I’ve used opium medicinally. I have both some ancient paragoric (probably originally prescribed to my mom) and some less ancient codiene on my medicine shelf, used for diarrhea and cough. But i use both very sparingly, in part because of the risk of addiction. I’ve never used them recreationally. And I’m afraid to try cocaine.
Both shrooms and weed are on my “in the right circumstances” list.
This is an inherent risk in living the totally straight and narrow path - that one day, derailment will be extreme.
Alexander King once said he was much more comfortable around mildly weird people than, say, a tightly controlled executive who might one day go berserk and start pushing heavy file cabinets out his 47th floor office window.
No reflection on the Llama though.
I was introduced to drugs and alcohol in high-school and we got along just fine. I realized in my early 30s that I liked cocaine way too much, and I stopped using it, but I still enjoy alcohol, cannabis, mushrooms, and acid.
I tried very hard in high-school to smoke cigarettes. For some reason I just never got it.
I didn’t say “No,” but I didn’t have to. Growing up a nerdy introvert in isolation with no friends, neighbors, or classmates kept me pretty insulated from peer activities. Never smoked anything, and I didn’t have my first alcoholic beverage until I was 18. And it’s still only on very rare occasions that I’ll drink anything, maybe a glass of champagne on New Year’s, but that’s about it.
You be you. Nothing wrong with it.0
I steadfastly held out until I was 15 years old. That was for weed, followed by other drugs. I started drinking a couple years before that. But by the time I was 18 I was done, had my fun, didn’t do any drugs or drink for several years. Occasional weed and drinking until I was in my 40s when I started heading out to a bar once or twice a week to have a few with friends.
Well, one thing I can say for sure, you’ve saved a lot of money! LOL
A few of us went out last night to a watering hole that had cups of beer for only 6 dollars, about half that of a couple of other places nearby. “ONLY” 6 dollars for one lowly cup of beer! Take my advice and stay a “teetotaler”. 
Recreational drinker and beer snob, so I don’t drink all that much. never had the slightest desire to smoke anything because I always thought the act of smoking itself was pretty gross, and didn’t need Nancy Reagan or Mr. T to tell me that LOL. I have a mild interest in edibles but not enough to actually try any yet. I’m a food snob as well and I think part of me is afraid that there will be some of the “skunky” in the taste, which would be a complete turnoff. I’m aware that this might not even be true, but still, the interest just isn’t strong enough to find out.
I mostly said no. My biggest regret was saying yes to cigarettes. It was only for about 10 years and it’s been over 20 years since I had one but I wish I never did.
I tried weed on a few occasions in college. It was ok nothing great. Then I had 30 years of jobs with drug tests and I had no desire to push it. Now no drug tests and weed is legal here but I still have very little desire. Weed stinks. It smells strong and awful. It smells so much stronger and worse than a few years ago. I get to smell it a lot because my neighbor smokes 24 hours a day. If you smoke weed regularly you stink too. You may not realize that but you do. I have Covid nose and I can still smell you the second you walk into the room. Just so you know. And weed snobs are even more boring than wine nerds. I swear they can talk for hours about different strains.
I have medically taken opioids but never felt high or anything. I suppose it was because I was on the proper dose for pain. Got off them as soon as possible. I’ve never taken any illicit drugs other than pot and have no desire to. I was never around (other than professionally) anyone who did anything harder. Now is a really bad time to try anything harder. We had a bunch of ODs where someone thought they were snorting coke but it had fentanyl in it. Fentanyl is so cheap it’s being used to cut or replace all sorts of other drugs not just heroin.
I do like wine with dinner on occasion but rarely get close to tipsy. It’s a benefit of weighing more than I should.
Humans are completely backwards on risk aversion. Young people (especially male) do stupid risky things without a care, when they have their whole life ahead of them. As we age and have less to lose, we tend to become more risk averse.
If I make it to 90, I’m doing everything from wingsuit flying to heroin, including wingsuit flying on heroin.
Add me as another non-tryer of drugs. No qualms about alcohol though.
Never wanted to smoke anything- one of my grandparents was a heavy smoker, and I always thought it was just the nastiest thing. Another dipped, and I thought that was nasty too. So no desire to ever actually try tobacco, and weed just seemed like a whole lot of trouble for what I saw users getting from it.
Harder drugs just seemed… stupid. Never really wanted to try anything like cocaine/crack/LSD/ecstacy/molly, and the few times I’ve been administered or prescribed opiates(dilaudid, vicodin, norco, tylox) for post-surgery pain control, it’s worked fine, but without any sort of “high” or extra good feeling. Just an absence of pain, a whole lot of sleepiness, and a propensity to barf my guts up. So no real desire to seek those out either.
That said, I’ll admit that if it was to be legal in my state, I’d probably be interested in weed edibles, and I have had a few contact highs over the years- primarily because some of my role-playing and tabletop gaming buddies have been huge potheads and liked to seriously smoke it up while we played.
Nothing beyond cannabis for me. But I guess I did take it in college while it was still illegal, so not quite “saying no.” I think the times I’ve done it since it’s been mostly legal or decriminalized where I was at. I have no interest in anything really stronger than cannabis. LSD and shrooms are too much of a commitment for me (in terms of trip length) and I just know that I’d be too nervous to try it and likely end up with an awful panic-induced high. Hell, cannabis makes me paranoid and anxious enough when I happen to overshoot my dose. Cocaine and meth and stuff like that: I have no interest in speeding myself UP. I’m a downers kind of guy (which explains my love for alcohol, which had to be curtailed a couple years ago.) When I was prescribed Xanax years ago, I had to stop taking it after a few pills, as I just knew I was going to like it too much if I kept taking it.
The closest I’ve ever come to trying anything harder was when me, my ex, and some random dude we met in Freiburg at a ska show tried to score some ecstasy/molly on his suggestion, but we couldn’t find any. That’s about the only time I remember being in a relaxed and experimental mood enough to go outside my comfort zone.
I never started with alcohol, partly because my high school had a pretty serious problem with underage drinking and I saw a lot of physical and social damage up close. I’ve tried beer and wine and never developed a taste for them. Then I lived in a car-centric city and it wasn’t practical to drink when socializing. So I simply never started. Also never smoked, and never did any illicit drugs. I’m such a riot.
That is the one thing I wish I had said no to and never smoked a single cigarette. It did what I wanted it to do at the time, smoking made me cool, but if I had waited a little while then I would have become just as cool because I looked old enough to buy beer.
I’ve never done any drugs. Not sure if “just say no” affected me or it was just the way I was raised and my personal preferences.
Tried and don’t like: alcohol, cocaine, meth, salvia, opiates, molly, edible cannabis (I also don’t like coffee or chocolate)
Tried and liked: LSD - I did it a bunch. It was incredibly therapeutic (and indulgent) for me.
Still enjoy: shrooms (rarely), smoke/vape cannabis (much less than in the past. I would have lost my mind without weed to chill me down in the evenings when I was getting my engineering degrees. Just one hit like many have a beer. Now it’s just at some concerts.
Not following your logic here. You only know about the stinky ones who could be only like 10% of all smokers. It’s probably true for very heavy smokers but certainly not me who take one or two little hits outdoors.
True dat. I can’t tell the difference between sativa and indica and whatever but some weed is stronger than others. An eighth lasts me months. I but something on the cheaper side that has an amusing name.
Pretty much. I rarely drink (although I do tend to collect alcohol that I like). I’ve never smoked. I’ve never tried any drugs… until last year, when I had a cannabis gummy (honestly, it didn’t do much for me). At 55 years old, I guess I’m fairly boring.
Other than a one-time try at pot, I stayed away from all of it. Of course, I was in the military, and the risk far outweighed the reward, not to mention the random urine tests being a deterrent. Later on, I was carrying a TS clearance, which would have also been a strong deterrent if I hadn’t already decided that the possible fallout wasn’t worth it. Gave up smoking 40+ years ago. Alcohol is a different story, mainly because it’s not illegal, but I might as well be on the wagon for the small amount that I now consume.
Growing up in the 80s, the anti-drug programs offered by the school (we had D.A.R.E.) made alcohol and drug use look AWESOME.
“Don’t do drugs or drink kids! It might lead to fighting and ignoring your parents and having sex with someone you didn’t want to have sex with!”.
Yeah. That sounds terrible. Why would I want that in my teens?
I mostly said no, tried MJ once or twice.
The fact that it was illegal and I would have to deal with “criminals” or otherwise people who were definitely not in my normal circles made it difficult enough for me to get that I just couldn’t be bothered to make the effort. The minimal hurdle Johnny Law put in front of me worked just fine.
Now that it’s legal, I’m interested in trying, but with a teenager in the house I’m not that keen to hear “I learned it from watching YOU!”