In response to a recent thread (I don’t have linkage skills now) I thought I’d post this as my first original thread:
Are there any Dopers who have never “experimented”* with dope? I’ve never ingested anything more prurient than alcohol, and sometimes I wonder if I’m the only person in the world who’s this pure.
So tell me if you’ve never indulged in illict drugs.
I always get the image of some guy/girl in a smock with a bunsen burner and clipboard. Yeah right, you’re experimenting. Let me know when you have a peer-reviewed article out, okay?
Marijuana is an illegal substance and therefore must be a very very very BAD thing to do. As such, I must decline to comment or, in the alternative, deny any and all such involvments with such an illegal and bad substance.
I’ve never once done any drug, except alcohol. Part of the reason is that since I was 17 I’ve had a job that a)drug tested and b) I depended on for food, clothing, tuition, etc., so I never really had a clear opportunity. Then again, I don’t think I would have anyway. I don’t even drink anymore. I’m pretty peppy and wild anyway, sometimes annoyingly so, I get a pretty good high off of adrenalin. Also, I’m somewhat of a control freak, and it irks me to be drunk 'cause I know what I’m doing but I’m helpless to stop it. Kinda like being in the backseat of your own mind.
Yeah, I can step forward to say that I’ve never done anything harder than either espresso or vodka (and sometimes both).
I’ve got some family that I can thank for that. Let’s just say that my cousin has shown me more ways to destroy a family through dope, coke, meth, and heroin than I care to count. She’s also shown me how easy it is to draw a weapon on her dealer when he’s not welcome in a house.
But that’s a different story for a different day . . .
Never tried it. Not to say I never will, but the desire/need has not yet hit me. I’m 22. I do partake of alcohol, and have very occasionally smoked tobacco from a hookah, and just recently had my first cigarette with my cousin on her wedding night.
Never done it (never even been drunk, though I have had Guinness in Ireland and rum in the Caribbean, both with my father). I also have no desire at all to do so, since it really just doesn’t seem like my bag. I scare myself enough when I’m sober.
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It sounds like you’re on a slippery slope now, particularly with that “Not to say I never will” comment, not to mention smoking out of a hookah! Don’t you know tobacco is the real gateway drug? You’re a few steps away from being a crack addict begging on the street!
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Seriously though, no sarcasm. I’d be willing to bet that you do partake sometime soon when the opportunity presents itself. That’s just based on the fact that you haven’t made the decision that you never will. I’m not saying that it’s necessarily bad to keep an open mind on the matter, I’m just saying that if you don’t say you won’t, then you probably will.
I’ve never done dope, though the opportunity has come up many times, the worst I’ve had is alcohol, and never to much of it. I don’t like being out of control. My friends don’t understand and keep trying to push it on me. I’ll probably give in one day, and get totaly wasted, but certainly not today.
My dad was apparently a big druggie when he was yonger, and my mother drinks quite a lot (she’s a happy drunk). They both have an open mind towards drugs and my mum’s offered to give me stuff to experiment with so she knows my first time is safe. So I can’t really say why I have an avertion. My computer games keep me entertained enough.
Yeah, I’ll sign up for the purity gang… never done dope, never done any other illegal drugs, never even done tabacco… never really gotten drunk (not falling-down drunk anyway - I tend to reach the throwing up stage before getting that far…)
Anyway, I’ll take your drug-free purity and raise you this: I’ve only ever slept with one woman: my wife (although I did before she was my wife)
Alcohol rarely and in small amount, tried tobacco a couple of times as a teen - just didn’t get it, never had any desire to try anything else. Why would I want to mess with my body chemistry and risk damage to the wonderfulness that is me? I do enough damage with chocolate.
The only way you’ll be “out of control” is if you really don’t want to and let your friends pressure you into doing it. Other than that though, you don’t have to worry about losing control under the effects of marijuana. If you’re stoned, you might get an “out of control” bout of the munchies, but that’s about it. Even then, you could smoke another joint and you’ll forget you ever had the munchies!
