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Pretty sure it's technically illegal federally but things like marijuana and shrooms are decriminalized. I've heard this extends to ayahuasca and mescaline as well, and I think it's the same philosophy on DMT in DC. Look up DC Initiative 81- it's not full legalization of psychedelics, but it re-categorized as “the lowest level police enforcement priority.” DC is one of the leading cities in the US to work towards legalization and decriminalization of psychedelics behind places like Denver. DC is the first city on the East Coast to do this. I actually am not even sure if marijuana is legalized in DC yet. I believe it is only decriminalized. For awhile, it was legal to grow marijuana but illegal to sell it, but there was a loophole in the law, where it was legal to gift the marijuana to a friend. So shops were established around you coming in, buying a t-shirt or a sticker, and them "gifting" you the weed order you want (you pay the price of the weed for the sticker). This is still how many shops operate in DC. Those same shops also typically sell shrooms, but I haven't seen many shops selling DMT pens now. Even less shops are selling pure nn-DMT, and even less are selling 5meo-DMT. So I wouldn't say it was legal to buy this pen, still illegal, but almost decriminalized, but not fully.

Yeah, its a laughable hypothetical, its called a joke. The fact that Trump would never do this is the joke itself

I don't think it's fair to say LSD is bad for you. If it's good for you depends on the person. I have been doing LSD for like 15 years, from small to large doses. I don't understand why people act like you can't complete tasks. If you're at a really high dose or the peak of a trip yeah I guess not. You can do stuff on LSD. Think the Grateful Dead on stage performing or Silicon Valley tech bros. Have you had sex on LSD? I become great at everything when I'm on LSD. But if I am on a higher dose I will have to turn inward usually. I have also received headaches from LSD, tense jaw, body aches, etc. It's worth mentioning but there are no real long term effects on your brain or body. You could have psychotic thought patterns, thought-loops, manic episodes, etc. If you don't know the art of surrendering in those moments it can be "bad" (is it really a bad trip if you learned something?) If you are mentally ungrounded you could end up in the psych ward if you're not careful. I have seen it happen to some of the most experienced psychonauts I've known. So I'm not going to run around pretending like it's universally good. Is it healthy? It depends on the person. Is it bad for your body? Not really. Is it good for your body? Not really but maybe for your mind depending on the user. It's really about how you define good/bad or healthy/unhealthy.

If Trump campaigned to legalize all psychedelics would you vote for him?

Well, you can do LSD and go outside and go about your daily life, go outside on a hike, go to concerts, have fun, etc. It doesn't always have to be you meditating in your bedroom. I wouldn't classify the thinking as compulsive I was doing, just normal. When your on LSD your brain is being incredibly active. So to do that too often or to overdo that may be unhealthy. It also depends on the dose, a high dose is going to be more on your mind and body. Whether you choose to meditate while tripping and surrender deeply in that way is up to the user. In the particular experience, I happened to not be doing that. I was doing some task at my computer that I was attempting to figure out while tripping. Shit happens. And just because cocaine and porn seem like opposite to true psychedelics to you doesn't mean they are. Obviously the experiences feel opposite but the euphoria you feel is similar. LSD is a partial agonist to D2 receptors in your brain so it also plays off your dopamine system along with serotonin. To overdo that could have negative effects on your body. Obviously they are psychologically healing for us. For other people they could have a psychological breakdown. So to have nuance you can't blanket statement psychedelics as healthy. They may be good for us on the forum but they're not for everyone, really. And just because it is psychologically healing for you doesn't mean it's "healthy", in the sense that if you did LSD every day it would take some tole on your body. You could develop HPPD or serotonin syndrome also. PS. It's not weird to "think hard" on psychedelics. Sometimes you are deep in introspection or trying to conceptualize some metaphysical truth or experience you are having.

Yeah, I don't want this sentiment getting too popular. It's like people are choosing to find good things he did because they like him as a personality or feel emboldened after he got shot and wanna ride that emotional wave.

As a persona Trump wins over Biden every time.

I don't want him killed, but I also wouldn't vote for him. Are people here really getting behind Trump because he got shot?

I expected an assassination attempt on Trump much sooner.

This is all true. Shrooms feel much safer to do than LSD regularly. Not to mention the different in how long the experience lasts. There is inherently something dangerous about doing psychs so I doubt you could call them healthy. in a physical way they are generally pretty safe if not abused. Mental health is different and would depend on the individual to determine whether psychedelics are healthy for them. Regularly doing low doses could be beneficial to your mental health. It could also be a bad habit. One time I did LSD and was thinking so hard I literally felt like I broke something in my brain. I didn't feel right for a little bit after that and I stopped doing LSD for awhile. I've tripped since then after giving it some time and it was a good experience. I tend to stick to pretty low doses of LSD nowadays.

It sounds like your ego is coming back and reinforcing itself over time. It could be ego backlash. Stop second guessing yourself. Deep down you know that you need to make music. This is life or death here. You seem depressed, not a sense that you are sad, but maybe you are stuck knowing you need to be doing something and not doing it. Once you get the ball rolling and the momentum going with creative endeavors you will naturally start vibrating at a higher level and you can embody your higher self in this waking life. You have to ride motivation like a wave, and be disciplined enough to have a healthy routine and spiritual practice. If your meditation practice isn't bringing you to some deep truths, that's okay, stop wanting it and forcing it. Your desire to awaken is a trap. Forgive yourself for not having that innate spiritual understanding you think you want. Stop trying to understand and convince yourself of some deep truth on a conceptual level. Just start trying to flow with life intuitively so you can prove to yourself the deepest truths about yourself. You might have to fight for this. You were meant to be making music, your deeper self feels it, and you are not doing it. I would definitely consider tripping again if you haven't in awhile but tripping on psychedelics isn't always the answer. There were a couple times i stopped tripping and I felt similar, until I tripped again- and realize it was my ego causing a fear of my deeper self, and the deeper truths that psychedelics revealed.

@Keryo Koffa I love you too friend. You are such an insightful person and I love reading your posts. Sometimes this forum could use a little more love and gratitude! I also feel incredibly grateful for Leo, Actualized.org, and the community here.

@Wisebaxter It sounds like you chose to live differently than others. That being said smoking weed isn't at odds with anything you mentioned inherently unless it effects you that way. Plenty of people who smoke weed are successful. It's obviously not a productivity drug, more of a creative drug if anything. Smoking weed is not at odds with success or the things you mentioned. You need to imagine a reality with those things if you really want them, and work towards getting them. It may be that you don't really want those things. Like it would be a huge shame if you didn't have a house and kids because you couldn't stop smoking weed or whatever. It is possible but I just don't buy it. You sound similar to me where I compare myself to others but I chose a completely different path in life. You are narrating your own life right now. You definitely do not need to smoke weed to be creative so stop telling yourself that. You don't need weed at all. You like weed and justify it by saying it helps you be creative. It sounds like you just need to sit with yourself a little more to determine whether this habit has been a problem for you. I will say, you would save quite a bit of money by quitting if money is a problem. Those types of habits are less harmful if you have money to blow.

Very good. Do more than a microdose- enough to feel it a bit and notice the effects. And maybe don't microdose every day.

Yeah dude, its definitely really hard to change your framework and belief system. Or it isn't hard at all and the only reason it feels difficult is because you tell yourself it is difficult. If you genuinely believe weed helps you, why are you going about wanting to change that? Your time on Earth is short and its more important that you enjoy your life than creating some false problem about weed. That is the ego-mind game you are playing looking for problems. If you had some particular financial goal you could justify quitting weed to save money. Or if you had a health concern then you could justify stopping for that. If you looked for reasons to quit you could find them. But it seems as if there is no real problem as you are still maintaining creativity and productivity. Any addiction or habit could be a problem in a sense. But you are addicted to many things in this life including entertaining yourself with thoughts. Desire doesn't stop. This is your domain so don't beat yourself up. You imagined weed so that you could smoke it!

Do what makes you happy, it ultimately doesn't matter what Leo thinks about hobbies if they fulfill you. You have an intuitiveness about your nature that nobody else will understand, and your path is unique to you. So stop thinking so much about should's and shouldn'ts or what others think and start flowing and just do what feels right (you still have to watch out for traps and have discipline). But trust in yourself. If it feels like what you are supposed to do, and you don't do it, you could be jeopardizing your own progression. For example many hobbies turn into fulfilling lifelong careers.

Death is always framed as a bad thing when it really isn't.

You, the conceptual self, the human identity would cease existing, you as infinity and as God would continue eternally. If you woke up fully, the dream would end by definition, but that doesn't mean you would end, you would still be what you already are- God, just not dreaming anymore. Pure infinite love. So in that sense you could misunderstand me. Start identifying as infinity because you are eternal. But the "you" typing here on the computer here would stop. You, your body, the computer are all being imagined by you- which is not external from you, but is you. The great I Am. God is infinite. If you are aware you are imagining this realm, the dream still exists as you are still encompassed in the dream. That is what most people mean when they say they are awakened to the Truth- they are aware they are dreaming. If God were to fully wake up, he may decide to go back to sleep and imagine your life again. Or imagine himself somehow else. Upon physical death I believe everyone gets to experience a difficult barrier followed by bountiful love. Nobody ever truly dies, because you never truly existed. You are infinite and divine. But to be fully awake would mean the dream of who you are here stops. I am only trying to parse what I have experienced through ego death with psychedelics. I don't know anything. You can wake up fully while on psychedelics- physical reality will completely stop existing and the ego along with all false boundaries disappear as you stop imagining "reality". Eventually you decide to go back asleep because you like the dream and enjoy dreaming.

We gotcha. I don't think you could be in that state all the time. Maybe if you maintained a state of deep meditation for most hours a day. The high level of awareness is what you bring to your dream life. I have been in said state before on psychedelics. These heightened states are different than being awake while inside the dream. You can be aware of the dream while participating in it. In the state of consciousness you are speaking of there is no functioning in the dream. Whether you want to take psychedelics despite them not permanently waking you up is really only up to you. Personally I'd rather move back and forth than to be immersed in the dream. It doesn't ultimately matter.

Think of it like a river you could step back and look away from. The river still sorta flows in the background, even when you choose to focus elsewhere. Your teacher probably wants you to realize that your goal isn't to stop your thoughts, but to stop identifying with your thoughts. The goal isn't to stop the river but to not get carried away in it. Its a trap to have the goal be to stop your thoughts.

Porn is like a drug. It can be harmful but it isn't inherently harmful. If you do it a lot it could become a bad habit and you can spiral out.

@shree I was just talking about regular DMT. When people talk about DMT they are just talking about NN-DMT. I wasn't talking about two separate drugs. I edited that post for clarity btw.

N,N-DMT is always different. You can achieve spiritual bliss but it's trickier. It can feel dark. Don't do it with too many expectations.

Do you mind elaborating? If we are living in a reality being imagined by consciousness or God, to truly awaken from the dream for good means something different than carrying a level of high awareness "awakened state" with you in your daily life on Earth (becoming construct aware of things like ego, awareness of self-bias, false dualities, end of beliefs, aware that you are in a dream, etc.) If God truly woke up in this sense, the dream would stop. It feels like there is a distinction to make between being "fully" awake and lucid dreaming (awakened state). Thinking you are fully awake seems highly self-deceptive to me. I am open to hearing other interpretations... @Leo Gura

People are really afraid of bothering others, so they try not to let their dog bother others too. You are judging them for that, but some people just hate dogs or are afraid so it makes sense. Second, dogs are amazing open and social creatures- sometimes more open than their human counterpart. So there is a bit of a misstep. Like "Oh no, its okay, I love dogs.." but the situation already happened and the closed off owner has ruined the interaction. Some dog owners bring a level of anxiety to every situation. Or they just aren't the best dog owners and didn't realize their dog's needs. They might be selfish somehow, and might not want to get wrapped into an interaction with you.