Just to give you a mental picture, semi frequent tripper here. I have been using DMT about once a month since midsummer, had some occasional use spread out over the past two years. Tried shrooms recently too. I've heard others write that the experience of cannabis and psychedelics are somehow linked, but I'm not sure my level of use would play in to any potential cross-pollination (so to speak). I don't like to trip too often.
I smoked a couple thick puffs of a blunt for the first time... and 20 minutes later I was having vivid open and closed eye visuals. I saw a crystal butterfly made of multicolored holes in reality on my studio door, the exact same I saw on DMT about 2 weeks earlier. I saw blue, red, and green dots spiralling out across the walls, and when I closed my eyes I saw pastel pinwheels spinning in a circle around the centre of my awareness.
I never expected cannabis to be so visonary. This is a medical marijuana blunt from a licensed vendor that a family member passed off to me... so no crazy wonder-strain. Incredible!
I found it useful for creative work. I decided to listen back to some of the tracks on my new album and added some little details I don't think I ever would have imagined sober. It felt like I could simply sense just what each song needed, no more and no less.
That said, I don't think I'll do it again. It made me feel slow, foggy, and stupid—even the next day—and I had the urge to keep doing more. I see that as a turn off for any substance.
I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want a clever signature.