He has been very supportive in my progress and my recovery and he’d never pressure me into anything I wasn’t comfortable with. And I know if I sat him down and explained the importance of my sobriety and triggers he would be most respectful in never giving me anything even if I asked (not that I would).
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Then take it for what it’s worth. Last thing an addict needs is some “broscience” to justify abusing another substance.
I am now a non-drinker. I was once in voluntary bondage to alcohol. I am free.
The last time I smoked weed or did any kind of drug, Ronald Reagan was still in his first term. If they legalized weed tomorrow, where I live, I still wouldn’t touch it. I know I’d like it too much. It would just be a chain of a different forging, but a chain nonetheless.
I no longer run from life’s problems. I confront them…and then I crush them.
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Congratulations on your journey, keep it up!
In response to your experience, it sounds as though shrooms helped you realize that you were an addict and then they helped you kick your habits. I think since I’ve already realized my addiction and kicked the habit without shrooms then they serve no purpose for me now.
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Yeah I wouldnt do them now. My life is good. If its not broken, dont fix it. Who knows what kind of life altering epiphany you could have?
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Unless prescribed by a doctor I plan to stay away from ANYTHING that is mind altering. Heck, I’m even trying to get off caffeine (though I’m failing quite miserably at it!!)
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Please note guideline 5:
“Rather than posting about using, try to keep your focus on how you want to stop using. This is a sobriety focused site - promoting moderation can negatively impact members’ sobriety.”
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As someone who has done more than my fair share of hallucinogens I can safely say that all that “I found God while tripping” thinking was non-sense. In tightly controlled medical settings there may be some therapeutic value but the jury is still out as long term studies haven’t really been completed. What I do know is this “spiritual enlightenment” that shroom advocates (not actually a thing, he’s just some dude who likes to trip) claim, is baloney. When I thought I was talking to God, I was actually just screaming a tree with no pants on. Same goes for DMT, LSD, research chemicals and the like. I’m glad the OP has the sense to realize that it’s a poor idea and should not be entertained. Lord knows in early recovery I probably would have fallen for that trap.
Also, if you’ve ever had a bad trip then you can probably understand my distaste for these types of drugs.
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Why were you pantless?
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Because mushrooms
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Oh yeah. Gotcha
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I’ve done shrooms back in the day. You could pick them near where I lived in the season
I don’t think Shrooms could’ve aided in my sobriety
I could’ve easily drunk if under the influence or fight a dragon with a sword (a stick from the garden) - any mind altering substance poses as a risk in my opinion and don’t think you’d be classed as “clean and sober” if you take mushrooms 
(it’s a class A drug for a reason)
When I was on them once lay on the school field everyone on the field turning into a marching brass band of spiders 
weird tings bruvva
This is some truth…and a scary visual.
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That’s why I never did LSD- having a bad trip scared the life out of me
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It should. Completely anecdotal, but I knew a guy in college who took waaaay to much and never really came back to reality. He ended up committing suicide.
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I used mushrooms when I was in my teens but they never had the crazy weird-you-out kind of trip on me. I’d see faces in wood-knots and I got paranoid but there was nothing enlightening or hugely hallucinogenic. MDMA on the other hand, when I took too much of that, I would trip balls I.e. hallucinating and slipping in and out of coherence. I remember being in a cab after taking too much and the driver kept saying “Mate what are you talking about?” And I had immediately forgotten. Isnt this the effect that shrooms is meant to have?
That won’t have been high Milligram MDMA. It’ll have been cut with BZP / PCP or some other cheap mind altering shit
I used to have a Marquis tester and test before I took it as had so many bad experiences with it cut with adulterants
Yeah it sucked. Not gonna lie.
Most everything I hear about shrooms is anecdotal. I did read a article on pharmaceutical grade MDMA and PTSD clinical studies that showed promise but it seems to be in its infancy.
There are folks who used marijuana medicinally and no longer use there d.o.c. So I kind of believe sobriety is a big spectrum of folks trying their best to be and feel “normal”. Whatever that may be for you🤷♂️
I have benefitted from marijuana because I have a medical condition that is a wasting disease and honestly I would die without it. I don’t use it to escape in the way I used other drugs like crack or cocaine or heroin. A blanket statement that drugs are bad to recovery isn’t applicable to everyone. There are tools and then there are vices and addictions.
I have no opinion on anyone’s sobriety. I find the topics of peripheral drug usage, and non drug of choice interesting. It all really begs the question of what is sobriety in the first place.
I know alcholics that use marijuana and they live productive lives without calamity. I can’t judge anyone.
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