You’re welcome to read through my history if you’d like to consider my experiences in detail; you, and many others in a prior thread on HN about pot, insisted that, since some people’s reaction scales linearly with dosing concentration, that clearly everyone’s does and so therefore my outcomes of “2x strength, x^2 effect” are invalid. I just chose “hyperpot” on a whim as a convenience for typing on mobile. I don’t agree with the 70s anti-drugs fervor. I was exposed to D.A.R.E. as a kid and I thought that it was largely bullshit back then, and now. So certainly we agree that weed isn’t Satanic.

As I said, finding the minimum potency necessary to minimize the nausea is a good goal. As to the taste, well, chocolate does a fine job of masking it, but I’m certainly not averse to psychedelics that have temporary nausea as a downside. It certainly helps offset the human tendency to chase hallucinogens into oblivion. But I do respect making it less nasty.

I have the same outsized reaction to high-concentration to all sorts of pharmaceutical drugs, not just pot and shrooms. My medical record has one medication in particular now listed as an allergy, that I just assumed was “everyone suffers when they take a normal dose of it”. Turns out, no, waking hallucinations are not a normal side effect for adult doses of that medication, and we all agreed that instead of testing lower doses, we would permanently reject it and find something less complicated and lower effectiveness (which, as is usual for me by now, treated symptoms far better; sigh). They have genetic tests for some of the drugs now — apparently there’s one drug that’s potentially fatal to me if I take the standard recommended dose for my weight — so doctors are gradually fighting me less and listening to me more when prescribing medications, which has done wonders for my quality of life with drugs.

The doctors used to sound just like this, twenty and thirty years ago: “we need to get your dose up to normal”, “there’s nothing wrong with your kidney levels”, “but this is the normal dose to prevent clotting, how could it be causing significant and continuous pain, you must be making it up”, “you just want to sell half of your dose” (when I’m fighting them to the mat to lower the dose prescribed ) and so on. It taught me a lot about standing up for my experience even when I’m a statistical outlier, trivially dismissed as not within someone’s preconceived expectations and therefore not worth listening to. It also taught me a lot about how anyone can be wrong with respect to the bodily reactions of others to statistical outliers that contradict their preconception that “2x dosing strength = 2x effect” — which, while true for many, is definitely not the case for all.

Some things are fixed with education, indeed :)

That'd cost me more money