# Have you ever done "hard drugs?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633 "2011-11-02T15:40:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/21 "2011-11-02T19:13:58Z")
Tried crack once; made my ears ring and had tintinnitis for about a minute and…that was it. Tried half a hit of lsd once…got claustrophobic at a Grateful Dead concert, but it was interesting. Not THAT interesting. With most drugs, my attitude is pretty pragmatic: 1. If I don’t like it, it’s a waste of time/money/bad trip. 2. If I do like it…yeah, that’s even WORSE. So, no thanks, really. Mushrooms are a lot more fun, and is probably the only ‘illegal’ substance I’d do every so often. If it was around. Maybe every couple years or so. ---
**Author:** ![grama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@grama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grama)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/22 "2011-11-02T19:46:47Z")
I tried poppers once, not a big deal, not interested in trying it again, coke a few times, its great to sober up and keep the party going, but last time wasn’t very pleasant ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/23 "2011-11-02T19:50:03Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > But I’m not holier-than-thou. Alcohol is a drug, **obliviously**. And I’ve consumed quite a few beers in my life. 😃 Was that on purpose? Either way, funny. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/24 "2011-11-02T19:54:30Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I have always admitted to trying cocaine in the early 80s. It held no attraction for me. > > I had a boyfriend who liked coke, and one time at a party he encouraged me to try it. So I did. It made my nose run, and my front teeth numb. So I told him it didn’t do anything for me. So he told me that it wasn’t the best coke, and the next day he brought over what he claimed was excellent coke. So I tried it again with the same results. No feeling of power, or energy. Runny nose. Numb front teeth. > > If I am going to spend $185 on something that makes my teeth numb, I am going to a dentist where at least I can get a shiny new filling. > > Now the morphine I got in hospital, _that_ I could get seriously addicted to. That warm fuzzy feeling kicks ass. Not hurting kicks ass. This almost perfectly describes my experience with cocaine. The only difference is there is no way I would get addicted to morphine, makes me swell up and itch like crazy. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/25 "2011-11-02T20:33:50Z")
Nope. I was friends with drug addicts in high school, but I was always scared to try anything beyond pot and alcohol, and didn’t even experiment with that until I was 19. My sole experience with opiates was taking my prescribed Vicodin a couple weeks ago after surgery. Didn’t make me high. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/26 "2011-11-02T20:52:49Z")
yup. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/27 "2011-11-02T21:01:27Z")
Coke (maybe a dozen times), Mushrooms (many times), LSD twice, purple microdot (I swear that was what I was told it was), but nothing really “hard”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/28 "2011-11-02T21:09:35Z")
Never done any hard drugs, not even pot (which I know isn’t a “hard drug”). I don’t even drink alcohol very often. Just not into the whole thing. I got a prescription for Oxycodone when I got my wisdom teeth out, and aside from making my jaw not hurt, that didn’t do anything special for me. I admit I’m occasionally curious about what it would be like to try something like LSD, but only if it were legal and I did it somewhere safe. But I’d probably be too chicken to try it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/29 "2011-11-02T21:31:14Z")
Having lived through the 80s, when \*everybody \*did cocaine, I have a hard time including it on this list. So I will abstain from voting. 🙂 re: aruvqan’s experience with the Devil’s Dandruff, National Lampoon had a cocaine simulator: Take $100 out of your wallet and set it on fire. Drink 6 shots of espresso. Spray nasal spray up your nose. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/30 "2011-11-02T21:55:15Z")
I came of age in the early 1970s and I’ve done everything and more listed in the OP, many times. Don’t regret a minute of it either, to be honest. I had a ton of fun. Back then I think LSD was stronger, I think. I’ve talked to people younger than me who have told stories about dropping a tab, then going to the movies, a resturant, a bar, a family event, like that…the stuff I was taking put you into such serious hallucinations that there’s no freaking way I could imagine trying to act normal in public while tripping. (And yes - it won’t have much of an effect unless you wait a few days between trips.) Meth, I did for one weekend in the mid-80s, shooting (injecting) it during a wildly poor lapse of judgement. That was seriously scary. I felt SO good that coming down was a really horrible experience and for about a day I would have done just about any degrading and illegal thing you can think of to get more. I got over it without doing anything degrading or illegal and the last time I have done any illegal drug was 1986. Or 1994, if you count shrooms. I’m so nervous about it now I don’t even like to take prescription painkillers like Vicodin (I know, child’s play), which I can get occasionally for my fucked-up back. Typically, I will get a scrip about once a year, wait until I am _really_ in pain, take one or two, then not take any more and end up tossing them months later. I’m glad I got it all in and out of my system early, to be honest. Back then I knew a few people who were pretty much fried by age 30 and I made a conscious decision not to be like that. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/31 "2011-11-02T22:08:19Z")
Nah, just smoking cigs and the emj. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/32 "2011-11-02T22:22:13Z")
**Chiro** I agree, with what I’ve been told. Back in my day (early 20s – age, not decade of 20th C), just taking a tab or maybe half of even the cleanest acid and going alone to shoot pool or catch a movie was not anything unusual. Agree with all others about the “addiction” to hallucinogens – I haven’t tried anything more “advanced” in technology than ecstasy, nor have I tried salvia divinorum (which I’ve heard is just a nuts full-on hallucination trip), nor PCP, nor meth, but anything else, sure. The last time I did some lines of coke was at some band rehearsal – for some reason someone had some extra. It’s a good, clean party drug, though, if you’re around people who aren’t total freaks. I’d question if even coke was that addictive physically. Maybe crack, but crack never got me off in a way that made me seek it out. What kind of sucks is that on the West Coast it’s hard to find white heroin – the kind you can snort. Damned if I’m going all Bad Lieutenant and chasing the dragon’s tail with tinfoil, and shooting it is too inconvenient, plus, I wear T-shirts a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/33 "2011-11-02T22:27:32Z")
Sorry 2x post, but **Chiro** ’s post reminded me – why do some/most people say “scrip”? Aren’t those those tickets you get at carnivals and such? I always thought “script” was preferred. Not trying to bash or correct anyone – honestly I’m curious how and when the usage came about. Maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/34 "2011-11-02T22:32:04Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > purple microdot(I swear that was what I was told it was), Mescaline, most likely. Errmm…at a guess ;). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/35 "2011-11-02T22:42:25Z")
Morphine. But a doctor gave it to me. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/36 "2011-11-02T22:44:54Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Sorry 2x post, but **Chiro** ’s post reminded me – why do some/most people say “scrip”? Aren’t those those tickets you get at carnivals and such? I always thought “script” was preferred. Not trying to bash or correct anyone – honestly I’m curious how and when the usage came about. Maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. Got me. 🙂 I have no clue why I use that term…script seems writing-related to me. Jaledin - thanks for confirming that; I’m not sure how true my impressions are (didn’t remember the 1970s real gud, LOL) but certainly the impression I’ve had over the last decade or two when discussing drugs with [del] whippersnappers [/del] younger users. And I do want to point out to you [del] whippersnappers [/del] younger users that while illegal drugs can be fun and all, my mention upthread of having fun using is not intended to be an endorsement or anything. Illegal = bad and had I had children I would probably prefer they not dabble extensively in mind-altering substances. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/37 "2011-11-02T23:14:38Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Mescaline, most likely. > > Errmm…at a guess ;). Why not just straight blotter acid? I’m having a difficult time thinking of mushrooms or the aforementioned blotter acid as ‘hard’ drugs’. And while I knew people who loved to do lots of cocaine (powder), they didn’t seem hooked to me the way say, heroin users can be (at least in popular fiction…I admit I haven’t known any real life heroin addicts). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/38 "2011-11-02T23:59:14Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Morphine. > > But a doctor gave it to me. And unlike you hippies I never triedcocaine or even pot. Weird, because I was born in 1960. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/39 "2011-11-03T00:51:03Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > And I do want to point out to you [del] whippersnappers [/del] younger users that while illegal drugs can be fun and all, my mention upthread of having fun using is not intended to be an endorsement or anything. Hey, that sounds like something Bill Cosby would say in a “Fat Albert and The Gang” episode – it’s on the brain, since I went as Mushmouth to campus on Monday. I’m surprised quite a few people knew what that was! ETA as anti-Cos – drugs can be a lot of fun, but I think it all depends on who your crew is. I’ve only done any kind of drugs with friends or, when I know what they do, alone, occasionally (try watching “Clockwork Orange” in a theater on a mere 1/8th of shrooms – that was a weird walk back to my apt). Just smoked some weed for the first time in a long months with some people on campus, but they were cool chicks so there wasn’t no “trippin’” or hell-raising. Anyway, per OP, weed doesn’t count – I prefer to smoke alone, when I rarely do smoke, unless the people I’m with are cool and good at talking, listening, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633/40 "2011-11-03T01:44:58Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > I have a hard time with you putting LSD into that category. LSD may have some extreme effects when you take it, but it’s not at all high-abusive. I don’t believe that anyone classifies as highly abusive. I tend to agree. But it’s such a powerful chemical that you can’t really call it a “soft” drug either. Psychedelics/hallucinogens really fall outside of any soft/hard continuum. I’ve done 3 on the OP’s list (coke, meth, LSD). LSD was by far the favorite. I do like that class of recreational chemicals (MDMA, 2C-I, 2C-E, 2C-G, AMT, 2-CT-2, TMA-2, 5-MEO-AMT, DiPT, 4-HO-MIPT, 5-MeO-DIPT). The couple of times I tried mushrooms, I got really bad stomach cramps. Been reluctant every since. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-hard-drugs/601633.md?page=3)