Weed has always held me down. It helped me stay grounded, manage anxiety, stay creative when my head was loud. I grow it with love. I smoke it with intention. It’s more than a plant—it’s been a lifeline.
But a couple weeks ago, I cracked. Snapped on here during a full-blown anxiety episode and got suspended. I was off-balance. No mushrooms in my system for months. No reset. Just pressure building up with no space to breathe.
I’m prescribed 2700mg of gabapentin a day for anxiety—but it doesn’t always get deep enough. And the mushrooms I used to take? They were always body-heavy. Real “Indica” vibes. Slowed me down more than they helped me open up. I thought that’s just what mushrooms were like.
But my buddy had been telling me for months:
“You need the right ones. The ones that light you up. Cosmic. Laughter. Energy. Not the ones that lock you in.”
I didn’t fully understand what he meant—until now.
I went to the fire market and crossed paths with a real one. A hippie grower who listened when I told him about my anxiety, my mental loops, the bad trips from dispensary shrooms. He said, “I got something for you. It’s called Shakti.” Grown organically. Clean. No commercial weirdness. He also had real Orange Sunshine acid, but Shakti was the one that called to me.
I took .5g. Just half a gram.
And it changed everything.
For months, it felt like I was drowning in myself.
Like the anxiety was the world.
There was no outside—just this saturation into my own head.
But that .5 of Shakti cracked the seal.
Full visuals. A real ride. But instead of heaviness, it gave me light.
Laughter. Clarity. Stillness. Space to remember who I actually am underneath all the noise.
That’s when it hit me:
Weed helped me survive. Mushrooms helped me understand.
They’re not separate paths. They work together.
Weed keeps me steady. Mushrooms show me why I’m stuck in the first place.
I still smoke every day—but now I’m learning how to weave both into my rhythm with intention.
So I’m opening this thread up—for anyone who’s walked this path, or is just now finding it.
How have mushrooms helped you alongside weed?
What kinds do you use—and what did they teach you?
Do you microdose? Take full trips? Pair them together? Keep them separate?
Have you found what works for you, or are you still figuring it out?
Everyone’s relationship with these medicines is different. And real.
There’s no single right way. Just your way.
Let’s open it up.
Weed helped me cope.
Mushrooms helped me come back to myself.
Now I wanna hear how they’ve helped you.
—Purple Flamethrower
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this is interesting to me, see ive only had the wild native golden teacher ive never experienced the like “designer” mushrooms like the P. Envy for example. But the wild native ones i have been to the edge of the universe and back again i was completely “reborn” one time , i tripped for a whole week one time it was the first time i realized i could “ask” the mushroom a question and they would answer. A truly life changing experience
not sure what “real” is, but let the sun shine in. Go big and go home.
but theres what Can be quantified and what Cant be quantified 
