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Not the poster, but I had to stop smoking weed because of anxiety and paranoia. I have also taken magic mushrooms in a variety of doses, up to 7g dried, and hav

by 19793378 7y ago

Not the poster, but I had to stop smoking weed because of anxiety and paranoia. I have also taken magic mushrooms in a variety of doses, up to 7g dried, and have not experienced any anxiety or paranoia like I did with weed. I had one magic mushroom experience that started out as a really bad trip, but I was able to manage the anxiety and ride it out until halfway through, when it became a wonderful, uplifting, euphoric experience. Contrast that to that one time I did a dab and had a panic attack and couldn't do anything about it.

fjabre 7y ago
I have to disagree. While weed certainly can and does induce anxiety on occasion it is no where near as intense as magic mushroom trips. It’s not on the same level. A mushroom trip can leave you feeling refreshed regardless but if you have a bad trip it may expose you to your deepest and darkest fears and become a terrifying nightmarish experience that weed couldnt induce if you tried. The horror of a bad a trip didn’t necessarily teach me anything other than to respect mushrooms much more than weed. I have had friends say the same. There is no comparison of the paranoia from weed vs the absolute horror of a bad trip. I feel that people who say there is havent really done a lot of either to know the difference.
- AnthonBerg 7y ago
  It's very dose dependent. "At a dosage of 1.6 grams in a therapeutic clinical environment, we might expect 0% of people to experience some extreme fear, for an average of around 1 minute of strong anxiety, and we might expect around ~45% to report a persisting positive increase in mood from this dosage assuming they had first tried 0.8 grams, and then 1.6 grams5" Via https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-shrooms/#start-small https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-shrooms/#start-small Based on studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27578767 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27578767 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/table/T1/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/table/T... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/
- chachachoney 7y ago
  >> The horror of a bad a trip didn’t necessarily teach me anything other than to respect mushrooms much more than weed. Give it time. It can take a decade of reflection to untangle/parse.
- 19793378 7y ago
  > I feel that people who say there is havent really done a lot of either to know the difference. I don't know why you are dismissing my experience like that, or why you think that I do not have a lot of experience. Have you ever had a panic attack? Anxiety and paranoia are something I would get consistently from weed. I never felt the same anxiety, and never felt paranoia, on mushrooms. I never had a panic attack from mushrooms. Almost every psychedelic trip I take (between 50-60 so far) has a range of negative aspects, but I am able to better control myself, something that is not the case with marijuana. I have experienced terror on both mushrooms and LSD, and I was able to keep it together and turn it around every time. FWIW, I also prefer to do relatively large doses (3-5 grams mushrooms, 2-7 hits of LSD).

fjabre 7y ago

I have to disagree. While weed certainly can and does induce anxiety on occasion it is no where near as intense as magic mushroom trips. It’s not on the same level. A mushroom trip can leave you feeling refreshed regardless but if you have a bad trip it may expose you to your deepest and darkest fears and become a terrifying nightmarish experience that weed couldnt induce if you tried. The horror of a bad a trip didn’t necessarily teach me anything other than to respect mushrooms much more than weed. I have had friends say the same. There is no comparison of the paranoia from weed vs the absolute horror of a bad trip. I feel that people who say there is havent really done a lot of either to know the difference.

AnthonBerg 7y ago
It's very dose dependent. "At a dosage of 1.6 grams in a therapeutic clinical environment, we might expect 0% of people to experience some extreme fear, for an average of around 1 minute of strong anxiety, and we might expect around ~45% to report a persisting positive increase in mood from this dosage assuming they had first tried 0.8 grams, and then 1.6 grams5" Via https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-shrooms/#start-small https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-shrooms/#start-small Based on studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27578767 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27578767 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/table/T1/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/table/T... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/
chachachoney 7y ago
>> The horror of a bad a trip didn’t necessarily teach me anything other than to respect mushrooms much more than weed. Give it time. It can take a decade of reflection to untangle/parse.
19793378 7y ago
> I feel that people who say there is havent really done a lot of either to know the difference. I don't know why you are dismissing my experience like that, or why you think that I do not have a lot of experience. Have you ever had a panic attack? Anxiety and paranoia are something I would get consistently from weed. I never felt the same anxiety, and never felt paranoia, on mushrooms. I never had a panic attack from mushrooms. Almost every psychedelic trip I take (between 50-60 so far) has a range of negative aspects, but I am able to better control myself, something that is not the case with marijuana. I have experienced terror on both mushrooms and LSD, and I was able to keep it together and turn it around every time. FWIW, I also prefer to do relatively large doses (3-5 grams mushrooms, 2-7 hits of LSD).