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Watch a 61-year-old mom take ‘shrooms for the first time and ‘reconnect with her real self’
02.25.2016
03:00 pm
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So this guy gave his 61-year-old mom a gram of psilocybe cubensis, a species of psychedelic mushroom (1 gram is a small, safe dose) and then he documented it for YouTube. Her trip lasted about four hours, and she said she wouldn’t want to reproduce the experience of being filmed while tripping, but she did say that it helped her “reconnect with her real self.”

She wants to try it with friends in the woods. I’m calling the whole affair “momshrooms.”
 

 
via BoingBoing

Posted by Martin Schneider
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02.25.2016
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Police report: Giraffes chase girl on ‘Portobello’ mushrooms
04.22.2013
11:21 am
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Soon.

An interesting police report from Friday, April 19, in Steamboat Springs and Routt County, Colorado via Steamboat Today. I hate it when this happens… 

10:05 p.m. Police received a call from a woman who said her juvenile granddaughter was at the ski area last week and ran into a person who was selling bags of what she thought were portobello mushrooms dipped in chocolate for $30. Police said the granddaughter further informed her grandmother that giraffes were chasing her down the hill after she ate the mushrooms.

Via Nerdcore

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.22.2013
11:21 am
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Babysit us!: Babysitter needed for mushroom trip
08.24.2011
04:39 pm
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.24.2011
04:39 pm
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At the foot of the mountains of madness:  Fat, nude, longhaired Jew shrooming and firing off .357s
08.31.2010
07:22 pm
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I lived in Northern New Mexico during the late 1960’s and from 2003 to 2008, right at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo (blood of Christ) mountain range. This is an area that has drawn artists, outlaws, visionaries and lost souls for decades, from D.H. Lawrence to Dennis Hopper to the New Buffalo Commune and the Rainbow Tribe. The mountains are thought to have mystical powers, both good and bad. It is said they can mess with a man’s mind. I lived in Taos, which a friend once called “the world’s largest open air mental institution”, and I saw the flow of neo-hippies coming into town blending with the old guard who had been living there for decades. It was a wild mix of 1960’s Aquarian Age values and a kind of longhair punk nihilism - a fascinating blend turning a bit moldy at the edges and slightly rotten at the core.

Dennis Hopper was busted in the mid-1960’S in Taos for walking into a town council meeting brandishing a shotgun.

Shot in New Mexico, the “fat Jew on shrooms” video (Rob Tyner, is that you?) is a comically surreal version of the kind of madness you’ll find in the high desert, on the mesas and in the bloody mountains. The altitude can turn a simple psychedelic trip into something straight out of a Castaneda book and, in this dude’s case, something gonzo from Hunter Thompson. I don’t know how ‘real’ it is, but at 10,000 feet above sea level shit happens. Whether shroom boy is having a bonafide mystical experience or just going apeshit for the camera doesn’t matter. It’s the vibe, man. And the vibe is spooky.

In New Mexico, guns, pot and longhair are totems of some new bizarre breed of hippie outlaw.

The other video included here is from a film called “Off The Grid” and is the real deal. I knew these folks in the video. I had a store not far from where they lived on the mesa and they were my customers. Many were Vietnam vets, a few were clinically insane, others were social outcasts or folks just looking to live the simple hippie life. I liked most of them. But a few had feral children that saddened me. Dirty and hungry, these little kids were living in poverty and squalor, not by their own design, but by the choices their parents, mostly quite young themselves, had made in deciding to live outside of society.

The directors of “Off The Grid” were told by the folks depicted in the film never to screen the movie in Taos. If they did, they’d regret it.

A little comedy followed by something a bit more serious. The connection between these videos is kind of tenuous; longhairs with guns. That’s something I never imagined during the Summer Of Love.
 

 
Life off the grid after the jump…

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Posted by Marc Campbell
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08.31.2010
07:22 pm
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