It’s really annoying. The truth is, there’s nothing profound about tripping, it’s just a drug that changes your perception. There’s nothing intrinsically magical or spiritual about it. I enjoy tripping once or twice a year because it makes things look amazing and music sound cool, and your thoughts seem super profound (but they aren’t).
Thankfully, enterprising botanical entrepreneurs are doing their best to remediate the impact of acacia confusa on the environment, by gathering loose pieces of the root bark, powdering it, and selling the powder online. It makes a quite beautiful red/purple dye. Other interesting material properties include its use as a natural soap, and there appears to be some evidence for its utility as a wound healing agent.
Unfortunately, hooligans on the internet seem to be acquiring this incredible dye for the purpose of drug manufacture. Please do not be like these hooligans. Leave the root bark powder of acacia confusa, commonly abbreviated to ACRB, to those of us using it as a dye.
Even more upsetting is the ritual (ab)use of ACRB or other DMT-containing plants in combination with one of my other favorite dyes: refined harmaline, which is a beautiful yellow under normal light and flouresces brilliantly when exposed to black light. There are some positively in-the-paint ne'er-do-wells that will consume two of these dyes, ACRB (or similar pigment) and refined harmalines, within very quick succession. Usually they will then vomit, which serves them right!
Now, obviously, there are various levels of schmess. Many might say, "but look at the complexity of thought of these cultural artifacts surrounding psychedelics!" to which I'd say that, much like St. Anselm's ontological argument (which is poor reasoning, absurd on its face, and yet still more coherent than most psychedelic-induced metaphysical rants), the complexity of thought involved means nothing if it can not be grounded in the everyday experience of a shared, external, objective space.
Let's not reinvent religion and cults with psychedelics; let's look at this pivotal moment in time as a chance for us enthusiasts to encourage society to move beyond such poor modes of reasoning.
Also: I see shit on LSD, but I know it's not real. I'm hallucinating but not delusional, whereas e.g. datura produces both hallucinations and delusion.