7 New Drugs to Trip on After Magic Truffles

So, did you check magic truffles off your to-do list? Time for a new challenge or ready for stronger stuff to trip even harder? Get to know these alternatives to magic truffles and step into your spaceship. 

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Please note that the drugs discussed in this article may be illegal in some areas and countries. Possession, use and also purchasing these psychedelics are your own responsibility and Dutch-Headshop takes no responsibility for breaking the law. The products we sell are legal in the Netherlands.

Truffles Effects - What can you expect?

The effect of magic truffles and drugs that resemble them depends among other things on the dosage, set, setting and tolerance. Immediately after almost all drugs from this list you build up a tolerance for these substances which often takes a week or longer to wear off. A low dosage of truffles or similar drugs has the effect of slowly but surely making you feel lighter and more open-minded. Sudden thoughts can disturb your normal thinking pattern. With your eyes closed, you also notice patterns that are visible for a short period of time. At higher doses, these patterns take on vivid forms. They change color, shape and eventually they are also visible with your eyes open. 

With even more truffles in your belly, it becomes extremely difficult to distinguish these shapes from the physical world. Instead of them hanging in front of you like a veil, objects in the room seem to move and spin. You suddenly have a strong sense of colour and sound, making music sound more beautiful and art more immersive. The highest doses turn these hallucinations into a new reality so convincing that it becomes difficult to accept that your daily life is as it is. For this reason, psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms and magic truffles is now used as a treatment in mental health care. People with depression, addictions or recurring nightmares find a way out under medical supervision. But let one thing be noted: do not go play doctor yourself if you think there is something wrong with you. This article is intended as entertainment and an eye-opener into the world of psychedelics. We hope you learn something from it! 

Magic truffles can give you an unparalleled trip or a mild relaxation. If you expected more from a dose of trip nuggets and wonder what you can do to still connect with that other dimension, there are the following options.

1 - Stronger Magic Truffles or a higher dosage

Perhaps the most obvious next step is to buy stronger truffles. Safe, legal and the supply is growing like crazy. Do you want the strongest magic truffles? Take a look around in this category, where we regularly add new species. Atlantis truffles, hollandia truffles, mexicana… all magic truffles are in stock!

Was your magic truffle trip a bit dull and did you expect more? Then you can take these steps to get more out of it next time. Do this first before you increase the dosage!

  1. irst check if the dosage is right for you with the Dutch-Headshop magic mushrooms & Truffles Dosage Calculator. Maybe you should take more. Also read carefully the text below the calculator, so you know what the levels are that you enter in the calculator.
  2. Make sure you have the right set and improve the setting of the room you are going to trip in. How to do that and how important it is, you can read in our blog about set & setting.
  3. Eat less before you take magic truffles and make sure your stomach is empty. You can also try taking truffles after intermittent fasting. More and more evidence is emerging that not eating for 16 hours a day is healthy for you. The easiest way to keep that up is to put 8 hours of sleep in between, but then you're on psychedelics in the morning before breakfast. Even for us, that's a little hardcore. It's better not to snack after lunch and postpone your dinner until after the trip. In any case, take the amount of magic truffles that the calculator calculates for you. After the peak (about 2 hours after intake) take a healthy meal.

Increasing the Truffles dosage

There are several factors that determine the effect of the trip. Maybe one day you were less sensitive to psilocybin, the active substance in magic truffles. Maybe your head was not ready for it or you had a heavy meal. You can safely increase the dosage of magic truffles, as long as you stick to the other guidelines we have described above. Moreover, there should always be a sober tripsitter around to make sure you don't do anything crazy. Higher doses lead to stronger, more real hallucinations. So a safe environment where you feel comfortable and someone you trust by your side are incredibly important.

Try tripping one level higher. Below the mushroom calculator, the levels are described. Take the dose that fits the level that appeals to you. Another option is to take one and a half times more truffles than last time. So you took 15 grams and you didn't notice much? Then you can try 22.5 grams of the same kind of truffles if all other factors remain the same.

2 – Grow your own magic mushrooms

Also buying a mushroom grow kit is legal in the Netherlands and some other countries. You can't buy mushrooms that are ready to use since 2008, but you can grow them yourself. It doesn't take long and it's not expensive or difficult. All you need is the discipline to work cleanly.

Most magic mushrooms naturally contain a lot of moisture. Therefore, a fresh magic mushroom is about half as strong as a magic truffle. The real magic starts when they are dried. Then they are 10 times stronger per gram or 5 times stronger than an average fresh magic truffle. Please note that processing and drying of these natural products is not allowed. This falls under your own responsibility. Again, we refer to the mushroom calculator for the correct dosage.

Growing magic mushrooms at home has been completely worked out thanks to a few brainiacs. After ordering you will receive a complete all-in-one mushroom grow kit and instructions for growing can be found on the product page. Usually you'll have your first harvest within 2 weeks and multiple harvests are possible with the same kit.

The strongest magic mushrooms

Looking for the strongest magic mushrooms? In this brief overview we compare some of our mushroom species:

  • Psilocybe cubensis - Listed by strength are the following species, among others: Mexicana, Thai, Golden Teacher, McKennaii.
  • Psilocybe semilanceata (pointed baldhead) - Wild mushrooms that are up to one and a half times stronger than cubensis species. Note: eating wild mushrooms is life-threatening if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
  • Psilocybe cyanescens - Wild mushrooms, up to two times stronger than cubensis species. 
  • Panaeolus cyanescens - Better known as Hawaiian / Copelandia / Blue Meanies. Dried they are 4-5 times stronger than cubensis strains, but more difficult to grow as they are more sensitive to contamination, moisture and temperature. Not for novice mushroom growers.
  • Psilocybe azurescens - Outdoor mushrooms and at the time of writing the strongest in the world. About 5 times stronger than cubensis strains. Enthusiasts do try to grow this strain themselves, but not always successfully. Outdoors there are other factors that can interfere with the growth of mushrooms.

Want to compare the strength of magic mushrooms and truffles? Use this handy overview!

3 - LSA seeds - Morning Glory & Hawaiian Baby Woodrose

Morning glory and hawaiian baby woodrose They get beautiful flowers that look like they're from your garden. Their seeds contain, among other things, lysergic acid amide (LSA), a substance that makes you hallucinate. LSA can be used to make LSD and the substances are also closely related chemically. LSA can be seen as LSD light. LSA has one tenth the hallucinogenic power of LSD. About 4 to 8 hawaiian baby woodrose seeds is a common dose for experienced psychonauts. Of the much smaller and less potent morning glory seeds you need to take at least 40 to 50 seeds to see the famous patterns. The release only takes place after 250 morning glory seeds. That’s why morning glory is also used to microdose. We do have to warn you about the nausea that is common after taking both types of seeds. Taking them on an empty stomach will help considerably.

4 - LSD

Nowhere in the world is LSD legally available. This is partly because in 1971 several countries within the United Nations signed the Convention on Psychotropic Substances. LSD is extremely strong. 25 micrograms (25 millionths of a gram!) is enough to see the room move. 100 micrograms is a strong trip. If you have it and have confirmed that it is actually LSD, you can expect similar effects as with the previously discussed substances. You can trip for about 12 hours though; much longer than with other trips on psychedelics. 

5 - Mescaline | Peyote, San Pedro & Peruvian Torch

Back to the natural products that you can buy comfortably in the smartshop. In many deserts and mountainous areas in America there are wild cacti that contain de substance mescaline. Mescaline is similar in effect to the other classic psychedelics we mentioned earlier, but it works differently. Also, with a few bites of a peyote, you will see colorful circles on the wall at low doses. At higher doses, encounters with strange creatures are reported and out-of-body experiences. 

6 - DMT, Ayahuasca and Changa

It is not surprising that DMT-containing herbs are also available in the smartshop. They can even be bought at the garden center. That's because DMT is not at all rare in the world. It occurs in grasses, tree bark, leaves and root bark of various species of DMT plants. Variants of DMT also occur in the animal kingdom and it has even been found in our own bodies. DMT is a powerful hallucinogenic, but it is not psychedelic orally (eaten or consumed). That's because it is broken down at lightning speed by enzymes. In a number of places in the world handy solutions have been invented for that.  

Ayahuasca

The first way to trip rock hard on DMT comes from the South American jungles. Heroic medicine men have been trying to eat various plants found in the jungle for hundreds and thousands of years. How and by whom ayahuasca was invented is not known, but there have undoubtedly been casualties from trying and combining everything in the jungle. On one occasion at least, two plants were combined. One contained DMT and the other a substance that prevents it from being degraded so quickly by our bodies. Since then, mystical experiences in the jungle were interpreted through the lens of spiritual guides or shamans. 

Today, ayahuasca sessions somehow find a loophole. As a result, in exceptional circumstances it may be legal to drink this psychedelic tea. For example, because it is part of a custom in a certain registered religion.

Smoking DMT 

Another way to get around the rapid degradation of DMT comes more or less from science. If you let DMT get to your bloodstream earlier than the enzymes have a chance to break it down, you have a short-lived, but incredibly intense trip. Like being shot by a cannon. By smoking or vaping DMT, the psychedelic effect occurs almost immediately. From colourful geometric shapes to a tunnel leading to another dimension. Also, smoking or vaping DMT takes no longer than half an hour. Want to eat a sandwich with aliens on your lunch break? DMT is called the businessman's trip for a reason. 

Smoking Changa

Changa can be seen as the modern discovery of combining ayahuasca with smoking DMT. Changa is in fact smokeable ayahuasca that is easier to use, dose and keep inside than DMT alone. The trip can last up to twice as long as smoking DMT thanks to the addition of other plant extracts.

7 - Salvia Divinorum

Salvia divinorum has gotten a bad name partly thanks to social media. Young salvia smokers recorded themselves on the trip and posted the results on YouTube. Governments around the world were shocked by the videos and soon the Mexican plant was banned in many countries. Salvia is a herb whose leaves in particular contain the powerful hallucinogen salvinorin-A. All the psychedelics discussed above have in common that the trip on them brings pleasant feelings. This is because they affect the serotonin levels in your body. 

Salvia on the other hand, does not bind to the serotonin receptors in your brain, but to certain opioid receptors and to the dopamine receptors. This causes the effect, although strongly psychedelic, to be very different from other trippy drugs. You feel much more like you are absorbed in your surroundings. As if body parts are foreign to you and you experience crazy thoughts. These trips are not always fun, but they are incredibly special and unique.

Looking for more variation? Check out our list with types of drugs!