I would say you dont need a trip sitter IF you're taking a reasonable dose and most importantly a place thats's physically, socially and mentally safe.

Things that make a place more shroom-friendly (non-exhaustive):

Plants, fresh air, low-effort food, animals, ready-to-go playlists (you will not want to deal with the nauseus sguiggly rune screen once a trip is underway), ready water supply, art, silence, ambient music, pretty lighting, non-dangerous hobbies like painting

Things that make a place less shroom-friendly (non-exhaustive):

Strangers, behavioral expectations, loud noise, traffic (foot or motor, bikes are fine) bad smells (this is a big one), conflict, crowds, too many screens, really just generally negative or overwhelming stimuli. However, if you're good at playing it cool, tripping in a liminal public space like a mall or museum is a very interesting time- def not for beginners though lol

Oh, and you might experience a thing where your mouth opens and you don't know if you need to yawn, burp or vomit. Don't worry, it's never vomit. You kind of just end up croaking like the grudge for a second, it's fine.

Last last edit: if you get a few hours into a heavy trip and you feel like a rusty old robot, drink something sugary

Possibly unpopular opinion, sober people generally have no ability to calm down someone freaking out on psychedelics. Exceptions of course for experienced or particularly empathetic people. Also having other people around, tripping or not, tends toward irritating. Of course from a bodily harm perspective having a sitter will be beneficial, but the risk is low either way.

I was by myself the first time I took mushrooms, tbh most of my trips have been solo, I'd just recommend measuring out a moderate dose proportional to your body weight but efficacy can vary wildly depending on the type.

Legality also varies wildly depending on where you are. You can probably get spores to grow your own fairly easily but the fruit itself is a lot more iffy.

Just keep the news feeds disabled and youll be gravy.

Check your local laws, but often getting spores / growkits are legal since they don't contain psilocybin.

Also, try lower doses first, 1 gram of dried is a good starting dose for shits and giggles but be aware different mushroom species can contain different concentrations of psilocybin. Be in a space you feel comfortable, also erowid is a decent source for any drugs.

Along with what others have said about tripping in a comfortable/familliar/very safe place, if you've straight up never tried a psychedelic at all then you might consider doing a sub-tripping dose first (a week or two before so your tolerance doesn't eat into the trip dose), dipping your toes so you know a bit what to expect rather than cannonballing into a fullblown trip. It's easy and fun to grow them yourself ✨️

Additional tips not that you asked: if you have dried mushrooms 100% make tea instead of trying to eat them. With a couple teabags for flavor it'll just taste like tea and it hugely cuts down on stomach discomfort and bowel issues. If you grow em/have access to fresh ones though just cook em up in a pan with some butter because they're quite tasty.

Yeah it's fine for sure. Just don't take too much lol.

first shroom trip alone

Yeah it's fine, but don't take too much and do it in a safe place. Preferably also get an anti-psych so you can end the trip early if that's available. At least get CBD and dose that if you have anxiety. You'll either calm right down or sleep right through the trip. The problem is that it lowers your high so only use if you need to come down.

If you want to experience higher levels of psychs, test it with nitrous crackers first. They turn a normal trip into a heavy one but only for 3-5 minutes. Good for testing the waters if you don't want to be locked in for 4 hours.

Safe and legal way to get shrooms

Assuming you live in the US, no. But you can get the spores safe and legally, add it a few months of grow time and you have a nice little haul. Of course, depending on what spores you get, the mushrooms themselves would be illegal even if the spores weren't.

I don't think it's the best idea to do it alone the first time as you don't know what to expect, but if youre adamant then make sure you do it in a place you feel really safe. Vibes get real when you're tripping so where you are and how you feel will have a huge impact on how it goes.

I'd try a half gram, then a gram, then two, not on the same day. For growing check out https://www.reddit.com/r/shroomers and https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens

A half gram and you're probably not tripping but you can get an idea of what it's doing.

Go in the woods

You need to wait 2 weeks if you are taking anti-depresants otherwise you might have side effects.

https://www.schedule35.co/

Where I live, there's a "church". Not sure how they managed it, but somehow legal. You show up, pay tiny $, like 5 or 20, join the church. Then you can buy mushrooms they grow themselves. Maybe something similar exists where you live?

Maybe see if there are rave dance, festival, parties. Burning man types, trance music tends to have more people prone to trippy drug use, mushrooms, ecstasy, etc.

The one time I did mushrooms, wasn't remotely scary. Spent entire party night in back room, on a round couch where partiers put their scarves, jackets, in utter sensory delight.

Was researching how to have a safe lsd trip few months back ago. I think I read about a phone app, or website, hotline. If you're tripping alone, can use it, someone remote will be there for session, help you feel safe. Can't remember name of it.

Is it your first time doing psychedelics? Personally I wouldn’t. The first time I took shrooms was amazing, but I also went absolutely wild, screaming in the streets, at one point I actually ran away from my friends and got lost in the woods, threw a bunch of almonds around my friend’s house and then was running in circles around his house. I sorta lost it. Which was fun though, but I’m glad I had people there, they were saints and put up with all my shit, but you don’t know how you’ll react and I think it’s good to have people there. I’ve also trip sat for people who absolutely needed it. It’s also good if you end up in a loop or a bad trip they can help talk you down.

Although as you say you only have people irl you don’t really trust. This could be worse than having nobody since that distrust could really come out in the shrooms and lead to a bad trip.

We used to buy them on the Silk Road (which is illegal). But once that shut down, we discovered you could have magic truffles (which contain the same active ingredient, psilocybin) shipped from the Netherlands into the USA. We had a P.O. Box at our local post office already (which we had used for Silk Road) and we would order them there. I’m not actually sure if that was legal, or some weird legal loophole, or what, but it worked. This was around 2013/2014 however and I’m not sure if this is still possible. Last time I checked the old site I used to order from doesn’t allow this anymore. Maybe other ones do? Idk

Edit: yeah a lot of people making a good point here, a lot of sober people will trip sit and decide to do the “haha this guy is on drugs” thing which is always a put off. A trip sitter needs to be respectful of the experience.