OT: drugs
NinaBambina
Who the fuck is Ninabambina?
I have tried:
Alcohol - regularly
Weed - regularly, usually multiple times a day
Xanax - (prescribed) regularly, only thing that actually eliminates my anxiety, but I don't take it daily because of its huge risk for addiction
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Cocaine - never paid for it, only done it a few times when someone I trust has offered it to me, overrated, gives me anxiety, not my thing.
Vicodin - I think I tried it only once, maybe twice when I was like 18. Didn't like it. It's the only opiate I've ever tried and I don't plan on doing it again recreationally.
Shrooms - twice. First time I took it, best high ever from any drug. Most peaceful experience ever. Sublime. I was one with the earth. Second time was OK too.
LSD - only once but it was awesome.
Adderall - was supposed to take it for ADD, it helped, and when snorted makes me feel amazing. Way better than coke imo. I don't do it on the regular, maybe once or twice a year.
Atarax - for my anxiety when I was 16.
Flexeril - for my anxiety and muscle spasms. Good for muscle spasms and insomnia.
Zoloft - idk if it even counts since you can't get high from it
Valium - another benzo but not as effective as xanax. Mostly used it for anxiety but also a few times to have fun mixing it with alcohol every now and then in my late teens
Klonopin - another benzo, only used it for anxiety, probably 2nd best at eliminating anxiety next to xanax. Has never gotten me high and I've never taken it to get high
Ativan - another benzo I tried for my anxiety which had almost no effect
Ecstasy - took it once at TechFest when I was 17. It was probably cut with god knows what, felt awful, never again.
Nicotine/cigarettes - gross. Smells gross, makes me feel like shit, absolutely no pleasurable effects whatsoever.
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What I want to try: DMT, totally safe and spiritual high.
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What I will NEVER try: crack, heroin, meth, pcp
I'm sure the trolls will have fun with this. But, trolls aside, let's see who's a square and who's not.
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Lol - I'm only messing with you.
Aside from alcohol, I have been drug free for over 13 years, with the exception of snorting Adderall a few times when I have been in Vegas - and that was mainly to help me stay awake.
Never in my entire life tobacco or illegal drugs. And never psychiatric medication. And I completely reject the New Wine of Born Again Christianity.
I don't think any good ever comes from drugs or escapism.
Our country has a much more serious problem with doctor prescribed drugs, than with the illegal kind.
There is only one mood alternant that I go for, as a form of pagan liturgy, and this is tantric sex.
I also do a great deal of reflection and meditation.
Tantric sex, meditation, and reflection, expand my consciousness and give me mystical experiences. No need for anything else, not ever.
SJG
PS, replying to Meat72's posts is a bummer and a waste of time. Better not to even bother.
I don't even think Flexeril is addictive. The last time I took it was like 3 yrs ago when I woke up in horrible pain from pole work. It never really made me high per se, just calm and drowsy.
Adderall is nice but I couldn't take it regularly. Only during final exams lol. I'm thin enough, I don't need anything that decreases my appetite.
I drink alcohol frequently but rarely get very drunk.
I almost took Molly with a stripper recently but tusclers talked me out of it.
That's it.
SJG
Zoloft was a sham, Dr said it would reduce my anxiety and increase my appetite - LIES! I lost weight on it and it nauseated me.
Cigs are gross, I'm so glad that habit never stuck with me. I never liked them. Ew ew ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgS79hz1…
SJG
SJG
But this is not always the case.
SJG
I know that lots of people believe this. The more they use it, the more they depend on it, though this addiction is mostly psychological. The reason it is psychologically addictive is that people use it to avoid facing their own feelings, so that they don't have to live in their own skin. The longer they do this for, the more harmed they become.
And yes, caffeine is both physically and psychologically addictive. But I would say that the psychological part of the caffeine addiction is less than with marijuana.
SJG
Sez the person who smokes weed multiple times a day.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
A few of my dancer friends have wanted me to smoke with them - but I've resd about too many people that have experienced a very fast heart rate after smoking. I just don't wanna take the chance. I would like to hear the truth though.
A fucking men. I bet weed could even make Dougster warm and approachable.
I would never recommend this. People need to face their feelings, This is what mental distress is, really bad feelings, and always for good reasons. No other way but to face them, and this can take years. But still have to do it.
Alcohol, street drugs, born again Christianity, and psychiatric medication all work pretty much the same way. Someone using them is permanently altered. Or at least the path back would be very hard. It is because they don't face their feelings, so they become permanently dissociated.
It is like with the Pentecostal Daughter Molester whom I helped put into San Quentin. His life had been driven first with marijuana cocaine and alcohol. The he was approached by Campus Evangelicals and his addictive state advanced to the point where Born Again Christianity could replace marijuana and cocaine. But he still had alcohol on top of his Born Again Christianity.
Then he had a midlife crisis and a nervous breakdown. Hopefully he would have started to feel his feeling then and admitted that he needed a divorce and a new career. Very much like in the 1969 Kirk Douglas movie, The Arrangement.
Well this guy did not listen to his feelings. Instead he listened to the white coats who told him that he had a brain chemical imbalance and a psychiatric condition and so that he needed to be on psych meds.
So he never figured out why he was on marijuana and cocaine. He just found that Born Again Christianity gave him what they gave him.
He never figured out why he was on alcohol, he just found that psych meds gave him what that gave him.
So I spent many pages explaining to the DA that this is how it works in his church. Most of them have serious histories with alcohol, drugs, and spousal abuse. But then they got SAVED!
They also all have blacksheep children. He had both a black sheep son and a black sheep daughter.
The daughter he abused sexually, and blamed in on her. The son he got diagnosed with a psych condition and put on meds, and removed from the home.
I was able to help the DA see through this guy's nonsense and so now he is serving a long sentence. :)
These cases are underreported in the newspapers, in order to avoid further harming the victims.
SJG
SJG
That's quite an impressive list of drugs... Wow.
I only imbibe with beer. Nothing more. Maybe a shot of Jäger at times. Smoked a bit of weed In H.S. But never caught on to it. Pot Made me tired.
Only good thing about only drinking beer... I know I can pass a piss/blood/hair test, anytime, anywhere. lol.
However, I am strongly addicted to coffee.
Lots of people believe this because it's true. It doesn't matter how you slice or dice it, it's a scientic fact that weed has health benefits. It can treat glaucoma, epileptic seizures, nausea, increases appetite so it can be life saving for peopel with cancer on chemo suffering from "wasting syndrome," can help slow down effects of Alzheimer's, helps treat pain of multiple sclerosis, can slow cancer growth, and even INCREASES lung capacity.
"The more they use it, the more they depend on it, though this addiction is mostly psychological. The reason it is psychologically addictive is that people use it to avoid facing their own feelings, so that they don't have to live in their own skin. The longer they do this for, the more harmed they become."
The same can be said for using sex or video games for mental pleasure. And, for me personally, weed does the opposite of making me avoid facing my feelings - I often over think when I'm high. I get ALL UP IN my feelings.
"And yes, caffeine is both physically and psychologically addictive. But I would say that the psychological part of the caffeine addiction is less than with marijuana."
BS. I know plenty of adults who can't function without starting their day w/a cup pf coffee. When I worked at a sports bar one of our servers needed a minimum of 6 cups of coffee a day. If she didn't have at least 6, she'd get terrible headaches and couldn't funtion.
It's fine if you want to be marijuana-free, but you should at least acknowledge that its benefits aren't just opinions, they're facts.
The hydrocodone didn't do much for me.
I've also quit willingly and gone without weed for months on end, several times. Never had a problem.
Again, I don't agree. Mind altering chemicals are not a good way to deal with chronic pain, like with glaucoma. Yoga and meditation are. Same goes for appetite loss. And also, look at what is causing appetite loss, cancer chemo. Now with epilepsy, that is so serious. But marijuana is being used only because it is a self prescribable alternative to psych meds. There have got to be other ways. People are just throwing this out.
Multiple Sclerosis causes migraine headaches along with fractured vision. Meditation plus just a little bit of Dramamine.
The effect on respiratory health from marijuana smoking is the same as for tobacco cigarettes, Stan Glantz of UC Berkeley, author of "Tobacco Papers".
Nina wrote, "The same can be said for using sex or video games for mental pleasure."
Yes, sex can be an addiction. We can be like Mr. LDK, addicted to the endorphin rush that comes with ejaculation. I think it mostly depends on the context and how we approach it. It is done to have a transformative mystical experience, not just to cope day by day.
Someone who smokes weed each day is doing that latter, obviously.
Nina wrote, "I know plenty of adults who can't function without starting their day w/a cup pf coffee. "
I think that is more the physical addiction part of caffeine. Getting off of it takes about 2 weeks. But once one has had any chemical addiction, there will always be the susceptibility to going back to it because one's physiology has been permanently altered, so there is a tolerance. Once one goes back to a little bit, one will be very likely to go into heavy use again.
So once one has gone far enough, if one wants to get clean, then total abstinence is the only thing likely to work.
I think being marijuana free is necessary if one wants access to their mental faculties. And I don't agree that marijuana has benefits. I believe that these are illusory. Though I still don't think marijuana should be legally handled by total prohibition. Didn't work with alcohol, won't work with anything else.
And also, I see everyday the people my age who have been turned into complete imbeciles by decades of marijuana.
And thanks to @motorhead for weighing in.
SJG
more Buddy Guy, has Knock on Wood on this too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMI2Cub3…
Nina, just listen to what you are saying, "I smoke weed several times a day because I choose to and I can - it's not addictive. I have plenty of money to spend on top quality weed, it doesn't hurt my finances, and I don't if I have responsibilities that require a clear mind. For example, I won't smoke before class or before a trial because those are times when clarity is needed and it wouldn't look good on a lawyer's part if his assistant was laughing during his trial. Lmao"
You are saying that you want to go thru life fucked up, weed several times per day.
I have no idea what in the world could have made you this way. If not weed itself, then who knows.
I'm not going to put you in jail and I don't mind conversing with you. But never ever would I have anything more than that to do with you.
I value my mental and emotional faculties. And the people is associate with value theirs.
SJG
Knock on Wood, starts here
https://youtu.be/uMI2Cub3Tfs?t=1h28m4s
Mostly it is just that many people don't have adequate access to our health care system, and that they have good reason to distrust it. And then also, people have not been taught to manage their own emotional, mental, and physical states.
So in such a bleak situation, people could come to the fallacious conclusion that there are benefits to weed.
SJG
Well, naturally, but I'm not addicted to anything, nor have I ever been... Not everyone who tries any drug anywhere will get addicted to it, assuming one is using responsibly and in moderation, and not, like, popping a shit ton of pills or shooting up heroin.
This is mostly for physical addictions like say alcohol or caffeine.
It is not a moral issue, it is a physiological issue.
I believe that anyone who goes far enough with ANY mood altering or physiology altering chemical is likely to get addicted.
This is not a moral issue, it is a physiological issue.
What is a spiritual and moral issue is when people believe that it is better to go through life fucked up instead of using their full faculties.
SJG
Well I'm not going to stop you or put you in handcuffs. But I'm not going to help you or go along with your logic either.
You say weed does not fuck you up. But it still alters you in some way, and this is still a degradation. What people need to learn to do is mindfulness meditation and to be in touch with their feelings.
So while I'm not going to try to put you in jail, you won't be involved in anything I am responsible for.
SJG
You think that everyone's answer is meditation. It does not work for everyone. Some people have genetic chemical imbalances in their brain that meditation cannot fix. There are people who literally cannot function properly because of panic disorders; there are people who cannot focus on work without distracting themselves, no matter how much they focus, because of their ADD. Hell, there are people with schizophrenia who hallucinate and have delusions. There are people who suffer from severe depression. These are physiological problems in the brain that some people aren't lucky enough to meditate away. For those who can, great. For those who can't, they shouldn't have to suck it up and suffer and go crazy.
Damn. There goes my plan to accompany SJG on his nationwide motor home tour of strip clubs and the Mexican bar table dancing circuit.
Carl Sagan the astrophysicist smoked marijuana regularly, he was also an advocate for its use in HELPING with intellectual pursuits.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have done LSD. Guess it didn't stop them from being successful.
Sigmund Freud did coke and advocated its use to help people stop using morphine (lmao I wouldn't suggest that), and Thomas Edison used cocaine elixirs.
So...
Again, learning to live in one's own skin is a life's work. This is what I wrote to the DA about the Pentecostal alcohol, drugs, born again, psych meds case. The people of his church have not even begun such work. The people you have described have a long road ahead of them.
But one thing is sure, using a mood altering chemical will make the path longer for them, not shorter.
mikeya02, People who are in touch with their feelings don't talk the way you do. Coming to be in touch with one's feelings is hard work. So much in our culture is oriented towards escapism, as is marijuana.
JS69, yes the stuff I do is drug free. You are understanding me correctly.
Mikeya02, yes I know that a large percentage of musicians use drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. I like their music, but this does not mean I would want to be involved with these persons in any further way.
Some musicians are on born again Christianity too. With these, I won't even listen to their music.
Nina wrote, "SJG worries it will limit one from using all one's faculties"
Not quite, that is just a shorthand way of talking. What I know is that one who wants to be in touch with their feelings and be mindful and non-forgetting would never ever use something like marijuana.
And as far as Quentin Tarantino and all the actresses and actors, I do not give a shit what they do.
What you say of Carl Sagan I had not heard before. Have to look into this, I don't know much about him.
Of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, I had not known this, but there are lots of who have used LSD, as simply an experiment. Some maintain that they are improved by it. I doubt this. But whatever they want to think. Using it once is not a big deal.
Of Freud and Thomas Edison, well back in their day lots of people were addicted to cocaine as it was used in dentistry and it came in Coca Cola. Not good.
Today Coca Cola is one of the most malicious forms of caffeine addiction. Not Good.
You might list thousands. Just saying that people are successful does not really prove anything.
People used to think that cigarettes were good for schizophrenics. Jazz musicians like Charlie Parker thought that heroine was good. This is all total nonsense.
I think what it really comes down to is do you want your memories and your awareness. This has nothing whatsoever to do with worldly success, as that is irrelevant.
The mind altering chemicals and the addictions they cause are not moral issues.
The moral issues is, why would you want to do anything which interferes with development of chemical free psycho-spiritual awareness?
SJG
But what made him susceptible to this view was his long history of letting doctors put him whatever pain killers or anything else they wanted.
It was also his own employment history in the psych industry, plus his having easy access to the pharmacy at our county hospital.
SJG
That would not surprise me, and I believe that it exemplifies what is wrong in the thinking of people who try to rationalize drug use.
SJG
I've never tried any illegal drugs – having immigrated w/ my family as a child to the United States and starting at the bottom and having to struggle to just make it to middle-class someday I knew I could not afford to fuck around w/ drugs – I grew up w/ nothing and did not want to stay w/ nothing or end up w/ nothing and growing up I saw a lot of stoners that did not make anything of their lives. I also have a bit of a “all or nothing” personality in that often times I rarely do things in “moderation” - I either go full-board or I don't go at all for the most-part – so me being like this I always felt it would be dangerous for me to experimenter w/ drugs.
I would not doubt marijuana has beneficial effects but I've always hated smoking and could never see myself putting something in mouth and inhaling it.
Many drugs may not create an addiction but IMO often times it can create a dependency where one feels they have to have it to in their mind “function properly or be at their best/peak” and that may often not be the case even if the user is convinced they are better for doing it – i.e. IMO drugs are often a way to mask a problem rather than fixing it; IMO.
SJG
The most high I got I once routinely did by aerobic exercise bicycling one to three hours at a time at speeds up to 50mph. Drugs never really made me feel that good for so long. although beer can come close sometimes. I experienced some weird time effects after drinking beer back several years ago. To prove that I wasn't imagining it all, I played through all the levels on some arcade games in the bars. Never could have done that so easy without the time speed affects.
Bullshit. This is only even comparable when talking about smoking blunts and joints. There are so many more ways to consume weed than that. Smoking marijuana can be harmful because you are inhaling SMOKE. Smoke is harmful. Sitting at a bonfire inhaling burning wood is harmful. When weed is vaporized or eaten (brownies, suckers, whatever), you don't have to worry about the dangers of smoke... Not to mention the average weed smoker might have a blunt or so per day, while the average cigarette smoker has FAR more than that.
Weed is still winning.
D.A.R.E.
However, given the impulsive nature of our hobby, I would argue that many of us have ADD and/or another clinical mental health condition found in the DSM-V.
Here's the kicker for me: I am a functional benzo addict. It has been prescribed to me for years to treat anxiety for which I was previously self-medicating with alcohol. So, while I can sit here and argue that I question the efficacy of one form of medication, my benzos have allowed me to function and thrive.
The withdrawal, however, will likely send me to a Betty Ford Clinic...
In the 1970's I smoked weed
In the 1980's & 1990's I'd have an occasional alcoholic beverage
In the 2000's I smoked weed, drank alcohol, and snorted cocaine
In the 2010's I smoked weed, drank alcohol, snorted Coke, smoked crack, snorted heroin, Molly, ecstasy, shot cocaine, shot heroin and take Xanax daily.
I also have a list of 9 other prescription drugs which are for cholesterol, heart disease, blood pressure, etc.
Amazing that I've lasted 70 years.
This is obviously input from a hypocritical individual who has been on Ativan for years... However, that drug has kept me from the depths of my alcoholism... Which was much more debilitating.
Other positive coping strategies that have kept me healthy include exercise (do you consider dancing a cardio activity), therapy, yoga, and participation in positive social activities.
Negative coping strategies have hindered me have included my daily use of benzos (prescribed), hoarding my money to spend on dancers and daydreaming about getting VIP dances from you and your colleagues. Oh, and binge-watching Netflix. Netflix is like crack-cocaine for my impulsive anxiety riddled ass. When I go there...
There is a lot of hope. I have seen countless individuals go into remission. As I have experienced from time-to-time myself. Keep on keeping on.
That said, I have basically ceased taking antihistamines, aspirin (which would be really bad with my Warfarin!) or any other painkillers except in very rare circumstances.
Never have smoked or used any illegal drugs, model airplane glue or other solvents. I probably take between three and five alcoholic drinks a week.
Tobacco--I smoked a pack a day when I was in my early 20's. I quit because of health concerns. Quitting smoking was the best thing I ever did.
Weed--I used weed in college. Then I went into the business world and was never around weed for decades. Now I occasionally smoke weed with my stripper friends. It doesn't do much for me.
Demerol--Demerol is a narcotic like morphine. When I was 22, I had oral surgery for 4 impacted wisdom teeth. The oral surgeon used demerol to knock me out. When I awoke, my mouth was swollen and full of stitches.
And I felt wonderful. I've never felt so wonderful before or since. If demerol were legal and non-addictive and without side effects, I would use it every day.
And for those who partake in MJ, have any of you ever enjoyed "Reefer Madness: The Musical"? The show's a blast!
All this talk about drugs reminds me of this movie clip.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zcrb1ff1x…
I think I might want me to try some of that shit...
A beer or two at strip clubs, once or twice a week.
An occasional glass of wine, celebrating with friends or dining in a fine restaurant.
No other drugs ever. As far as I know, my only addictions are to movies and, of course, strippers.
I would not doubt marijuana has beneficial effects but I've always hated smoking and could never see myself putting something in mouth and inhaling it.
Many drugs may not create an addiction but IMO often times it can create a dependency where one feels they have to have it to in their mind “function properly or be at their best/peak” and that may often not be the case even if the user is convinced they are better for doing it – i.e. IMO drugs are often a way to mask a problem rather than fixing it; IMO."
I think this very much expresses how I feel.
There are things I want to accomplish in this world. For me they are not just economic either.
Drugs do not help.
I am involved in community programs where I have contact with people who's lives completely revolve around alcohol, drugs, born again Christianity, and psychiatric medications. These people are completely gone. Mostly it is because they are child abuse survivors. Sometimes abused in the same churches whose outreach ministries prey on them today.
So no, drugs are not going to be a part of my life or my ventures.
And yes, I did look up Carl Sagan and his endorsement of marijuana. I do remember now that long ago I had heard that.
Well, he is entitled to his views. But I still don't go along with it at all. I believe he has done good things, and that this is despite his use of marijuana, not because of it in any way.
SJG
If this refers to people who try to rationalize drug use, I agree completely. This has been going on for a long time, especially when it comes to LSD.
SJG
SJG
But I don't think prohibition is the way to deal with any of these issues. That didn't work before and it won't work now.
I see alcohol, drugs, born again Christianity, and psychiatric medications as all working the same way and having the same effects.
A question to Meat72, so if I am understanding your posts correctly here, how would you like to see the legalization of drugs proceed? Do you think there should be zero restrictions?
I say that there should be restrictions on packaging, advertising, and in time, place, and eligibility for sale. I also think tobacco and alcohol should be handled the same way as these other drugs. But none of these restrictions should be so great as to encourage a black market.
And then psychiatric medications should be just as restricted, And psychotherapists should be delicensed, so they are just like fortune tellers.
SJG
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Pictures at an Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NAGTq_…
All I know is that countries that had a terrible societal problem of drug use and switched to legalization saw their citizens addictions reduce to nearly zero %! Just look up Portugal's history of handling this. Once legalization happened they could then begin to educate and help the unfortunate ones who were addicted, so maybe we could follow a system like theirs. However in the USA, we would have the capitalists trying to do a money grab on this legalization so it can't be an apples to apples comparison. to hamper free will on drugs is to cause people to go into hiding, and the shame sometimes is more harmful than the actual drug use.
You may know that in his memoirs Vicente Fox has called for drug legalization, as the only way to stop the drug violence, and also to stop the further spread of drug use within the Mexican population.
He never said anything like that when he was president, but then it was under his more conservative successor Philippe Calderon that the drug wars really took off.
Now Fox is not talking about half way measures or making deals with the cartels. He makes it clear that drug distributors need to have access to the courts to sue for breach of contract or theft of their property. He means full legality and an open market.
As former route driver and then CEO of Coca-Cola, he understands what this means.
What I do not know though is whether his call for legalization also includes distribution within Mexico.
But anyway, I say there should be restrictions on sales, packaging, and a total ban on advertising, as well as restrictions on places of use. But otherwise these street drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and psychiatric medications, should be treated the same way.
We can't pass laws to restrict Born Again Christianity, but we should be able to educate people about it. In countries which have good universal health care and a good social safety net and good job retraining and placement, Born Again Christianity is all but non-existent.
SJG
ELP, Tarkus, 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZ…
Just weed for me. I wanted to try pills but I've been too scared because they seem too hard core and retarded inducing and I'm too young and not paid well enough to not give a fuck to try it.
SJG
SJG
Sex is my drug of addiction. I have to have it every day. It is usually not hard to find. I have a phone full of phone numbers of girls who will take care of my addiction. (My dealers LOL! )
SJG
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all it has given me is a numb lip and taken away my hard-on.
May be crap.
I smoke weed regularly. I've tried Molly once. I've drank lean a couple of times (I highly recommend against ever trying it).
"Juice snorted flour and thought he was high"
Did he get addicted and knead more?
I just saw my regular dr a few days ago, and she prescribed me promethazine for my nausea (Phenergan). It's the one of the two main ingredients in lean. I think one of the reasons they even put it in there is so people will fall asleep from the promethazine before they OD off the codeine. Because unfortunately a lot of people end up trying these substances with no knowledge of what a small or normal intake is and end up exceeding their limits.
The juice is loose!
Now if I had decided on medicine instead of law, went to med school, done a yr internship and then 3 yr residency, I'd be able to prescribe you the medications you so desperately need. Perhaps Prozac, maybe Seroquel, or possibly a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm.
Like I said above, 3rd rate university or community college = same difference.
Meat and SJG, do either of you think that Portugal's system of dealing with drug use work in the USA? I think that there are so many jobs reliant on drug enforcement it would displace many former military personnel who now work in the security/police business. In the most democratic way of big government, as long as the left leaning media and political climate remains, there will be no place for legalization of drugs. The liberal ritards have too much to lose to allow a common sense approach like the Portugal stance.
Personally I think drugs are just wrong headed. But handling it by criminalization does not seem to work. Certainly in some kinds of high sensitivity jobs, drugs must be 100% absent.
For myself, I find drug people to be completely unworth even trying to communicate with, intoxicated or straight.
SJG
Meth is very common in Silicon Valley, particularly among the down and out, and those also targeted by Born Again Christianity.
The basic commitment to self-awareness, it is rare everywhere. And Silicon Valley has lots of white collar jobs, which more and more are turning to shit. And then there are those locked out of that. Lots and lots of economic strife, and then familial child abuse, and then just crazy people.
Alcohol, Drugs, Born Again Christianity, and Psychiatric Medication!
SJG
SJG
Alcohol and drugs are just a related form of self-abuse.
And I am deeply embedding in local political activism and am working on starting something of my own.
And in no way have I ever consented to going along with the herd or with bullies.
SJG
Online, it doesn't really make any difference. Nothing that you say has any effect on me.
SJG
Mikeya02, I don't know if I would call you a sissy, but you are just being belligerent, trying to intimidate me for no reason. Online you get away with it. So maybe that does make you a kind of a sissy, because F2F you would not get away with it.
SJG
For myself I've always been able to deal with F2F trouble makers in ways which make an example of them. Some people have just walked on jobs.
Online is completely different. I still remain astounded that there are people who hold the kinds of prejudicial views which you keep posting. F2F, people would know not to say such things, at least not around me.
SJG
I find nowadays I have more fun when I'm in control.
Do law firms do drug testing? Companies that manufacture valuable products, such as Ford Motor Company, have drug testing. But attorneys don't do anything important, so maybe they can take drugs.
She's the biggest psycho to come out of Detroit since Alutard.
Anyway, I'll probably never work for GM or Ford, but I know people who do and smoke weed. They managed to "pass" their tests, and I would, too. (Hypothetically)
And, motorhead, since you are for some reason curious, most law firms actually do NOT do drug testing. The exception would be government jobs, but even then, many don't. As for the large law firms, they don't do mandatory drug screenings. I'm in the clear.
At the company I work for, if you are a passenger in a vehicle that gets in an accident, then everyone involved is required to be drug tested. I think that policy sounds stupid. Makes me not want to ride with anyone from work unless I trust their driving.
I also think sex work should be legalized and taxed. Government revenue could increase enough likely to eliminate many budget shortfalls. South Carolina could raise their gas tax to help create a consistent source of funding to fix deteriorating roads here.
I'm ok with several tax cuts but also ok with lifting the pay cap on paying social security taxes so that people who make more than 90k or 100k don't get some of their income excluded from social security taxes like all of us poorer folks have to pay. Considering the system is currently scheduled to be out of money in only 20 to 30 years, I'm ok with those who are better off paying the same amount of SS taxes that all of us poorer guys have to pay.
So far I know of no political party with all my views.
And I found this answer on one board:
"It seems absurd to test professionals in a high skill/high stress/high responsibility job like biglaw for drugs, not to mention insulting"
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That is just about the dumbest comment I've ever seen. So it's "not" insulting to drug test low level employees at manufacturing jobs? What a double standard. I thought lawyers were all about representing people that can't stand up for themselves.
And who's so arrogant to think lawyers should be allowed to do drugs because their jobs are "professional" and high stress. Survey after survey have reported that frint line customer service representatives rank in the top ten of most stressful jobs. But in many companies, they would have to take a drug test
While I personally think it's silly to drug test everyone for every single little thing, lawmakers and CEOs have required drug testing all over the place.
@motorhead- Does Ford do random testing along with 1-2 aforementioned categories ?
@Nina- A recent post of yours seems to imply that drug users that you're acquainted with "might" be slipping by the test with "one of those kits." That cute stuff doesn't cut it in the DOT world. One coworker with over 20 years at company random test showed excessive nitrates, which would be indicative of an additive to the urine sample. He got his licenses back on a lengthy appeal (chain of custody procedures had some gaps in it, he had a top notch attorney on his case) but still lost his job with co. He maintains that he didn't do drugs or an additive. Point being that it's nothing to screw around with.
People have managed much worse.
Translation several pre-law "professor" she has blown at her obscure community college tell her she has a promising future (although they weren't very specific about what that future was in).
Another point to differentiate between a casual drug user and/or drinker making excuses for why it is necessary to use these substances, or I enjoy a cold beer when it is hot outside as opposed to I just smoke a joint because I want to. An excuse makes it seem like you have to, as opposed to just the sheer pleasure you derive from doing it.
Again, I won't run into this problem as law firms don't hand out piss tests. Moving on...
Mikeya02, you ruined it for you a long time ago, so what's the point anyway?
Sounds like it is if you have an out of control anxiety disorder to begin with.
But I will say this, there will never be anyone working for me who uses drugs, or psychiatric meds. I'm not saying that these things are immoral, its just that I know they change a person greatly, even when they are out of the blood stream. They change a person the same way that habitual alcohol consumption does. They make them like dry drunks. And as such, you cannot depend upon such people, because when pressure is on they will go into tune out mode. They are committed to not feeling their feelings. Where as I have spent now decades committed to feeling my feelings.
I work with people I know, not just people I can pay wages to.
SJG
I must have missed this when it first came out. Apparently the ability and preference to live life without the need to chemically alter ones state of mind is "square".
Gee, I'm jealous that I'm not as cool as you.
Xanax, klonopin, Valium, Ativan - if it’s a Benzo - I’ve tried it, tried to abuse it, and in certain cases it worked.
LSD, cocaine, mushrooms, extacy, weed, and lots of other shit that I can’t remember.
I’ve smoked two cigars in my life - but I’ve never smoked an actual cigarette. Never had any interest. The cigars were awful, but it was a bachelor party in a firehouse - and it seemed like a good idea at the time!
I know, you seem to allude to it a lot.
I did know an older man who lamented that cigarettes were banned from the workplace. He genuinely believed that smoking at work made a more productive workforce. I suppose that’s possible because of the nicotine.
Cigarettes are disgusting, and they give me the jitters and make me feel nauseated, sweaty, dizzy, etc.
I'm gonna go smoke a blunt.
What’s productive for smokers - would be sickening for the rest of us.
I used to work in a bill collection area. It was like a cloud hung over the desks. They were chain smoking and guzzling coffee - like it was the last cigs and coffee they’d ever see. If they allowed them to piss on the floor - they would have never got up!
I completely agree about DMT. I think, though, that I would go through with it. As long as I had someone I trusted around me, and did it in a good mood when I didn't have anything to do, to try to have a better "trip" and not freak out after. It sounds like it just takes you to a different dimension. One of my guy friends from when I was like 19 had done DMT. I asked him what it was like and he said, "I was only out for like a minute, but when I woke up it felt like 1,000 years." That's crazy! And it's safe, which is a bonus.
Adderall is ok, it lasts a few hours and is an upper. It can help you get things done. I only did it a few times even though I was diagnosed with ADD... I don't like stimulants, as they aren't relaxing, make my anxiety worse, and give me a lack of appetite. I love food.
I agree about cigs, too. Just gross.
Ketamine can be put on my list of "drugs I'll never try," along with crack, heroin, PCP, meth, etc.
Weed is something that doesn't really need a lot of care or responsibility. Honestly, weed just relaxes people and makes things more entertaining and funny (plus it's health benefits). That and alcohol are the only "drugs" I really partake in. I also am prescribed medication for my anxiety and an anti-emetic for my nausea, which is usually caused and/or exacerbated by my nausea, and vice versa.
Other drugs, I have just experimented with, but I won't ever try certain drugs. Meth, crack, heroin, etc are just dirty to me and I have no desire to see how they feel. And people get all violent went they take PCP.
My dad is now radically conservative, but decades ago he was a young hippie who did all types of drugs. He told me about a time he did PCP and stood in front of the bathroom mirror for hours as he was convinced that he was dead because he watched his face slowly decay until his skin came off and he eventually turned into a skeleton. He was still fucked up about it after the PCP wore off.
That's not something I'd like to try.
I think Jim Morrison felt the same way. Died at age 27.
Maybe nicespice will create a group for us.
I bought it baked in a brownie at a party. I wanted to buy 2 or 3, because I'm a big guy and figured I need a big dose (not sure if that's how it works or not). He and my friend said absolutely not. Said I should feel good in a half hour. I didn't see what anyone was raving about. Maybe it's subtle? I went back after 45 minutes to more more; he wouldn't sell me any more.
I tried cannabis again in a small pipe a couple years later at a New Year's Eve party 20 years ago. Maybe the effects were subtle. Again, I didn't notice what everyone raves about.
I had a small prescription for oxycodone (sim. to percocet). I didn't use it recreationally, but I did trade it for hydrocodone after a couple doses. The oxy made it difficult to concentrate on technical work or do any higher math (calculus was not possible). It was like the symbols had no meaning. It had me concerned about driving my car. Plus always in the back of my mind was how addictive this stuff is. So I was mindful.
With hydrocodone, I think it, too was a poor pain reliever. It was like it disconnected the front of my brain. All the higher-functions. I could sense my neck injury, and like the Terminator from the film, the "data" could be called "pain". But at least I could function and do math. I eventually went off of it (using it to sleep for a few more days before discontinuing it) and went to Sodium Naproxen (Aleve).
I tried hydrocodone recreationally just to see what all the point was. I mean, there are girls out there that suck dick and swallow just to get opoids, so THIS SHIT MUST BE GOOD, right? So I took some extra to get high. Ok. This is the world's STUPIDEST HIGH. All it does it just disconnect your brain. You feel, Weeee!. If this is what other opiods are like, this is the world's stupidest high. That was the last time I ever took a pill.
Compared with alcohol, everything above just sucked in comparison.
The scene I'm in, strippers and hoes do a little coke to get through their shifts and smoking is a given. Not justifying it, its bad too.
I heard selling dope is one of the best ways to learn to stay away from that shit. You see what they look like when they first come to you and a few months down the line. Fuck that.
It's strange because I heard Percocet was stronger, but it didn't give me any of the strange feelings that the hydrocodone did.
In any event, he had the opinion that drugs allowed you to break on through to the other side and think and understand things more clearly. It was drugs, mostly alcohol, that led to him being in such bad health to begin with.
Maybe nicespice will create a group for us.”
I know SJG’s organization will be banning drugs
I see that behavior with my bitches all the time, its why I made my main bitch quit. I saw the withdrawal symptoms and shit.
In the organization I am building they will not even exist. It will be people who have decided that whatever their past, they are 100% done with drugs. And we will never deal with people who believe in or are involved with the Recovery Movement. That is nothing more than an excuse for more drinking and using.
SJG
Even doing it "just on the weekends" is bad for your health.
I tried heroin once but wouldn't do it again, I was craving it for almost 2 weeks!
Even 3times a wknd=frequent use
Yeah there are ppl who don't ruin themselves bc of it but that doesnt mean it isnt bad for health . smoking weed like 3 times a wk for like years can lead to.poor dental health...or other negative effects
Basically, ppl who say doing weed or any other drug isnt bad or u tend to compare it to people who dont ruin themselves over it . of course when you compare it to the worst case scenario , as opposed to thr cunulative effects over time, it will appear "not bad for u"
Moreover, weed alters your state of reality...you get th4 most abnormal feeling from it.doesnt mean it feels bad, sure it might feel good, but it intoxicates you. While some ppl can b productive from this, it isnt used to enhance productivity in most cases...
And other things intoxicate ppl too: lust, greed, tv..which is why they are also bad for u
I understand if ppl use it to cope and alter reality, but because it induce such an effect(alteration of reality or the normal state) , I would never fucking talk about it as if it is a good thing .
Dont tell me normal state is subjective..you arent in a normal state when you are in weed.you are intoxicated .
I'm gonna do my homework now ttyl
Basically, ppl who say doing weed or any other drug isnt bad for u tend to compare it to people who dont ruin themselves over it . of course when you compare it to the worst case scenario , as opposed to the cumulative effects over time, it will appear "not bad for u"
Yes I can agree on that to a point. Moderate use has only a moderate effect.
But the thing is, there is no reason people need to use such drugs at all, ever.
What ends up happening is people are using it to deal with the emotional ups and downs of life, to avoid having to live in their own skin.
Spiritual development requires the opposite, learning to live in your own skin, and learning how to regulate your emotions when needed. So drugs are a negative, always.
And then if some people are using them, many will end up clearly abusing them.
The longer you use any mood altering chemical, the greater the chances you will develop a problem. And then the only real remedy is 100% total life long abstinence. It becomes virtually impossible to ever go back to moderation.
The idea that you need the drugs or that they are somehow good for you, that is just a very dangerous and complete lie.
Commenting to a girl about a guy in college who as drunk all the time, and the girl signs back to me, "But it's only on the weekends."
Well, even if that were true, he is still stunting the hard work of spiritual growth, by making drugs instead of himself the driving force in his daily and weekly rhythms. He is making his school work depend upon weekend escapism.
And of course it was never just on the weekends. It was every time he rolled out of bed 7 days per week until he needed to maintain blood alcohol content 24/7, or face withdrawal symptoms.
And then it was not just ethanol, it was also nicotine and marijuana.
I have to say that I have never met anyone who was able to just occasionally use any of these things without fairly soon getting to an unhealthy and destructive level of use and perceived need.
And same also for caffeine, and you could say also for sugar and fatty foods.
But the argument for using any of it in the first place is just completely bogus.
And the prescription psych meds are just as bad if not worse, as are the prescription pain killers. I say that the prescription med problem is actually more serious for our society. And then street drugs are just something people can prescribe for themselves, but it is still no good at all.
SJG
David Gilmour / Richard Wright - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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While meditistion alters the state of consciousness, it does so in a better way. Proof of this is just using ur common sense. ..when ppl ask you "are u high?" It obviously isnt because you are doing thr brightest of actions .
If a person is in the minority for which weed makes them more productive , or if one is like needing it to cope with something , then ok
But for the majority of ppl who arent in that category, weed just alters consciousness in an unproductive way.
Ok this is my last comment until thr next time I can comment which is Idk. And the reason I can say that is bc I'm not looking for a debate, in am just stating my view.
But everyone should have daily routines of meditation, prayer, spiritual practice, and exercise. These are how we grow, and these give us what many people have been conned into believing they can get from drugs.
SJG
Most people who use coccain do quickly develop a serious problem
Marijuana is a serious problem because people lie to themselves and convince themselves that it is not hurting them. It really is hurting them.
"Drug use does not usually lead to abuse."
Well yes it does, because using some kind of a drug which you absolutely do not need, that is already abuse.
SJG
And I honestly don't know what to think.of you if u ask me to tell u why frequent intoxication is bad. Lol..
Moreover, ppl be like: drugs r good for u bc they make u feel good
Me: kind of like how lust makes u feel good? Kind of like u know something probably isnt good for u when u have to experience an altered and skewed state of reality to feel good ?
Me: kind of like how lust makes u feel good? Kind of like u know something probably isnt good for u when u have to experience an altered and skewed state of reality to feel good
That would imply that telling someone to stay away from lust and thus a person who is just using them is bad for you because the lustful person skews your reality and does not really love u is an "ethical claim".
You are embarrasing lol
I guess smokijg marijuana also makes you close minded ?
K
basically saying yeah you're dumb coz of my poor english language comprehension duh duh duh #collegewhiteboyswag
I love it how DC makes it appear as if I am claiming that intoxicity is inherently bad for "moral" reasons .this is funny that he does this, because I justified my views towrads intoxcity with the same logic regarding why dating a lustful person is bad for u: such a person skews ur sense of reality, in the same way that drugs and alcohol do.
While ppl may assume that drugs and alcohol dont harm u in the same way that a lustful person does, why don't u tell me how much healthier ur body and teeth would be if you didnt use drugs Or alcohol , or at least did so like one or two hrs a wk , as opposed to at least 3 or 4 hrs a week Like THE VAST MAJORITY of drug users do.
.just had to type this to prevent u all from thinking I was claiming intoxicity is bad for any reason than why I actually said it was bad..
Thia dude over here trying to out words in my mouth.
Conclusion: in my opinion at least ,intoxicity is bad ONLY if u do it like 3 hrs a week..since this amount of hours would deem it to be frequent use, which would imply frequently being out of touch with reality .
Queen troll out .
I have been following JS69 threads, where he writes about cannabis sativa and cannabis indicta, and writes (IIRC) that the latter has effects more along the lines that I'd be looking for right now. And that the stuff 20 is light years ahead of the stuff from 20 years ago. Also the O-D risk is very low, which appeals to me. Plus it could be an alternative to alcohol, which is a plus.
But that takes me back to the part of me being a wage slave. And here in Ohio, we often have to provide urine samples to employers. And I can jeopardize (right now) my employ-ability. So maybe some day when I'm more established or where that's not a threat to me. But for Mrs. 77, she could enjoy it for now. I cannot.
This would all be for very occasion recreational use. Not a regular thing.
Exactly ! Occassional use is fine..but using drugs regularly which translates to being regularly out of touch with reality is ...Lol well that speaks 4 itself
DC sounds like a potential mass shooter
Nicole more than occasionally eats cheesecake, donuts, and takis. And also going online to piss off board members. She doesn't allow it to ruin her goals of killing it on the senate floor?
If you've never done drugs, don't comment. Especially if the reason you haven't done drugs is because of naivete, close-mindedness, or ignorance as opposed to just not wanting to. This is not a website to get judgmental over people's life choices.
And FYI, weed not physically addictive. It is also less damaging to the body than almost any mind altering substance out there. It's less dangerous than Tylenol ffs. If someone gets "addicted" to weed, they have no will power to begin with and are probably also addicted to candy bars and video games. Weed is relaxing and therapeutic. Do I smoke weed to get high? Yes. I also smoke it to relax, help with my nausea, help me sleep, etc. It's an herb. It is also less addictive than caffeine.
Also, no one who drinks alcohol on occasion or at all really should be judgmental towards those who smoke weed. Alcohol is undeniably more dangerous and more intoxicating than marijuana. Give me a break.
It's also funny trapbaby304 that you said you have tried heroin once and will never use it again, but just a few days ago you you listed these as your top 5 pleasures:
"1- Money
2- Making love
3- Sex with another woman
4- Coke or heroin
5- Getting faded and going out to a really good restaurant"
Nicole1994's opinion is useless, she's clearly already a cokehead anyway.
Nicole's opinion isn't useless, its actually really good.
I just think people who try to justify their drug use are fucking idiots. Just say you like getting high. Its not that hard. At least I can admit it
You have an odd sense of humor.
You literally justified your drug use when you said,
"@Nicole, I used to be very anti drug, then a lot of shit happened in my life and I realized that I like the feeling of escaping from reality. Its a poor coping mechanism but I like being high. I admit I pretty much smoke weed every day and do coke whenever I want. I also like day drinking once or twice a week. Molly makes sex or clubbing better."
^^^That is an example of trying to justify drug use.
Idk why anyone here would need to justify their drug use to anyone else here. I smoke weed to get high. I don't need to justify my marijuana use because there's absolutely nothing wrong with marijuana, it's not a hard drug and it does have a wide variety of therapeutic uses. I ate two strip steaks this evening and got nauseated afterwards. It was heavy on my stomach. Smoked some weed, and felt much better. Nausea gone.
Go play with semantics somewhere else bitch
Go play troll somewhere else. Don't you have a pimp waiting for his money?
Don't worry about what I got to do. Worry about yourself.
"I think you need to STFU and go play your word games with someone else dumb bitch."
^I was actually pointing out your logical loopholes about your 'opinion' on drug use, you're the one that's trying to turn this into some 'word game' and calling me a 'dumb bitch' just because I have something of substance to say (no pun intended).
I guess certain men on here will forever love putting words in the mouths of others.
I guess certain men on here will forever love putting words in the mouths of others
I guess certain men on here will forever love putting words in the mouths of others
I guess certain men on here will forever love putting words in the mouths of others
I guess certain men on here will forever love putting words in the mouths of others
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you're not funny though
However , what is funny is thinking that being regularly or frequently intoxicated is okay, given that intoxication skews your thinking , clarity, and judgement .
And what is more funny is assuming I have a problem with drugs for any other reason than the one I just stated as that as the only reason I have been referring to ...
Guess ppl wanna be not only defensive, but also assumptuous.
I have friends that drink on weekends but dont get drunk or wasted..I'm proud of them.
like I said, intoxication skews ur judgment and clarity .
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ou seem to have misunderstood what I said..
Doing it occasionally is fine with me. I wasn't criticiizng Occassional use, but rather regular or frequent use .
Right. I go to a mom&pop bakery. Clean and healthy lifestyle means you can't eat that shit everyday or even every week. You just can't. But I do about once a month. That won't catch up to you. But you do have to be like 90-95% clean.
Like 0-1 beer a night, weekdays. I've cut down from 2. And maybe sip liquor neat (e.g. vodka) on the weekends, only. Intoxicated rarely.
Also, if u wanna smoke weed for as much as long as it takes Nicole to eat her cheesecake , then smoke weed for 20 min once a monthnor every other lmao
Also, if u wanna smoke weed as Much ss Nicole gets on Tuscl when she isnt walking to class or waiting for the preofessor to talk about something in class that will actuakky be on the test as opposed to answering student's questions etc, then smoke weed for one hour max each week.
Am I gonna stop spending 5 minutes to kake a simple post? Nahhh
But I would liken to even cut down on the extent to which I respond to comments , which I dont even do compared to many of the users , But I still do it. However , at least I acknowledge that it is bad and bc of I'm I'm trying to even spend less than an hour a wk responding to comments..as opposed to acting like it is a good thing lmao .
Like I said, frequent intoxicity means frequent lack of performance for basic tasks , such as understanding the person who is speaking to u, responding without slurring . etc. Only exception is probably shrooms
Meth and coke increase alertness but we all know doing either frequently is bad and as for meth, can make u violent etc
Who? Which stoners (plural) were getting defensive of smoking weed? Lmao your mind is more deluded than any weed smoker's here, you're actually calling weed smokers "druggies" when the reality is that it's not dangerous or even comparable to hard drugs or Rx drugs. You're old, you've probably had some sort of surgery, and if you have, you've done a drug much "worse" than marijuana.
You also seem to be obsessed with marijuana and/or people who smoke it.
Nicole1994 is just a coke head rambling on as usual. What a hypocrite.
Is that why you've made like 25 posts on this thread since yesterday?
Cuz can u read? I guess not coherently , since in that comment I was only talking about main activity (making post ) as opposed to my side hustle (responding to comments )
Guess u cant distinguish main activity from side hustle , nor can u differentiate making thread vs commenting ?
And if youre gonna be so trivial and copy and paste what other ppl say when they arent even talking to u, then at least learn to copy and paste accurately lmao I think they taught us that in 5th grade
And that is bc I already addressed ur question before u even commented with this comment I posted this morning :
Also, if u wanna smoke weed as Much as Nicole gets on Tuscl when she isnt walking to class or waiting for the preofessor to talk about something in class that will actually be on the test as opposed to answering students' questions etc, then smoke weed for one hour max each week.
Here I implied that I only spend an hour max on Tuscl when im not using it in the bus or when walking. I am literally in thre bus right now, spent like 35-40 mins commenting yesterday , and commented this morning when I was waiting for my food to heat up..
And as for ur response as to the regular use of weed, like with this comment towards u, I already addressed ur rebuttal in a previous comment lmao.
^lmao this is why I rarely respond to u anymore. Ur logic tends to be circular , addressing things I have already covered
Men of tuscl, remember how I said that comparing weed to other drugs will make weed look good , just like comparing a 5 will make a girl look hot as compared to a girl who is 1? I didnt say it in those specific yerms but I did articulate that concept
Lmao.I'm done.go intoxicate urself.
No one is getting defensive, except, oddly, the people who don't do drugs and also don't know anything about drugs who are being defensive for some reason. If you don't do drugs, fine, but no, Nicole doesn't know wtf she's talking about. She is both naive and ignorant on this subject.
My first semester of college I was 17. I had done a little drinking but hadn't smoked, or done any illegal drugs (besides drinking underage a couple days a week). I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life so I took random classes my first college semester, one being a class on the psychology of drugs and drug behavior. I am textbook learned on all 'mainstream' drugs and have also experimented with some. I know what I'm talking about.
I started smoking weed around that age, because I was in college. I first got stoned at 17. My friends and sister started a year or so earlier than me, and I was always the sober one watching them get high and think they were acting very stupid, and I didn't want to act stupid like that. But the truth was, they were all 15-16 year old high schoolers when they first tried it, so of course they're going to act dumb. And it was not dangerous stupidity like how people get drunk. It was harmless stupidity and lots of laughing that at least provided some entertainment to me.
Then I first got high, I was a stoner from then on. I never thought I would be. But me and my sister got a house together and I got high a few times and decided I want to smoke weed for the rest of my life. I've had times where I've stopped for a few months, but I'll never stop permanently.
And by the time I was Nicole's age, which was only 3 years ago, I was way more successful than her. If weed is so bad, then why is Nicole a 24 year old sophomore bum, while I have two jobs, make very good money, have nice things, assets, my own place, way more education, credit, etc? There are plenty of complete stoners who do well in school and are just generally very successful.
^^^No, the problem is that your *incoherent* posts preclude anyone from being able understand you, except trolls. It is quite common here for people (both sober and otherwise) that cannot make sense of your posts, because they rarely do.
"Also, if u wanna smoke weed as Much as Nicole gets on Tuscl when she isnt walking to class or waiting for the preofessor to talk about something in class that will actually be on the test as opposed to answering students' questions etc, then smoke weed for one hour max each week."
^^^And what's your point? If I smoked for an hour out of each week, I could theoretically get high every day. 60 minutes would give me time to smoke half a blunt to a full blunt 6 days a week at 10 minutes each time. So what is your point?
"And as for ur response as to the regular use of weed, like with this comment towards u, I already addressed ur rebuttal in a previous comment lmao."
^^^Regular use of weed means nothing. I have friends who went to Ivy League schools who smoke every day. There are rich business owners who smoke every. There are successful people with MBAs, JDs, PhDs, MDs, etc, who smoke weed every day. And there are plenty who do not. Marijuana does not preclude a person from being a success; people preclude themselves. Marijuana is not addictive enough to be life-damaging to people unless those people are already prone to laziness and carelessness.
"Men of tuscl, remember how I said that comparing weed to other drugs will make weed look good"
^^^Well, it's true, because weed is very good compared to other drugs. There are very few drugs more dangerous than weed. Weed has caused zero ODs. Thousands of people die from taking Tylenol, Ibuprofen, and Aspirin. People can even overdose from these and die; the same cannot be said for marijuana.
"Lmao.I'm done.go intoxicate urself."
^^^Ooh, burnnn! You just told an adult to do something to themself that they, as an adult, should have the the choice to do responsibly anyway!
I know. Nicole1994 always seems to do so. Idk why, if drugs are something she is so against, she felt the need to make over 25 posts on this topic. Lmao.
This argument is about weed smoking vs non weed smoking , not Nicole vs Nina.
I dont even agree with ur comparison about us , but I'm not gonna address it cuz I already have in the past (according to through the eyes of law school admission officers based on discussing my situation with many of them , not thru the eyes of a stripper ) so I'm not gonna waste my time.
.it is about weed smoking vs not smoking. So u have to compare the effects of weed on the majority of weed users vs majority of non smokers...
Look at nina trying to be turn a topic that applies to a broad range of ppl into a catfight between 2 girls
Interesting . Also this comment wasnt really for Nina, but rather to every one else who doesnt have a good understanding of my claims based on nina and DC putting words in my mouth or cherry picking what I say
^^^It was merely an exemplification of the fact that there can be bums who don't smoke weed (you) and extremely accomplished people who do.
"This argument is about weed smoking vs non weed smoking , not Nicole vs Nina."
^^^Trust me, I know. Your name doesn't deserve to be spoken in the same breath as mine.
"I dont even agree with ur comparison about us"
^^^I didn't compare us, I contrasted.
", but I'm not gonna address it cuz I already have in the past (according to through the eyes of law school admission officers based on discussing my situation with many of them , not thru the eyes of a stripper ) so I'm not gonna waste my time."
^^^I would understand your desire to discuss your 'situation' with admissions officers, since you are a 24 year old sophomore with a subpar ability to take standardized tests, based on your own allegation of having the grades but not the test scores for Harvard, and the fact that you can't string together a coherent group of sentences here despite regularly reposting a revised view that is still always littered with typos and grammatic tragedies.
".it is about weed smoking vs not smoking. So u have to compare the effects of weed on the majority of weed users vs majority of non smokers..."
^^^Right, because comparing effects of weed on *non smokers* will produce a plethora of data about the effects of weed, right?
"Look at nina trying to be turn a topic that applies to a broad range of ppl into a catfight between 2 girls"
^^^This isn't even worthy of a response. Again, since yesterday, you've now made nearly 30 posts on this discussion. I finally stop ignoring you after like your 24th post here and include facts that dispute your ignorance, so now it's called a 'cat fight.' That makes absolutely no sense. You were arguing with other people (guys) on here before I even quoted you. Were those also cat figts?
"Also this comment wasnt really for Nina,"
^^^Yes, it completely was.
It has much less to do my writing , but the fact that ppl often conflate various views in regards to controversial topics .
Plz read more intelligently
She must be right because she always is, but I always thought contrasting was a type of a comparison.
com·pare
kəmˈper/Submit
verb
1.
estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
He's such a contradiction
LMAO!!! The trolls have to stick together.
Lmao cherry pickers and contradictory ppl must need to stick to together.
Moreover , if I have sub par gpa bc I couldn't get into Harvard (but I got into an elite school which you have not ) , but u have a low gpa per ur own allegation , does that mean u have less than sub par academic abilities since ur gpa alone is so low ?
No I didnt get into Harvard , but I got into a school in the same league as it.
....but u haven't. Guess u are less than sub par ? Lol idiot.
Unless u actually get in, you just have the potential to get into Harvard lmao which is subjective.
At least my standardized test taking wasnt low enough to prevent me from getting into Cornell.
At least my standardized test taking wasnt low enough to prevent me from getting into Cornell.and Even if ur low gpa wont prevent u from getting into the top 10 for law, you dont even know that yet bc you haven't even received admission.
Lmao.
At least my standardized test taking wasnt low enough to prevent me from getting into Cornell.and Even if ur low gpa wont prevent u from getting into the top 10 for law, you dont even know that yet bc you haven't even received admission.
Lmao.
We've heard you talking about Cornell over and over. I do not care to have you explain how you allegedly managed to transfer from Cornell to UT after taking a four year break upon completing a whopping 30 credit hours and STILL cannot compose a paragraph that makes sense and reads with decent grammar. Perhaps there were a couple people in admissions with fetishes for girls who are half horse have ball sacks. Haha.
At least my standardized test taking wasnt low enough to prevent me from getting into Cornell.and Even if ur low gpa wont prevent u from getting into the top 10 for law, you dont even know that yet bc you haven't even received admission.
Lmao.
I said that while it is true I didnt get into Harvard because of my SAT score, that doesnt matter because it was still high enough to get into Cornell ......
I said that while it is true I didnt get into Harvard because of my SAT score, that doesnt matter because it was still high enough to get into Cornell ......
Law typically requires writing skills, which you lack. You will have to do tons of reading as well as writing in law school and you have shown zero potential of having the grammar skills to be able to compete with other law students. You would flunk out after everyone in your classes, including your profs, have had ample time to laugh at your ignorance. And that is assuming that you even get into law school. Taking four years off after your freshman year and not even having a job as an excuse for that absence is laughable at best.
You live in an imaginary circus, but are a real-life clown.
Law also requires sufficient reasoning skills, which you cant have by assuming that a standarized test score is worth more than an actual acceptance, especially an acceptance to the school of the same caliber .
I type on my cell phone for Tuscl, not for coege applicAtions .
If u think my writing is poor, but I still got into Cornell and UT with it but you haven't,I wonder what that says about the quality of ur writing.
I applied to neither Cornell nor UT. Please tell me what schools I got accepted to since you want to talk shit and brag about being a 24 year old sophomore.
This is why logic on the test to get into law school is worth nearly 50% of the exam, while the writing section is graded less than the SAt is and barely even fucking scored to begin with .
Don't worry, I don't expect u to understand what the law admissions officers have told me based on u talking about my writing skills when that part of the test isn't even graded but the logic section is.
i would much rather be thirty years old ad a graduate from Cornell law school as opposed to being 30 or close to 30 and a paralegal.. Or being 30 and and not a top lawyer .
I would much rather be 24 and working way into law school and receiving an elite undergraduate education as opposed to being 24 and working a regular job, when I don't need that to even get into law school
i would much rather be thirty years old ad a graduate from Cornell law school as opposed to being 30 or close to 30 and a paralegal.. Or being 30 and and not a top lawyer .
I would much rather be 24 and working way into law school and receiving an elite undergraduate education as opposed to being 24 and working a regular job, when I don't need that to even get into law school
But which school has the better drugs?
I went to a university, guys here just like to discredit me and pretend I got my education from a community college. These are the idiots that don't understand that community colleges don't give out bachelor's and law degrees.
Because how I write on Tuscl on a cell phone is reflective of my academic writing abilities , as opposed to how i write on pen and paper about constitutional issues in school.
You are assuming the latter is the same as the former . I wonder how u will get through law school with ur lack of reasoning skills.
Nothing less than 90 on my foreign policy papers at UT
And 96 on my policy paper at Cornell when the average was 93
88 on my harshly graded Cornell paper when the average was a b- ...two letter grades above the average at an ivy.
Clearly, if my writing ability in school wont preclude me from getting in, i guess my Tuscl ability will !!! Wow , this girl wants yo play law school admissions officer in so many ways ? Kind of like how she begs to talk about being in college at my age when the admissions officers stated to me it wouldn't me a problem ? Lmao.
I will let you keep talking to yourself now.
We aren't cool enough to brag about being so rebellious as to take drugs illegally to mask our insecurities.
"People who are good writers simply get used to writing well as a part of their day to day life whether it is texting or writing an academic paper. Good writers don't go on a forum and think "oh I'm not writing a paper anymore so I can finally start making unintelligible posts." Good writers are simply used to writing well, and may make some mild grammatical mistakes in casual writing as opposed to formal writing."
If you have a negative experience with someone of a particular race do you denounce all people of that race? How about religion or gender?
Oh, please. You illegally buy pussy so stop being a hypocrite. And people take drugs "illegally" for many reasons; where do you get the idea that people just take drugs to "mask insecurities"?
...and without doing his research first.
Well put, DC9428.
Tuscl is no exuse to write like shit. I dont type like shit on here cuz of the nature of the site , but bc I generally have access to my phone as opposed to my laptop when I get on here, which personally maked it hard me 4 me to type,and is thus a reason why I hate communicating over text
I'm guessing you assume everybody that posts on here participates in the illegal purchase of sex based on your experience of selling BJs for 50 cents.
Tuscl is no exuse to write like shit. I dont type like shit on here cuz of the nature of the site , but bc I generally have access to my phone as opposed to my laptop when I get on here, which personally makes it hard me 4 me to type,and is thus a reason why I hate communicating over text
We are two different people . if how I type should be the same as yours or close to it, then I guess one person's handwriting style would be similar as that of the next
And enough with the 50 cent bj thing. That's txttyfag's line. You better ask somebody, people have met me here and gotten vip dances from me and not one of them can say I sucked their dick because I have never sucked or fucked for money yet I'm still a top earner and it really creams your corn to the point of you having to attempt libelous claims to discredit my greatness. Loser.
We are two different people . if how I type should be the same as yours or close to it, then I guess one person's handwriting style would be similar as that of the next
You stated that I illegally purchase pussy as a fact. I was guessing as to why you assumed that to be true.
Why did you make that assumption about me and then get all pissy when I allege something similar about you? And I even specifically stated that I was GUESSING about the reason. Thin skin?????
Oh, and while txtittyfag was the one that disclosed your side hustle of cheap BJs I use it because I find it humorous.
Since you have an obvious problem with people using illegal drugs, do you also have a problem with the people here who illegally buy pussy?
I don't have a problem with people who take drugs. I feel sorry for many, and pity some.
I disagree with legalizing recreational drugs for reasons I've stated before.
Now are you going to answer my question.
Why did you make that assumption about me and then get all pissy when I allege something similar about you? And I even specifically stated that I was GUESSING about the reason. Thin skin?????
According to popular opinion here, you are quite old. You are also perpetually grumpy. It's not like women are going to throw themselves at you.
Why did you make that assumption about me and then get all pissy when I allege something similar about you? And I even specifically stated that I was GUESSING about the reason. Thin skin?????
No, druggie stripper whores that prefer gangbanger convicts don't throw themselves at me. Im fine with that.
Why are you so combative and angry?
Im not angry. I'm actually having fun with this conversation.
I answered your question. You are old and grumpy so it's not like women are throwing themselves at you for free. How many times do you want me to answer your question?
"I know drugs are bad, but they feel good and make shit go away for a while."
And yes, that is why people use drugs, and that is a very unhealthy way to live.
DC9428, what you are talking about is Calvinism. I certainly have never supported that.
You are still living within Calvinism, using drugs, in moderation, as a way of fighting against it.
I do not support Calvinism in any form or manner, so I do not have to do stupid meaningless things to rebel against it.
Life is aesthetic. Sex, food, work, reading, study, meditation, these are some of its major rituals. None of them need to in any way support Calvinism.
EchoPizza wrote, "The only thing I smoke are fools like you on the basketball court."
I wish I knew how to play basketball that well. Now I have a reason to learn! :) :) :)
DC wrote, "so I will keep my sex drive" The idea that marijuana makes you horny is sheer nonsense. If you need marijuana to feel horny, then there are already things wrong in your life, dissociation and denial. People who use marijuana lightly come to have holes in their life and consciousness. So curious that there are people on this forum willing to make so many posts to try and defend their drug habits are harmless.
We all need ALL OF OUR FACULTIES to be able to keep integrating and processing the things which happen. We need to be constantly re-examinging and re-interpreting our past experiences. This is a 24/7 life long job. People who use drugs to escape or feel good are committing psychic lobotomies on themselves.
Dominic77, yes some people will use psychedelics. But how much better to be able to find such states by your own consciousness. Meditation, drumming, trance, hyperventilating, all of the known psychedelic states can be found easily, and especially that often reported LSD experience of lying on you back and seeing the walls and ceiling breathing.
SJG
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You love talking dirty to me but I just don't dig ya like that.
You are fighting against this idea that everything needs to be purposeful. You are fighting against Calvinism.
Well 180 degrees from Calvinism is still Calvinism. And yes, this is why most people who drink and use do so, rebelling against the Calvinism in their upbringing and in our society.
Calvinism is indeed deeply rooted in our society, but I do not need to rebel against it because I have torn it out of my life by its roots, and from a very early age.
SJG
I am not saying you do not have the right to choose. I only take exception with your attempts to justify your choice, and with your choice itself.
SJG
;-)
Who's the druggie stripper whore who didn't contribute? How dare she?
I certainly contributed (this is my thread, after all), but I am not a druggie as I just smoke weed... also not a whore because I don't suck or fuck for money and men here have confirmed this.
There was that troll (trapbaby304) who claimed to be a hoe who loves heroin and takes five bumps of coke before work, so I guess that is the druggie stripper whore you're referring to (sounds like one to me), but you're too stupid to understand it's a troll account.
A) druggie whore who fucks for money.
or
B) does not fuck for money but fucks convicted murders for free.
But let's get down to what's really important. How did those nuts of yours get so salty?
i got a blow job after going to the gym, she said my nuts were salty.
It's why the "Last Comment: 1 minute ago" etc hyperlink at the top of threads as added by @founder.
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Oh my. So your tuscl name could've been "sweaty.nutz" or "stinky.nutz"
I knew something was off with that username.
The question is why I would not try ketamine.
I would not try ketamine because it's a dissociative like PCP and DXM and I'm not trying to lose my mind.
A kid I went to high school with who was a few grades above me was telling me about this time where he took a bong hit during lunch and his "friends" had laced the weed with PCP without telling him. He started to freak out and thought he was dying and after he got home, he didn't come out of his room for two days and was so fucked up from the incident that he was paranoid for years after and wouldn't even eat a chip unless he saw the actual bag of chips being freshly opened. But let's change the subject to a different person and different drug...
...When I was like 19 I had a place with my friend and a lot of kids that I never hung out with, but were from the area and/or went to the same high school as me, started hanging out at my place. So this kid does DXM (robo tripping).
I knew that he had done the DXM, and I chose not to partake. Only one other kid did it with him, and the other kid was experienced with it. This kid was not. We were all sitting around my dining room table, it was a large table and there was always a game of spades going on with several people pulling up chairs to watch, while others watched TV in my living room or cooked dinner in the kitchen.
So I'm sitting at the table where there are several people gathered, and I'm monitoring this kid who just took the DXM, because I had never been around anyone who had done it and I was scared he was going to vomit all over my house if you want to know the truth.
I told my twin sister I was concerned about the kid, let's call him Charles. My roommate and I were letting my twin live at our house because she'd just broken up with her boyfriend and had no place to stay (this was before she became a dope fiend).
Twin starts making fun of me for being concerned about Trippin' Charles, saying I'm overreacting and that he was fine. Apparently I was the only one paying attention to Charles because I realized that for the last half hour or so, he had withdrawn from the conversation with everyone else and was just hunched over in a very crooked manner in the chair, staring at the table with his face all twisted up. Something bad was happening.
Then some of the guys who were sitting next to him finally realized something was wrong. They tried to ask Charles if he was ok but he would just either ignore them or twist his face up some more, enough to give them a nasty look before retreating his eyes back to the top of the table. People started to realize I was right when I said something was wrong with him.
I was on my laptop at the other end of the table trying to ignore his weirdness. Next thing I know, his body is hovering over mine, he is standing up but has his body all bent over so he can look over my shoulder with his face a few inches from my laptop, as if he is very interested in, or can even understand, what I was doing on my laptop. I was freaked out and moved to a different area of the dining room.
He then sat down and began to dry heave. Then he wandered into the kitchen to dry heave in the sink for a few minutes. He was finally able to talk to people, but no one could understand what he was saying so he gave up for a while.
The next hour or so was spent with him alternating between sitting down and scowling at the table or floor, occasionally whispering to himself in something that was not a real language, and looking extremely scared. Every 20 mins or so he would get up, go to my kitchen sink, and dry heave. Then he would return to the dining room table, sit down, and scowl like a demon from a horror movie. It literally haunted me.
Then eventually, he got up and made the first real sentence since before he took the DXM. He said, "Nina, I'm gonna sleep in your room tonight," and proceeded to walk into my bedroom.
I was telling my friends, "no, he is not allowed to sleep in my bedroom." One of my friends went and got him. I was genuinely scared of him at this point, because his behavior was so creepy and tragic. One of our friends ended up taking him home later that night.
That day was one of my first times actually hanging out with Charles. He was a normal 18/19 year old guy all day. However, I saw him a few times after taking the DXM, and HE WAS NEVER THE SAME. He was always a bit off after that.
I know ketamine has been compared to DXM and PCP since they're all dissociatives. I would never, ever want to look or act like the creature I saw that night.
It was one of my best drug experiences, though. I was with a group of friends who I loved and trusted, I had made myself a playlist of songs to listen to which helped me experience the closed eye visuals, and we all just hung out in the park underneath a huge tree sitting on the grass tripping in our own ways. It was the first thing I tried recreationally besides weed.
I remember my sister did not do shrooms with us, but someone has salvia so she tried that. I was feeling so good from the shrooms, and didn't want salvia to mess up my trip, so I stayed away from it. But I remember her taking it during my shrooms trip.
She had tried it once before but hadn't inhaled it enough to have an effect. So this time, I watched her take a hit, and I asked her "do you feel anything?" She said no. I waited a little longer and asked again, "ok, now do you feel anything?" and she answered with something that also was not any currently spoken language, and she seemed to stop mid sentence. Then her chin became glued to her chest and she had a weird grin on her face and was drooling.
It obviously didn't last long. After she snapped out of it, we're like, "so what did it feel like?"
She said everything was just dull shades of black and white, and had a depressing feel to it, and that the really depressing part was that it seemed much more real than actual reality. And she said there was a huge dome, that she could only describe as being "large enough to reach the sky but bigger," and that the dome separated two people --- me and my guy friend --- from the rest of the group.
This was before the DXM thing, back when my sis and I had a house together, so it was way before she was a dope fiend. She was just experimenting, which I give her props for, because a few days prior we had all watched one of our friends try salvia on our living room floor and freak out so badly none of us wanted to try it after that.
Same here with salvia. We researched it and it was the closest thing to DMT that we could get our hands on, and it was legal. But I never tried it, and a few of my friends had no interest trying it after watching our friend "James" do it.
We were all just chilling in my living room smoking weed, maybe a couple of us were having a beer, and a friend of mine had bought some salvia. But she said she wanted someone else to try it before she did, so James volunteered. He said he had done it once before.
So he hits the salvia and the rest of us there were girls. Me, and like five of my girl friends. After James takes the hit, we're like, "how does it feel?" and he just laid down on my carpet and curled into the fetal position.
Then once he got back to earth, we were all like, "so what did it feel like?" and he just silently went into the other room and sat alone for a long time. I brought him some ice water and waited until he was ready.
When he came back into the living room, he said the trip was made worse by all of us asking if he felt anything because he couldn't understand us. Then he said something about it feeling like he was being sucked into a Sharpie (weird) and held down. I can't recall a lot else of what he said, but it was an extremely unpleasant experience. No one else did salvia that night. We just stuck to weed and maybe a lil booze.
One of the girls tried it a few days later and liked it a lot. She thought it was fun and said it felt like being trapped in a Super Mario video game. She started doing it whenever she had the opportunity. Not all day every day like a drug addict, but once or twice a week for a few weeks until the novelty wore off...
***See, this is how the thread should be. Instead of arguing about legality and morality of drugs, it should be to share crazy stories.
Fucking weak-minded druggie losers. But I must say that you are really cool, so at least you have that going for you.
:-)
Maybe one day you will grow up and become somewhat responsible.
If you don't allude to me I'll stop interjecting in your public conversation so you won't continue to shed tears.
Enjoy
:-)
I agree about acid and shrooms. Very different, but I've only tripped on acid once. The high was more electric than Shrooms, which was just very pleasurable and relaxing. Acid was a cool experience, but shrooms was better. My closed eye visuals my first shrooms trip were amazing. It looked like I was looking through a kaleidoscope, and there was a Being. It looked like a Hindu god, I guess, although I could really only make out its shape. It was moving along with the music I was listening to and at one point started holding something out to me, but idk what it was.
There are very few drugs less* dangerous than weed. Tylenol is more dangerous.
True. If I'm going to keep my mind open, I do owe it to myself to try non-drug alternatives, first. See if they are enough. Then decide whether or not I should even pursue drugs.
"Meditation, drumming, trance, hyperventilating"
^ and yoga!
I've only stuck with alcohol and weed
Alcohol can be socially fun but less so as I've gotten older.
Never liked weed, but don't care if it's your thing.
Gotten pain pills after surgery. They fell good, but the itching and constipation limits the pleasure.
Gotten prescription benzos. Great to bring me down if my head is fucked up, otherwise just feel doped out all day.
Tried Ayahuasca (which includes DMT). Hated it, made me violently ill. Bad trip.
Tried ketamine. Turned my into a raging fiend, had to be forcibly restrained. Never again.
As I said earlier (in another thread, I think), it's an odd function of TUSCL that pretty much every single dancer picks up a few weirdly-fixated trolls the moment they decide to post her consistently. I generally get along with Nina, and even when I've disagreed with her it has never inspired me to create a whole new profile dedicated to trolling her.
The only thing she does that greatly annoys me is not post more pictures of herself.
The current Nina is fairly-different than the one that used to post several years ago perhaps b/f you (@heaving) started posting - back then she was a much more "aggressive poster" per se and she created a fair # of "adversaries" for lack of a better-word - not saying whether it was right or wrong, just giving you a bit of back-history.
Non credible. This drug thread goes so far to act the fool, meaning who cares if you use drugs, but it’s fun to point out the hypocrisy in people.
I never understood the white knight syndrome so many PLs have, but I guess I don’t have a void to fill as much as they do, but to each their own. The ignore function works both ways, so eat your words.
I can now without hesitation add her to my tagline along with Icee and SJG! Congrats. Over 90% of real estate agents quit the profession within the first 5 years, but at least Nina can supplement her “career” by selling herself to old white men for companionship. Odds are she’ll get pregnant then and her narrative will change to taking time off to raise the baby. Fact is, most committed mothers can and will juggle a career and family. We shall see, but in my experience it’s usually the loudest voice in the room generally has the most to hide. That’s narcissistic Nina for you.
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For the record, I've yet to try any new drug since starting this thread (unless you count the antidepressant I was prescribed in 2020). Most of my drug experimentation was in my late teens. I have done shrooms a couple more times since posting this and it's always been pleasant and eye-opening, but the first time was the best. Probably my best drug experience. I'd like to get some good shrooms and take a low-to-moderate dose with my boyfriend.
Still will never touch crack, meth, heroin, or pcp.
Also did seroquel a couple times to help me sleep, both times were very unpleasant.
Also forgot to add Zofran, which doesn't really get you high, it's just an anti emetic (anti nausea) along with compazine, another anti emetic. I have problems with nausea stemming from my emetophonia as a kid.
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