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when start to feel less motivated - don't want to go out - struggling at work- I take ~3 grams - usually lasts about 2 months or so - find this much better than microdosing personally

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For anyone who's never tried mushrooms before, 3 grams is a pretty large dose. If it's your first time start with 1 gram or so. After all, you can always take more, but you can't take less.

Really. Here I was thinking a starting dose was 8 grams (from a documentary about magic truffles in Netherlands). Good thing I never had the opportunity to try mushrooms, that'd probably be a pretty wild, unpleasant trip :))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrj1X6TzEXo - terence mckenna - How To Take Psychedelics Pt.1

I know he is an expert on the subject, but he is talking about ridiculously high dosages that most people would not find pleasant in that clip.

I would never tell anyone I care about to take 5 grams dried in their first use.

How do you measure out 3 grams? I would think it would be difficult to control that level of granularity.

Three grams of mushrooms is easily 4 to 10 individual mushrooms. Usually people simply weight the entire mushroom and not the exact psilocybin content. This is not ideal since potency will vary but it's enough to give you a good idea of the dose when comparing to previous sessions. However, there are more and more legal services who can provide already weighted product with the exact psilocybin content on the label.

Probably just means 3g of actual mushroom fungi matter. Just need a food scale.

A kitchen scale works well for masses in this range.

There’s also 0.1 and 0.01 gram scales sold for like $15 on Amazon.

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