Smoking is essential for me while tripping. It brings the trip to a new level, a better level in my opinion. I always find myself somewhat edgy on a trip until I smoke, then the trip becomes the most fun 4 hour game I have ever played. I also smoke when coming down for a trip to prolong it a bit. With all that said I have only tripped a few times, and the only times I had visuals was after smoking. A thought I recall after smoking during mots recent trip as it wasn't much fun at first, "this is where I need to be ".
I wanted to one time I was on 4g but was scared it would make it too intense I always smoke on the come down though.
Usually I could care less about smoking weed when I'm tripping. IMO it doesn't add anything to the trip, other then fulfilling the desire to smoke. other than that i do enjoy the smell of weed so sometimes i find it nice to smoke a bowl as an air freshener. But IMO its better to save the weed for the comedown or a later occasion.
It may depend on how much weed you usually smoke. If you're a regular smoker (every day) then you might be irritated without it. In any case, it can relax you and allow the psychedelic to kick in. Or, if you're not a regular smoker, it could partially mask the mushroom's effects with its own.
i think it heightens the trip, and somewhat eases you into it. i like to smoke about half an hour or so, when the first effects come on. sometimes, it kinda blasts you into the trip after just a few tokes hahah.
Yeah I like to smoke a little before or right when I take whatever I'm tripping on (Shrooms or LSD) to kind of ease the come on. And it is nice for the come down as well. One time when I was on some shrooms, I would take a big hit from the bong sometimes, and everytime I would do that I'd just get a wave of high and I would lay down for 30 minutes or something just feeling really good and tripping a lot. I did that several times during the trip .