Who gets high?

[jdawg]

I smoke and rarely, if ever, drink. I don't buy the line that acid and shit like that gives you insight that others don't have. Whenever I trip, it just slows my world down and shit gets all weird. Never have I stopped and though about theworld. Maybe it's just me because I know people who became vegans because of a mushroom trip. I don't know.

[sucka.free]

Originally Posted by jdawg

I smoke and rarely, if ever, drink. I don't buy the line that acid and shit like that gives you insight that others don't have. Whenever I trip, it just slows my world down and shit gets all weird. Never have I stopped and though about theworld. Maybe it's just me because I know people who became vegans because of a mushroom trip. I don't know.

....yep..its just you!

..don't knock what you haven't experienced

[smc]

Originally Posted by jdawg

I smoke and rarely, if ever, drink. I don't buy the line that acid and shit like that gives you insight that others don't have. Whenever I trip, it just slows my world down and shit gets all weird. Never have I stopped and though about theworld. Maybe it's just me because I know people who became vegans because of a mushroom trip. I don't know.

Originally Posted by sucka.free

....yep..its just you!

..don't knock what you haven't experienced

Hey, sucka.free, putting aside that the post to which you are responding is from 15+ months ago, I'm wondering whether so much weed is impairing your cognitive abilities. You chastise jdawg for knocking what he hasn't experienced, but he clearly writes "Whenever I trip" and then describes his experience. Just because it isn't the same as yours doesn't make it illegitimate.

[kenstar]

I smoke lots and lots of weed

[no1000]

I have tried many things in the past but I stick to drinking and smoking these days (weed>cigs) .

I wouldn't mind trying a few things that have piqued my interest over the years but it would have to be a VERY special occasion/place.

I despise drugs. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to do any of that shit. I do however enjoy an occasional drink or two with friends or at dinner.

(Sorry I had to change my profile information to something silly again. Just don’t know if I can trust anyone. However if Kelly Shore reads any of my posts--I really am a tall, affluent, well-built, good looking, college professor, who rides a Harley… )

[The Conquistador]

I get high off of the smell of burning Cordite and Hoppes No.9...

[GRH]

Cool, you're a vegan? I'm a vegetarian myself.

I've actually tried Ayahuasca, but it was some that I prepared myself. I never traveled to Peru to do it the proper way.

[no1000]

I like the way you think but I still love my animal meat.

I've never cooked them myself but the first time I ate grasshoppers, they were dry in a plastic bag. I started calling it 'grasshopper jerky' because it looked like they had left them out in the sun to cook. Very crunchy. The second time I had them, they were in a taco. This time the grasshoppers looked to be fried. Not deep fried but fried on a saucepan with very little oil. They really don't taste like 'meat' like steak, pork, it's completely different. They taste like irony, protein. I think it's more the consistency of the grasshopper that most people are afraid of rather than the actual taste. It's a very subtle taste.

[smc]

This thread seems to have become about food, not drugs.

I have eaten 17-year cicadas. I was at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1987 when the cicada cyle erupted. The cicadas were everywhere. One day, I noticed one of the custodians making his way slowly down one of the walkways. Every once in a while, he would reach up and grab a cicada from a low-hanging tree and pop it in his mouth.

He explained to me that you want to eat some of them alive, just when they're molting. He told me they were like soft-shell crabs (a Baltimore specialty). He had a knack for picking out the right ones from among the (literally) hundreds of thousands, or probably millions, that were lying everywhere. Being a firm believer in trying anything edible at least once, I gave it a go. It was delicious.

The next day, a professor I was working with invited me to a restaurant owned by a friend of his. It was a private dinner of cicadas, served many different ways. I had them served just like soft-shell crabs, rolled in flour and sauteed with butter and shallots and some herbs.

In 2004, a friend of mine in Washington, D.C. (also in the unique U.S. cicada belt) told me that a restaurant in Georgetown served pretty much the same recipe. That would have been 17 years after I tried them -- hence, the 17-year-cicada cycle.

[killa-ashley]

Not anymore.

[ila]

Originally Posted by GRH

Ila, we could start two threads, or for that matter, two separate forums on the topics. Dreams and meditation are very interesting and deep topics for me...I could write a book on some of my for what it is worth. Thanks for your interest.

I think you should start a thread, right away, on meditation. Both you and Sesame have a very good "conversation" going on this topic already. I've never tried meditating so I have been reading your posts about it trying to gain more insight into it.

[marlowe]

I love coffee, with milk in the morning and black through the day. I got into coffee in Java, cups of wonderful black stew. Then time in Italy confirmed the addiction. I'm very fond of a shot of espresso every so often to keep things going. I get a bit wonky if I overdo it, eyes pinned back and a sort of throbbing sensation in the head. I have to be careful now later in the day or I never sleep.

I love the scene in the film "Wings of Desire" with Peter Falk (a fallen angel) and Bruno Ganz (an angel). They're standing at a kiosk and Falk is drinking coffee and smoking. Falk tells Ganz about the pleasures of being human and he says you can't imagine how good a cup of coffee and a cigarette is. When Ganz decides to be human the first thing he does is return to the kiosk and try coffee and a cigarette. A look of delight spreads on his face. Later he discovers love and kissing and other things; it's tough being human but it's better than being an angel.

Mmm..... coffee I think I'll have another cup now.

[SSL]

Originally Posted by marlowe

I love coffee, with milk in the morning and black through the day. I got into coffee in Java, cups of wonderful black stew. Then time in Italy confirmed the addiction. I'm very fond of a shot of espresso every so often to keep things going. I get a bit wonky if I overdo it, eyes pinned back and a sort of throbbing sensation in the head. I have to be careful now later in the day or I never sleep.

Reading this made me go make myself some cappuccino! Yummy

[sesame]

Originally Posted by ila the wise

I think you should start a thread, right away, on meditation. Both you and Sesame have a very good "conversation" going on this topic already. I've never tried meditating so I have been reading your posts about it trying to gain more insight into it.

Done

But I would request GRH to go on with her astounding adventures in induced state. I find those experiences absolutely genuine, very personal and fascinating.

[sesame]

Go on with your adventures and strange experiences in elated state. I and a host of other people are eagerly waiting for your fabulous stories. As for me, I am interested in your feelings, your fears, your perceptions, visions in such states. What did you see or feel? Also, the external events you described about when you walked several miles from ur campus and got to a hotel lobby...totally enthralling.