― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 23 February 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
I did it 1-2 times per month over the course of that summer, and got drunk about the same number of times. Then when I turned 17my parents let me leave and go live with my best friend, who isheavily into using pot. So I started doing it more and more, untilI was getting high every day - but only moderately so, I dosed myself, I wasn't just sitting around all day, I was doing things likewriting, acting and playing music, alone or in various bands. It didn't seem to interfere or impair me in any way, so I don't thinkI was truly addicted, but who knows - addicts rarely recognizetheir own status, do they?
Anyway, in early 2002 I turned eighteen, and this cleancutpreppy girl from my church decided to make me her 'project,'(U know how it is - the 'good' girls are always attracted to the'bad' boys)) and convinced me to quit using drugs if she would become my girlfriend - seems like a vainglorious gesture, but she was a stone fox, the best looking whitegirl in our school, so i agreed. I almost immediately missed thestuff, but after about a week I realized I was much more alertand enjoying life more, overall, although I didn't get thoses euphoric rushes that I was used to.
Well, the white girl moved away and I was left to my own devices, and I resumed smoking pot, but only occasionally, mostly on weekends,and i think it's a good balance; moderation is always better thanthe extremes of hedonism or puritanism.
(As for other drugs, I never got into them they're mostly too dangerous or, in the case of psychedelics, too dang MUCH. I still trip about once a month)
― Squrlplise (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 24 February 2003 03:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― squrlplice (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 24 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
I wanted to do a 'shroom trip, at one time, for the whole psychic awakening experience, but then one day I went by my mother's after college and my younger sister (high school seniors) and some of her girlfriends were there. As I walked in they were all giggling. Then my sister said "Hey, we just took some 'shrooms!" I was taken back, mainly because I thought that she was not experimenting. Anyway, about 45 minutes later, I was in the dining room and they came through looking for munchies. One of the girls made an odd noise and crumpled - I caught her on her way down and she went into a full-blown seizure. Thank god she came out of fairly fast, but it was still scary as hell.
And then, two years ago, I heard that a little boy that I used to babysit, had taken 'shrooms and had a bad reaction and died. Out of the blue. It was really a shock.
I am not at all against drugs, and am in favor of legalization. I would like to see regulation of the strength of drugs, and there to be less of a stigma in getting assistance when something goes wrong.
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 24 February 2003 04:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― forbidden or obsolete (24 hour troubleshooter), Monday, 24 February 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 24 February 2003 05:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 24 February 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:09 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
Oops took the brown acid...
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
Your really don't want to know.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:34 (twenty years ago) link
I've done weed before, I've been high, but it was pretty disgusting. Can't stand the smell or the effect.
Now I'm gonna go drink and fight Mike Skinner http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/basic2/upset.gif
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:37 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link
Back to your drugs thread, people.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
Who was dissing the herb? You went to Kalamazoo, right john? I thought everyone there was required to smoke pot.
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― K*** M**** (akmonday), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:44 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, there were plenty of pot-smokers at Kzoo, but I fell in with a pretty straight-edge crowd fairly early and then never had much interest in it.
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:45 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:51 (twenty years ago) link
-I drink. When I allow myself to be, I am a complete drunk. I drink less lately b/c I have a job that kicks my ass and I simply can't do it while drinking heavily. However give me the freedom and yeah, I'll drink yr bitch ass under the table.
-I've went through brief stoner periods in the past. I can understand stoners. Sometimes I think I should really be a stoner and not a drunk. But, see, I have asthma and pot makes me super sleepy so. . . that said I've recently been thinking I should look into getting a regular supply as I think it would help with the stress of teaching.
-My hardcore, yeah-I'm-a-degenerate-and-proud-of-it, drug of choice is Cocaine. White lady I love you. I like drinking and pot but they slow me down and dull me. Coke heightens everything and takes me to scary and thrilling peaks I don't experience otherwise. Yeah it's a scary drug for a reason. There have been times were I would do it about two times a month. It was often available and I had to exercise extreme self-control to resist. My lifestyle is different now. It isn't so readily available so when it is presented to me I accept it without a second thought. It's quite simple: I love doing coke. I'm not addicted to it but I see how that could happen. I rarely, if ever, seek it out. If it's been three months or so since I did it I'll be wanting it and putting some feelers out. However, I'm not beating down the doors of known back-alley dealers every weekend. It's good times every now and then but would kill me quickly if I indulged on a regular basis. (that said I haven't had any since august and am trying to score this weekend.)
I don't like speed as much but still won't turn it down if offered. I've never ever bought it. The main reason I don't like it is b/c my mother was a speed freak and it wrecked my adolescence. For the same reason I would never, ever shoot up. Catching your parents spiking their veins really kills that for you. It ain't the same as having them blaze up or snort lines in front of you, trust me.
I know a lot of people hate coke, that's fine. Don't judge me though, cause you don't know me. You don't like it? Fine. I don't do drugs in front of people who aren't down with it. It's a drag for all concerned. But if you want to try and preach to me I'll fuckin' take you down. I'm an adult, you're an adult. Deal with it.
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:56 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:03 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
― cis (cis), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
(Even though, you know, I don't actually have much interest in doing any drugs besides pot.)
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:07 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:09 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:10 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:10 (twenty years ago) link
Kyle, did you know that 80% of your anecdotes finish with this statement? ;)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:13 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link
btw, I think drugs should be absolutely decriminlized. When presented with some anti-drug essay contest or whatever at school i never, ever have my students participate. I choose not to push that agenda. I have *huge* problems with our government's attitude towards drugs and, well, quite frankly I'm not a fucking hyprocrite. How in the hell am I supposed to lead my students in some propaganda DARE bullshit when I'm planning to go on a coke binge on the weekend? I am painfully honest, at least to myself, about these things.
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 15 November 2003 10:17 (twenty years ago) link
This might sound a little weird but the main reason I smoked pot was for listening to music. Im sure some can relate to this...being a musician, whenever I listen to music I tend to overanalyse everything...listening to it with a musical ear:
"oh that's a nice minor 7th" "mmm, listen to that snare sound, mmm"
Somehow the mystical powers of pot allowed me to experience music in a different way. I loved to do the thing where you sit in a pitch black room, get stoned, turn the music up loud and forget about anything else going on in your life, any kind of personal context and just get (whoa..trippin' out here) 'lost in the music'.
Nowadays, on my Gap year, I have noone that I can get pot off, so I've had to stop smoking, its been tough getting out of the pot-smokers routine. Have only been smoking occasional ciggerettes most likely due to a slight nicotine addiction. I have decided that I'm not going to ever go back to smoking as much as I was before. I don't know how to describe the difference between being someone who smokes every night, and now, when I barely ever have a smoke, but there is a difference, and I'm not sure if its a bad thing or a good thing, just different.
As to the getting drunk vs getting high debate, like others above, I really do think it depends on the level of intoxication, the person, the situation. Although, personally I have never had a bad drug experience (pot, coke, ketamine, schrooms and satvia) while I have had many, many horrible experiences with alcohol.
― TomB (TomB), Saturday, 15 November 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 15 November 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 15 November 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 15 November 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
Cocaine is awful stuff, no matter how much I enjoyed it. As noted, you always want more, and it's not that much fun when you're on it, you just really notice when you're not
Hallucinogens - I scared myself pretty good with five hits of liquid acid the first time I tripped, never did it again. Mushrooms, on the other hand, are God's Own Drug.
Ecstasy - I refused to try it when it was a bit party/rave drug, since everyone I knew in that scene was useless, and I hated the music. Did it a dozen times in small groups of friends, never enjoyed the ramp-up or peak, but I really enjoyed the come-down, sitting around talking (with the emotional high still in effect, but not the physical).
It's now been two years since I tried any illegal substance. sXe forever! (ugh)
Alcohol - Sometimes I think I'm an alcoholic, or borderline, though I was a binge-drinker three or four nights a week instead of drinking seven nights. Sober (in that I haven't been drunk) in two years. I drank mostly for the usual loser reasons - depression, boredom, because there was nothing else to do. I quit when I hit rock-bottom emotionally and creatively, and have been trying to deal with it ever since. It's scary for me, because I still think about alcohol whenever things are going badly or I'm in a tough position, and I don't want to be the way I was, drinking to forget problems/reality.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 15 November 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
I suspect that some of the more virulent antidrug types are hopping themselves up on the adrenalin of righteous indignation.
I've tried pot 3 or 4 times, but never got any pleasure out of it; this is the only illegal drug I've ever tried. The other drugs have an unrealistic glamor for me because I've never tried them. However, I don't know anyone right now who is openly into drugs, who would be willing to share them with me, and given my life this is not likely to change in the near future.
I also drink alcohol regularly, and I agree with those who say that it too is a drug -- not to be a straight-edge killjoy, but to acknowledge that it has effects in small and large doses. (I also think sugar and corn syrup have psychoactive effects, and maybe should be regulated accordingly.)
Sometimes I think that alcohol could provide a framework for the decriminalization of drugs -- while some people fuck up their lives on alcohol, many more are capable of keeping it from overwhelming their lives. But a lot of Americans seem to operate on the principle of "NOTHING in moderation."
― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 16 November 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 16 November 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link