Greetings and welcome to another edition of the life and times of a psychedelic geezer... yes it's been almost three months since our last update and i should add i don't exactly write about every time i take a dose which considering this is post 31 says something about the dedication i have to tripping like a fool while staring at the ceiling and traveling inner space while lounging on the couch... of course one could posit the theory that i'm also traveling outer space but we'll leave that debate for another time as this post is about the ingenuity of the wasted... it's a popular myth among the squares of the world, started by Nancy and Ronnie (nee Raygun), that anyone dabbling in these substances is obviously a detriment to society, that the kids should just say no... of course looking around we see how well that's gone, the most successful countries when it comes to combating the "drug war" as it's called in Dumbfuckistan, the sane places don't really view it as that, have found that decriminalizing and legalizing these substances lead to a much better outcome when it comes to public health and welfare... meaning the prisons aren't overflowing with non-violent "drug" offenders and those who do develop addictions to certain things are treated as humans with an actual medical condition and not criminals... of course when one lives in a country where for profit gulags, i mean prisons, are big business and publicly traded one understands why the shit goes down like this... to make a profit those corporate types need consumers or what's commonly known as inmates and the easiest way to go about that is to prey on disenfranchised communities so they can easily stock their cells... but i digress...
There is this myth of the lazy stoner/drug user and as someone who knew a whole lot of junkies back in the day i can assure you that they are far from lazy as they work quite hard to feed that dragon... granted it may be scamming and stealing at times but don't discount the effort, it's there... as for the stoners of the world i mainly know nothing but highly productive weed-heads who tend to get more things done stoned than most people do not stoned... which brings me around to the mushroom and my love of the effects but hating the taste... not that the taste stops me, i've always found a way to chew them up and swallow them down it's just i've always pined for an easier, less nasty way (for my tastebuds) to ingest my favorite fungi...
It's been documented here about a wonderful little site that grows and ships these lovely bits of fungus all over the place, it's a great site that seems to be using loopholes to get their product out, something i've seen before, most famously in the nations' capital where once they legalized possession of weed some bright stoners decided that they'd create a delivery service for t-shirts, which cost the exact same price as an eighth of weed, or say you wanted two t-shirts, that miraculously cost the same as a quarter ounce, see if one bought a shirt one got a free bag of weed with it... brilliant really as it circumnavigated the law... hence this site does roughly the same and seeing as fungi doesn't have the same aroma as cannabis it's a bit easier to ship, especially using a certain shipping company who is notoriously lax when it comes to finding certain types (see drugs) of contraband... add in the new technology in opaque packaging and voila! they can ship stuff all over...
There are a couple of interesting products on this site, the mushroom made into pill forms in various guises... the one is straight up Matrix shit as it's a small soft gel, think one of those little green or orange Nyquil soft gels except slightly smaller and red, they are the equivalent to 1 gram (1000 mg) of boomers, sourced from a Cambodian strain and have a large warning on the site that they are NOT for microdosing... it's an interesting concept and one i was interested to test out and so i bought some and can attest to their effectiveness... the other product were capsules filled with ground up shrooms (the vaunted Penis Envy strain) in various doses, the largest being 400mg, which meant i could vary the size of the dose a bit more depending on what i wanted to achieve... these were also good for going to shows and riding trains as they were super easy to transport and take as if i was taking supplements or vitamins, which in theory one could say i am...
It was after trying the capsules out that my stoner brain got to thinking? i could probably do this myself... the site charged about $26 more for the same amount of the ground up version and so it dawned on me to look up empty pill capsules, for some reason i knew they were out there and of course they were and so i began researching sizes seeing as i never realized there were different capsule sizes... why i don't know as pills come in different dosages and so i settled on one that stated it held roughly 400-800mg of "supplements"... i then got to work with a lovely little coffee grinder that was rarely used and would grind up the mushrooms into a fine powder... it should be noted i would do this before i discovered the capsule and i'd spread the powder on peanut butter cracker or just toss pinch after pinch in my mouth and quickly swallow it down with water... needless to say both methods didn't completely eliminate the taste but it was a bit better than munching them down though i have to admit the organically grown boomers from this place tasted somewhat better than the ones i used to get on the street...
Now being the industrious sort when it comes to this shit i spent a few mornings grinding various strains, currently (i just realized) i have six different strains to choose from and it's interesting to see how they hit and what they do... though they all do somewhat the same thing but there are slight differences in effects... the process would be to get them as fine as possible and then transfer them to the capsules which came with neat little tools, basically tiny spoons, to fill the capsules, the opposite end being flat so that one could tamp down and pack the powder and bits of boomer down in order to get a tightly packed capsule... granted the dosage in each isn't going to be exactly the same but i'd have a rough idea of what i was taking and let's be honest, i used to weigh out the mushrooms on a tiny and not very accurate scale so the truth is i always had a rudimentary idea, though not exact, of how much i was taking...
Of course i had to work out some issues as far as filling the capsules, there was some trial and error and i've refined the process each and ever time i do it, the biggest dilemma was what to do with the filled larger half of the capsule while filling the smaller end before putting them together, a problem solved with a small piece of styrofoam into which i pressed an empty capsule to create a nice little divot which would snuggly hold the filled part of the capsule while i worked on the other part... i laughed out loud when i came up with this, my eureka moment, not as if i'm some fucking genius more like that of a mad scientist, pleased with his methods... now i have a bunch of old pill bottles all labeled with the various strains... Golden Teachers, Puerto Ricans, Bluey Vutton aka Smurfs, the JCs which is short for Jesus Christ shrooms, a name i gave them cuz they're fucking large and strong, the last of my "street" shrooms, and of course the Penis Envy capsules and Cambodian soft gels... yes kids i like psychedelics...
Which brings me to my other favorite thing, my post psychedelic smoothie... i became of a fan of the smoothie some time ago after trying to find something that wasn't horrible for me when i was out being the gig economy serf... enter Smoothie King and the Daily Warrior smoothie to which i soon figured i could make myself, at least something close to it and so i found some organic super food smoothie mix at Costco... yeah man i'm fucking DEI and am almost relieved Costco is as well cuz i get most of my clothes there at this point, comical yes but i'm too old to worry about fashion, unless of course it's my ridiculous assortment of t-shirts, but back to the smoothie... the mix i found has bananas, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, spinach and kale... shit i wouldn't eat unless tossed in a blender, though that's not entirely true... i toss it in with some OJ, a little peanut or almond butter, some plain Greek yogurt and voila! fucking super delicious, even though it may sound like it wouldn't work it does... i fucking love them... and it's cheaper than always hitting up Smoothie King which has now become a bit of a treat for me... so after a fine night of psychedelics the next day i get up and knock back a smoothie, mainly to help replace what was lost tripping as one can get a bit dehydrated and one is not exactly looking to eat while on the trip... so there it is, the rituals and habits of a psychedelic loving stoner...one could call us lazy... but you'd be wrong...
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