Golden Rule Terms of Use

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Side Effects and Warnings

LSD acts on your brain (central nervous system) and changes your mood, behavior, and the way you relate to the world around you. LSD affects the action of a brain chemical called serotonin. Serotonin helps control behavior, mood, the senses, and thinking. LSD is a strong hallucinogen. Depending on how much you take and how your brain responds, your experience may be “good” or “bad.” A good trip may be stimulating and pleasurable. A bad trip can be very unpleasant and frightening. LSD’s effects can be unpredictable. Effects usually start in 20 to 30 minutes. The effects peak in about 2 to 4 hours and last up to 12 hours. LSD can produce physical impacts such as: Increased heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and body temperature; sleeplessness, loss of appetite, tremors, sweating; and mental impacts including anxiety and depression. Some LSD users have flashbacks. Contraindications for LSD use include a history of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, as it can trigger panic attacks and extreme anxiety, especially in individuals with pre-existing conditions. Individuals with cardiovascular issues are also at higher risk for adverse events. LSD is also contraindicated if someone is pregnant or has a history of epilepsy/other seizure disorder or stroke.

Mescaline Side Effects and Warnings

Mescaline induces intense psychedelic experience for the user, which may be pleasurable and enlightening or anxiety-producing and unpleasant (known as a “bad trip”). There is no way to know how a user’s mescaline experience may ultimately play out. Common effects during mescaline use may include: visual hallucinations and radically altered states of consciousness (psychedelic experience), open and closed eye visualizations, euphoria, dream-like state, altered body image, slowed passage of time, altered perception of space, laughter, a mixing of senses (synesthesia, such as “seeing a sound” or “hearing colors”), and pupil dilation. Side effects or risks include: Intense nausea, vomiting, dilation of the pupils, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, a rise in body temperature that causes heavy perspiration, headaches, muscle weakness, impaired motor coordination, anxiety, fear, racing heart beat (tachycardia), dizziness, weakness, diarrhea, tremors, accidental injury, psychosis, panic or paranoia, seizures, amnesia (loss of memory), post-hallucinogen perceptual disorder (flashbacks), and rarely, suicidal thoughts or actions. Medications that have an effect in the brain and may affect serotonin levels (for example: antidepressants, antipsychotic agents, medications for bipolar disorder) may have the potential for dangerous drug interactions when combined with mescaline. Drugs that affect the circulatory system, heart, or have stimulant affects may lead to rapid pulse and dangerous cardiovascular outcomes. Pregnant women should not use Natural Medicines due to possible negative effects on the fetus.

Assumption of Risk, Liability Waiver Agreement and Hold Harmless Provisions

Participant acknowledges and voluntarily assumes full responsibility for all risks associated with participation, including but not limited to physical, emotional, psychological, or legal risks arising from the use of any Sacrament or related activity. Being fully informed as to risks laid out above and in consideration of the Services, Participant shall forever release, indemnify, and hold harmless TSP from any and all claims, counterclaims, damages, defenses, setoffs, recoupments, debts, demands, causes of action, suits, obligations, losses, costs, expenses, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever, in law or in equity, whether known or unknown, fixed or contingent, including but not limited to those arising from your use of our Sacrament. Participant covenants not to sue TSP, or any of TSP’s principals, contractors, or agents, and waives any right of recovery, whether known or unknown, that Participant may have to bring a claim or a lawsuit against TSP for any personal injury, death, damage to personal property or other injury arising from your use of our Sacrament, whether arising from a theory of any tort, including negligence, or any other theory in law or equity. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of any member of the TSP’s agents’ family, spouse, heirs, assigns, real property, attorneys and personal representatives. The Agreement shall be construed broadly to provide a release and waiver to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law. In no event shall TSP’s liability, if any, exceed the amount paid for the services by the Participant.

Confidentiality & Non-Disparagement 

This Agreement is confidential and may not be disclosed by Participant to any third party except as required by any applicable law or valid Court order. Participant shall not make social media or other public posts regarding TSP. Participant agrees not to record, share, publish, or reproduce any portion of TSP’s community gatherings, sessions, or teachings without written consent of TSP in advance. Participant agrees not to make any disparaging, false, or misleading public statements about TSP, its affiliates, or its members.

Miscellaneous

Mediation/Arbitration. Prior to initiating any action under this Agreement, the Parties agree to engage in mediation to resolve any disputes. For any dispute not resolved by mediation, any remaining dispute, claim, interpretation, controversy, or issues of public policy arising out of relating to this Agreement, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this Section, will be determined exclusively by mandatory binding arbitration held in Denver, Colorado, and will be governed exclusively by the Colorado state Uniform Arbitration Act. The Parties waive (i) any right of removal to the United States federal courts and (ii) any right in the United States federal courts to compel arbitration, to confirm any arbitration award or order, or to seek any aid or assistance of any kind. If either party brings an action to enforce the provisions of this Agreement and is the substantially prevailing party in any action, the substantially prevailing party will be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred in such action.

Entire Agreement. This Agreement supersedes all prior discussions and agreements between the Parties and/or their Affiliates with respect to the subject matter hereof and contains the sole and entire agreement between the Parties and their Affiliates with respect to the subject matter hereof.

Waiver. Any term or condition of this Agreement may be waived at any time by the Party that is entitled to the benefit thereof, but no such waiver will be effective unless set forth in a written instrument duly executed by or on behalf of the Party waiving the term or condition. No waiver by any Party of any term or condition of this Agreement, in any one or more instances, will be deemed to be or construed as a waiver of the same or any other term or condition of this Agreement on any future occasion. All remedies, either under this Agreement or by Law, are cumulative and not alternative.

Governing Law. This Agreement is governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Colorado, without giving effect to any conflict or choice of law provision that would result in imposition of another state’s law. THE PARTIES WAIVE ANY DEFENSES BASED UPON INVALIDITY OF CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC POLICY REASONS AND/OR THE SUBSTANCE OF THE CONTRACT VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW.

Participant acknowledges that he or she has read this Agreement fully and understands it, including its binding legal consequences, intends to be bound by this Agreement, and is signing this Agreement freely and voluntarily. Participants attests they are over the age of 21. 

Digital Acceptance: By checking the box acknowledging “I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions” on GoldenRuleMushrooms.com (the “Website”), the Participant affirms that they have read, understood, and voluntarily agreed to be bound by this Acknowledgment, Liability Release, and Indemnity Agreement in its entirety. This electronic act of consent constitutes a legally binding signature with the same force and effect as a handwritten signature.