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My apologies. It’s not exactly like “take this amount and you will experience this trip”. It’s like how one day you may only have a few drinks of alcohol and yet feel way more drunk than other times you’ve drank a lot more. But to roughly answer your question, I had a breakthrough experience on about 5g of magic mushrooms. I’ve also had it on 22g of magic truffles.

By the way, ever since these trips, I can’t enjoy much marijuana in the same way. Marijuana feels like the start of that trip now. It’s very weird.

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I have always stuck in the 1.5g range, and feel comfortable doing that in public or alone. I think anything over 3 is entering dangerous territory. Not physically, but you are going to need to be cautious about when/where/why/who at that level.

I took 5-6g when I was much younger and it was not an enjoyable experience on the whole, forgetting who/where I was, thinking I was other people. The most interesting part was everything arranging itself in sensible geometric patterns. No matter what I looked at, tree bark, the ground, the wall of a house, a pile of leaves, everything would appear structured as sort of repeating hexagons or octagons. That affect combined with occasional moments of profound peace felt revelatory, but I did not take mushrooms for a few years after that. I will almost definitely never do it again either.

I have not experienced the marijuana thing though :).

It’s somewhat problematic to determine the exact dose of psilocybin you’re getting when ingesting raw material. 1.5g of dried material might give you a range for the upper bound of psilocybin content, but it’s difficult to say. And dose is VERY important in planning what kind of experience you want to have.

I apologize if I violate some sort of code of conduct by asking this but is there a reliable, safe way you can recommend obtaining magic mushrooms or truffles? I found some online sources offering them but I’m not sure who is trustworthy?

At least in the EU you can legally buy the spores online.

Oh my God, 22g? As someone about to try it for the first time soon, I thought 4-5 was considered a high dose, I would have thought 4x that amount could be dangerous. (I'm not knowledgeable about drugs.)

Magic truffles need different doses to magic mushrooms.

Accurate dosing of mushrooms and other non-synthetic psychedelics is very difficult anyway, as the active compounds can greatly vary even within the same species and even within the same batch.

Also, with psychedelics the effects will vary from person to person, and even on the same person depending on that person's mood, body chemistry, how much and what they've eaten, what's going on with their life and their subconscious mind at the time, what their expectations are, their stage of development, where and with whom they take it, etc.

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