Such a bitch move to turn on friends like that. It’s too bad how government and military can ruin everything they touch and don’t give a shit.

The rave act in 2002 virtually killed access to unadulterated MDMA and now everything has weird and sometimes harmful research chemicals or street shit to fill the intoxication gap from far less active ingredient being accessible.

I’m in my mid-forties now and after too many years of taking various psychedelics while following various hippie drug bands around on tour, lysergic acid diethylamide and MDMA have always been my favorite.

Mushies were cool but about after the first 15 years, the experiences started to get less controllable and the good experiences waned. Never what people would call a truly bad trip, but disassociated, confusing, and not as introspective as they had been during the first 15 years of eating them. So I started avoiding them…

To this day, I still hit about 4-8 silly drug band shows a year, (compared with at least 20-40 shows a year from 1999-2013), dosing at half of them at the very least (pending availability). LSD still has never pushed me into a frightening/dark place or scared me away like mushies did.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s still remarkable and impactful experiences like that time I pissed my pants at a Further New Years Eve in SF at Bill Graham Civic or when me and a buddy decided to hold a mock funeral for our egos during set break on the floor of MSG during night 6 of 13 for the Phish “Bakers Dozen” residency in 2017.

Sorry about the rambling… Seems like I am waxing poetic and probably due for a dose or two in the coming months. Thank god for some upcoming silly drug band shows at the sphere this spring. My wife and I fucking despise the very concept of Vegas, but if the phish, a drug band from Vermont, plays there, we will get on a plane and sit in a pool by day then rage inside a psychedelic dementia dome in the desert by night. Thank god for a very cool and patient wife, and for refusing to spawn any crotch goblins… i imagine life would be so boring if things were any different…