After reading through https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/psychedelics-research
And since I’ve gathered up plenty of experience, self helping by making capsules, OO size, with de carbed cannabis, for my wifes restless leg issues when she sleeps, to cap up mushrooms, was just like, oh hell yeah.
I’m almost 69 and wife is almost 72, she has had super positive results, in her sense of well being, since she started taking the shroom caps.
10 grams of shrooms, made 36 capsules.
I then made a batch, part cannabis, part shrooms.
It is not enough cannabis to stop her restless leg issue at night, she did however, say, she felt her sleep was deeper with the wee bit of shrooms in the cap.
For 15 years, her and her close friends (older ladies) have used our green butter cookies, regularly and ALL, have told me how much better they sleep, and feel better in the morning, from just one at night.
But to rid them of the calories, 3 years ago, I started cannabis capsules, game changer for all of them. As they are getting the same results as the green butter,
I’m only a few months into shroom caps, not seeking a high but an alteration in my minds thought process, is startling to me as a 55 year long cannabis user.
The combo, is zero intrusive to everyday life, and still very thought provoking.
I’m still aware of the shit stained human activities in this world, however ignoring them is far easier now, LOL!
When I found cannabis in in 1970-71 time frame, getting high, was all about ingesting MASS QUANITIES .
Now, micro dosing brings, to us anyway, a far deeper and meaning full body, experience, over getting high.
Now if we want to travel a gram of shrooms, with a tablespoon of lemon squeezed juice, and we’ll off to see the wizard!
For a nice day trip.
I guess, using over abusing, is the ticket, for us , currently.
Just my $.02!!
webe
All things in moderation.
Well yeah, get that out of your head immediately. You sound like you have immense drive/passion, this is a rare quality 
Shrooms are interesting for sure. I have 50% “bad trips” on them but I eventually learned those were actually the most valuable. Being forced to reevaluate is not something that comes easily.
The most interesting part to me lately is the increased neuroplasticity you get after shrooms.
I recently did a 6 round set of infusions of ketamine for chronic pain and it was a game changer. Basically after you have had pain long enough, your brain will trigger a pain response even without a physical driver. There are mental exercises and practices I did during my windows of additional neuroplasticity after the ketamine treatments that finally seemed to stick.
Shrooms also increases neuroplasticity but for much longer periods at lower levels.
If you’re older, it becomes harder and harder to break mindsets and habits that have gotten “baked in”. I think this is where psychedelics come into play, and the science is finally catching up.
They really do offer a reset that is difficult to obtain otherwise.
Has anyone tried hapì?
October 25, 2025 — I’d Rather Feel Good Than Grind
Today I sat.
Smoked.
Let the water run over me in my own space—my own home.
And I actually had a moment to breathe.
Not rush. Not plan. Just exist in what I’ve built.
And I started thinking.
Like if I went to this girl’s house—would I want to make hash?
Or just have a good time?
And truthfully?
I’d rather spend a good time.
Not just because it’s easier.
But because I realized something big:
It’s not about the thoughts.
It’s about how the thoughts make you feel.
The thoughts fade.
The feeling stays.
And today, that feeling was: I made it.
Not “made it” like I’m done.
But made it in the happiness department.
Because for once—I’d actually pick joy over the hustle.
And that’s wild for me.
Because I’ve spent half my life grinding for cannabis.
Sacrificed everything for it.
Everything.
Family time. Love. Sanity. Joy.
All so I could build something real.
And I did.
What I built is tall now—tall enough to look out from.
And what it sees out there?
Everything I dreamed of, but never could’ve pictured.
Stuff I couldn’t even imagine before I had a place to sit and see it.
And that’s the real shift.
I’ve built a life where sitting moves me forward more than throwing everything at it ever did.
Because I spent years building a place I could actually sit in—
Not just physically, but mentally.
With my self sanity intact.
Even with the losses I’ve taken,
I’m watching things grow under me now.
Grow regardless.
Grow because of what I planted.
Grow because I didn’t quit.
I know the path now.
Because I walked it.
Alone.
In pain.
With purpose.
And what I’ve learned is:
- First comes hard work and experience.
- Then comes your happiness generators.
- Little ecosystems of assets that fuel your life.
And if you lose some of those along the way?
So what.
As long as you don’t give up—
and you won’t if it’s your life purpose—
you’ll rise.
It’s gravitational.
It’s spiritual.
It’s math.
You just gotta be honest with yourself.
And today, I was.
— Purple Flamethrower 
Mushrooms are teachers. Sounds like you got some woodlovers if .5 had any effect on you. Mushrooms showed me some of the most beautiful experiences in my life, but literally every single one came with a high price of admission. Once I had my realizations, several times, the magic part sort of evaporated. I was left with the two hour intense guilt trip over every silly thing I ever did wrong, silly or not. I was told in no uncertain terms to lighten up and that I had got the lesson. I have been feeling a strong urge to grow some and try again.
My go to 1st love was always acid, but man it is hard to find nowadays. I went for 22 years with none. Luckily a few years ago a few vials of beautiful quality trips fell out of the sky and landed in my lap. One of Grateful Dead Hoffman Recipe, and two of good old Orange sunshine, which was LSD converted to ALD 52, or so the rumor goes. Bought a test kit because the world has been such a wreck, and found them all to be top quality good stuff. Now the last 1 and a half are vacuum sealed and put away for a rainy day when I can do them without worrying about health concerns. (When I don’t GAF either way!) lol
That day will come! They both have their place in the world. Oh, and so do the Cacti and the beautiful Phenethylamines! I have a Peruvian Torch that assays higher than most Peyote at 4% or near that if you spoil it. I also have an ancient San Pedro that is easily twice as strong as most out there.
I love all the pretty colors. Nothing but love for all the natural things, and I consider LSD to be an acceptable alternative, as long as it is real and beautiful. They taught me how to laugh again when I thought I never would again. Taught me how to dance again, how to experience joy. Thought I was all grown up and stuff until a 10 strip from the UK came to me one day as a gift. Wow… I had lost track.
It turns into a tree, don’t cut it all down!
Honestly as crazy as it sounds, I want to quit weed. So far after 5 days without vaping I feel a lot better.
I have an addictive personality, maybe I could moderate myself but who knows.
Smoking on the weekends with one session is what I’m striving for. I want to treat cannabis like fine wine.
The shrooms do make it a lot easier to stop though.
I also heard pairing CBD with THC can preserve the hippocampus. I think just THC alone might not be optimal but that’s me theory crafting.
@Coopdog I started taking notes on my July 29th trip and had to come back to this thread because you nailed something.
Yeah. That’s exactly where my brain was at.
But here’s the shift I had mid-trip — driving back from delivering medicine to a veteran who’s making me a million seeds per greenhouse season so I can change the game:
It’s not about what you’ve done.
It’s about who you’ve become because of it.
Who you are after the facts.
Mushrooms didn’t just show me my mistakes — they helped me talk to the universe about them at a higher vibrational frequency so I could actually understand myself. It wasn’t about judgment. It was about integration. They showed me that my pain wasn’t pointless. That every mistake, every obsession, every crash was building me into someone who could actually carry a bigger vision — but only if I stayed honest.
It’s true what you said — they’re teachers. But they’re not here to shame you.
They’re here to walk you through it so you finally know why.
@ZazaZombie I feel you hard on this.
I just came out of a serious rosin cart OCD spiral — real heavy. A very specific variety I pressed myself, and I was hitting it nonstop. Several grams of rosin a day.
And every single hit triggered a pattern:
• I’d wipe out the fridge
• Smash DoorDash like it was survival
• And I wasn’t even really hungry — I was pressed
I gained 20 pounds. This was after I’d just lost 16. All from rosin. Not from weed in general — from a specific kind of weed that didn’t match my body. Because that’s what I realized in that moment, driving home from dropping off medicine to a veteran I’m helping —
And I saw that what I really need is:
• A functional indica
• Something strong but not munchie-inducing
• Emotionally calming
• Kills anxiety
• Puts me in a zone where I feel clean and aligned — without spiraling
• Something I can hit all day and still feel like myself
I don’t want to quit weed. I’m not trying to get help with weed.
What I need is to be in a position where I have only what serves my present and future, and none of what distracts from it.
I get my bulk Cali outdoors from my brother Jose & Jose’s growing the kind of flower that’s clean, organic, calming — not triggering. That’s what I want rosin from. Not mid. Just the real, real. Because I’m not just smoking — I’m practicing. I’m a ritual doctor, not a Western one. But I still need all my medicines to prescribe and serve the people I’m here to help — starting with myself. So I’m working on breeds that fit the script that he can grow aswell.
The trip showed me how deep I’ve gone. How obsessive I am. How all-in I’ve always been. I just needed weed that doesn’t punish me for it.
You nailed it with that “fine wine” comparison. We’re not trying to get high anymore. We’re trying to feel right.
—Purple Flamethrower
I knew I had a problem when I could hotbox 15 joints in row and didn’t feel any higher.
And yup, we’re tying to set the mood.
Sick and tired of using weed as crutch, it loses it’s magic when abused.
This is exactly what I’m looking for, whether it’s a daytime functionality it could be sativa or indica as long as it’s doing what your stating. And then something like that, but with heavy pain relief from headaches. I don’t want to feel stupid just because I want to have my sinus headache go away when I’m trying to function in life.
That being said, getting away from main stream indicas and getting to try land races/heirlooms.
I find that what your looking for might not seem as hard as you think with these landrace afghanis.I have limited experience but just getting to try my Kashmir and petrolias. There veryyyyy calming with a sense of well being and clear functionality.
I’m looking forward to hunting through those and other landraces afghanis like angus/ real seed co. mentioned to me in emails, that old afghanis used to be so calming, well being feeling and not that couchlocky.
Oh I know it’s just in a bad spot , right in the middle of my garden so I’m going to let it go awhile and I’ll harvest the roots 
and I’ve got probably 8 more in the yard not including all the ones that grow in the ditches, fence lines and woods 
Thanks for sharing your journey.
I’m about 20 ketamine sessions into my treatment. (sublingual) It’s been a game changer here as well. Started doing it once a week to treat chronic grief/depression. Had a seriously life changing event on session #2. Centered me hard…like never before. Lotsa shit that was in the way in my head seemed to step aside. Can’t really describe it other than to say I felt a huge swing within me to the positive side of things.
Now I’m just doing maintenance doses…every 2-3 weeks or when I feel the need to reset.
Thats really, really cool.
Are you doing that with a therapist/trials or self-medicating?
From the studies i have seen, its upwards of 50-60% go in with clinical PTSD and walk out being almost symptom free…but they dont have to do “maintenance doses,” that often…Its like 6 months+ before they start experiencing symptomatology again
Those are like hour long sessions though and done intravenous, so its interesting to see/compare these new(not new but used in a scientific method) method
I started with a KAP therapist but even with all of the >supposed< interest/care/scapegoating regarding “mental health” in this country “insurance” (Medicare here 'cus Im old) doesn’t always ride along with us on such journeys…so it was an out-of-pocket hit of about $500 for each session.
I ended up breaking free and found a provider who will script me for at-home use so now I’m on my own/am just dosing when I want to/when I feel the need. I could probably space it out farther or stop altogether but there’s no need to rock the boat when things are going so well. Quite a few users >do< return for maintenance dosing. How often they do so is as varied as the reasons we’ve all ended up here for treatment.
Everybody is different, for sure. Ketamine shows those differences very well. Whether it be dosages or length of use…there’ no real road map here. Whatever works is whatever works. Thanks for chiming in.
There is a slight issue in ego death and looking at the world through a mushroom’s eyes, looking at yourself as a potential fruiting body and not caring, thinking this mass can produce so many more mushrooms. Thankfully the monkey inside still twitches and can overpower the fungi. Also, the pause with fungi being the neural network of the planet is that it talks about dirt. A LOT. I like dirt, just not that much.
I guess for me as early reader of Carlos Castaneda’s first 4 books, and reading about Tim Leary and his cohorts going on about psychedelics, and HUGE amounts of acid they took, I as a kid, could not wait to experience all of that.
I’ve used mass quantities of acid, and simply found it, more exploratory more than a fearful event. I just never experienced fear.
Same with all the many types of mushrooms, I’ve grown out and purchased since the mid 1970’s.
I guess Carlos Castaneda’s writings, had never left me, his idea,
" that death lives over your left shoulder" always gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling, when tripping for a few days.
I never had a desire to leave that realm, so I guess, fear just never entered into my mind.
I made peace, with the couple times as a kid, when facing my death.
Once in a boating accident, about 14 years old. Once in a sever car smash up, when I was 17 years old.
So tripping for me was just another experience, and like death, I’m not seeking it out, however nor do I fear it.
I think it’s just another realm for us to experience
I hope you all find some peace!!