Grateful Dead

....as are a majority of peeps that post in this colorful corner of the internet. The GD are indeed timeless. Are we stuck with them, or are they stuck with us?
And no, I'm not tripping.
No shipping notice here yet. Portland will probably arrive tomorrow knowing how these things work, or don't.
Obligatory first bump 🤜🤛

…Share more often!! It’s clear you are one of us, and have stories to tell.
No one took me up on the Dave’s Bonus Disc challenges, so I will continue playing my bonus discs and see where that leads me
#45 cannot be TOO long of a wait (I hope) and I’m already thinking the show from the 2nd might be the gem of this Pick.
As you were.

All this talk about David Crosby and Mushrooms.....Back in the Spring of 1971 I was a Sophmore at Penn State Sitting in a Dorm room A friend put on Crosby's new Album about a half hour after...RED with White Dots. Different people have different experiences with these Mushrooms. I remember feeling alittle nauseous, but that went away. I was thinking I was not getting off...The song "Laughing" came on with Jerry Garcia playing Steel Guitar. The last couple minutes of the song Garcia plays some of the most amazing Steel I've ever heard and out the door I went. I did not realize how amazing of a time I had on my own in the woods until I came down. Walking through woods I never was before, Looking at life in a small Creek, and spending time with a stray dog that came along and seemed to be observing me. I do not talk much on these threads but I love reading all your comments a couple times everyday.. I am 71 now and Grateful Dead music has been one of a few things that has stayed with me

On the ship notice.

RGM has the R.T. Vol.1 No.1 Fall 1979 in stock.
They talked it up so much I'm going to it next.

Cheers

on the way from Fontana!!!

....count my vote as aye regarding that concept. In fact, might clean the pipes out tonight. A psychedelic drano as they say.
Loving GarciaLive 18 still. Haven't taken it out of the carousel yet.

Yes, possession of mushrooms containing the active ingredients psilocin and psilocybin is illegal in Britain. It's illegal to pick them now, and possession can lead to a 7 year sentence. If you are caught growing them you could get life! I don't know if these sentences have ever been handed out though. Bizarrely, it isn't illegal to buy grow kits - the spores aren't illegal, it's just once they start growing you've broken the law.
Up until 2005, it was legal to pick them and take them home. But illegal if you then prepared them for consumption. Around 2004 there were several shops in London selling them fresh, from all around the world, cashing in before the law changed.

Are the best. I did them constantly in college. Decided to stop for no other reason than the belief that something that much fun eventually had to have some side effect.

More recently, John's Hopkins is running a study using mushrooms to help stop alcoholics from drinking. It has proven to be very successful. There is also a cool documentary, Fantastic Fungi, about the relationship with mushrooms and trees. Well worth checking out.

I have read that picking magic mushrooms is illegal in the U.K. and that people have been 'busted' while out looking and picking them. I think it is the same here in New York state not that that the cops go looking for 'criminals' doing so. Regarding the medical benefits, Big Pharma will swoop in if they are legalized to isolate and patent and profit. We can count on it. Government agencies which claim to be separate, independent and not part and parcel of a for profit corporation will authorize all of it too. Maybe they create a drug that will help my occasional cynicism and sarcasm?

Oh, by the way, got a shipping notice a few days ago. Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile!

I was quite surprised to get this last night. Came quicker than I was expecting. I notice it does have a reference and a tracking number in the email. I don't bother trying to track things I order, unless a month or so goes by, and whatever it is hasn't turned up. As I often forget what I order, it's always a nice surprise when the postman knocks on my door with another parcel. What's this, I wonder. It's usually a nice surprise, anyway.