So... how's it like?

[Typhlosion]

A lot of times either those who promote or reject any kind of abuse tend to exaggerate the drug's effect. Movies show everybody in euphoria or devastated. Users treat it as a godly non addictive substance. Heck, if it weren't so potent, why would the whole 'legalize weed' be going on, if it's only a hobby? Or why was LSD banned if it has no apparent side effects or great potency for addiction?

So, I ask you guys! What did you use and how was it like?

My whole family's a lightweight, so I'm definitely not eager on taking the risk.

Disclaimer: This is not to promote recreational abuse. This thread was based off curiosity, and as per forum rules, PROMOTING ILLEGAL DRUG USAGE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

[AlexOnToast]

All I will say about acid is that I took a mild dose (one tab) and I didnt feel the "melting walls" effect, and I didnt see any dragons, but everything looked like I was watching it on a HD TV and I found conversation was deeper, more intelligent and more fluid.

[Tenoka]

All I will say about acid is that I took a mild dose (one tab) and I didnt feel the "melting walls" effect, and I didnt see any dragons, but everything looked like I was watching it on a HD TV and I found conversation was deeper, more intelligent and more fluid.

You've done a lot huh. (not to sound rude)

I've drank, smoked weed, done various of drugs and had my experiences. My family has always been a bit on the drug use side (Pharmaceutical, to street drugs)(also they did not do drugs when they had us, in their teen years only) I've had the best with weed, sometimes drinking but that's about it. Acid wasn't to kind to me from what I remember.

[AlexOnToast]

You've done a lot huh. (not to sound rude)


Actually I have done quite a few, not that I condone drug use.

[Potato]

I sniffed poppers, it felt like I woke up again and all of a sudden I was high, my shoulders seemed to become really wide and I was staring at a book (I was in my school library :lol: ) and kept telling my friend that 'it's real'. It lasted about a minute and my head felt full and there was a pulse in there. I didn't get a headache afterwards either.

[mrmee]

I drink alcohol a lot. It's around and I'm home alone, so I drink it. Personally, I love it. Not only does it taste good, but the buzz is great. Makes you feel like the world doesn't matter and life is fun, no matter how shitty of a day your having.

And I'm not sure it counts as a drug, but I've done "space monkey" a few times. It was crazy to do, but watching the video afterward was hysterical.

[PatrickV]

best experience ive had with drugs was cocaine on my europe trip 2013, it was at a whore house in Madrid. I legit felt like a million bucks. I was really euphoric and talkative, everything was just so much more amazing, and having sex on it feels great.

[raempu]

I've done alcohol and weed, and I smoke for about 4 years now.
I smoke weed like 2/3 times a week. Where I live it's tolerated to buy and smoke weed, so it's very easy to get it.
I don't think it has anything special, I just relax a little bit more when I smoke weed and I have sleeping problems, so when I smoke weed I can sleep better because it makes you tired.
If I drink alcohol I am a bit more loose, and I talk very easily to strangers, and I just have more fun at party's if I drink alcohol.
That's what I think about alcohol and drug using. I don't drink alcohol anymore because of my medications, and I got in a psychosis last time I drank alcohol so it's not a very good idea for me anymore.

These are my experiences and I don't want anyone to do drugs or alcohol or something because of what I just said. It's not good for you, so if you have never done drugs, don't start with it.

[Romaana]

I dont do a whole load of drugs. I'v tried my fair share but right now its just a daily spliff. I dont drink.

[Phinks]

Have any of you tried people drank? How is it?

[PatrickV]

Have any of you tried people drank? How is it?

You mean Purple Drank? it made me feel Really mellow and happy, your mind feels at peace with anything and everything. But this is a fake happiness and you can easily become addicted because you want to feel that way forever. In other words you'll be chasing that first high. dont follow my footsteps please and try and stay away from drugs, you will depend on these substances to have a good time. it will lead to nothing but suffering in the end.. I had to learn that the hard way.

[Karkat]

I didn't like the way weed made me feel. It made me really happy/amused at first, but then I got intense feelings of anger because I was provoked, and in the end I just felt out of control like I was tipsy, and it was depressing to me.
I love the way alcohol feels at first. If I get too drunk, I get angry or depressed. Listening to music and smoking while drunk was sort of an ethereal experience for me, I just felt the music, and I'd feel peaceful and in tune.
Benadryl (in excess) made me feel something between drunk and stoned. I was really relaxed, everything was hilarious, and I thought more into things I didn't usually consider/questioned things I usually take for granted (Like wall texture, for one)
Pseudoephedrine and albeuterol (in excess) made my heart race, they made me paranoid and jumpy, they would make my hands shake, I'd feel like I was jumping out of my skin, etc. Absolutely terrible.
Acetone made me feel a little buzzed, enhanced my connection to music at higher levels.

I haven't tried any harder drugs.

Edit: I've also choked myself to get a high. I was tingly in the limbs for a few seconds, felt a rush of euphoria. Would entirely alter my mood if I was feeling depressed, but only for a minute or two. It'd get less effective over time.

Edit: The highs on inhalants and non-prescription meds are either temporary and weak, or EXTREMELY unpleasant. When I took Psuedoephedrine, I felt like I was going to die. High by choking is pretty addictive and very dangerous, and it gets painful if you try it too much. Alcohol is addictive, and easy to OD on if you build up tolerance. (I'm actually a recovering alcoholic. I've been sober for 1.5 years in March. I had alcohol poisoning right before I decided to stop drinking, and I nearly died. It has severely damaged my liver and kidneys.) I am not recommending any of these. Some have their upsides, but typically the downsides outweigh them drastically; most of the reason I've resorted to them was to keep myself from relapsing, or to replace alcohol. (It doesn't work.)

[randomuser666]

my first ~10 times using cannabis were pretty fun to be honest. It made me giggly, happy, and a bright light in the room. In other words, I became a lot more approachable then I was when sober. It kind of gave me a couch-lock(in other words I didn't want to get up). From what I know, I was smoking indica, a species of cannabis which gives you a sort of "body high".

my experiences with sativa, a species of cannabis known for more of a mental high, ranged from really bad to just weird and uncomfortable. both times it kind of changed my mind-state, or way I perceive/think. I don't know, it's hard to describe. Point being I didn't like it, and since most don't give a crap of what they're smoking, I decided to stop because I don't want to take a chance with another bad high again. I'll hold off until I'm older, and even then, I'll be rather particular on what exactly I'm putting into my body.

[Believe]

I've smoked weed and had edibles often in the past months, and it really helps me get over my anxiety and social phobias more than anything else. It also really amplifies my current state of mind and thinking, and I feel like I understand and can predict things as they happen. It's very relaxing for me and I've only had two bad experiences. One where my friends and I got busted by campus police (with no reprocussions whatsoever) and one after eating a brownie that gave me a bad trip. *im not promoting the use of weed just sharing*

Drinking doesn't do as much other than feel sluggish to me regardless of how much I drink surprisingly. I enjoy the feeling of weed much more.

[phuckphace]

the only drug I've done so far is alcohol. I'm open to trying weed and acid, as I think it sounds like a fun and relatively harmless experience.

as for the hard drugs, not only would I never ever ever try them in a million billion trillion years but I want the death penalty for those who use and sell them. fuck meth especially, it's a fucking evil soul-destroying drug.

[ninja789]

the only drug I've done so far is alcohol. I'm open to trying weed and acid, as I think it sounds like a fun and relatively harmless experience.

as for the hard drugs, not only would I never ever ever try them in a million billion trillion years but I want the death penalty for those who use and sell them. fuck meth especially, it's a fucking evil soul-destroying drug.

over here acid is a class A drug
I didn't think that would make it relatively harmless

[phuckphace]

over here acid is a class A drug
I didn't think that would make it relatively harmless

well it has a very low addiction potential and toxicity. out of all the illicit drugs LSD is one of, if not the least harmful one. as for why it's banned, people are just lame like that

[ninja789]

well it has a very low addiction potential and toxicity. out of all the illicit drugs LSD is one of, if not the least harmful one. as for why it's banned, people are just lame like that

in my opinion all the drugs I have experienced are banned for a good reason but I had a bad reaction to LSD

[phuckphace]

in my opinion all the drugs I have experienced are banned for a good reason but I had a bad reaction to LSD

What happened?

[ninja789]

vomited a lot and got horrible dehydration
wasn't exactly pleasant

[phuckphace]

that sucks, but I doubt it's typical.

[Karkat]

the only drug I've done so far is alcohol. I'm open to trying weed and acid, as I think it sounds like a fun and relatively harmless experience.

as for the hard drugs, not only would I never ever ever try them in a million billion trillion years but I want the death penalty for those who use and sell them. fuck meth especially, it's a fucking evil soul-destroying drug.

I wouldn't recommend weed if you have any psychological disorders, anger problems/are easily provoked and around people who could provoke you, etc. If you have neurotic tendencies, these can be heightened as well. That's why I personally can't stand the stuff.

Why the death penalty for those who use? I know plenty of good people who made a poor decision and got caught up in addiction, or who used substances to try to run from personal demons. I myself would probably get into harder drugs if I had money/knew how to get any around here. It's complicated for me, because I'm an alcoholic, and I haven't dealt with the problem behind my alcoholism because my parents are clueless...They just poured all the alcohol down the drain, let me have terrible withdrawals because I had to go cold turkey, and didn't get me any help afterwards. So I tend to get out of my skull to prevent myself from relapsing...Which has kind of lead to a psychological dependence on just getting high/stoned/drunk. I crave the feeling. I couldn't deal with my problems properly, so I had to stick a bandaid over it, and yeah, it's done more harm than good.

I think addiction needs to be treated like the illness it is, not some criminal activity one can just 'control'. Because it's not like that.

[phuckphace]

Why the death penalty for those who use?

because it's an incredibly destructive behavior that no society should tolerate. capital punishment for it would send a clear message about the severity of drug use and help ensure that only the most broken individuals would risk trying them. societies have the right to maintain standards of behavior for their members to follow, and when members engage in destructive behavior like drug use, it affects everyone not just the individual who uses. there is no "private" heroin or meth or cocaine addiction. many drug users grew up in broken families where drugs were present. it's a dysfunction that easily spreads outward like a weed, which needs to be pulled out by the root.

you shouldn't treat the issue so glibly because it is one of the most severe social ills that we're currently dealing with.

I think addiction needs to be treated like the illness it is, not some criminal activity one can just 'control'. Because it's not like that.

actually it's very much like that. we penalize murder even knowing that won't stop some people from committing murder. the point of prosecuting and punishing murderers is to control the behavior as best we can while sending a message to society that murder isn't tolerated and the consequences for doing so are high.

I live in a state that is filled to the brim with dysfunctional meth addicts. The way we are dealing with drugs now simply isn't working.

[Karkat]

because it's an incredibly destructive behavior that no society should tolerate. capital punishment for it would send a clear message about the severity of drug use and help ensure that only the most broken individuals would risk trying them. societies have the right to maintain standards of behavior for their members to follow, and when members engage in destructive behavior like drug use, it affects everyone not just the individual who uses. there is no "private" heroin or meth or cocaine addiction. many drug users grew up in broken families were drugs were present. it's a dysfunction that easily spreads outward like a weed, which needs to be pulled out by the root.

you shouldn't treat the issue so glibly because it is one of the most severe social ills that we're currently dealing with.



actually it's very much like that. we penalize murder even knowing that won't stop some people from committing murder. the point of prosecuting and punishing murderers is to control the behavior as best we can while sending a message to society that murder isn't tolerated and the consequences for doing so are high.

I live in a state that is filled to the brim with dysfunctional meth addicts. The way we are dealing with drugs now simply isn't working.

Actually, in my opinion you're the one who's treating it "glibly"- unless you're an addict yourself, in which case I really don't know what to say to you.

That's honestly quite radical. I can't imagine anyone who would become addicted to a substance on purpose. That's not how it works. Addiction is a legitimate illness, and the only ones who say it is not are those who have never had to deal with any tangible aftermath of it. Treating addiction as only a criminal activity is arguably more selfish than substance abuse itself, because it is PURPOSEFULLY hurting others, as opposed to indirectly or unintentionally hurting others. Substance abusers aren't doing it with the intention of hurting other people. Does it happen? Absolutely. Does that excuse their actions? No. But it doesn't mean you should fucking kill them.

Addicts do not have any control over what they do for the most part. They're controlled by whatever their vice is. At that point, it's no longer about what they want, it's about what they NEED. The addict's mentality is much different from that of the abuser's.

Addiction is an illness. Addicts need to be helped and rehabilitated, not killed to set an example. What are we living in, Nazi-era Germany?

Addicts are already criminalized in the US. They're stigmatized, they're treated like crap.

Besides, you don't just get addicted to illicit drugs, what, you want to kill every alcoholic now? Every narcotic addict? Every gambling addict, or internet addict, every person who self-harms or has an eating disorder? Every 'chronic masturbator' or porn addict or just, the list goes on.

It's so illogical and prejudiced just to want to kill off drug addicts. Addiction to drugs can be just as devastating as addiction to porn, or addiction to alcohol, or binge eating, self harming, they're all terrible. It's not (or rather, shouldn't be) ethical to criminalize someone because of a mental illness. Or any kind of illness. I mean, unless they are a serious hazard, and they need to be contained, illness alone shouldn't be criminalized. That's just idiotic and prejudiced. It's ignorant. Hell, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, heck even autism can seriously impact a lot of lives for the worse. Antisocial disorder. BPD. Are we just going to stick everyone who has some sort of problem that could be 'dangerous', or hurt those around them in jail now? Or kill them?

And besides, capital punishment doesn't stop rape, homicide, etc. These things have been or are capitally punished, and PEOPLE STILL DO THEM. Radical hardly means 'better'. If anything, it almost NEVER does. Radicalism is often based on ignorance. Because if you truly understand something, you're more likely to be REASONABLE about it, even if it brings out strong emotions.

Some European countries have treated addiction as an illness and decriminalized it, AND IT HAS WORKED FOR THEM. I believe Sweden and Portugal are among them, though I could be wrong.

Hell, if I remember right, Sweden even rehabilitates prisoners and helps reintegrate them into society AND THEIR CRIME RATE HAS DROPPED BECAUSE OF IT.

None of this would work in America, because America is a dysfunctional country. The American mentality is depraved. Europeans are totally different. If the American mentality was adjusted, maybe it could work. But arguably nothing America does to combat anything negative works, so arguably America is the problem here.

I'm not trying to defend illicit/addictive drugs themselves, or dealers, or substance users/abusers for the most part. Your opinion just makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

[sweet_girl24au]

Never taken pills, but have been drunk alot. Smoked marijuana a few times, liked how nicely it relaxes you.

[jayce_xt]

EDIT: Sorry. I forgot to answer the original question. I'll talk about my experience with LSD, since that seems to be a big thing here. The first time I tried it, I had 4 full doses at the same time (each dose was a small paper square that I had to hold under my tongue). At first, like Alex said, everything suddenly looked like it was in HD. I actually have vision problems. Things are blurry from far away. With this, though, I could see everything just fine, no matter the distance. Later, time seemed to slow down by a great amount, and it seemed like everything was repeating itself after a while. Eventually, I went into a long hallucination in which I experienced the birth of the universe. Or the birth of god. I wasn't sure. Essentially, I forgot absolutely everything from before. All I knew was sensation. At first, everything around me was agony. I could swear I melted into myself and forgot everything that happened at least a few times. Eventually, though, I seemed to be able to exist without scattering myself into the cosmos. I was stable. From there, I began experiencing other sensations, until, I guess... I started eating the sensations? Or growing into multiples of myself and connecting them together to form weird structures? I can't make a whole lot of sense of what happened, but I do remember the helix: two extremely important lines twisting around an invisible line, like a strand of DNA, getting closer, super close, needing to connect, wanting to connect, but never, ever, actually meeting and coming together. It was an incredible experience, but also frightening, as to me, it felt like it took over 1,000 years.

in my opinion all the drugs I have experienced are banned for a good reason but I had a bad reaction to LSD

Actually, according to my class' history book, drugs are banned as some sort of political move. Marijuana was originally banned because congress was tired of Mexicans coming into the border. Cocaine was banned because lots of black people used it, and as one senator said, "we can clean up the filth on the streets". LSD was banned because of the hippie movement against the Vietnam war (the hippies gave out LSD constantly to people). It wasn't until after these drugs were banned that the government started saying that they were dangerous. More recent science studies show that this was bogus.

vomited a lot and got horrible dehydration
wasn't exactly pleasant

Were you taking any other drugs at the same time that you took LSD (yes, alcohol is a drug too)? Also, how well do you trust that the person gave you LSD, and not something they just decided to call LSD?

because it's an incredibly destructive behavior that no society should tolerate. capital punishment for it would send a clear message about the severity of drug use and help ensure that only the most broken individuals would risk trying them. societies have the right to maintain standards of behavior for their members to follow, and when members engage in destructive behavior like drug use, it affects everyone not just the individual who uses. there is no "private" heroin or meth or cocaine addiction. many drug users grew up in broken families where drugs were present. it's a dysfunction that easily spreads outward like a weed, which needs to be pulled out by the root.

you shouldn't treat the issue so glibly because it is one of the most severe social ills that we're currently dealing with.

actually it's very much like that. we penalize murder even knowing that won't stop some people from committing murder. the point of prosecuting and punishing murderers is to control the behavior as best we can while sending a message to society that murder isn't tolerated and the consequences for doing so are high.

I live in a state that is filled to the brim with dysfunctional meth addicts. The way we are dealing with drugs now simply isn't working.

Explain what you mean by "incredibly destructive". What specific ways are drugs destructive? Also explain what you mean by "there is no private addiction". How is drug use constantly public? The way you make it sound, it's as if using drugs is a virus or bacteria that not only kills people, but also literally infects people in the way that a virus or bacteria would. Is that really how you think drugs work?

What makes drug use one of the "most severe social ills" that we are dealing with? Also, how do you "control the behavior" when you know "that won't stop some people from committing" crimes? You're contradicting yourself a lot here.

I want to understand what you're trying to say, but you're being very vague and confusing. Are you just repeating what other people have said?

[Danagal]

Do your best to stay away from drugs

[ninja789]

EDIT: Sorry. I forgot to answer the original question. I'll talk about my experience with LSD, since that seems to be a big thing here. The first time I tried it, I had 4 full doses at the same time (each dose was a small paper square that I had to hold under my tongue). At first, like Alex said, everything suddenly looked like it was in HD. I actually have vision problems. Things are blurry from far away. With this, though, I could see everything just fine, no matter the distance. Later, time seemed to slow down by a great amount, and it seemed like everything was repeating itself after a while. Eventually, I went into a long hallucination in which I experienced the birth of the universe. Or the birth of god. I wasn't sure. Essentially, I forgot absolutely everything from before. All I knew was sensation. At first, everything around me was agony. I could swear I melted into myself and forgot everything that happened at least a few times. Eventually, though, I seemed to be able to exist without scattering myself into the cosmos. I was stable. From there, I began experiencing other sensations, until, I guess... I started eating the sensations? Or growing into multiples of myself and connecting them together to form weird structures? I can't make a whole lot of sense of what happened, but I do remember the helix: two extremely important lines twisting around an invisible line, like a strand of DNA, getting closer, super close, needing to connect, wanting to connect, but never, ever, actually meeting and coming together. It was an incredible experience, but also frightening, as to me, it felt like it took over 1,000 years.



Actually, according to my class' history book, drugs are banned as some sort of political move. Marijuana was originally banned because congress was tired of Mexicans coming into the border. Cocaine was banned because lots of black people used it, and as one senator said, "we can clean up the filth on the streets". LSD was banned because of the hippie movement against the Vietnam war (the hippies gave out LSD constantly to people). It wasn't until after these drugs were banned that the government started saying that they were dangerous. More recent science studies show that this was bogus.



Were you taking any other drugs at the same time that you took LSD (yes, alcohol is a drug too)? Also, how well do you trust that the person gave you LSD, and not something they just decided to call LSD?



Explain what you mean by "incredibly destructive". What specific ways are drugs destructive? Also explain what you mean by "there is no private addiction". How is drug use constantly public? The way you make it sound, it's as if using drugs is a virus or bacteria that not only kills people, but also literally infects people in the way that a virus or bacteria would. Is that really how you think drugs work?

What makes drug use one of the "most severe social ills" that we are dealing with? Also, how do you "control the behavior" when you know "that won't stop some people from committing" crimes? You're contradicting yourself a lot here.

I want to understand what you're trying to say, but you're being very vague and confusing. Are you just repeating what other people have said?

I dunno about your country. You could very well be right
I heard the government got the black people addicted to cocaine. Anyway that is true?

[jayce_xt]

I dunno about your country. You could very well be right
I heard the government got the black people addicted to cocaine. Anyway that is true?

Haha! There are lots of people who wonder about that here in America. No, I don't think the American government got blacks addicted to crack. It's not correct to say that all--or even most--black people are addicted to it. Blacks are just historically 2nd-class citizens, which means they get relegated to poverty and are frequently subject to the stresses of racism. Poverty plus incredible stress equals high demand for escape. The drug of choice for blacks actually tends to be marijuana (as with all "racial groups", really), though crack is a close second.

Ah, you're from Scotland? Hmmm. I can't find out much about the history of drug prohibition for that place... or the UK, or Germany, or anywhere else in Europe, for that matter. That's really weird. The only bit of info I could grab was this terribly vague and incomplete timeline:

http://www.ukcia.org/culture/history/chrono.php

In 1911, South Africa apparently started outlawing marijuana, though the reasons weren't given. Further international drug control treaties were held:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Opium_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs

but they never really give reasons, apart from "we're outlawing it because we think it should be outlawed" (stunning logic, right?). However, this little tidbit here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_prohibition_law

under the "History and founding principles" section, gives the ideology that is supposedly behind prohibition. It definitely doesn't match up historically with what the American stated rationale has been, but maybe it has been stated by the EU. Either way, the idea that the currently outlawed substances are so "dangerous, in terms of potential effects on the health, morality and behaviour of users" that it should be outlawed is, for the most part, kind of laughable in the scientific community. Without a doubt, methamphetamine and cocaine will destroy your body, though the effects on behavior are minor. But marijuana? MDMA? LSD? Opium? These substances were all used successfully as medicines in the past. Even current studies show that, unless used in extreme doses, they will most likely not harm the user, and do not actually alter "morality and behaviour". The claims made by so many government agencies simply do not fit the empirical evidence we've gathered.

So what's the real reason so many places have banned them? I have no idea.

[lifelies]

Actually I think that for people with some mental disorders (especially axis-II disorders) like me (I have borderline personality disorder and DD-NOS) weed kinda helps stabilizing our mood.
When I smoked weed for my first time, I just felt "normal." No mood changes every minute, no idealization, no extreme hate, no extreme love, no suicidal thoughts, no worries, no f*cks given. It really helped me to smoke it once a week.
The problem came when I couldn't get weed anymore (dealer moved away and I don't really feel comfortable asking for a new one). Whilst I didn't experience any withdrawal at all, I just wanted to feel "normal" again. So I started doing harder drugs.
I got my nose fucked up because of snorting hydroxyzine. I had blackouts due to benzodiazepines.
Defenitely hard drugs are shit compared to weed. What I really WANT is to smoke weed, not to do those stupid hard drugs. It's not the same, I just aim to feel normal.
Probably that's because of the addictive behaviour linked to BPD, but who knows.
I still continue to take hydroxyzine (orally because I want to get a septum piercing and I don't want to screw it by snorting an hydrochloric acid lol) on daily basis and pop benzos and codeine and sometimes antidepressives and stimulants every now and then.

[Typhlosion]

OP Bump.

In retrospect, maybe that :cool: in the title wasn't such a great idea.
Besides alcohol, I'm still sober, by the way.

[randominternetkid]

I smoke weed alot. I've done acid quite a bit and every trip was great so far. Mushrooms are just a great for me. I will drink alchohol but i don't think it is really very good. Someone screwed us over and gave me and a friend meth instead of mdma and when I started coming down I puked and didn't eat for a few days or sleep. I don't condone to the use of drugs.

[Karkat]

Used Pseudoephedrine and DXM. Didn't overdose, yaaay!

First, I was dumb like I am when drunk. Then, I was extremely social. Then cerebral. Then, just extremely happy and empathetic. Now, I'm just kind of in really good spirits, tired, positive.

This kept me up literally all night. I'm exhausted, but I can't sleep. LOL

[Rayquaza]

The first time I tried alcohol, I experienced absolutely nothing and was completely sober- after 6 UK units, but then again I was fat and had a large tolerance so it seems. On my birthday I became completely drunk and really happy and polite to everyone, and people said how much they liked me as a drunk.

I've had cigarettes and they don't do anything...apart from the next day when my lungs feel weak and I cough a lot. There's no incentive for me to smoke. It's as if I can already feel the effects of lung cancer each time.

I've also tried laughing gas. That was absolutely great. I've never experienced a high like it and would consider doing it again if given the opportunity.

I've never done any illegal drugs, It's stupid and pointless, and it's done many times just to seem 'cool' and conform with others. Laws are there to protect us seeing as drugs are understood far better by medical professionals on our body than us being inexperienced. I will never get involved with them.

[WithoutFear]

Alcohol is very polarizing for me. Vodka makes it hard for me to walk, i get giddy and happy and usually throw up. Wine usually gets me just "drunk" and is pretty okay. nothing special but it puts me in a better mood. Tequila... wooo tequila is the best. It turns me into a stripper, makes me the life of the party and has yet to make me feel sick. whisky just makes me feel sick. bourban is somewhere between wine and vodka.

Ive smoked a lot of weed. A weed high is my favourite ASC personally. It makes life seem better, enhances my senses. Listening to music and playing video games high is the best high. even brushing your teeth feels so good. My perception of the world becomes so much better. Not to mention i appreciate everyone so much more and become super affectionate. And hungry. also, high sex is so fucking amazing. You feel every sensation all throughout your body. and it gives me the best sleep. and occasionally everything becomes stop motion.

I've done shrooms once and it was the most intense experience of my life. I felt like I was looking through a kaleidoscope constantly and time became so slow. one minute felt like a decade. walking was hard, my legs were tingling. I loved hearing myself chew. it also made me so much more sensitive to weed now. i used to be the biggest heavyweight. also weed highs have become way more intense.
on the downside though, i kept getting flashbacks for weeks after and experienced the occasional brain scream

im open to doing acid one day. And maybe, MAYBE speed.

[Karkat]

Alcohol is very polarizing for me. Vodka makes it hard for me to walk, i get giddy and happy and usually throw up. Wine usually gets me just "drunk" and is pretty okay. nothing special but it puts me in a better mood. Tequila... wooo tequila is the best. It turns me into a stripper, makes me the life of the party and has yet to make me feel sick. whisky just makes me feel sick. bourban is somewhere between wine and vodka.

Ive smoked a lot of weed. A weed high is my favourite ASC personally. It makes life seem better, enhances my senses. Listening to music and playing video games high is the best high. even brushing your teeth feels so good. My perception of the world becomes so much better. Not to mention i appreciate everyone so much more and become super affectionate. And hungry. also, high sex is so fucking amazing. You feel every sensation all throughout your body. and it gives me the best sleep. and occasionally everything becomes stop motion.

I've done shrooms once and it was the most intense experience of my life. I felt like I was looking through a kaleidoscope constantly and time became so slow. one minute felt like a decade. walking was hard, my legs were tingling. I loved hearing myself chew. it also made me so much more sensitive to weed now. i used to be the biggest heavyweight. also weed highs have become way more intense.
on the downside though, i kept getting flashbacks for weeks after and experienced the occasional brain scream

im open to doing acid one day. And maybe, MAYBE speed.
I've heard acid can cause even worse flashbacks D:

[Magenta]

I drink but I don't like to get drunk. At that point, I can't see straight, I can't think straight, I can barely talk, and I always have to fucking pee. But a nice buzz is fun. It just loosens me up, makes me laugh more, makes me a little dizzy but not in the sense that I feel faint so I enjoy it.

I did DXM for years at relatively low doses. There's different plateaus, the first basically just enhances your hearing, makes music more enjoyable. The second feels like being drunk but not? I liked the dizziness, again without feeling faint. I love the sensation of spinning without feeling sick. And my limbs tingled and I got really creative and saw artwork I'd never seen before. I just did an abstract thing with a bunch of pastels that looked really stupid after but was beautiful while I was high. Another thing was losing your sense of time. Only an hour could pass but it would feel like four. But I've heard DXM abuse can cause brain damage so I stopped using that awhile ago or only use it on rare occasions. Plus you build up a tolerance quickly and can easily overdose or mis-shoot on what plateau you want. Third and fourth are risky and cause hallucinations, something I do not ever want to experience.

I also tried smoking a joint once but it just made me sick, honestly. I thought I was gonna throw up and it wasn't enjoyable at all.

I'm not sure if smoking from a hookah is considered drug use? I think it is because it's tobacco. I don't so much get high from that as I relax more. Although the last time I smoked, I was also drunk (one of the very rare times that's happened) and I had an obsession with trying to blow smoke rings (I couldn't).

[asrlem]

Actually, in my opinion you're the one who's treating it "glibly"- unless you're an addict yourself, in which case I really don't know what to say to you.

That's honestly quite radical. I can't imagine anyone who would become addicted to a substance on purpose. That's not how it works. Addiction is a legitimate illness, and the only ones who say it is not are those who have never had to deal with any tangible aftermath of it. Treating addiction as only a criminal activity is arguably more selfish than substance abuse itself, because it is PURPOSEFULLY hurting others, as opposed to indirectly or unintentionally hurting others. Substance abusers aren't doing it with the intention of hurting other people. Does it happen? Absolutely. Does that excuse their actions? No. But it doesn't mean you should fucking kill them.

Addicts do not have any control over what they do for the most part. They're controlled by whatever their vice is. At that point, it's no longer about what they want, it's about what they NEED. The addict's mentality is much different from that of the abuser's.

Addiction is an illness. Addicts need to be helped and rehabilitated, not killed to set an example. What are we living in, Nazi-era Germany?

Addicts are already criminalized in the US. They're stigmatized, they're treated like crap.

Besides, you don't just get addicted to illicit drugs, what, you want to kill every alcoholic now? Every narcotic addict? Every gambling addict, or internet addict, every person who self-harms or has an eating disorder? Every 'chronic masturbator' or porn addict or just, the list goes on.

It's so illogical and prejudiced just to want to kill off drug addicts. Addiction to drugs can be just as devastating as addiction to porn, or addiction to alcohol, or binge eating, self harming, they're all terrible. It's not (or rather, shouldn't be) ethical to criminalize someone because of a mental illness. Or any kind of illness. I mean, unless they are a serious hazard, and they need to be contained, illness alone shouldn't be criminalized. That's just idiotic and prejudiced. It's ignorant. Hell, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, heck even autism can seriously impact a lot of lives for the worse. Antisocial disorder. BPD. Are we just going to stick everyone who has some sort of problem that could be 'dangerous', or hurt those around them in jail now? Or kill them?

And besides, capital punishment doesn't stop rape, homicide, etc. These things have been or are capitally punished, and PEOPLE STILL DO THEM. Radical hardly means 'better'. If anything, it almost NEVER does. Radicalism is often based on ignorance. Because if you truly understand something, you're more likely to be REASONABLE about it, even if it brings out strong emotions.

Some European countries have treated addiction as an illness and decriminalized it, AND IT HAS WORKED FOR THEM. I believe Sweden and Portugal are among them, though I could be wrong.

Hell, if I remember right, Sweden even rehabilitates prisoners and helps reintegrate them into society AND THEIR CRIME RATE HAS DROPPED BECAUSE OF IT.

None of this would work in America, because America is a dysfunctional country. The American mentality is depraved. Europeans are totally different. If the American mentality was adjusted, maybe it could work. But arguably nothing America does to combat anything negative works, so arguably America is the problem here.

I'm not trying to defend illicit/addictive drugs themselves, or dealers, or substance users/abusers for the most part. Your opinion just makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
Yup. And some people use it if they have an illness and it helps them so honestly idk what you are saying about they should be killed.

[Karkat]

Yup. And some people use it if they have an illness and it helps them so honestly idk what you are saying about they should be killed.

I'm not saying they should be killed?

[asrlem]

No. The other guy. I agree with u

[SethfromMI]

I had a good friend who was killed because he was driving drunk. never was interested before, have zero now. don't even get into that stuff man, there is way better things in life

[PatrickV]

cocaine, never try it. huge rush, alot of euphoria.