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Friday Fun Thread for July 24, 2026

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Apropos of last week's conversation, I'd like to propose that our good friend @self_made_human try dropping some salvia. It has a penchant for revealing the truth of things. Although, you might also get trapped in an alternate reality for 8 years and come out the other end with radical permanent belief/personality changes, so, maybe it's not worth the risk...

Don’t people say this about ayahuasca (getting “one-shotted”). I have a friend with some mental health issues who claims she was destroyed and turned into a wreck with anxiety issues by weed (which she smoked, on a few occasions, in college), which has always seemed ridiculous to me as someone for whom it has a mildly relaxing effect at best - like a couple large glasses of wine but without the calories or the slight headache in the morning. The worst thing about weed, in my opinion, is that it tempers dissatisfaction with one’s life. I think I’m happier not doing the salvia thing.

The primary active ingredient in traditional ayahuasca is DMT, which is certainly an extremely potent drug that can have long-lasting effects; but most people who have tried both agree that salvia is on another level, just for the sheer range of potential effects it can have.

Most people tolerate weed very well, but some can have very poor reactions to it, especially if they happen to have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia or similar issues.