craigb
[Note that I have several "rules" about shrooms.  I only take a known amount, I only take them when I know I will be in a safe environment for the entire time and only around others that are also on them - never in public.  Trips are planned in advance when there's plenty of time to recover before having to DO things (like chores, travel or work). All entertainment like music, video and toys (including lights, thinks that sparkle and my light & sound devices) are all set up in advance and ready to go easily.  Food and water is also readily available BEFORE tripping (have some interesting things to taste out).  Everyone must help keep everyone else is a happy mood.]

 
Aw half the fun IMO is taking them in whimsical and/or inappropriate situations and trying to keep it together. We'd scoff them and get lost in department stores. Some particularly interesting times in the toy department...although these places usually had a patterned carpet which played havoc with the eyes. I have no idea how we never got arrested on shrooms. I liked supermarkets as well, the large ones usually have huge expanses of shelves with the same thing on (e.g. pop bottles) which turn into mosaic patterns when you're tripping. I always liked the contrast of trying to keep the hallucinations and hysteria at bay whilst interacting with a completely normal person in everyday situations.

sharke
Aw half the fun IMO is taking them in whimsical and/or inappropriate situations and trying to keep it together. We'd scoff them and get lost in department stores. Some particularly interesting times in the toy department...although these places usually had a patterned carpet which played havoc with the eyes. I have no idea how we never got arrested on shrooms. I liked supermarkets as well, the large ones usually have huge expanses of shelves with the same thing on (e.g. pop bottles) which turn into mosaic patterns when you're tripping. I always liked the contrast of trying to keep the hallucinations and hysteria at bay whilst interacting with a completely normal person in everyday situations.

In 1970 I participated in a party game (I was 18, so don't judge) where a plateful of Halloween candies - those nasty ones shaped like pumpkins - were served. One of them had a hit of acid in it. The game was to then try and discern who'd gotten the loaded pumpkin whilst the lucky recipient did his or her best to conceal it. Hilarity ensued as expected, mainly because unbeknownst to the participants, ALL of the candies had been loaded.
 
OK, you actually can judge me, as I was the organizer of the experiment. 

Voda La Void
Narcotics are great for recreational use only.  Once you move past that you're 'using'.  
 
I only wish when someone quit smoking pot that it somehow created more pot for everybody else.
 
   

 
My neighbor does it for his Parkinson's. My best friend, is 80 and she has to do it to keep some medication reactions off the record.
 
it depends on how and why it's used, and what it can do for you inside. I won't judge the use, either way, as there is always a second side to the coin, and we didn't see it?

bitflipper

sharke
Aw half the fun IMO is taking them in whimsical and/or inappropriate situations and trying to keep it together. We'd scoff them and get lost in department stores. Some particularly interesting times in the toy department...although these places usually had a patterned carpet which played havoc with the eyes. I have no idea how we never got arrested on shrooms. I liked supermarkets as well, the large ones usually have huge expanses of shelves with the same thing on (e.g. pop bottles) which turn into mosaic patterns when you're tripping. I always liked the contrast of trying to keep the hallucinations and hysteria at bay whilst interacting with a completely normal person in everyday situations.

In 1970 I participated in a party game (I was 18, so don't judge) where a plateful of Halloween candies - those nasty ones shaped like pumpkins - were served. One of them had a hit of acid in it. The game was to then try and discern who'd gotten the loaded pumpkin whilst the lucky recipient did his or her best to conceal it. Hilarity ensued as expected, mainly because unbeknownst to the participants, ALL of the candies had been loaded.
 
OK, you actually can judge me, as I was the organizer of the experiment. 

Damn I wish I'd played that. 
 
Encountering the parents on acid was always interesting. Unluckily for me, I grew up in a household in which marijuana was smoked daily and both parents like the occasional hit of acid. So there was NO hiding it. My mother would just take one look at my eyes and say "you're tripping aren't you." 

I've been smoking since about 1982 but I really need to cut down on the weed. I find the high grade skunk available where I live is just too damned much !
 
I can always get to sleep easily enough but wake at about 3-4 am with a racing heart and real bad case of the jitters.
It's true that when you mix it with alcohol that's when problems start.
 
Good luck Bit!
 

Legalization brought about an unexpected problem: the legal store-bought weed is much too potent. I want to relax, not become a zombie. I won't touch the retail stuff. Fortunately, I still have a large bag of the much milder crop I grew on my back deck two years ago.
 
A free market takes care of itself, though, and consumers my age are requesting a product more like what they grew up with in the 60's and 70's. Minus the seeds and stems, of course. I understand that growers are breeding just such a product in Colorado. I doubt it will be 10 dollars an ounce, though.
 

here they grow it on some fibre material and give it fluid chemicals every day...no wonder people go mad.

Mexican ditch weed, $20 a "lid". Truly a recreational substance. The stuff they've created these days isn't really what I'd call recreational because there's not a lot you can do after vaping something called Candy Skull Crusher. And with the price there's not a lot you can afford to do after buying it. I'm all for the Victory garden.

Yeah the modern stuff is too much. It's not so much that it's potent - hey who doesn't like value for money - it's the actual quality of the hit that's different. I am not very clued up on the science of marijuana but someone told me that today's weed has a much higher ratio of THC to CBD and that it's the CBD which "mellows out" the heady nature of the THC. With so much THC and so little CBD to balance things, the effect from today's mega-strains is just too crazy. Of course I may be talking nonsense - it's just what I was told by someone and the concept made sense to me. I definitely remember a much mellower, more pleasant experience from weed 25 years ago. I remember some years ago talking to a Jamaican guy in Nantucket who told me that they don't touch the hyper-strains because it's not a pleasant high compared to the natural strains they're used to. 
 
One thing I've noticed about the modern weed is that it sends me to sleep quite easily. I can't smoke much of it at all. Let's say I think screw it, I'm going to get super-high tonight and have a mega music session. Well I'm OK after the first bong but the second one just throws me into a sort of coma in which my head is in danger of coming to rest on my keyboard. And the room spins as well. I never used to get that effect from weed, I used to be able to smoke and smoke and perhaps I would start getting paranoid or too trippy or whatever, but I never had any tiredness or sickness or dizziness from it. 

bitflipper
Legalization brought about an unexpected problem: the legal store-bought weed is much too potent. I want to relax, not become a zombie.

I'm sorry to hear that.  I had rather thought that once weed became legal, the marketplace would go back to something more consumer-oriented, and offer something other than the one-toke-and-you-are-totally-toasted-for-the-next-hour variety.  It will be interesting to see what develops as the California marketplace eventually comes online.