• A Holiday Molly Trip

    From aLPHA@21:4/158 to All on Fri Dec 24 08:37:04 2021
    Saw some old friends last night, they are part of a rather oddball
    collection of folks we've met in Berkeley over the years. Artistic,
    slighty off-center, but really good people. I told my wife "this never
    ends well" when we hangout, and oh what prophetic words those were.

    I wanted us to meet for dinner, somewhere outdoors, because there'd be a definitey an end time to the night, but we ended up deciding to go to
    their house--and funky, one-of-a-kind architectural wonder that literally
    built out of a living tree.

    Started out well, Cheeseboard pizza, lots of wine... then Friend 1 says
    -- want to do something a little more exciting? Sure, we say, what's up?
    She breaks out a little white pill that she explains she got from her
    dealer, a good friend she has known since childhood. Molly. Or exstacy. Or MDMA. It has many names. A synthetic drug I mostly associated
    with club-goers, ravers and dance kids. I trusted her that it wasn't laced
    with anything bad (and it wasn't).

    She divided the pill and we each took a 1/4 dose. It kicked in about 1/2
    hour later, and I can only describe it as an audio-visual, time-bending
    trip that I've never experienced--and probably never will again. Objects breathed in and out, light chased across the room. I've done LSD and
    concaine before, and it was NOTHING like that. And I talked. Like,
    couldn't stop.

    I felt safe, in love with the world, these people, this living house--and
    one particularly amazing hanging house plant with 3ft dangling
    branches that I named "Shoggoth" that I was sure it was trying to
    communicate with me. Tell me something secret about the universe.

    We talked *for 10 hours* about life, music, politics, childhood trauma,
    and it felt like, when I looked at my phone and saw it was approaching
    5am, that it had all transpired over about 2 hours max. Crazy.

    Such a trip. I'm not typically a hard drug user, but I do believe we have overlooked the medicinal qualities of many drugs like MDMA due to our
    prudish anti-drug culture and the greed of Big Pharma. When used safely,
    in moderation, its a beautiful thing.

    Needless to say, I am now wrecked. Lack of sleep, hangover from the wine,
    and residual MDMA effects. Just wrecked.

    But it's Christmas Eve, I've got presents to wrap, a brisket to cook so
    I'm going to put on a happy face and chalk this up to one of those life experiences I'll remember for a very long time!

    Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it!

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to aLPHA on Fri Dec 24 18:35:08 2021
    Hello aLPHA!

    On 24 Dec 2021, aLPHA said the following...
    Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it!

    And a Merry Christmas to you, too! :)

    Best regards
    Zip

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