I wanted to say i have NEVER tried acid,but i am very interested in other peoples trips and how bad or good where they??How does music sound while tripping?I must admit that i do smoke grass now and then,and i love it...really chills me out,but i can eat for fun...hence im a fat bugger...LOL...but my ears are certainly more alert as when im playing cds the music sounds sharper when im relaxing on the couch concentrating on the music and just being stoned.Am i imagining this?Everytime i'm stoned it feels the same.Does anyone else experience this?I have to admit i am scared shitless to try acid as my brain is fragile as it is,and i will never try it,i'm on enough prescribed drugs to contend with.Would love to hear any of your stories or experiences through drugs,at a gig,in the privacey of your own home.....anywhere really.All my adult life my drug of choice has been alcohol,but i've got to admit i prefer getting stoned these days,it doesn't effect me in the morning,not like alcohol which gives me a hangover and im approaching 50 so it takes a couple of days till i feel myself again,and worst of all it puts me on a downer which i hate!!I don't get anything like that when im smoking.How the fuck can one be illegal and the other not be?

Yep - free the weed. In moderation it can be very beneficial I have found. It is just insane it is illegal I think.

I did acid maybe 10 times in the 80s/early 90s and mostly enjoyed it, though quality was variable and trips were up and down. I remember not particularly liking music I thought I would on acid, while really enjoying other stuff that I didn't imagine I would. I was into my psych already back then and I think Piper was a regular and the first Elevators too. I also remember some Eno, Steve Hillage and Hawkwind doing the trick.

I also did huge amounts of mushrooms around that time which were a very similar effect, just more profound with large amounts. I certainly felt like I discovered the meaning of life at times, but also felt like I was living in a completely alien world at other times. I enjoyed them but they stripped you back to the egg and could leave you feeling pretty shattered and new born. At times it was impossible to contemplate getting up off the chair, let alone working the record player to play music. I wouldn't do either acid or mushrooms now and I wouldn't really recommend them unless you are in a very safe and controlled environment, but steer well clear if you are on prescribed medication or fragile.

I also did a lot of ecstasy in the early 90s and that was probably my favourite, just a very intense wonderful feeling of love with the world, with all the hightened sensations you get from weed, just even more intense. I would recommend that, again in moderation. Lots of music sounded fantastic on E, I used to listen to early techno/rave, but also things like Screamadelica and early Shamen. Good times.... The problem now would be getting good stuff as quality went down rapidly through the 90s. I'd only take it now if I was certain of the content.

I always steered well clear of powders like speed, coke and H, never really interested and what I did try I didn't enjoy at all.

I smoke weed maybe once a week now, just one of two joints and I find that is enough for me.

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Hi Stuart.
Did a fair bit of acid an 'shrooms back in the day.
Can't add too much to mr perkins piece but would say that I find psychedelics to be unlike other substances in that there's not really the 'oblivion factor' with them. Most drugs give some instant pleasure and you can go on hammering em until you end up, well...hammered, I suppose. Not really what I would call an intoxicant as such, more of a journey of self discovery Acid gives a glimpse of out the box for a short while and can be very profound but for most people, doesn't turn into a habit.
You may realize that most of the world is half mad, but then we knew that anyway!

I also find as I get older I can't handle losing a few days after dallying with the booze so a good reefer and a few alcohol - free beers is my thing these days.
Unfortunately I do kick the arse out of it a bit.. ( stoner bas**rd lol! )
The lesser of the evils etc....