The only way pot can enhance the experience is if cryogenically treated!!! |
I like to do what I call the Puff-n-Pull, which is puffing on a little weed and then doing a double shot of espresso. I find it gives me heightened senses, while also keeping me relaxed. Music is even more sublime.
True story... Awhile back I noticed that my system had kinda lost its magic. It sounded perfectly fine, but just wasn't giving me those magic moments. That had gone on for a month.
One Friday afternoon, I sat down for a listening session and all of a sudden the magic was back.
Took me a few minutes to put two and two together, but it eventually occurred to me that my period of lost magic conveniently overlapped with the month that I had decided not to smoke. The day the magic came back was the same day I picked up a new prescription.
I'd say that makes weed one of the more cost-effective audiophile tweaks out there. :) |
I read somewhere that legalization really affects the over 60 crowd, as they might try an edible for some reason, but otherwise most people either smoke or don't regardless of the legality. In my state (MA) you pay a couple hundred bucks a year once you get a doctor to approve your medicinal pot license (the doctor approval also costs something) so you can use the overpriced and badly managed medicinal pot shops. Now that adult legalization of pot was approved the state is scrambling to figure out how to implement it…could take a year…nice planning there! I smoke a little before riding my motorcycle and when listening to music as I like the increase in the intensity of the experience and the focus it provides (for me anyway), but really…who cares? Pot is non toxic by definition, and weirdly still objected to by ignorant puritanical boneheads. |
"If it were legal here I'd probably take a puff or two to catch that buzz. I used to enjoy it quite a bit. It’s not legal so I don’t."
I was always under the assumption the illegality was part of the fun. "Hi, officer, what seems to be the problem?"
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At 60 years old I thought I would know it all. There are a bunch of things above that I actually have not even a clue as to what they are about. Maybe Huey Lewis' line "I want a new drug" came to fruition?
-John
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I like to keep it clean.
Couple lines of MiraLAX.
Couple rolls of TP.
I’m good to go.
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What?? These are Digital Drugs.
You want the other thread on Analog Analgesics. |
Wow, I'm in awe of you guys. Handling valuable records and cuing expensive cartridges is something I can just about handle when I'm stone cold sober. Yeah, a Cote Rotie would be nice, but the damage would not be.
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The usual suspects of the hallucinogens can make a listening session more interesting, or disturbing, or pleasurable..... but, by far, the most engaging substance to listen to SOME music on is Salvia Divinorum and consider that to be true with the higher powered extracts (30X and stronger). Pure leaf and weaker extracts won't take you there. The duration is only about 10 minutes but your immersion in the music and the world it creates is almost total in that you experience a complete vision, not an alteration of the place you are in. Your listening room will disappear to be replaced by an altogether different location. Select your music wisely for positive results. I've had my best experiences with the more tribal offerings of Steve Roach. Pushing the envelope, Randy Greif's cd "Verdi's Requiem" is mind-blowing but potentially frightening for the inexperienced. I've avoided other genres so can't comment on them. Just my 2 cents....
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Green Dot?? Why not Yellow Dot?
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A good pear brandy, or Green Dot Irish Whiskey
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Jeffersons Bourbon aged at sea ll.
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If it were legal here I’d probably take a puff or two to catch that buzz. I used to enjoy it quite a bit. It’s not legal so I don’t. Been a few years now.
On some forums this thread would be instantly closed. As legalized weed becomes more prevalent, I suppose that will change. |
A Trinadad fundador & a snifter of XO works for me |
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I generally take mine straight (though there was a time...)
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Nobody do the Flakka while relaxing to music ? |
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I second @golferboy 's cynicism. And like the OP, I find a touch of high-quality cannabis to be a fine compliment.
Oh, and I happen to live in (the above-mentioned) Portugal, so no worries about personal use. Just as it should be. |
I prefer my drugs when I see music live, at home typically sober or if listening in the morning coffee.
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A nice double I.P.A., and perhaps some herbal refreshments... |
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Intelligent Chip in Dark Matter. Shaken, not stirred. |
A snort of beryllium dust with a chaser of DeOxit. |
Yes, discussions of how various drugs improve or degrade experience, in this case listening to music, is silly, immature, and a waste of time. Of course, if you don't have these discussions, we can believe that no one uses, the war on drugs has been great, there is no difference between drug-related incarceration rates for whites and non-whites, the war has not been tool to disenfranchise a large group of voters, etc. Portugal, for example, has not incarcerated or arrested one person for drug use in the last 15 years. I suppose the idea to "legalize" personal drug use came from God, rather than out of discussions about social costs and the good and bad of drug use. I remember being 15 and going to a Yes concert in Buffalo. People brought in huge coolers full of alcohol and dealers grooved to the music, dancing on the football field selling most every drug anyone would have wanted in 1975. I suppose the stadium was full of wacko, immature, silly people. This was just a simple question; and yes, pot, is being legalized across NA because so many people feel that it helps ruin their experiences. I submit we get back to more fun and complex discussion, like whether analog is better than digital, or what is the best preamp under $10,000, or whether your Lazyboy listening chair is made of leather and whether that leather can markedly degrade system sound.
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I grind up mapleshady equipment stands into a fine powder and snort it |
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Posts like these always remind me that some people have way too much time on their hands. |
Heroin, cocaine, grain alcohol, and some methamphetamines.
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Irish coffee and Vicodin. Jameson only. |
None. In fact I find that a glass or two of wine negatively affects my ability to appreciate my system. YMMV.
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Oh, BTW, this is in analog because I have an analog-only system, and if the digital boys chimed in, we'd be talking all day about their need for heroin to enjoy their systems...it's just a joke guys, don't go all Twitter on me.
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