I tried alcohol, DXM (cough syrup), codeine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone before I ever took my first puff of marijuana. I don't like smoke so I was very off put by it. Finally tried it when I was 16 or 17 and I remember it being really cool, like how music sounded, but overall was kind of underwhelmed. Strangely, as the years went on, I have grown much more sensitive to THC. I don't like the headspace it gets me in and only really use it as a sleep aid anymore. Mushrooms, 2C-E, ketamine, methoxetamine, methylone, MDMA, LSD, salvia, kratom alkaloids, 4-aco-dmt, and a few others. Used all of those over the years. Not regularly anymore. But none of those things mess with my head the way high strength marijuana or an edible does.

Apparently, hyperspace isn't a given with DMT. I wonder what it is that grants entry... A very experienced friend of mine was just "told" it wasn't going to happen in something like a waiting room. I would love to find out myself but I am too anxious an individual to go beyond a light dose of mushrooms.

In my experience you can’t get there through external sources

You need to be accepting and prepared to die in every sense of the word in order get there

Which means you need to shed your ego entirely and everyone has their own journey there.

You’ll know when you meet someone that has experienced it though it’s very rare

Weed can ruin your life, and I'm not referring to the "makes you a boring pothead who doesn't do anything" outcome, but the "triggers debilitating mental illness" outcome.

And I say that as someone who likes weed! I've just seen it happen too many times. The chance is low, but you don't know which category you're in until it happens, and you definitely don't want to find out.

I support legalization, for several reasons, but harmless she is not!

It's a full blown psychedelic, and a lot of people don't seem to realize that. So I think the pendulum counter swing from the war on drugs is ironically doing a lot of unnecessary harm.

I have a serious question, and please don't take this as an insult, I'm trying to figure something out.

Do you have ADHD or is it possible you do? What about depression? Bipolar?

I ask because of the way you say the substances impacted you. I know people with these formal diagnosis and they also don't have the same experiences on various substances as many.