Bad Idea?

[XTC]

Alright I have this buddy who wants to eat a quater of some very strong magic shrooms.... I think that a quater is a little too much. But he is bone headed. What do you guys think? :confused:

[MattakaSqueaks]

1/8

[Encatuse]

Depends if he's done 'em before. He won't die or OD or something. At worst he'll just have temporary insanity. I ate 3/4ths over two days and it was easily the best binge of my entire life.

[Buck268]

I'd freak out on a quarter... but I've never big a been shroomer...

[hoodedclum]

1/4 is far too much for a first trip, i did 40 grams wet for my first time which is about 4 grams dry i think, it was too intense and i totally freaked out.. kinda blacked out and went to bed and started getting some really scary hallucinations.2 grams dry is a good starting point imo.

[2600]

It is very difficult to OD on any pure hallucinogen (Shrooms, LSD, Peyote, etc) because they have such a high ratio of lethal dose to effective dose (obviously an arbitrary assignment). FOr instance that ratio is very low for alcohol. The difference between taking the effective dose and lethal dose is small. (And we're assuming for every drug the lethal dose is always LARGER than the effective dose! lol) . There is not a relatively large change in the volume of alcohol it takes to get you intoxicated, and what it takes to kill you. Of course the window b.t the effective and lethal doses of c oke, heroine, and meth are not far from alcoholol's; and caffeine is w/them as well (HS football deaths from taking ECA's? Not just ephedrine, sometimes 200mg of caffeine; effects very similiar).

But shrooms were waaaay up there. You would have to ingest concentrated psilocybe syrup to induce what ever mechanism could possibly kill you at the lethal dose (shock, heartattack, stroke, climbing into a blender, etc), but they decided it was x amount that would kill you (obviously an estimate, b.c of lack of documented deaths from shrooms alone-always w/something else determined to be c.o.d.). I'll post a link, or at least a .doc tomorrow night (sure I have a copy at home; stuck at work now).

But anyways, I've eaten as many big, golden, freshly picked, gateways as I could literally stomach- until physically full! The "worst case scenario" is you blackout (complete memory loss) for a day or more. I mean, aside from dehydrating, or doing something stupid like tackling cars on the interstate. We were lucky- just spent a memorable day and a half in a creek bed. Just make sure things are right in your life b.f you take the plunge. Otherwise just hold your face up to the saran wrap on the pool (like jello), dip in and look around through the window; until later, when it is safer to swim.

Of course more generally, if you are asking if eating the entire lot will result in an overdose, as in "undesired effects from large dose"; yeah, probably (that can happen any trip). I say go for it, so long as your set and setting are well defined.

[Rarrr]

I say let him learn a lesson. Btw i know no1 can be really precise on this but im going shroom picking sometime this week or the next and was wondering how many shrooms i should eat? I dont have light weight scales so weighing is out of the question. Should i just eat 2 or 3 and giv it a couple of hours?

[Dundee Ganjaman]

No you can eat a lot more than that, we dont have the biggest mushies here in Scotland but man they are powerful.

[Hektik]

i say do it. Both of you eat a quarter, stick together and see what happens

[Buck268]

I'm in.

[DrGonzo]

oh god please tell me if there will be two people on a quarter of mushrooms each that there will also be a qualified cameraman to capture it! this cannot go undocumented, you will want to see yourselves later I guarantee it.

people on mushrooms are hilarious. especially lots of mushrooms.

[EverydayJunglist]

i read somewhere thatd you'dhave to eat like half of your body weight of shrooms to OD.Or some crazy shit like that.My reply was,who's got 76 pounds of shrooms?!?!?!?!yeehaaw