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Yes. You might prefer to take mushrooms instead (from a batch that's already been tested by your friend). Psilocybin mushrooms cause a trip that lasts maybe 4 hours, which is a lot easier to schedule for than the 12 to 24 hours you’ll be tripping on LSD. Also, mushrooms don’t have the terrible speedy effect that lots of street doses of LSD have. It’s bloody uncomfortable, or was to me, anyway.
Hallucinogen notes:
--Be VERY careful who you trip with. Avoid new girlfriends. Fred once said “never be the first guy to give drugs to a girl” and he was right. Garden-variety girls are cute little volcanoes of emotional baggage which you don’t want to be around when they can’t ignore it anymore. NOTE: they are not all like this, but it's still best to let somebody else light the fuse, so to speak.
--Hallucinogens can’t kill you, quit worrying.
--I’ve never met anyone who’s had a flashback. Many of the more drug-soaked friends of my youth would have been happy to experience flashbacks; think of it, it would be a drug experience you don’t have to pay for! Some people claim to have had them, but they’re making a lot out of a normal moment of oddness, or a brain fart, or one of those wiggly things you see when you have astygmatism.
--Tripping can be fairly strenuous, so make sure you have water along. Keep yourself hydrated so you won’t be so exhausted after it’s over.
--Have a very trustworthy person along as a “sheperd.” This person will be there to reassure you (you may need it) and extract you from potentially difficult situations.
--It's best to trip far away from people who make you uncomfortable, such as police officers and your family. I decided to never trip in town, and took some acid in the way-out-there mountains in Montana. I failed hard by inviting my friend, who attracted bears and made them really angry.
--Read what the late popular author Joseph Campbell said about this kind of experience, and how it's important to have a strong cultural frame of reference--otherwise you start thinking all kinds of ridiculous shit has meaning. It’s probably too late for you to go join some tribe in the mountains of Mexico, but they are better prepared to deal with tripping than you are. On the other hand, you are better prepared to deal with unlimited pr0ns of two-handed lesbian fisting than they are.
--Timothy Leary had some interesting ways of thinking about the experience, but he abandoned experimental science and just started writing anything he thought up, without peer review. So don't take him too seriously. Same goes for that other guy who changed his name to something Hindu-sounding because of the hippie notion that all those Indians are so full of wisdom that it’s dripping from their quaint ethnic clothing (hollering to Rajiv back in the stockroom “hey, ain’t that right, Rajiv? All you Indians know the fucking secret of the fucking universe?”
Rajiv: “Fuck you, man, shut yo’ casteless dog ass the fuck up”)
Other types of people to NOT INVITE:
-----Emotionally needy friends
-----People who start fights or who are touchy about their honor
-----People who talk about how everything sucks and they need to win the lottery in order to enjoy life at all (which will never happen)
-----Anybody at all who lives for drama and wants to be the center of attention all the fucking time
-----People who seem to attract trouble, such as bears. Easily angered bears.