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Friday, September 30, 2011

Drugs So That Time You Spent Tripping at Renn Fayre WASN'T a Total Waste!

Posted by Melanie "The Intern" Johnson on Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:57 PM

Go ask Alice if taking shrooms is totally rad or not.
  • Go ask Alice if taking 'shrooms is totally rad or not.

Good news, everybody! Science nows says doing 'shrooms will make you awesome — forever! Apparently, in a clinical study, 60% of patients exposed to psilocybin (for those of you who have never resided in Eugene, that's the "magic" in magic mushrooms) experience a significant personality shift in "openness" that's been shown, in some cases, to last a year or longer.

Says study author Roland Griffiths in this USA Today article, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine:

"But, remarkably, this study shows that psilocybin actually changes one domain of personality that is strongly related to traits such as imagination, feeling, abstract ideas and aesthetics, and is considered a core construct underlying creativity in general," he added. "And the changes we see appear to be long-term."

Of course, Professor AwesomeDrugs requested, a bit halfheartedly, that you not try this experiment in becoming exponentially cooler and more interesting at home because "personality changes are personality changes," and also because "all the time people who use mushrooms recreationally sometimes end up getting into accidents or engage in homicidal behavior or suicide." Well, sure, but creative homicidal behavior!

So I'm just going to go ahead and call it: DO MORE DRUGS, PORTLAND. You're probably boring anyway, and being more creative might just help you land that bike messenger job you've been coveting (BY KILLING ALL THE OTHER BIKE MESSENGERS by spiffing up your resume!).

And, hey, at least it's better than dealing.

 

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I went to Reed for four years and all I got was this job at the Mercury.
Posted by Michelle on September 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM · Report
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"job"
Posted by Reymont on September 30, 2011 at 4:56 PM · Report
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Hippies who do 'em constantly excepted, I have more respect for and get on better with people who have experience with psychedelic drugs. Some people should never do 'em though. Would shatter their world.

Loved living in Japan when mushrooms weren't "illegal" and you could buy 'em from people setting up tables in the street or at the Deadhead record store in Shimokitazawa I used to buy 'em at. A few different kinds and you got a punch card---every 10th purchase got you a free bag! Nice! Went to a huge trance festival at a couple of clubs in Shinjuku--at the Liquid Room there were giant mushrooms hanging from the ceiling and after DJ EYE from the Boredoms did his set, this punk band played---hanging upside down from a cage bolted to the ceiling. At first thought they were mannequins or something, but no---a band with all their gear and everything bolted to the ceiling. Talk about fucking trippy.. Then saw the Boredoms side project AOA at another club---just amazing--may have been the 'shrooms and X, but they were unbelievable.

Drugs are fun.
Posted by jake on September 30, 2011 at 11:43 PM · Report

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