucinations (assuming we’re talking actual hallucinations not “visuals” like tracers) but have definitely had auditory hallucinations where it sounded like people were talking just outside the car my friend and I were cuddling in.

Never happened to me. Likely someone laced it with lsd or 2cb

Those are strange choices to cut mdma with. It usually happens if I binge a bit.

How i that strange ? lsd / mdma is called candyflipping and known as one of the best mix.

lsd / 2cb is not common in US / europe but quite frequent in south america

Like I said we lab test all our stuff here in the Netherlands. Its actually free to do so. So this wasnt laced with anything. Go do some more research on mdma and hallucinating because you are clueless. Many people experience this

Well I don't distrust you.. it's just I have'n ever heard of it apart for some "minor audio hallucination". But if you say so I'll take your data point.

500 is way too much (even if you are from the UK lol).

Its 5 times the fun dose. Try doing that with some other drugs and it can be life threatening..

Even with pure MDMA a lot of the time 100mg - while an amazing time - isn’t really the “fun dose”. Ideal for me is 250 across a night (maybe 125 then 75 then 50) if it’s like a full on music festival. In a mellower context (camping or a house roll or something) I’d recommend one 100mg dose and no more though

Really depends on weight

Across a night why not. But 280 at once was defenitely too much for me..

Hey I had ear muscle issue after one trip too. It does come back occasionally (seems to weirdly correlate with eating Indian food (!) or big alcohol hangovers).

Was the feeling same as when you tightly shut your eyes? It's the Tensor Tympani muscle, but I'm not sure what could be causing it to spasm exactly.

Yes, like a fluttering in the ear if that makes sense. Maybe try magnesium in your case?

Well you need to educate people for sure..

After we see “mental illness increased when lsd, magic mushrooms and MDMA are legalized”

These drugs have huge potential to mess up a person’s brain if not taken with caution and under direct supervision of experts.

You really need to abuse for a super long time some lsd to be messed up. I know a wide bunch of people in the party scene who absolutely abuse MDMA but they dont have more mental illness than the avetage smoker

It’s definitely theoretically possible but having been pretty involved in the scene I’ve only ever seen LSD, shrooms, and other classic psychs bring out psychosis/schizophrenia in people who were probably going to develop it anyway (or at least were pre disposed). This was around college age when schizophrenia usually emerges. In general they don’t seem to cause mental illness in people who weren’t already pre disposed. (Obviously this does not mean psychs should not be treated with enormous respect)

I’ve seen a lot of people get low-grade cognitive dysfunction from mdma abuse (neurotoxicity due to “doing it wrong” ie overheating/overdosing), and while not in the class of drugs we’ve been discussing I’ve seen xanax ruin more lives than any other drug by far

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