I don't use anything else. I really hate dope evangelists.
― Norman Phay, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i got caned last night but that was the first time in a year, and i probably won't do it again in a while. it screws with my ability to think for a couple of days in a way which, for example, a bad hangover doesn't, and that really pisses me off.
― toby, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helen fordsdale, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― turner, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― top one nice one get sorted, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alix, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Trevor, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Rescue Remedy is best.
― Sarah, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― geoff, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bill, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― rosemary, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'll do coke about once a month. Rarely buy it though. Usually a friend has some and shares in exchange for drinks or something. On the rare occassion that I buy it and stay up all night doing it much fun will be had but the next day is complete crap as I recover. The thought of the day after causes enough pause to usually keep me from doing it.
Have done speed a few times. Don't like it due to bad childhood associations. would never shoot up or do herion. Would like some caps or hash if I could find them. Love valiums. hmm.
― Samantha, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sonic Boom, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My reasons why not are probably as much rationalizations (arrived at after I made the decision) as anything else -- stinky smells, users horribly boring when they go on about it, interferes with decision- making, easy way to get in more trouble than intended, etc. I'll never lecture anybody that *they* shouldn't do what they do, but I'd rather not be in the room when it happens (embarrassing panic attack often ensues). If that happens, I wind up feeling hideously guilty for weeks. What fun!
― Layna, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This sort of weirdly assumes that the point of drugs is to make people more entertaining to you. But general points:
(a) Bashing drugs based on the people who use them is a lot like bashing a band based on its fans. (AC/DC fans are by and large suck- monkeys, yes, and yet most ILMers are still fine with the music itself.)
(b) It's difficult to talk about "drugs" in general, since there are a lot of different ones and a lot of different ways to use them. Doing coke every weekend or pulling bong hits before going to work . . . these are entirely different things than smoking a solitary joint on a Saturday afternoon and doing a little reading. So I suppose I'm saying:
(c) Using non-ridiculous drugs the way the average person uses alcohol -- i.e., in appropriate settings, at appropriate times, and not to the extent that the actual business of living gets interrupted -- strikes me as a perfectly reasonable thing to do. So feel free to make fun of High Times subscribers, but don't generalize too much.
― Nitsuh, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Simon, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chaki, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― turner, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bill, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fritz, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally C, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
by drugs i mean not alcohol. i was scared of that till i was 16, and realised i could hold out against my cider swilling clssmates no longer, if i wanted to retain any sort of a social life, or maintain any sort of social contact at all. remember ranting to my mum "i dont WANT to start drinking! its not fair! why should I! etc etc".
then i bit the bullet.
― ambrose, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Arthur, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Alcohol's not a drug, it's a drink.
― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― RickyT, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kris, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Gawd bless Chris Morris!
― Trevor, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
yE gEt mE ?
― piscesboy, Monday, 3 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alix (alix), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
As always, Nitsuh is so OTM.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. You are never too old for occasional recreational drug use (should the appropriate occasion present itself)
― smee (smee), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
In general I am very careful for a number of reasosn. I have alcoholic relatives. Some of my best freinds have messed up their lives. Some of my best friends have friends who have OD'ed and died.
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
why? i like myself the way i am. i see no reason to alter my reality/behavior/judgement chemically.
― gygax!, Monday, 3 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Occasional alcohol. Would consider trying more psychedelics somewhere down the line, but no plans.
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 3 February 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
Had periods of my life involving heavy social drinking, but currently have the tolerance of an infant; half a beer and I'm ready to fall asleep.
Never tried any other recreational drugs. To be honest, I'm probably too skittish (not to mention too old) for most of 'em.
I do like caffeine, and sometimes I take Benadryl for allergies.
― mike a (mike a), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 3 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
free
― Surmounter, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stevienixed, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i was ill
― ken c, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Have done many drugs; don't do anything regular now though, only alcohol. I only really dabble on special occasions.
― not_goodwin, Friday, 18 April 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I said 'no' to drugs. They wouldn't listen.
― Michael White, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i know they're so bloody pushy
― Surmounter, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
ian you should totally move to chicago. you'd dig it if you could get past the brutal winters and landlockedness.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i really love brutal winters, which is why i'm so curious about chicago
― Surmounter, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― lou, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
well you missed out because this winter was the worst one in the 8 years i've been here. really, really soulcrushingly depressing.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh i would have loved it. this sun is getting me down
― Surmounter, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey Surmounter, I'll trade you to Chicago for Kevin.
― Laurel, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
temporary, i would do
― Surmounter, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mkcaine, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
you closet goth, you
― dell, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
ONCE YOU START YOU GOTTA STOP OR ELSE
― mkcaine, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
AT LEAST THEYRE BETTER THAN SEX
― mkcaine, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
haha maybe i should dabble in some goth fashion...
― Surmounter, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Gavin McLayoff (u s steel), Thursday, 25 August 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link