Recreational Drug Use

Started by Lucid March 24th, 2015 3:49 PM
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I regularly smoke dat loud

besides that I've gotten the occasional adderall off friends and I tried salvia which was not a great time. I tried xanax once, but I decided that was a dumb path to continue.

In my area pills seem to be the big thing, typically percs. Also coke, and there's been a ton of heroin overdoses for the past couple months. I only know one person personally who does heroin, but it's scary how many people I know who have friends and family who are deep into it

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I don't take any recreational drugs as I don't care for the concept + I don't like talking to people who are on a drug at the time. It's just something I avoid.

Universe

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it's funny because i was hitting while reading this thread. :P

due to medical issues, i very frequently smoke.. uhm, i'm almost always high actually. i know that the thread title mentions "recreational use" but eh, there ya have it.~

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Spiff

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As far as recreational drugs go, I've done em all. Although the only ones I do regularly are psychedelics.

Out of all of them weed has got to be the most overrated drug out there. I'm not the kind of dude that likes to sit around and do nothing, which is why I don't smoke anymore. Weed doesn't have any meaningful value outside of medication imo.

Party drugs, I donnu man, also kinda overrated. Although ecstasy is one of my favorites. We'll get coke sometimes if we're in Mexico but I don't like to.

Psychedelics, man, everyone should try them at least once. They truly are life changing. When I do them with people, I get to expand the relationships and understanding I have of these individuals on a very intimate level I couldn't otherwise get to. If I'm by myself, I can release the creativity I have festered inside my mind and use it to make something beautiful. I've written my best guitar stuff on lds. People may think psychedelics are stupid, but when I'm old and stale I'll have learned from them, even if I regret it, and that's okay. I was put on this Earth to experience and dammit that's what I'll do.

lol just don't do them too much like I did. One time after a binge I had a pretty hard afterglow and caught myself trying to put the guitar in my refrigerator instead of my water.

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I've never tried them, and don't really want to. I just think it's not my thing, and after having to do research on them for various school projects and my next story, I think I'll pass. I'm lame, I know, haha.
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I'm a sophomore in college and I've never even seen a marijuana; even if I wanted to experiment with drugs I don't know the first thing about getting them, I'd be the person that's all "I'd like to buy some drugs please"
Yeah this except I'm in my final year at uni and have yet to hang out with any kind of people who would know how or where or why to get it. It's just never something I've felt like I needed or wanted in my life and I wouldn't want to try it if I got the chance to. I only destroy my body with sugar and alcohol thank you, and I'm even trying to take those two things in moderation these days. My body is a temple etc etc of pizza

To the people who take drugs, if you want to answer, don't you ever worry about it being dangerous?
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To the people who take drugs, if you want to answer, don't you ever worry about it being dangerous?
It's actually really easy to minimise the danger when you're taking drugs; although there is always some element of danger there, by knowing what you're taking / how much / where you're getting it from it's near enough nullified. There are some fairly simple rules to follow that are actually common sense really. Lots of people who don't know drugs very well (not saying that this is you specifically) think that people just pick up a bag of [substance goes here] off some guy on the street and rail the whole thing at once but that's not the case at all. Unless you're very experienced with a substance, taking drugs should be a considered, calculated activity where safety is one of the things most considered. When people try a new drug when they're pissed / don't know who they're getting it off / don't know what it should look like, how much to take, what it even does, etc. is when things go wrong and it gets dangerous.

There are some really simple rules to follow honestly. Background research is really important and it helps to talk to a friend who has taken something you're considering before you do it yourself - and on that note, always take things with a friend who has taken them before (aka don't try new stuff alone). Buying it off people you know and trust is important; people don't often consider this but it is not at all in your dealer's best interest to land you in hospital. That's how they get busted and lose their entire business in one night. This is why it's important to never buy off some random person on the street (at least, not where I live; I'm sure some other places are much better for this - but I'd say it as a general rule anyway). "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is" is another good rule to go by - know how much something costs in your area and if someone is offering you it for much less, it's probably not what you think it is.

There are a number of other things but I won't turn this into a Drugs 101 post, haha. But the tl;dr of it is that if you do your research and know your substance as well as possible before you use it, drugs are actually fairly safe. Definitely not good for you or anything like that, haha, but it's really quite easy to avoid hurting yourself if you just do your homework - which is really easy thanks to the wealth of information on the internet.

...of course, there's the danger of addiction with certain substances. That's up to the user to control.
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I'm already on a bunch of medical drugs and medicines tbh Don't need anymore. And it's not really my thing either.


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maccrash

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nothing at the moment, but I'm open to smoking weed and trying psychedelics (farther down the line, though). party drugs don't really have much appeal to me outside of maybe ecstasy. I don't really care if people do them -- like I'm not gonna stop talking to a person because they snort coke or some such.
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Are you joking? There's no safe way to take drugs.

Ok, so... This is gonna sound so hypocritical considering I made the thread and my username, but whatev. But, no. The safest way to take drugs is not to take drugs. Weed is an exception, no one laces weed, that's a waste of whatever you're lacing it with and so, money. Drug dealers don't do that and shops sure as hell don't do that. Dealers don't care when it comes to hallucinogens or x, they order crap off the internet, which could be rat poison or baking soda for all they know and sell it to you without trying it. If it's bad? Oh well. They need to double that $500 they just spent. The chemicals to produce legit acid aren't available to the public anymore. Same with ecstasy. It's all filth someone strung together in a two bit lab. Not to mention, here in the U.S., if you OD, or someone around you gets scared calls the paramedics while you're on it, the law generally states that you be sent to a hospital, then a mental institution for detox, as they automatically assume you tried to commit suicide or are an addict. There is no consistency with any artificially produced substance, most of the time, the same people don't make it and if they did, it wasn't super accurate. It doesn't matter how well you know the guy who sold it to you, if you end up in the ER, do you honestly trust he knows what the hell you took? This isn't Braking Bad, no one is trying to make a good product, because no one cares. They just want their money. Be careful with what you put into your body.
...well yes, some of that is true re: not always the same person making the stuff, there being inconsistency, etc. but re-read what I was replying to. People who are choosing to take drugs anyway don't care about anything that you just said (although a lot of it I disagree with anyway (weed is never laced? LSD can't be legitimate? No-one wants to make a good product in a highly competitive market?) and fwiw I never once called it completely safe).
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You can still trip on stuff, sure, but no, LSD can't be made by just an average dude, I never said it isn't real, but a lot of the chemicals needed to produce it aren't just sold anymore. If you bought an hallucinogen, odds are its some whacky 2C drug or something else. And I'm not saying weed can't be laced but people generally don't do that. We can agree to disagree.
Ah. No that's true, yeah - you do need specific lab chemicals to synthesise acid, and it's true that there's a load of NBOMe etc going around out there. So sorry for taking what you said a bit out of context.

Funnily enough 2Cs are a family I've been meaning to try for a while now, but I don't know anyone else who's so much as heard of them and don't really wanna try anything alone. I've heard they can get... intense. Haha. ):
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Are you joking? There's no safe way to take drugs.

Ok, so... This is gonna sound so hypocritical considering I made the thread and my username, but whatev. But, no. The safest way to take drugs is not to take drugs. Weed is an exception, no one laces weed, that's a waste of whatever you're lacing it with and so, money. Drug dealers don't do that and shops sure as hell don't do that. Dealers don't care when it comes to hallucinogens or x, they order crap off the internet, which could be rat poison or baking soda for all they know and sell it to you without trying it. If it's bad? Oh well. They need to double that $500 they just spent. The chemicals to produce legit acid aren't available to the public anymore. Same with ecstasy. It's all filth someone strung together in a two bit lab. Not to mention, here in the U.S., if you OD, or someone around you gets scared calls the paramedics while you're on it, the law generally states that you be sent to a hospital, then a mental institution for detox, as they automatically assume you tried to commit suicide or are an addict. There is no consistency with any artificially produced substance, most of the time, the same people don't make it and if they did, it wasn't super accurate. It doesn't matter how well you know the guy who sold it to you, if you end up in the ER, do you honestly trust he knows what the hell you took? This isn't Braking Bad, no one is trying to make a good product, because no one cares. They just want their money. Be careful with what you put into your body.
The last time I smoked was during the summer. I drank beforehand, so that definitely had an effect. But I'm not sure if I smoked laced weed or not. The experience before was far from any experience I've had before that.

It was like I was psyducking hypnotized.

I took one hit from a blunt and I was done. Someone mentioned how it was cold outside, and I immediately started feeling like I was just pushed in a pile of snow. Then I started shivering, and made a comment and told them immediately what I thought. They said it was warm. Holy psyduck I got so hot so suddenly I had to go inside to cool down.

My movements were full of these tingly sensations that felt like these super tiny pins were constantly being plucked and pulled from all over my body. Also felt like I was some sort of puppet. My arms moved so slowly in my mind, despite moving normally in real life. I felt like I lost the sensation of gravity when I made any moments.

After acting SUPER extra and embarrassing, I went to my room and tried to fall asleep but couldn't fall asleep. My brother told me to go to sleep. Bam! I was out like a light. But only for about ten minutes. Then I was up again.

Don't remember what happened later that night, but the tingling sensation was still there the next day after I recovered mentally.

Don't have any idea what kind of strand I smoked. Don't know if its because I drank beforehand. Don't know if it was laced. Did I enjoy the experience? Yeah, I did. But it wasn't anything like the other times I've gotten high.

TRIFORCE89

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I have zero interest in taking drugs and/or abusing alcohol. I like living in reality just fine. I don't need to escape from it. I'd prefer to have full cognitive abilities at all times.

Pepperton

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I've never done drugs and probably sound like a huge prude after that, but literally 99% of the kids at my high school smoke HELLA weed it's pretty astounding. I mean I'm cool with it if you do but I'll always pass, skip the puff part ahaha

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I don't do any drugs, nor do I have any plan to, really. I know my neighbour has started, you could smell it in the air and I think other neighbours noticed as well,a nd know some friends have, but most of the people I hang out with don't do drugs either.

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I have never done them myself, and I actually used to be someone who would look down mightily on people who ~dared~ to use such things even if they were "safe". Now I find myself not being able to care too much about it, really.

Do I have any interest now in using them? ....Still not, I suppose.

Alex

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Yeah, drugs are good. You have to know how to handle them. Don't get wicked obsessed with them and adjust your life to revolve around highs. I have a comfortable relationship with drugs and it's because I've tried them solely based on curiosity, and having total control over which ones I do and don't want to try.

I've smoked weed for years, gradually getting closer and more comfortable with it as I went on. It became a big habit of mine to smoke solo as many of my friend's didn't want to, and those that did didn't smoke as often as me. I didn't feel a sense of comfort when we would smoke together which is basically a huge no when you're submitting your mind to such changes. First and foremost judgement should be out the window. Being high is a very sensitive issue that requires compassion and understanding.

Weed can be dangerous. The reason it's so widespread is because it's a very forgiving line between sober and high. You can still function relatively properly when you're high. I used to smoke up before my train commutes to make them a little more interesting, or smoke before going on a walk - those were the best in the summers. Or I could smoke before I have to do a bunch of chores, that'll make them a little easier to get through. Or of course, my favourite, smoke and lounge listening to music, watching movies, playing video games. Not to get too political here, but those "This is your brain on drugs" campaigns that DARE used to put out there are outrageous fear-mongering....it's incredible. But I understand the intention. Weed can make you lazy, unmotivated. There's a sense of serenity when you're high, the type that forgives just about anything going on - especially laziness. Weed makes you OK with being bored.

Apart from pot I've also taken mushrooms to which I say I must try again - perhaps this time with a different crowd and a stronger dose. Admittedly, I went in expecting what I've heard time and time again: "it changes your life." To me? It was pure eye-candy. I tripped and tripped and tripped for five hours straight listening to my favourite Pink Floyd records and - quite literally - staring out my backyard window. It was incredible. The colours, the patterns, the shapes, the movements, the creatures, the imagination. But you have to realize you're in it for the long haul. Once your peak starts to peak, it's only just begun. Trying to escape it will only make it worse.

Now, I realize this forum is mostly made up of young kids. Please, DO NOT try it just because you want to be cool. Do it because you're genuinely interested. It took me years to work up the courage to take mushrooms. It took me years to get comfortable with how much, at what rate and through what method to consume pot. If you're gonna use drugs, use them responsibly.