So at 13 years old I ran away to a Dead show in Miami. Guy walks up to me and says he's got some LSD in this eye dropper type bottle. Offers me some. There's drugs everywhere, so I"m like... sure. He puts a drop or two on the back of my hand and he says "whatever you do, do NOT lick this shit." So of course, being a dumb ass 13 year old... he walks away and I lap it all up like a dog licking a puddle of steak drippings.

I tripped for a year. Seriously. A fucking year. The hallucinations stopped after a few days, but I heard voices for a year. They actually didn't stop until I became a Christian. I honestly think God made them stop, because the second I came to Christ in prayer (literally, the very second) the voices stopped and I never heard them again. I wasn't a believer before that, but I sure as hell am now.

So... no more LSD for me. I don't judge people who do it, and of course I took WAY too much. I'm sure it is a lot of fun when taken responsibly. But I just prefer to stick to natural substances that cannot be so easily abused. I've never heard of anyone taking so much pot in one sitting that it fucked them up for such a long time. It's just not possible to do. marijuana is just such a safe substance. It can have long term effects from abuse (especially if smoked), but in the short term it is very safe. I look at beer and wine the same way... very hard to permanently damage yourself by drinking them.

When I say "natural" substances, I mean substances that occur in nature without intervention by man. LSD is made in a lab. Coke is too, as is heroin. Cannabis grows in the wild. Wine occurs in nature too, when grapes sit on the vine without being picked. Strong liquors, vodka, etc. don't occur in nature... they have to be distilled by man. So I stay away from them too.

So anyway, that's my deal. Sticking to it, I think, will help me stay out of trouble as far as drug addiction and the like. I'm going into the legal profession, and will probably be in the position to have a lot of any drug of my choice at some point in my life. I've got a bit of an addictive personality, so I figure I'll do myself good if I set the ground rules now.

Peace.

whoa .................... Did you see that flying cow bro.... Far out

LOL... Perma trip...

"Lick the stamp man and TURN ON..."

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I just know i planted them around here somewhere...=]

I heard that my friends dad got dosed when he was younger pretty strong and tripped for almost 72 hours. He said he smoked pot sometimes back then and knew about LSD but had never done it and then eating with some people, they dosed his drink and he didn't come down for nearly 3 days. He then spent the next week or so in the mental hospital trying to sort things out.

Yeah. I talked to all kinds of shrinks and stuff too for a long time. I don't think I ever would've sorted things out if it weren't for Christ. I seriously had gone schizophrenic. Voices would tell me shit and convince me they were "real" and have me go do things. It was crazy as all fucking hell. I remember one time a voice said, "I'm going to prove to you that I'm real... your dad is going to walk into your room right... right... NOW." And my dad immediately walked through the door.

Now that is fucked up. So I actually think perhaps I was demon possessed or something. I have no fucking idea. All I know is it started the night I took a massive LSD dose, and it only ended more then a year later... at the very second I prayed to Christ they stopped, and I've never been bothered by them again.

I literally wept for thankfulness and prayed thanking God all night the night they went away. I felt normal again, for the first time. And I've been fine ever since.

I was fucked up from about 13 years old to 14 and a half or so. Now I'm 29.

Read a newspaper. There are children being killed in horrific Iways, living in horrific conditions, and the creator of the universe is reaching out to stop your 'year long' acid trip? What kind of worthless god is that?

And how does a year long acid trip work? I'm talking at the molecular, chemical level in your brain. Is that physically something that could actually happen?

Well if you had listened to him then it would have made it's way into your bloodstream through your pores. Two drops is enough for a teenage kid. Also lysergic acid naturally forms from a few sources without much manipulation except cracking the seed - Hawaiian baby woodrose and morning glory.

I had a very enlightening and extremely powerful trip from a stranger on the street in a red light district. I would never regret it or take it back. For all the neon, 3-D, saxophones blaring, and dimension travelling I have to say the tracers still exist but the experience was a chance of a lifetime. It really depends on your state of mind and your logic to be able to handle what is in your body.

LOL yeah I think there is much more going on here than just that. Depending on the state of mind during a trip it can make you or break you. If you have problems dealing with reality in general it is not a good idea to take hallucinogens. You will not be able to differentiate awareness from repressed emotions.

As for his reference to prayer, I think it can be compared to meditation which helps people relax and collect their thoughts. Well we all contribute to the welfare of humanity, being human that is - well most of us are human!

I can see that. It's just the literal belief. I mean, imagine that there really is a 'being' up in the sky, and he can affect the world, and he is actually answering minor prayers, such as football teams winning or some 70 year old guy recovers from a stroke, all the while the world is filled with terrible suffering. That is a perverted universe and can't possibly be what is actually happening. But as a metaphor or something, sure.

OK, I've got three major problems with this story.

First off you can't trip for a year. You could have caused a psychotic break but you weren't tripping.

Non-believers don't pray. Not even just in case. We don't believe, that's kinda the point. If you find yourself praying "just in case" then you aren't a non-believer. You're a believer that hasn't fully thrown off the shackles of religion.

Which leads to my final point. I don't want to harsh your buzz or anything but there's no imaginary creature living in the sky who loves you but will burn you in a lake of fire for all of eternity if you piss him off. It's just an old superstition that keeps getting passed forward because it's profitable and it's difficult for people to admit everything they believe in is a lie.

You see this often in victims of fraud. They WANT to believe so badly and they've already given the con man their life savings so it HAS to be true. Even when the cops tell them they have been scammed they refuse to believe it. Same thing with religion.

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