One time, my friends and i took some mescaline, we split 10gs four ways. About 2 hours after munching it, we decided it would be a great idea to paddle out to this tiny little scab of an island on the lake. It should be noted, this cottage is at the top end of the lake, about 500m below a large hydroelectric dam. After charting an extremely irregular course across the lake, we reached the island. We sit ourselves down and have some "deep" conversations about life, death and universe at large; you know, typical "I'm on psychedelic drugs" talk. We sit and talk on this island for a solid 3 hours, with no shade, no water, in the blazing July sun.
Eventually one of my lads looks down and goes "Aw fuck.. have we been sitting in poison ivy this whole time"
Other guy goes "I don't know, aren't poison ivy leaves shiny"
I quickly reply in a half whisper "but everything's shiny, maaaan"
My friends agreed that, indeed, everything was shiny. Still ensure as to whether we were in ivy, we decided to paddle back to the cottage. By this time, however, the damn had opened, causing a serious current in the narrow lake. We struggled to make it roughly 200m upstream in our gigantic 17ft aluminum canoe, weighed down by 4 guys and with only 2 decent paddles. A man in a fishing boat saw us and took pity upon our unprepared, high as shit asses. He threw us a line and dragged us back to base. I started peaking around the time we left the island, the once clear lake turned into an ominous sea of black bubbling ooze and the whitepine trees surrounding it felt like they wanted to hurt me. Not cool. I recall saying thanks to the fisherman, mentioning we couldnt have made it though the lake sludge without him. He gave me a confounded look, as any reasonably well grounded person would have.
Turns out that little island was covered in poison ivy. It was an itchy fucking 2 weeks. One of my friends said he got some on his junk when taking a piss on the island without noticing and as a result his scrotum became grossly swollen and started weeping poison ivy oil/plasma. Seriously not cool.
Thats my tale of drugs.
Kids, learn from those that have made the mistake for you, dont get high as fuck then sit on a rocky scab of land covered in ivy.