Do you take drugs? Why?

Oops took the brown acid...

Your really don't want to know.

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

Back to your drugs thread, people.

Who was dissing the herb? You went to Kalamazoo, right john? I thought everyone there was required to smoke pot.

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.

-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.

(Even though, you know, I don't actually have much interest in doing any drugs besides pot.)

Kyle, did you know that 80% of your anecdotes finish with this statement? ;)

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.

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.

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.

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."

I drink though, and guzzle caffeine like a camel, except it's coffee and Mountain Dew and tea instead of water. Plus, camels got humps.