Been a cannabis user for long. It's all or nothing with it, or it can helps you relaxed and be creative, or it could makes you very anxious. As it's softer than anything else, it's very easy to fall in the trap and using it daily for long. That seems fun but it's also critical when you're in fact young, depressed, easily destabilized.
Not a big fan of alcohol myself as i don't like to loose control.
Sniffing cocaïne seems nice for partying as you will resist sleepyness, alcohol, be hungry etc much better. It also increase your ego, it's like you feel better even invincible at some point. I also tried it in Brasil, it was way better than in Europe, it was more a flying carpet, stoning, that just exciting you. It's also an anesthetic, means everywhere you put it you won't feel anything after (your nose, your mouth wherever....)
It's kind of the same with amphetamin but less euphoria, just exciting you and resist to cold, hungry, sleep whataver. you're just fully boosted physically. if you take more and more you will be so excited you will need to run and jump everywhere, even eating your lips eventually. Meth come from this but you multiply by 100 the power and the addiction...
Smoking free base (based cocaïne, crack) is very powerful. Intellectually you will feel like you're Einstein, thinking very fast and way better than usual; but it's also very addictive, you're still high but you're ready to kill your grandmother to have some more (im joking but you get the idea). when you will blow out the smoke from your lungs you will feel the effect coming up pretty quickly, some kind of a flash but surely less intense than flash from injected drugs. If you have seen the film Traffic from Soderbergh i think he gets the idea very well, those blue ambient filtering are quite close to the ambient, the light blue sensation you're in. This drugs appear very nice at first time but if you stay in it it will quickly become a nightmare, as you will be hardly addict, it's expensive and you will just become a junkie wihtin weeks (i said goodbye at the end of the night to the people who made me try, i didn't want to be addicted, they understoodand we didn't keep contact)
heroin, i just did sniff it. As always with opioïd, it calms down the suffering center in the rbain, that's why it's used so much to decrease pain in medicine. That's pretty much about it, no body pain, and a bit flying carpet but more with nausea, so i don't like much opioïd, it's usually not really nice and comfortable as sensations. Opium is kind of different, because it push you into deep sleep with vision, but it's quite rare you on't find some easily. Once again id didn't try with injection but it's supposed to be super powerful with a big flash and huge sensation, at a point you will be junie within days and even sex will appear boring to you.
Mushrooms and LSD are very similar. I tend to prefer LSD, as its a it more easy to access. Mushrooms are a toxin and it could be hard on the body sometimes. Especially if you're not in the mood. Both mushrooms or lsd could be funny, if you're in a fun mood with friends, but also provoke a huge introspection and be very mental. It's also where mushrooms are less easy, they could be more tricky and heavy to handle, on every sensations, including time distortions for example. Impact and sensations can differ a bit from a mushroom to another, when it's more about quality and being fresh with the lsd which is usually always the same substance. They can come light hallucinations, not big deep ones, it's more distortion of the colour and the light that can trouble a bit your perspective. At a certain dose, people can begin to see things with it, but i never really did, not seeing pink flying elephant at least.
MDMA and ecstasy are my favourite chemical drug. I won't advise it to heal depression but it's clearly on this side. It's the love drug, it block the recapture of the serotonin; so if you're in a happy mood you will create serotonin and this will accumulate into your synapses. Making you happier at a point you can't be naturally; huge empathy, huge love, connected to people and everything. But one more time it depends a lot about you too. There's no need to eat too much especially if it's good quality after it's about you to put yourself with your friends in a very special mood of happyness and love. It's a bit destabilizing to take it lonely, as it excites you, makes you wanna talk or make some hugs etc. so you're most likely going to call your friends or try finding some people. Ecstasy is supposed to be MDMA, but it can be mixed with some others stuffs to make it a bit different, crazy or simply more commercial with an effect that is shorter, forcing you to take more pills. So many people say this is different and they prefer MDMA when it should be the same. Also MDMA is supposed to be more pure, but it's not a guarantee of quality and purity. I've been able to take huge quantity of MDMA like 300-400mg and being ok high a bit, when i've been completely stoned with very good ectasy containing 150mg, more or less... normally if quality is super good 120 to 200mg is enough.
Salvia is strange and not so easy to take. You have to smoke it with a "bang", waterpipe. There are (if i remember well)7 levels or more that you can hope to explore with it. I think i've been to the third and it was powerful enough. Distortion of space, a room will apear very small and very big within seconds.... you can feel everything in 2d and loose 3dness, time distortion, hallucination etc. To go more far you will have to smoke serious quantity even helped with concentrate. It's not an easy one, nor to take or what it does. Even before being high if you smoke just a little you feel it invading your brains, like an alien face-hugger, but onto your brain kinda strange. It's pretty fast it's about 30-45 min i think.
DMT is different but same kind of spirit in the way that It's not easy to take, you have to take a certain quantity to feel it. And the sensations are kinda hard when you're able to get really high.
Ayahuasca is very mental, it's like exploring yourself but much more deep than LSD. Prepare yourself to explore your traumas, your fears, your hopes, your animal totem. You will also vomit. Normally it comes with an entire ritual and you have to take some other pots day before it to purge entirely your organism. So traditionally it's not something you take easily to have fun for the saturday night. It's coming with strong hallucinations, strong emotions etc.
Mescaline is like awaken dream, and hallucination could be very strong, it's not just flashy colour or distorted perception here. you can create an entire imaginary land and you will believe it. It's also scary because you really believe it's real. It's hard to describe which kind of hallucination because it depends on you. If you take with some friend, you will be with them but not in the house anymore, maybe in a wonderland, and them will see something else... even when it's calming down, and you begin to come back to reality you could have huge deformation of what's really there.
Datura is usually considered as the strongest and most dangerous shamanic plant. It's also about strong hallucinations, but here it could easily be about living nightmare. It depends, often people doing this will talk to many of their friends, but actually nobody's here, and they don't talk, it's all in the imagination. When you see someone gone with datura he will appear completely out, eyes open but definitely in another world, if yu hear sounds it will seems like some baby stuffs, no words.
Usually datura is more about nightmare and often hallucination could be scary and destabilizing, like monsters to simplify the idea. It's also very toxic and it's one which the lethal dose is not so high so it's dangerous.
Iboga is very interesting and more comfortable i think. Sensations are nice, maybe not as sweet as MDMA/ecstasy but more in this kind of mood than all others that are pretty hard physically even mentally. Iboga won't work on anybody with small doses. It's working more on very sensitive and intuitive people. It's very psychological and sociological. You feel like taking back a lot, you understand why people act the way they do, even the way they more, the way talk, touch their hairs,even small details. It's not analyzing, it's revealing, like seeing clearly al psycho and socio process. You can think about yourself but you're most likely think about people you know even from your past. It can clear up a lot of things. Even days and week after, it can still influence, even during your sleep. It's a nice one, and gladly not very well known so not polluted. When you take something you also to anyone who ever took it. Cannabis and other drugs are very polluted and you're most likely connecting to lots of people and also lots of bad vibes when taking it. Anyway iboga is also well known to help heroin addict to stop being addict...
Those are the classics. Since years now, appeared some new chemical drugs, usually they are derivative from those substances but slightly differ chemically to not be illegal, but also their effect could be pure disaster, so it's important to not take anything blindly. It's important to be informed well when trying stuffs. When you go to the shaman road and even go in the jungle to try something, be sure you're ready and not simply doing shamanic tourism.... We, western people have abandonned those things and are far from it.
It's important to drink a lot of water when taking drugs, like a lot. Hydratation is very important. Also many of them cut the sensation to be cold or tired so be careful to not be stupid and go outside with a t-shirt at night during winter etc... When it's time to come back in the morning after a long night, eat a lunch will help to recover and prepare yourself to sleep. Those are strong experience, and last 6-8 to 12 hours or more.... It's important to do it when you have several days to recover. Usually the following days could be tiring or destabilising more or less depending the drug. MDMA is very nice, but can cause depression after because it completely unbalance the serotonin system. So this is one substance that could be useful in psychological process or just to party but it's also very depressing in return.
Globally i won't advise any of those drugs to anyone. Because they are very powerful, they can make you addict (some of them, the more psyche the less addiction usually). So powerful that they could be very destabilising mentally. People advising it against depression are crazy and don't realise how dangerous it can be. Even if you're fine and happy and just want to have fun, it's very destabilising because it affects a lot your perception, sensations and your consciousness.
MDMA/ecstasy should be the one to adivse in a psychological process, actually it has been used this way after been discovered, about less than a century ago it has been used a psy speaking group, to help people talk more and reveal and releave themselves. But as i said, usually people will take them to party and it also comes with serotonin depress after, and it can be truth for days or even more for the balance to come Back. At least if you know it, you can not be trapped in it and just feel a bit tired and a bit empty. But on a forum like this it's very important to explain that. To people who depress and suffer a lot, yeah you can have the most wonderful night you ever had, but the next day(s) could also be your worst....
Be careful about all that, it's very powerful and could be dangerous. I'm not saying to not try, anyone is free of their choices, but it's better to be informed about, to do this with very trustful friends in good ambient etc. If you feel bad, drink water, use sugar to calm down the effect and remember this will last for just few hours. If you begin to not feeling well this is the worst, you should embrace the thing and enjoy it otherwise you could have a very bad moment both physically and mentally.
