I wil do any drug as long as it's not alcohol or opioids. I'm big on weed, Kratom, kpins, amphetamines, RC benzos and RC dissociatives
here is an extensive but not exhaustive list of all of the extraordinarily illegal drugs I consume and sell:They fucking work, it's why I have a positive outlook on life and have a good time. Thanks SSRI's!
My experience with trazodone and zoloft were easily one of the strongest drug experiences I've ever had, these things can be intense
They work if you don't have a gene-drug interaction keeping them from working. For me, a pharmacogenomic test showed that there is, which explains why the 4 times I tried SSRIs they didn't work for me, so I take wellbutrin/bupropion instead.
I've done the best drug anyone will ever experience: the love of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
But seriously, no, I had a handful of drinks like 15 years ago and that's the only "drug" I've had in my entire life. Not even coffee.
No drug taking gang, who tf up
not even alcohol either. honestly most of my negative reaction isn't due to family drinking or anything but instead watching my peers at school/university do stupid shit while drunk. I know logically that it's entirely possible to have only enough to get a buzz and you don't have to go apeshit, puking into toilets and waking up with a hangover, but emotionally all that has made me totally disinterested.
I've had coffee once and it did nothing to me so I haven't tried it again, and even if it did, I've seen the complaints of people who want to get off coffee and so am not interesting in starting drinking it.
so I guess my main reasons for not doing any particular drug is basically imagining myself like 1 or 2 years down the line and hating the situation I've gotten myself into with it. it's just an entirely avoidable problem and I don't wanna make things harder for myself I guess, with expenses and potential guilt and impacts on relationships and employment, etc.
I also just like being sober at all times. I prefer to "rawdog" reality instead of hiding inside altered states of minds pretending I'm seeing god or whatever as a coping mechanism. no judgement on people that do want or need to do that, coping mechanisms are a necessary part of life and I have others, I just have no interest in that particular one.
this obviously doesn't apply to medication, I would be fine taking a drug that boosted my focus and such (as I suspect I might have ADHD or some form of anxiety), just not recreational ones
+1 have never drank, smoked, or anything. I drink coffee only once or twice a month: I specifically avoid caffeine so that it works really well on me when I need a pick-me-up for an important event. I'm prescribed Ritalin, which just helps prevent an energy crash from overstimulation (I'm autistic).
I just detest the idea of "being under the influence". I really like having a clear mind at all times.
Between that and being asexual, I'm practically a monk without the benefits (which are writing cool Bibles, I think)
That's kind of amazing. Do you mind sharing why you've abstained to that degree? Like is it mostly about health/longevity, religious reasons, lack of exposure (somehow), or just plain disinterest? Something else entirely?
I'd say mostly disinterest combined with lack of exposure. For the former, I've just never really felt the need to use mind-altering substances, as my preferred hobbies are, imo, better sober. Might also have something to do with one of my grandparents being an alcoholic scaring me off of it, but we never really interacted that much and they didn't die until I was an adult at any rate. When it comes to softer stuff, it's more just that I don't want any more dependencies, as I'm already on a couple medications for life.
As for lack of exposure, none of my friend group do more than drink very occasionally. Add onto it that the way I mostly interact with my friend group requires people to be alert; TTRPGs or boardgames may be fun when everyone's high, but if it's just one guy it's a fucking mess. That said, I did have friends that smoked weed and drank waaay back when I was in high school/college, and my parents both had like 2 drinks a night, so it's not like I wasn't aware of it or anything.
No religious reasons; despite my meme I'm a reddit atheist.
How would you rank your life satisfaction, happiness, contentness, etc. out of 10 (where 10 is you have no negative feelings about your life at all and only positive even if you're not positive on every facet of your life) if you had to?
Hard to rank something like that out of 10 tbh. I'd go with maybe a 6-7? The world is in an ongoing systemic collapse, COVID's still around, I have various health problems, and the most powerful military state in the world (which I live in) is trundling down the path to fascism, so I'd say I have a considerable amount of anxiety about things like that. Generally speaking, though, I'd describe my condition as "comfortable". I have a job (which makes the world better and would continue to exist under communism) that pays enough that I'm not living paycheck to paycheck (for now...), but it also leaves me tired most of the time. I only have a small group of friends, but I can reliably do stuff with people on my days off. The ideal version of my life in my head is basically identical to what I'm doing now, just with the things that are out of my control removed.
That's great to hear, I'm happy for you
If you ever get the urge, don't do drugs just for recreation. Not even weed, never trust the stoners. Those guys are the worst when it comes to being self aware about their drug addiction
You can't get addicted to weed. I should know, I've been smoking it multiple times every day for 20 years
Yeah right? I would never engage in addictive behaviors like those crackhead, now let me buy some scratch tickets, maybe I'll go to the horse races (or smoke a joint or two)
Why the fuck would I smoke weed/drink alcohol if not for recreation? Maybe I misunderstood your point but "don't do drugs just for recreation" seems hopelessly draconian to me.
Do drugs for recreation if you want to, but understand how they work, how addiction works and always enjoy them only in moderation seems to the sane take to me
I guess we misunderstood each other, then, because "smoking to cope with mental pain" is a kind of recreational use (as I understand that term, at least). If you mean using it to treat the symptoms of a specific mental issue, then I would call that self-medication, rather than recreational use.
used to do speed, ket, and molly, mostly at raves
and smoked a moderate amount of weed
did shrooms, acid, and salvia a few times each, psychedelics aren't really my thing
now it's just booze and caffeine from tea and the occasional energy drink
oh, and i used to smoke 20 a day for ten years, now i vape the lowest nicotine content vape juice i guessAh yeah that's more recovered than me. I smoke a couple grams of tobacco with weed daily, have 5-15 smokes depending on weather and if I'm out that day. At home I vape 18mg of nicotine free base, 40-70mg a week.
18mg vape juice scares me lol
a friend of mine switched from cigs to vaping before i did, i tried his 18mg vape once and felt like i was going to die lmao
this was when i was still smoking a pack of superking black a day
when i swapped over, i started with 6mg and quickly went down to 3, which is where i've stayed for the last 6 years
Friend group does a lot. Every gathering usually involves ketamine, weed, nitrous, mdma, alcohol, amphetamines etc. Usually not all at once, but sometimes lol. Theres also benzos, gabas, coke, and other stuff that comes around semi often. Lots of us also do mushrooms, LSD, dmt, whatever psych somewhat regularly.
I dont do nearly as much as I used to, and havent for a couple years. I stopped drinking about a year ago and it has let me see that our friend groups interactions are basically facilitated by the drugs, which is fairly depressing. Ketamine is very in right now but it is somewhat frustrating to have people over just for them to be mostly incoherant from ket and whippits most of night.
I sometimes wish it wasn't like this. But its the reality of the situation. I have known most of these people a very long time and many have mental/stress/anxiety disorders that all of the use keeps at bay. I get the feeling a lot of us are banking heavily on the fact that "at least it isnt meth/heroin/crack!".
This is probably more information than you asked for but lol here it is. Ive done basically everything under the sun minus meth (dont like uppers) and heroin (sounds neat but really only interested in smoking opium), but my RC psych days are over lol. Nowadays its weed everyday, ket occasionally, and other stuff if it presents itself or if im feeling it.
These are words of wisdom. Heed them. A person can ruin their lives as quickly and thoroughly on RC benzos as they can on hard street drugs.
Lmao ive taken 2.5mg of phenazapam after getting some pipers solds as rolls. Even that flung me out, 100mg is insane lol good job not being in the hospital ot jail or dead
wow and I thought my stoner friends were bad when they just smoke weed in the evenings
The only things bad about weed are that if you smoke it, there are carcinogens and that most people get really lazy from ingesting it.
our groups interactions are facilitated by the drugs
FTFY. Only because I know. You may actually have a friend or two in there, but take away the drugs and there won't be much of a group left.
I don't use drugs, but I'm very familiar with them. They fetch a very high price.
I smoke weed and drink energy drinks. Used to be on ADHD meds but am mostly self medicating with caffeine these days. Just became more effort to get the meds through the proper channels than I was willing to put forth. Kinda ate up how hard it is to get treated for ADHD given the symptoms of ADHD now that I think about it.
Kinda ate up how hard it is to get treated for ADHD given the symptoms of ADHD now that I think about it.
It's so fucked up ngl. perfectly designed to make sure people don't get treated
Also I too like energy drinks but if you're self medicating long term you might want to get your caffeine some other way, those things are super not good for your body if you're having them daily. I'm a coffee fiend, and I found some caffeine gum with L-theanine that I like too for something grab and go. Energy drinks I reserve for desperate situations lol, or just for fun occasionally
most days i have a diet soda around noonish, because otherwise i would siesta. i would rather siesta, but the soulless caffinators who run this shitshow think it's unprofessional.
i used to smoke weed every day, but now it's more like a few times a month. back when i was much younger i did acid and shrooms.
I used to smoke, by which I mean consume in a number of firms, weed almost every day. I also used to get very drunk most weekends. And I did psychedelics a few times a year. I've mostly cut back on all that. Originally, I thought that I would just be a a bit healthier and better enjoy the times when I did so drugs, but I'm finding more and more that they're not even fun anymore and I want to be sober.
But by far my most intense and unpleasant long term experience with mind altering substances was when I was legally prescribed Mirtazipine. Like I thought that sleep paralysis was a meme, but then I literally got sleep paralysis, among other things. Fuck that, never again.
Progesterone goes hard tho.
Mirtazipine. Like I thought that sleep paralysis was a meme, but then I literally got sleep paralysis, among other things. Fuck that, never again.
Oh yeah I tried that stuff for a few days. I realized what was happening when I had sleep paralysis and panic attacks so they weren't so bad but after the second night I was like "fuck this shit."
