Do you take drugs? Why?

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.

a divisive issue.

I would smoke pot more often (right now I almost never smoke) if it didn't have such a strong lingering after-effect on me.

what happens?

I feel like my brain gets soft.

ah. i think my brain is too hard, sometimes.

Yeah, maybe mine too.

There's also just the fact that the wife doesn't smoke, and it's kind of awkward to smoke around someone who doesn't.

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um, is that like, marijuana?

prpared to open ur mind?

free

There's also just the fact that the wife doesn't smoke, and it's kind of awkward to smoke around someone who doesn't.

So what? You just have to smoke a little so you're not out of your skull stoned. If my husband smokes alittle, I'm totally cool with it and can "ignore" it (delude myself he's not stoned). :-) It does get awkward when someone's really intoxicated (for me anyway). I kinda feel awkward and don't know what to do or am really... self-conscious.

i was ill

Have done many drugs; don't do anything regular now though, only alcohol. I only really dabble on special occasions.

I would totally smoke weed with Hurtin. We could listen to records and argue about the New Yorker and how much I think it sucks.

I said 'no' to drugs. They wouldn't listen.

i know they're so bloody pushy

I would totally smoke weed with Hurtin. We could listen to records and argue about the New Yorker and how much I think it sucks.

ian you should totally move to chicago. you'd dig it if you could get past the brutal winters and landlockedness.

i really love brutal winters, which is why i'm so curious about chicago

Weed was totally a gateway drug for me. I don't even take it anymore cos it started giving me the fear, but I still dabble in the Class As on occasion. And it got me addicted to tobacco.

Did way too many drugs growing up. All I can handle anymore is weed and even there I find myself wanting it after a long week of work but then, once I'm stoned, I often don't enjoy it. Just makes me think the stupidest thoughts or sloooows everything down to the point of ridiculousness. It can be fun to listen to music or sit around and watch a movie or something but forget about going out anywhere--it makes me too self-conscious!

i really love brutal winters, which is why i'm so curious about chicago

well you missed out because this winter was the worst one in the 8 years i've been here. really, really soulcrushingly depressing.

ugh i would have loved it. this sun is getting me down

Hey Surmounter, I'll trade you to Chicago for Kevin.

temporary, i would do