Louisa Rogers and her husband Barry have taken psychedelics together throughout their marriage. My husband and I took LSD together for the first time almost 50 years ago.
It was a great experience for us, and we’ve been taking psychedelics together ever since.
It’s helped us have difficult conversations, and we’ve also had a lot of laughs.
Editor’s Note: This is the author’s experience, and others may have different experiences. Some have reported "bad trips" on both LSD and ecstasy. There could be risks involved with using psychedelics, and research is still being done to evaluate therapeutic uses.
Barry, now my husband, was the person who introduced me to LSD almost 50 years ago when I was 23. We were camping one summer at Manning Park, one of British Columbia’s provincial parks, and we each took acid as we strolled along a gently winding trail called Lightning Lakes. I had smoked grass before, but nothing psychedelic — in fact, I had been afraid of it until Barry told me how transformational his first trip had been.
Later that day, while we ate apple pie at the park restaurant, Barry scribbled on a napkin, "Louisa is treating herself very delicately, like porcelain china." Later still, we went up to a lookout. As we sat watching the fading light, he turned to me and said, "Well, Sarah Louisa." Hearing him address me using my first name brought tears to my eyes.
Ever since, psychedelics have been an essential companion in our relationship.
I rarely outed myself as a user of psychedelics until Michael Pollan popularized it in his best-selling book "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence."Since then, I’ve become increasingly open about it.
Barry and I use psychedelics on average two or three times a year. Our experience ranges wildly, from silliness and laughter — a few months ago, I laughed more in one day than I felt like I had in 10 years — to tearful, poignant, and serious, sometimes all of that in one day. It helps us […]
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