Do you take drugs? Why?

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

CHEMICALLY INDUCED SCHIZOPHRENIA REFINES THE CLUELESS INTO BRAIN-STARVED DEAD WHO HAVE TO RESORT TO UNREASONED RELIGION IN ORDER TO FEEL AS THOUGH THERE IS ANY LIFE LEFT IN THEM. THEY WILL ALSO TURN YOU NOT GAY. AND IF YOU ARE TOO HAPPY WITH YOUR LIFE THEY WILL RUNE U. ALSO THEY WILL BIND YOU TO WORD.

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

you closet goth, you

ONCE YOU START YOU GOTTA STOP OR ELSE

AT LEAST THEYRE BETTER THAN SEX

haha maybe i should dabble in some goth fashion...

My friends used to use a lot of recreational drugs...there was a lot of pressure to use them. Didn't like any of them much...HATED ecstasy why it was so popular I'll never know. I had a nasty fight with one of my best friends over "recreational" drugs and my relationship has not been the same since.