Sadly (in retrospect), I never indulged. Nothing illegal, and nothing not prescribed by my physician. I started university early, and I guess by the time I had time to indulge, I was just too...I don't know. Past the point of being curious.
Want to spend some time wallowing in a Recommended Read? Pick one! Or two! Or seven!
Maybe all you kids getting HIGH on drugs should try getting high on GOOD OLD FASHIONED MORALITY and RESPECT for the LAW
But seriously, I enjoyed a few years of occasional recreational drug use. Never meth or heroin, but I did like the psychadelics. I no longer have any interest in using illegal substances, so I guess I was lucky and didn't have any long lasting negative consequences.
My kind of recreational drug is safe and relaxing, therefore I partake in weed whenever I have a drug craving. As a teenager I obviously indulged in multiple different things. Cocaine, MDMA, Mushrooms, etc. But those were the days where I could afford to be irresponsible and irritated. It just makes more sense to be happily comfortable, then on a rampage of giggling absurdities.
I smoked some salmon and got boned
Lots of weed in my youth - always fancied trying coke and ectascy, but I'm all or nothing - and I knew that would be dangerous!
Lots of weed in my youth - always fancied trying coke and ectascy, but I'm all or nothing - and I knew that would be dangerous!
the only recreational drug i've experimented with is weed. i was a social smoker while in college. that changed after graduating and i found myself smoking to relieve stress (hello real world!). i haven't been truly baked since i was 30 and wound up stopping soon after that.
Hmm, Not my thing. Whatever trouble I might get into I want to be able to remember doing it. Well, there has been a couple times with jello shots that.......
Wouldn't you rather have a nice cup of tea?
I smoked my share of pot in college, but I found that I was super sensitive to it, and doing more than a few tokes made me very paranoid and uncomfortable (particularly in social situations). I also did mushrooms a few times, and they were always a positive experience for me. I remember taking them once in the afternoon with a bunch of friends, and they wanted to sit inside and watch movies. I got bored, so I went out for a smoke, and then just started walking around town to see what things looked like from my new perspective. It was very pleasant. I ended up following an old Chinese man around, realizing the interconnectedness of all life, etc. He was like my spirit guide for a bit until he arrived at his house, and so I carried on walking. Then I sat by the river and watched people walking up and down, trying to empathize with all of them. I went home a couple of hours later to find that my friends were all freaking out worrying about me. I'd neglected to tell them I was leaving, and had just disappeared. Haha.
Another time, I was on my own, and began to see the yin yang of the universe vibrating between the duality of positive and negative. I was starting to have a bad trip, so I would then try to tune in to the good vibrations, but these were only supported by the bad vibrations, which in turn were supported by the good. It's funny how your thinking goes into these weird little cycles - at least mine does. In the end, I decided that in totality, everything good and bad was necessary to the whole, so it was all alright. I made peace with the negativity. I ended the night in bed listening to Miles Davis, and hearing Herbie Hancock's piano chords coming cubically from the speakers, which was really cool.
Shrooms (or maybe LSD) are really the only thing I'd really be interested in doing again if I had the opportunity and the time (who has 6-8 hours to trip out these days?)
Don't believe everything that you read.
Weed helps get rid of my migraines. Unfortunately, it is not legal where I am.
It's NOT SOMETHING I do THESE DAYS...
(I've done EVERYTHING and often too much and DEFINITELY for TOO LONG!!!)
Cocaine, H and E were my babies of CHOICE... (Then it doesn't become a CHOICE!!!) TRUTHFULLY, I MISS bits of it!!! (I don't miss the INSANITY of it and often feel that 12 years later I'm STILL paying for it...) I had some GREAT TIMES on chemicals BUT there is a price to pay if and when you get to the end... (I'm in my 50s now and last year I lost THREE friends to heart-related conditions THAT I KNOW were related to serious coke use...)
(TYPING Cocaine is like typing the name of an Ex-Gf...)
TWELVE YEARS CLEAN!!! (A FEW slips, but nothing major...)
I know SOME PEOPLE who can do it CASUALLY like I could never do... (I think weed/hash is quite benign but that was never my ooops... I just get really quiet and SMILEY...) In fact, it's the only drug I can still be around and NOT do!!! (To paraphrase FRANK ZAPPA, "Clean 10 years... LOST all my friends though...")
Of course, I still DRINK way too much alcohol!!!
I often wonder if the years of chemicals shaped/affected MY ART at all, and I think it probably did... (But for the better OR for THE WORSE I'll never know...) Maybe both!!! (I KNOW it damaged my brain...)
On a RELATED topic I think ALL RECREATIONAL DRUGS should be LEGAL!!! (Yes, ALL OF THEM!!!) Let me explain it thus... BUNGEE JUMPING is LEGAL... It's POLICED and REGULATED and SAFE... (And some people do it...) But they are FUCKING IDIOTS!!! Nobody in their right mind would do that!!! (Mind you, I think that about people with tattoos...) Excepting Maoris and Merchant Seamen...
I'm drifting...
xx SF
I NEVER do drugs.
I drink too much but i have a brother who was a cocaine addict as well as all his other addictions...I am against drugs and i never take them...I have tried them but they don't make me feel good tbh...they make me feel really freaked out and paranoid..like the world is gonna end paranoid...so i don't take drugs.
I tried to smoke cigarettes and threw up. So I kept passing the joint when it came to me in college because I didn't want to embarrass myself. The pot cookies put me to sleep.
That's about the extent of it. I did get a morphine drip once in the hospital. That stuff was *sooo* good.
