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I've seen people refer to "friends" that took psilocybin, but never someone saying they took fake psilocybin. Were you being facetious or was it some sort of synthetic?

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Not facetious, it was some sort of synthetic. We never knew what it really was. It wasn't real psilocybin, but it was something.

Sounds like something from Shulgin's book[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL

I bought new copies of PiHKAL and TiHKAL when Shulgin passed away a couple years ago. Not reading for the faint of heart, but damn those 2 were dedicated to their science. Just knowing their lab was the shed in the back yard makes it a little more on the "whaaaaa?" side of things.

Sounds a bit like the Curies and Barry Marshall:

https://www.google.com/search?q=scientist+gave+himself+ulcer...

Helluva dinner party invite...

It was Hofmann wo first synthesized Psilocybin.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02160424

Here, try this! Some crazy weekends started out with that phrase. The hazy days of designer drugs. BTW, no judging, recognition from a fellow psychonaut,

A problem with unregulated substances. At the end of the day the kids are never really sure what they're taking.

"STP"?

Naw, that is a fuel additive for an automobile.

I make it a point to never drink fuel additives. I figure my car can use it better than me.

It was a bs street name made up by dealers to describe a long-lasting phenethylamine I think DOM.

Supposedly stood for “serenity, tranquility, peace”

Back then, probably DMT.

That’s not active orally if not combined with a MAO inhibitor (as in Ayahuasca)

DMT was quite niche back then and not substitutible for psilocybin as it’s not orally active. Much more likely to be a synthetic phenethylamine or tryptamine. Candidates back then would be DOM, DOI, etc.

I thought it was a SWIM thing too.

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