Took acid at 16 and at mid trip it made me realize all the negative things that I do in my life. All I wanted to be is good. It made me realize how special that drug is and that it shouldn’t be abused

Adam: what about a 2 year old? Mark Haddon: *its about maturity*

There's 40 year olds that still think like 16 year olds. He's absolutely right that it's not about age.

I'm really thankful for Mark. We need more people like him representing the truth of psychedelics.

I liked the part where he said it’s not about age

What a great goal. I'm over 70 y/o and have dreamed of psychedelic legalisation since the 1970's. Quality control is what I want for the takers of these drugs. Wishing you luck in your quest.

I once heard a parenting tip that said "If the kid is old enough to ask the question, they're old enough to know the answer", may be the same rule of thumb for psychedelic experiences.

I haven’t even watched the video but I’m just gonna say: Teens dont give a shit, they’ll still do it anyway

whether he says no or yes, it won't stop anyone, I want to try it this summer it's always been something that's intrigued me

Maturity, not age. He's trying to say if you're equipped enough to realize what you're getting yourself into, your brain is grown enough to be aware of what it is you're getting into, and you know that no underlying things will affect how you experience, then you're equipped to have a trip under the proper guidance and measures. That's how I interpreted it.

I went through sexual trauma. I was going to therapy 4 times a week. I had nightmares, flashbacks, I watch on constant high alert, I was scared to be alone, and afraid of those near me, I felt like I couldnt trust anyone. Just one tab, and I feel like myself again, all my anxieties, my panic attacks, my nightmares, my trust issues, disappeared. And I am forever grateful.

I'm 16, ate about 2g mushrooms 4 months ago, it was my first mushroom trip, I felt like I finally discovered myself and my severe depression was cleared up, it opened my eyes on a lot, my view on the bad drugs, heavy drinking, it all changed. Truly the best experience I've had in my life, such a beautiful, meaningful experience.

Adam's mad at this maturity answer cus he doesnt qualify yet

I really enjoy the direction your taking Adam.

*Gives kids legal meth (addies)* "This is totally fine" *Gives kids funny mushies* "You're frying your brain"

I feel like only people who have done acid and shrooms n stuff can understand how true it’s positive effects are. Like for anyone who hasn’t done it it would be really hard to see the other side until you have done it. Like you can’t discribe it but everyone who has done this stuff knows how special it is.

It’s mind blowing how you can have one of the most profound experiences of your life on a substance and have no desire to repeat it for a long time.

Short answer - *Yes* Long answer - *Have a reliable plug!* because I bought shoes from a drug dealer one day. Idk what he laced them with, I was trippin all day..

I friend of mine was allergic to cats and forgot while on MDMA and after cuddling that cat, he hasn't shown any signs of being allergic to them since.

I think people confused true addiction with the mild feeling of wanting to do acid because it felt good. But trust me, if u trip too much too often, psyche will kick u ass back to earth telling u u being stupid by doing that

I started my journey with LSD this year, at the age of 17. In many cultures the substance is seen as a hard drug comparable to heroin but in reality it makes you more wise, open to the world and makes you cherrish the nature. ✌️peace

seeing adam talking with joe rogan would be very interesting

Mom can we watch joe Rogan? No we have joe Rogan at home Joe rogan at home: EDIT: oh nice pointless internet points! But thanks for moving your finger to the like button

He’s right. It is about Maturity. Kids who take acid young mature really quick because of how intense the experience is. Its life changing and for the better. You just gotta be core with yourself.

I’ve only done acid once when I was 16 now 17 and it was an experience. Would love to do it again in the future. Psychedelics aren’t bad but you have to be mentally ready and not do it daily

ive taken acid many times and did it first when i was 15 and from the first trip it helped me become much more considerate for everyone else

"Who am I?" "Who am I outside of my parents?" "Who am I in the context of I?"

I couldn’t imagine tripping with my parents 😂 idk even know wtf that’d be like

Adam I really want you to talk about the dangers of high concentrate THC. I've been smoking dabs for about 2 years straight and decided to quit. It was the absolute worst week of my life. I was sweating, shaking, puking, and had skin crawling anxiety. There's too many people who believe there's no negative connotations to these high strengths. I used to be one of them. If anybody disagrees and you smoke dabs consistantly, try to stop for a whole week. It's just as rough as any other withdrawl...please everyone dont send hate or tell me I've been smoking laced material, I grew and pressed myself. EDIT: I understand the moderation aspect(especially now), my point is a wide majority believe it's still okay to smoke everyday with no repercussion. EDIT2: (2 months after quitting) I still havent smoked since and after the 2nd week I started to feel more normal again. I'm happy I quit, I was abusing it and on top of that wasting away my money. I'm proud of myself and if anyone was in the position I was I can testify that it is so difficult to quit but it was the best thing to do if abusing it. Hope everyone is well and i still love this community adam has brought together. Peace ✌

As much as I appreciate this interview I can’t let go of the feeling that you kinda interrupt the professional quite a bit and your questions don’t really push the conversation. You just go in circles with him and he ends up moving the topic.

Whenever i get a haircut ill talk with the barber about psychedelics. Perfect opportunity to get the word out and help psychedelics get legalized.

If kids were allowed to trip for psychologically benefial reasons it could have been something that would have saved me from 20 years of PTSD. I think this could be a great thing.

I began tripping on acid when I was 15. I’m 18 now and I’ve done it many times and every single time has truthfully been some of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had

it seems like Adam isn’t trying to understand- more like trying to prove he’s right by probing questions. the questions he’s asking aren’t to open the dialogue but instead prove his preconceived ideas of the correct age to do drugs

I've taken psychadelics as a teen on many occasions, purely for visuals, building up to my most recent trip at the age of 18, which was the first eye opening experience, its likely I will never touch them again but I'm very glad I did

Slightly aggressive tone there, Adam. Good questions and a good discussion but you cut your guest off several times.

Weed changed my whole mentality on life and my family. I became a kinder person and valued life more. Not every teen will have this effect but I had a huge positive effect with it.

I was 17 when I tried LSD for the first time. 1998, me, my best friend and his lil bro each took 1 gel tab. We were still drivin in his moms mini van when it started to kick in. Around the bend we see a bunch of blue lights. Unfortunately it wasn't a hallucination. It was a road block. And to top it off, as we pulled up, a guy was resisting arrest. We get asked a couple questions We were remarkably smooth with answers despite having a stomach full of knots. He let us on our way and we made it home. Had a great time that night

should've just had this guy give a talk, he practically had to interview himself

Only time I've ever taken LSD was when I was 15, I did 300ug and it was so much more intense than I could have ever imagined. I experienced complete dissociation, I won't go into more detail but yeah it was a very personal and exposing experience. I really had no idea what I was getting into but I think that's why I was able to have such an emersive trip, I just let it take me. I'm nearly 19 now, never taken it since and currently have no desire to. I'm not opposed to it though, I'm looking foward to doing it again one day but at the moment I'm still learning and understanding the thoughts that I have from my first experience. The way that i would explain lsd is as an experience that doesn't feel as if it's coming from a drug, it feels like an experience that is presented to you by your own mind

Thought I was watching JRE for a moment there.

Adam your interview questions sometimes are both hilarious and infuriating

When I was 15 I explored the world of psychedelics. I had my hands on everything from DMT, LSD, mushies, Salvia, and 2cb. I only went "overboard" once but it bit me in the arse. These compounds taught me many valuable lessons. After 1/2 years taking certain doses of different substances, and exploring my mind I "hung up the phone". I had gained all the answers I needed at that time in my life. Although after "meeting my maker" (as Mark Haddon put it) I have even MORE questions about life. Now I am currently 18, I haven't taken another psychedelic since. I began following my dreams, became an overall more positive person, and my lifelong depression has been in remission for almost 2 years thanks to these beautiful compounds. Age truly doesn't matter. However, I do advise against doing ANY drug until your brain is fully developed but that has never stopped anyone. As long as you know yourself and are mentally mature I think teens could handle them. Especially if used in a therapeutic setting. Mushrooms could treat depression in my opinion, and psychedelics could become an alternative to antidepressants. (I took antidepressants from 10-15 years old.) All and all this current research makes me really happy and I am glad we have a social platform to see it in action. Thanks Adam! Keep up the good work, you are doing great!

After acid I've noticed more control over my emotions and generally more happiness

I did. Back in 1990. And I'm ambivalent about it..... learned many lessons but also wonder if I went a little overboard. Naaaaah!

The brain is such a beautiful mystery, and the fact that we still don't understand lots of things about it gets me so excited

Kids have to be tripping. My dreams when i was a little kid were the craziest and most memorable

I took acid and shrooms as a kid . I would never recommend it. No one will fully understand what they are getting into when taking these drugs. It mentally traumatized me. I based a lot of my young life off Psychedelics. It was hard for me to focus in school relationships being misunderstood and this lead me to living a harder life growing up. Especially in the states.

'It's not about age!' Soooo 11?

Why am I this interested into drugs like this 💀

Hi Adam. First of all, I want to thank you for your channel. I wish this channel would exist 15 years ago, maybe some of my friends and family members would be still here. You have an email from me on your email contact, I hope you can check it out. I wish you the best.

Honestly, I did LSD at the age of 16 & it was life changing. I have to say that it by far changed my life for the better. It remerged my passion for education & sports, killed any social anxiety I had as well. It also made me more of a free-thinker, more so being able to speak for myself rather than following what others wanted in all situations.

I wassss 15 or 16 the first time i tripped. My advice, DON"T do it while PMS-ing. If you're like me you will cry the whole time.

I find psychedelics very interesting, in my personal experience I've only tripped on psilocybin mushroom but never felt like eating them regularly. Don't get me wrong, the effect that I get and the trip in itself is always welcomed and lovely but when it is done, it's done even tough I love everything about it I don't want to chase it. I first tried shrooms when i was 19 (21 now) but was curious since I was 16, did a lot of research before jumping in and I'm glad I did because I wouldn't have had the same trips if I went completely blind into the experience.

I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder when I was 13. To help me, my mom gave me weed (which didn't really do much), and when I was 17, she gave me LSD. In the weeks that followed, I was less depressed than I ever remembered being. Since then (I'm 20 now), I've been taking acid or mushrooms a couple of times a year, and it has *significantly* helped me. The positive mindset, the control I have over my thoughts and behavior has been life-changing. It's helped me to understand myself, difficult things that I've experienced, and life in general. I have major respect for these substances and fully believe that it could help a lot of people with various mental/physical health issues. Hell, I think it could even help people without any issues! That being said, I have a friend who accidentally ate acid when he was about six years old, and to this day he refuses to take any sort of drugs, and he won't go into detail about the experience. While some kids may be able to handle it (like the one that Haden referenced), I think in western society at least, it should be handled extremely delicately. Not all adults can handle it, either, it's not a magical solution that everyone needs to use. Regardless, I have been seriously considering going to school for ethnopharmacology or ethnobotany and it's been a dream of mine for a while to work for MAPS and things similar to it. It's an incredibly fascinating subject!!

Why was he trying to put his words in this guys mouth the entire interview

I was 17 with my first trip. Just a year ago. I was with my 2 friends and I had little knowledge of psycadelics along with my friends. My friend frank had done it a few times and didn’t explain anything about good or bad trips or how it made you feel. I went into the storm blindly. The trip was AMAZING. We sat in his upstairs living room waiting for 45 minutes until I said “Hey are those curtains moving a little bit or am I seeing things. (Keep in mind only a 75 or 100ug tab) Frank says “no man, we’re starting our trip” We sat in there for the whole come up and I was amazed by what I had missed this whole time about not only myself but the world itself. Thankfully his mother was okay with psycadelics as long as we didn’t do any pills or drugs of the narcotic sort unless it was small amounts of marijuana. She knew we were tripping. We begin our peak and we go and ask her at about 1AM if we can go on a walk. She says “Of course! You have 45 minutes and I’ll have cookies when you’re back” We go outside and we’re just hopping around laughing our ASSES away. The trees, the night sky, hell even the concrete looked beautiful. We went to a park and hugged a tree, pissed on the street and went home to some cookies. From there we spent 3 hours in the bathroom amazing by the tile floor. I’m even shaking right now reminiscing about this it was so intense. Main thing I remember is feeling one with nature which is common for acid. It felt as the house was alive. My breathing was synced with the walls breathing. 8/10 best experience. Would be a 10/10 if I was more prepared for the after effects and how depressed you feel when you are fully come down off the drug. Should teens do it? I would say yes if our brains were finished developing by the age 15 but I would just wait till your brain is matured. Psycadelics and marijuana don’t mix well with young brains.

W-What if we kissed under the kids tripping on LSD

Being gay, its totally okay.

Bruh I done acid 4 times when i was 11 to find answers but i just ended up tripping balls and now I have a shroom farm

last time i was this early adam still had hair

I’m 18 and when I was 17 I tripped on acid every weekend for a month and it cured my depression after trying 5 different antidepressants and wasting money on therapy. LSD has made me so much stronger minded and happy with myself.

I am currently coming down from an acid trip so what a coincidence that I’ve come across this! I completely agree with Mark, it’s not age, it’s maturity. I’m 18 and I have gradually taken higher doses over the past year. As a result I have become more self aware, ambitious, and GRATEFUL! I cannot emphasize how it has impacted me in a positive way. I learned about it when I was 15 but waited years because I just didn’t feel ready yet. I wasn’t mature enough. (Considering I just entered adulthood) Acid has helped me cross into this new chapter of my life as a more positive, earth loving, grateful, and mindful person.

We should do experiments with psychedelics and psychopaths. I’d love to see how that would affect them.

I’m a teenager and psyche have helped me through a lot of stuff. When my brother sadly passed away psychs taught me the main lesson that is taught during grieving, cherish the memories because nothing I could physically do would bring him back

I had an ego death when I was 15 years old on 4 grams of mushrooms and smoking. Never been the same since

I started tripping at 15. The first time I took Lsd was amazing and has been ever since. It really opened my eyes and I learnt a lot about myself. But you should definitely be educated on the drug and be in the right mind set, which I made sure I was

“When you’ve died and met your maker you don’t want to go back and talk to him” so true.

"I wouldn't necessarily agree with that, but I understand the logic" big love Adam

It's to late because i have already spent a bunch of my nights on lsd:p

i'd actually be curious to see how it would affect on the children to have a full spiritual awakening induced by psychedelics before puberty. it would be though for them, but they'd also be safe with their parents to slowly and safely take a grasp on the change afterwards. maybe this is should be just a fantasy, but i honestly think it would be safer than what most 18 years old do at their friends that they even don't know that well.

I had a deep existential crisis at 16 which plunged me into a 6-7 month existential depression which was utter hell. I researched heavily about different religions and philosophies, tried out atheism, tried out nihilism, tried out absurdism, but none of them stopped the constant questions and I wasn’t content so I found Alan Watts and Buddhism and at first I didn’t like Buddhism because it felt so nihilistic and I didn’t want that, I wanted Abrahamic God, Abrahamic religion, I wasn’t ready for what could be the truth. I meditated and did yoga, journaled and sat in silence for weeks trying to come to terms with my existence and the Buddhist philosophies helped with that some of my favorite quotes that helped me keep going were “a flower doesn’t know it’s a flower, it just is.” Buddhism taught me to just be. I was so alone and no one around me knew how to help me because they were still sleep but I still kept going despite being heavily suicidal at one point. It took constant meditation and Buddhist teaching to get to a place where I was at peace then right after that I started smoking weed and it did everything that I had been practicing for months in just 2 hours. This natural plant that is here for us taught me to let go and taught me that everything is okay. I used weed once a week while I kept studying Buddhism and the Buddhist teachings started making sense then I read about psychedelics and KZfaq started recommending me all these videos that taught me about them so I decided to research everything I knew about shrooms and lsd and got my first two tabs, bought a test kit and set up a nice area with good intention and I was in a good headspace. I’m only 17 but that trip blasted my depression to another galaxy, it’s been 3 months and I still view the world the same way that I did on Lucy. I beat existential depression without the use of man-made sedatives and I owe it to weed, lsd, and meditation. I also know that lsd is man-made so if anyone reads this don’t take my head off lol. I am way more open to many truths now and I can understand the Hindu concepts like non-duality because for a certain period of time during my trip I was everything, I was the pencil in my hand, I was the carpet, I was the air, and in essence that’s a non-dual state. Idk all I’m saying is that drugs helped me and life is beautiful and just take them responsible because they can surely help supplement the process of your spiritual growth

I took acid and mushrooms for the first time junior year and it helped me realize a lot about myself. This being said I’ve all but raised myself from the age of 12 so I feel that maturity played a big factor in this. Ive watched kids the same age completely freak tf out and take back nothing from the experience. Ive also seen people use it as a party drug in high school where you just laugh and take nothing seriously and ultimately also takeaway nothing. Being able to take back and change something about yourself after a trip is when you know you’ve become mature enough to take these substances.

the thing is, i'm 16 years old and over the past year or two i've seen my friends (both older and of the same age) take quite intense psychedelics (acid being the most common). Although I agree with what he's saying about maturity, psychedelics I think need to be treated with a different perspective. My friends knew exactly what would happen when they took their tabs, they'd done their research and watched your videos etc etc. But each one has come out from their first trip severely regretting it and realising they weren't ready to take psyches just yet. What i guess i'm trying to say is, some psychadelics have the capability for someone to completely change their view on life both positively and negatively. A lot of teenagers (like myself) believe themselves to be mature than they probably are. So therefore i don't believe we should determine wether teens are ready to take psychedelics just because they say they are, there should definitely be a minimum age recommendation.

I’m 15 I have dropped 3 tabs in total throughout quarantine by myself. It for sure woke me up on how I see things in life...in a positive way, it mainly changed how I see people

My first trip was when I was 17. I would say it really opened my eyes up to the world and changed my look on everything for the better.

I'm actually 15 and used LSD many times, I've been responsible for my acts while on LSD and went through nearly 20 trips without external problems associated with LSD or social problems, my grades are even better now than before (just because I need them to go study somewhere else lol), I focused more in which path should I take in this trillion path life that I have now and the truth is that I can get to be anything I want actually, time is a very big factor, once you turn 18 paths get narrower and more with time. I have this point of view where I can see my death time and from there see how I did on this path and think on how it could have been trough other paths, the thing is that I can somehow see those other important paths that I should take and correct my path decision from young and not from my death. Once you read this it seems like it has no sense but on LSD... trust me, its the best idea you could ever have to improve your own life and future life without knowing at all, just go and don't surrender, you will get there, time is not important here, the important thing here is how you run that path exactly to the idea you had in that death experience. btw I have 7 revolutionary ideas I have written down which doesn't seem to have any sense... they do have it. I'm going for the Nobel prize... I do want to improve humankind! I'm going to make this real, I hope there are other people with more power than I actually have that think the same way... edit: obviously I have many other ideas than just this one, I have like a 40-page book about my trips, never tried ayahuasca, never tried mda, mdma, or other '' dangerous'' or damaging substances, just LSD and 11-hydroxy-THC 2 edit: by damaging I refer to substances like opioids, cocaine, barbiturates..., etc.

I’m a 13 year old. Tried many things. Grew up too early due to backgrounds. Have had deja vu of when I was a baby. Basically saying when tripping, I saw the same thing I did when I was 1 year old. Not exactly in the same setting but with the same mindset. An indescribable feeling honestly. Going back to my best moments of when I didn’t understand, while understanding my surroundings. Edit: theme of the situation, I’m positive your brain when your in your youngest is the same as it is on certain psychedelics. The strongest ones(the toad), take you so far back, you go back to where you were before YOU were YOU or at least before your soul got trapped in the box it’s in. so once you do it you think you feel like “god”. You’ve felt like that before, but don’t remember it because since then you were born, and practiced with your brain so much to the point to where your functioning perfect now until you pass and your souls free. It goes where it pleases, your heaven and your hell, I’m a Christian and I believe in heaven and hell but I’m not like everyone, I’m asking for my soul to go to heaven, if you don’t believe in that you’ll go to where YOU want to because it’s your choice to roam the infinity.

2:57 i don’t think anyone can “understand” psychedelics before actually doing them. His point kinda collapses in on itself in this way. It’s quite circular in that the maturity generally comes after the decision to do it. It certainly functioned this way in my case

took acid for the first time at 16 with my dad, changed my life in so many good ways, i was a great full psychedelic experience at south american forest, with waterfalls and a beutiful beach, made me born again.

I love how that cup is magnifying the nutrition label perfectly

I'm really glad you're having these really great guest's on your podcast. How can I listen to them fully?

I think the interpretation of being addicted to pyschs is interesting. I know people who take breaks from them but I would describe as stubborn, and even despite extremely challenging trips and revelations, they come back to them time after time even though some of these people appear almost terrified of some of the substances they choose to consume.

i think this guy has a point. i told my mom right before i took acid, did my research, thought about it, and did it when i knew i was mature enough or stable enough to take acid. i knew the cautions, the goods, the bads, inbetweens, etc. etc. in my opinion young children 13 under, ect. should not take acid. before taking lsd they need to know how to handle themselves mentally, spritualy, and all the others. i think its definatly about maturity. im still healthy and the same person, im still a minor, doing well. NOTE: STAY IN A SAFE PLACE WHEN TAKING!!!

I feel like psychedelics (or at least LSD specifically) can be psychologically addicting in small doses (50ug and less) where they mostly just give you euphoric feeling and stimulation without going too deep inside your mind. Feeling good is always psychologically addicting. That said, there aren't any withdrawals and the tolerance still builds quickly so you absolutely can't take it every day and expect the effects . Also psychadelics are some of the least harmful psychoactive substances in the world.

When you said "trippy state in young children" i think you want to refer to the flow state children inherently have

Adam, those FMRI studies show that the brain of someone on acid is similar to the brain of, essentially, a baby. Infants are 'tripping' for the first maybe three years of their life. Their modes of perception change as their linguistic skills/general comprehension of the world improve, and as they develop an ego. (This must be why no-one can remember anything before the age of three.) Seven-year-olds aren't tripping!

I like how he grills mark so hard! He gets into such a sceptical role and pushes mark to use his best articulation

I feel like your mind was very closed this whole interveiw. Super weird. I like this guy tho!

adam sounding lowkey a little dumb today😂😂

Dude sounded like the weird uncle when he kept saying it's about maturity

He seems like a very intellectual and out of the box thinking person, very nice to listen to him

this bald guy is kinda giving me "I think I know more than you" vibes

why are you acting like such a sceptic? like, i dont understand the point of this interview

Tripped in school when I was a junior, it built character

It was a mushroom experience at 15 that helped me change my attitude and decide not to drop out of school.

I am 17 years old and i really find that the hardest part is changing my parents mentality about substances that as we see are not addictive or threatning to our health (to some point). How would you guys talk about this topic with your family?

In my opinion, I feel like people should at least graduate high school before trying psychedelics. Being a teenager can be so overwhelming and stressful as it is so I feel like adding a psychedelic into the mix could be dangerous. Again, this is just my opinion.

As a teenager I tripped and it was more about pretty colors and great music than deep thinking like it is now.