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Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once
(www.sciencealert.com)
Shhh, the Narcs are listening.
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Now this is what I pay my taxes for.
They engineered tobacco to produce triptamines and DMT 🥳
These are the breakthroughs I want to hear about. I’m off to become a farmer.
What's playing on the bluetooth in your tractor?
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All we need is a crispr gun and the psychedelic DNA...Cherry tree? Pewpew!
An Apple? Pew pew! Pomegranate? Heck yeah pewpew! Peach! Pewpew!
Then wait ten years and invite your friends over. Lock up all the knives!
36hrs later....you didn't lock up the forks or the garage didn't you? People running out of the front door and into traffic with a fork or a pencil in their eyeball.
i wonder how it's like to be on all of them at the same time
Can’t speak to being on all of them but multiple psychedelics at once change the visuals a bit and add confusion, at least in my experience.
Instead of the usual LSD color shift and rhythmic “breathing” of the room, the visuals were more geometric and I didn’t have the same mental clarity. I got a nonstop stream of thoughts that would interrupt my ability to follow where the thought was going.
On top of all the other visual noise it was like my peripherals had a colored plastic overlaying what I was seeing, so it would appear more green sometimes and red other times.
I wouldn’t recommend it. The experience may be completely different from mine because mine was LSD, NBOMe, and a synthetic psilocybin analogue, but sticking with either LSD or psilocybin is way better. Each drug has its own side effects that are manageable by themselves but make it really uncomfortable when they stack. I remember being itchy, thirsty, and kept swapping from being too hot and too cold. I had energy but was couch locked. I wanted to talk to my brother and room mates but when I tried to communicate, new thoughts just kept coming in and I’d forget what I was trying to say halfway through a thought. It was very frustrating.
I barely had the nerve to try a single hallucinogenic. I can't imagine saying "Let's see what happens if I drop all these at once!"
I've done acid and mushies at the same time and totally loved it. The way they played off each other and created varying peaks of intensities of each was quite the experience. Absolute rollercoaster and exhausting for sure but for me it worked out great. I wasn't really trying to communicate with anyone though and yeah if at any point I had a goal for something it was more or less impossible. Just gotta float down those rapids and see where you end up not much point trying to swim anywhere specific
2c-p was different from lsd because I felt more "sober" (despite all the visual stuff and running thoughts, I was more aware where I am, I had no "gravity issues", etc), and also saw the geometric stuff, like hexagonal ripples on water and fractal clouds. So if you mixed with 2c-something, this could be just that.
4-aco-dmt?
Yep! Wanted to prevent having people think it’s related to DMT since they’re completely different but that’s the one
That one was sadly still on my bucket list prior to having left the scene; I may never experience it now. Though, I had quite the experience with 5-meo-mipt. Inspired by Alexander Shulgin, I chose administration via vaporization and inhalation. It’s probably the most intense psychedelic trip I have ever had by far… and my buddy and I used to take 10g of golden caps at the beach all the time. A little bit of that stuff goes a long way.
Interesting too, the chemical transitions from a translucent white to a deep profound red after vaporizing it. Quite the effect.
Vaporization sounds so cool, I’ve never heard of that before! I’ve likewise also left the scene but I’d I ever experiment again I might give that a try.
interesting
I'm imagining an Inception-like scenario where you start at the first/lightest level, and then work your way down to the lowest/hardest, then slowly come back up, similar to peaking and the comedown, but with more stages. I'd imagine dosage would be a real issue here.
Well if big tobacco starts selling psychedelics I guess we know who to come for lol.
They'll fuck it all up. They should be absolutely prohibited from participating in the Cannabis industry, after their egregious behavior in the tobacco industry. They should have been completely put out of business, except too many people too addicted to just cut off manufacturing.
Today, less than 10% of people reported smoking a cigarette in the previous year. When it's down to less than 5%, the big tobacco companies should be closed. Highly regulated independent tobacco companies can try to survive, but the big companies that hid the dangers of cigarettes, and strongly denied the dangers, while simultaneously making their products more addicting, more addicting quicker, and harder to quit, need to be punished by going out of business. They are one of the most evil industries that have ever existed.
Yeah for sure, which is why I found the headline so alarming. I'm a big believer in psychedelics and that they can help humanity and that they could heal the separation from nature that a lot of people are feeling, ease the anxiety of life and help people see through to what's important, but this is not the way. Mass production and commodification of things always leads to forgetting the original purpose, strips things away from their ceremonial or therapeutic use and leads to ruin.