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Psychedelics need to be next. That step will take a bit, but it'll be awesome if that happens.
Colorado did good in setting the example, I believe. There wasn't a huge push to monetize it and the most common psychedelics were made fully legal to produce, use and give away.
In some ways, I don't really see mushrooms easily fitting into the dispensary model that we have here already. It's just a different kind of drug, s'all.
Here in California my local smoke shop sells psilocybin infused chocolates under the table, but everyone knows about it and they're all branded and clean looking
It's legit a dream come true to pop by on the way home Friday for a trip on the weekend, and the idea that it's illegal disgusts me
I read up on those, and (generally speaking, YMMV) the amount of active ingredient is ineffectively negligible, if there's any detectable at all. Not what I want to spend my money on.
A couple of the brands I'd agree with you on as I ate an entire bar of one type and felt nada, and another brand regularly felt much weaker.
However, as someone who grows their own as well, there are brands that aren't fucking around and will have you tripping hard on just a few pieces, and it's definitely psilocybin.
Smoke shop owner actively gets reviews from those of us who buy and has been filtering out the duds over time, it's been one of the most wholesome illegal drug experiences in my life tbh
I was right to qualify my statement, then! I can see where if you had a shop owner who was on their game, that would be a fantastic place to buy from. The vape store that sells Delta 9 and happens to have some rando shroom products, I'll pass on that.
Smart man
I'll take my home grown gourmet shrooms over any chocolate bar that is sold under the counter.
While the common phrase is "a cube is a cube", I am finding that different mushrooms can have very distinct trip characteristics. (My Stormtroopers give me a really "fluffy" high and everything feels like a pillow, for example. It's weird, and I compare it to being inside a vagina. It's... a unique experience.)
Grinding up rando shrooms and shoveling that into a candy bar doesn't seem that appealing after having felt the nuances of different strains.
I would also take your gourmet shrooms over any chocolate bar, for what it's worth
And I generally give them away, so it would even be a cheaper option.
If it's anything like the weed edibles market, steer clear unless you know who's making it.
Otherwise you're just going to be ripped off.
In Massachusetts the dispensaries are giving out mushroom chocolates as "gifts" since they are decriminalized but not yet legal to "sell"
So at least in some states they are already being integrated into the dispensary market ahead of legalization.
From what I've seen you really need to eat the whole bar to get a legit trip but at least they are available to the general public. I suspect that given a little time (and actual legalization) there will be a wider variety of stronger products available.
They are likely playing it safe to avoid any mishaps that could damage their PR or their grey market psilocybin business
I think psychedelics are interesting because their non-addictive nature doesn't cause competition for other drug companies.
There simply isn't a way to make egregious profits with them. Mushrooms are cheap and easy to grow. LSD, while being exceptionally hard to make, is effective in such small dosages it ends up being significantly cheaper than mushrooms.
I guess the biggest fear would be psychedelics causing people to 'wake up' to what they've been ignorant of. There's also the "I don't do it and so neither should anyone else crowd," but I don't think they're plentiful in Colorado.