This afternoon, I loaded about 1 tsp of ACRB into a glass pipe, outside in a garden to see if it was active when smoked.
My headspace before smoking was positive and optimistic, with a minor headache (felt kind of like an early migraine). I didn't expect much, but was looking forward to whatever the bark had to show me.
It took me about two minutes of heavy toking to smoke most of the powdered root bark: it's not easy to smoke at all, although the taste is surprisingly pleasant.
At this point my memory of time starts to get a little funny.
Sometime later, I noticed that I had been staring at a leaf for the last few minutes, entranced in the vein structure and how it looked like some kind of continental highway system. Surprised, I looked up, and noticed that colors seemed a little brighter. A sense of serenity came over me: the garden was beautiful, I love my campus, had spent a nice morning with my friends and I instantly understood that I was supremely lucky and that my life was beautiful.
I ducked inside the dining hall to see a friend, and when I got inside and found myself surrounded by people, I became extremely anxious, feeling like I had made a mistake a danger of being overwhelmed by people. I ducked back outside, and wandered around until I found myself back a baseline, rather suddenly.
Total time: 15-20 minutes, from the first toke, to the realization that I was back.
My headache didn't both me while I was living the experience, but once I got inside, it became painfully intense, taking on a sharpness that most of my migraines never achieve.
I absolutely intend to try this again: maybe with a vaporizer.
Blessings
~ND
"There are many paths up the same mountain."