Drugs

[PeterFile]

I drink like most people, but can't stand beer; yuk. I smoked for a year, but gave up and only smoke at social occasions like parties. My first proper drug was weed, which I smoked alot of last year in school with my friend in my frees. I've been doing ecstasy for about three months, and it has changed my life so much. Before, I didn't have many friends, I never went out with people, never partied, and I was a shy person. Now I love going out, and go out regularly, people love me and it's boosted my confidence. My girlfriend wanted me to stop the ecstasy, which I did, but eventhough I miss it, it's left a positive impact on my life.

[Justananomaly]

I did/do weed in moderation and doubt ill ever change from that habit.
Ecstasy i've never done but I guess it is ok but I caution you, roll bad and it can literally cook your brain and if you don't have at least one person monitoring you carefully, you could die from it.

[jaw86camaro]

Why do drugs.. they just screw up your life

[PeterFile]

MDMA in itself is actually quite safe. However, what's dangerous is if the pill is made from something else, and I tested my pills. What I really hate is the war against drugs - in the Netherlands far few people die from ecstasy, because of the Dutch policy - clubs have pill testing kits s well as public warning from their health ministry when potentially lethal 'ecstasy' pills are discovered in circulation. Over here in the UK however, if a club has a pill testing kit it gets shut down. The war against drugs is pointless, and drug addiction should be treated as a health problem, not a crime.

[Justananomaly]

Originally Posted by PeterFile

The war against drugs is pointless, and drug addiction should be treated as a health problem, not a crime.

Drugs are illegal so they don't become an addiction so they don't cause health problems.

Of course.. that is how it is suppose to work.

[PeterFile]

Originally Posted by Justananomaly

Drugs are illegal so they don't become an addiction so they don't cause health problems.

Like cigarettes? Oh wait... It's pathetic how cigarettes and alcohol are legal when they're actually alot more dangerous than most of the other drugs.

Used correctly, MDMA doesn't necessarily have to be a killer at all - certainly in comparison with tobacco and alcohol, which kill many hundreds of thousands every year.

Also, abuse prescription drugs kill alot more people than illegal drugs.
"An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined."

[birdman]

I smoke cigarettes regularly, and I drink alcohol socially (and usually excessively)



I have done many kinds of marijuana, LSD, acid, PCP, and MDA.
and still do.


i havent done anything with prescription drugs.

[PeterFile]

I find it difficult to drink without having a cigarette.

[Justananomaly]

Originally Posted by PeterFile

Like cigarettes? Oh wait... It's pathetic how cigarettes and alcohol are legal when they're actually alot more dangerous than most of the other drugs.

I can't agree with this at all.

Cigarettes have bearly any significant instantanious mental effects other then the occational light-headedness, the 1/10000000 allergic reaction, or the insignificant 1-2 seconds of a distracting cough, they're listed so high because of their long-term damaging effects.

Alcohol... well.... most of us (expecially us programmers and developers and anyone in the white house/senate or anyone involved in the judicial system) probably couldn't get by a single week without a drink or two just to calm our nerves. Take away alchohol and there are no more legal mind-imparing non-prescription drugs and the nation itself nearly collapses (i.e. the prohibition).

And while these two are perfectly legal in the average Joe's normal use, they are proactivly ILLEGAL to indulge in before preforming acts requiring sobority (i.e. driving/working/smoking indoors/resturants/anything where messing up ends in injury/death.) so you could already rules these two out as half-and-halfs already because they are not legal in every single situation and have penelties.

[PeterFile]

Here's a graph I found on the BBC listing the drugs in order of their danger, and as you can see alcohol is actually near the top. If it was introduced today there's no doubt about that it would be a class A drug, it's just become socially accepted.

[lacrosse_man16]

Originally Posted by PeterFile

MDMA in itself is actually quite safe. However, what's dangerous is if the pill is made from something else, and I tested my pills. What I really hate is the war against drugs - in the Netherlands far few people die from ecstasy, because of the Dutch policy - clubs have pill testing kits s well as public warning from their health ministry when potentially lethal 'ecstasy' pills are discovered in circulation. Over here in the UK however, if a club has a pill testing kit it gets shut down. The war against drugs is pointless, and drug addiction should be treated as a health problem, not a crime.

Woot another ecstasy user!!!

[Justananomaly]

Originally Posted by PeterFile

Here's a graph I found on the BBC listing the drugs in order of their danger, and as you can see alcohol is actually near the top. If it was introduced today there's no doubt about that it would be a class A drug, it's just become socially accepted.

It's also probably the most ancient method of socialist partying, as eating a bunch of post-ripe fruit after it's fallen to the ground renders the same grain alcohol we use in alcoholic beverages I suppose it can be linked back to our primitive ancestors. It's high because of it's instant effects of slowing reaction times down and increasing core states of being like many other drugs while being almost readily available anywhere to anyone with some spare change laying around.

This is why I believe drugs of simular temporary brain chemical altering effects (i.e. marijuana, lcd, X) should be legalized for socially controlled environments where nobody can (without a pension for murder pre-hand) get hurt or killed. Of course this is just my personal opinion, I suppose some people view it as "We have to get ***ed up somehow" and choose the lesser and most available of all the evils to do so.

[monahan]

Quite simply not my scene. I have a brain that's weird enough without chemicals.

[ShotgunSnipist]

I drink.
But I very rarely drink.
I'll take a shot of 100 proof vodka when I feel... Indescribable.
When I go snowboarding I'll drink sips of 'Shnops'.
When I can I'll drink white wine.
But other then those 3 things I will only drink 1 or 2 times a month. Mainly cause I'm not of legal age but my parent's allow small amounts.

As for other drugs, I plan to stay away from. I know WAY to many druggies that go absolutely no where. Some of them change in one year.

There was this really popular kid at my school in 8th grade. Not only popular, successful. Everyone loved him. He was creative and funny. The next year however, He got into Pot. and from then on, failed classes, a lot of people hate him, and he has lost all creativity. No one looks up to him anymore. This change happened in half a year... Just goes to show what drugs can do. They may be fun at that second but BELIEVE ME they aren't worth it in the end. I do believe if you do a non addictive drug only once in your life it would be fine. I suppose everyone needs to get high once. But, as for me, I'll stay on the 'Bright' road.

[PeterFile]

I can't say that I get drunk that often either, maybe like once a month, if that. When i did it, I used to get pilled up alot more often.

[ZuneLover2.0]

Not me, i don't drink or do drugs.

[jordanmartos]

Originally Posted by jaw86camaro

Why do drugs.. they just screw up your life

I agree. I have seen people go from having everything that someone could ever ask for and then a month later they are so addicted that they have nothing. I don't plan on doing drugs. Just like you said, they just screw up your life.

[PeterFile]

I'm not ****ed up, and in fact they've made my life better.