So it's that time again where I've been intoxicated and felt the need to bring up a case. In this particular instance, I know that a drug thread pops up here about once a week or more, but I don't want to ask everyones opinion on these intoxicants, instead I'd like to speak specifically to those who have actually used drugs beyond the usual alcohol, nicotine and cannibis.
After work last night, I got to talking with a like minded employee about particular drugs; mostly extacy and cocaine, but the thread will apply to all drugs. The third employee started rolling his eyes, and said that drugs were for idiots - sure, a reasonable response for most of you.
However, I asked him which drugs he had tried to base his opinion on and he said he has never tried anything except alcohol. Long story short, I got into a big rant about how what he thinks drugs do to you and what they actually do are different. I've come across quite a few people who express that they will never try any sort of drug, and fair enough it is a risk with your well being. He seemed to think however, that simply trying a drug meant that you would become addicted to it. I told him that you would need to be very weak willed to end up like this, but acknowledged that it can happen to the best of us in the wrong situation.
What I was more interested in though, was the different perceptions that people with actual real life experience had. I have tried quite a few drugs; I smoke, drink, have tried coke, extacy, MDMA (different effect to extacy pills), shrooms, amphetamines, dexamphetamines (indeed, I am on dexamphetamines as I write this) and so on, plenty of lesser drugs also experiemented with.
I have had almost entirely positive experiences with the drugs I have taken, with the exception of a time when I was quite young and was pressured into taking extacy. I had a bad reaction and for some reason spent the entire night suicidal - opposite the effect one might expect. I have one other negative experience where a friend reacted badly to shrooms (himself an experienced drug user) and he had some very, very bad hallucinations and delusions.
For those of you that have done more than the usual soft drugs, how have your personal experiences differed to what you were told would happen? Have you had mosty positive outcomes, or have you have very bad experiences and now despise drug use? I assume, thought some might not be open to admitting they once used very hard drugs like heroin, that some of you might have once thought drugs to be fantastic but now have very different outlooks after kicking an addiction.
I am sometimes frustrated with government funded adverts saying that if you take drug x, you will die in situation y and so on. Sure this is to protect the main population, but I'd like to know if anything that you have seen via PSA and so on is at all factual. A fair proportion of the people I know experiement with drugs, and many of them are in the top percentage for their specific courses at university, and back in school a lot of the intellectuals tried many drugs and turned out fine..
Without further adue (is this even a word?) I'll leave you to your responses, or else I'll write several pages of my own opinion.
After work last night, I got to talking with a like minded employee about particular drugs; mostly extacy and cocaine, but the thread will apply to all drugs. The third employee started rolling his eyes, and said that drugs were for idiots - sure, a reasonable response for most of you.
However, I asked him which drugs he had tried to base his opinion on and he said he has never tried anything except alcohol. Long story short, I got into a big rant about how what he thinks drugs do to you and what they actually do are different. I've come across quite a few people who express that they will never try any sort of drug, and fair enough it is a risk with your well being. He seemed to think however, that simply trying a drug meant that you would become addicted to it. I told him that you would need to be very weak willed to end up like this, but acknowledged that it can happen to the best of us in the wrong situation.
What I was more interested in though, was the different perceptions that people with actual real life experience had. I have tried quite a few drugs; I smoke, drink, have tried coke, extacy, MDMA (different effect to extacy pills), shrooms, amphetamines, dexamphetamines (indeed, I am on dexamphetamines as I write this) and so on, plenty of lesser drugs also experiemented with.
I have had almost entirely positive experiences with the drugs I have taken, with the exception of a time when I was quite young and was pressured into taking extacy. I had a bad reaction and for some reason spent the entire night suicidal - opposite the effect one might expect. I have one other negative experience where a friend reacted badly to shrooms (himself an experienced drug user) and he had some very, very bad hallucinations and delusions.
For those of you that have done more than the usual soft drugs, how have your personal experiences differed to what you were told would happen? Have you had mosty positive outcomes, or have you have very bad experiences and now despise drug use? I assume, thought some might not be open to admitting they once used very hard drugs like heroin, that some of you might have once thought drugs to be fantastic but now have very different outlooks after kicking an addiction.
I am sometimes frustrated with government funded adverts saying that if you take drug x, you will die in situation y and so on. Sure this is to protect the main population, but I'd like to know if anything that you have seen via PSA and so on is at all factual. A fair proportion of the people I know experiement with drugs, and many of them are in the top percentage for their specific courses at university, and back in school a lot of the intellectuals tried many drugs and turned out fine..
Without further adue (is this even a word?) I'll leave you to your responses, or else I'll write several pages of my own opinion.
