JustinC writes:
I'm just wandering what the general attitude toward drug use is here at EvC. What drugs have you tried? Any regrets with any of them? Do you use, moderately or heavily?
I am 47 years old. When I was 17, I first tried pot. Casual use soon turned into daily use, and I probably smoked it 90% of the days of my life between the ages of 19 and 30. In that period, I also was a Cocaine addict, having blown $40,000 of inheritance on it.
I tried hallucinogens such as "Magic Mushrooms" and little tabs of who knows what type of "acid" on them, micro-dots, as well as Vicodans, Percodans, Quaalude's, Phenobarbitals, Black Beauty (speed), and even Methadones stolen from my dying Father when he was dying from Cancer.(They were the strangest...I was naive at the time and took 40 mg at once, only to awaken literally looking down on my body...or so I perceived!)
JustinC writes:
I regret immensely using psychedelics. You literally become insane during these "trips" and, in my opinion, it is the scariest thing one can do to themselves. I don't believe you experience some form of reality not accessible to our normal state of consciousness: you simply are temporarily crazy. At least, this is my experience.
Even as a young druggie, I read up all of the literature that I could get my hands on concerning what it was that I and my friends were taking.
IIRC, the literature said that psychedelics caused
synesthesia hearing colors and seeing sounds. I may or may not have experienced such a phenomena...I was always so high that I mainly noticed a distortion of the ability to synchronize time. (I once looked at the clock and watched it move an hour in what seemed like five minutes.) I also recall being unable to cross a street because it was impossible to time the cars.
I was usually only on acid when I went to see the Grateful Dead. The old joke is that if you don't take acid, you realize how crappy their music really sounds! (It was ok for me, though)
My attitude about my drug use in life? No regrets. Life is what it is. Some drugs can permanently harm a person, however...(such as huffing solvents) which a few kids I know now have done.
I want to become an addictions counselor one of these days and get my Cacc II license.
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