Have you ever done "hard drugs?"

I’ve never done any drugs, from pot on up. Never even smoked plain ol’ cigarettes. I guess I’m boring.

The only drugs I’ve done are over-the-counter painkillers, and prescribed vitamin supplements.

Most likely not. A threshold dose of mescaline, the minimum needed to feel even the lightest of effects, is around 100-150mg. An average dose is maybe double that amount. A microdot only weighs around 7.5mg. It’s very unlikely that any microdots would contain mescaline and if they did you would have to eat a ridiculous number of them to trip. Cite

Nothing harder than alcohol (and very little of that) and a very occasional cigar.

You got some shitty E. Probably caffeine, or possibly meth, or a bit of both.

The hardest drug I’ve done is Stoli Gold.

Got high on weed on three separate occasions, several years apart, and became violently ill each time. Decided it wasn’t for me. I’ve never tried anything harder. Everything I heard about cocaine convinced me I’d really like it, which is exactly why I decided to never try it.

In a medical context, I was given a shot of valium before having splints removed after nasal surgery. Instant and glorious bliss, could not give a crap about the medical devices being removed from my face. If heroin is even close to that, it is scary as hell to me because I think it would be sooo easy to get addicted.

Took acid a couple of times and it was like a very pleasant and mild drunk. No craziness at all.

OTOH, I hallucinated like crazy after eating a ton of pot brownies once. Sensory and visual hallucinations, did not like.

I have also hallucinated on Ambien CR and from running a high fever. Go figure.

I felt obliged to add “outside of a medical situation” to this, as it dawned on me that in a medical situation, I’ve had Versed, followed by a general anesthetic, and as part of a different procedure at a later date something which I’m told did not render me unconscious, but gave me amnesia of what I had experienced, which makes me suspicious that the slipped me a roofie. :wink:

The only microdot I ever knew of was LSD (on tiny, tiny, aspirin-like tablets)

The only time I did mescaline was a synthetic mescaline- on tiny tiny asprin-like tablets, like tablets the diameter of the graphite in a pencil.

That was fun. The only open eye hallucinations I have ever had. Acid was fun, but all closed-eye for visuals.

Salvia is awesome, but not ‘pleasant’.

I have lots of experience, but I have detailed my adventures elsewhere.

Wow, I’m surprised < 50% said yes.

Pot, LSD, mescaline, E, coke. Love coke, but not the way I feel the next day. I must not have an addictive constitution, because I did lots and lots of coke, but never had any problem stopping. Never craved it. Pretty much just stopped all together a few years back, and don’t miss it at all. Most addictive substance on earth? Hard to believe.

Smoked lots of pot in High School. Probably every day. Absolutely no interest now.

Strictly alcohol and mostly wine.

I must be old. :slight_smile:

Nowhere near as many as most of my acquaintances. A lot of the people I hang out with take drugs I barely know the names of.

I did LSD a fair bit in my teens, enjoyed it, but it was of its time. Speed too. I somehow missed out on ecstasy - loads of my friends were taking it, but I never felt like it, and then it went out of fashion.

When I did an internship at a news station, coke was like medicine: when a big story broke, everyone just had to stay awake and working for far longer than natural, so they took it stay awake, and then took it for fun. For me it was just like making me ramble on even more than I usually do, which I didn’t like, and the second time I had a fit. No more coke for me.

Never had a yen for anything which required injections.

Maybe it’s a sleep-disorder thing, but most of the things my upper-and-downer using friends (who are mostly good law-abiding citizens otherwise, with jobs and sometimes families) talk about are things that just happen to me as a result of me being me.

Technically yes, but just once and it was just a few puffs off joint soaked or laced with either acid or opium. I don’t remember what. Felt the effects of the pot but didn’t get much from the other stuff other than it putting me to sleep, then waking up and getting scared to half to death of the walls of the tent blowing in and out on a dark windy, stormy night. (which normally wouldn’t bother me at all)

Synthetic mescaline is no more potent than regular mescaline. Unless you took somewhere in the range of 30-50 of those tiny tiny tablets, what you took wasn’t mescaline.

One hit of LSD won’t do much, especially if it’s been around a while or not stored properly. My typical trip was 3 hits, back in the day when I did such things.

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I tripped on LSD ~ 3-7 times per year from 1978 to circa 1994 and have never seen “trails” or “colors”. I don’t know from whence came the meme that acid tripping is about having visual hallucinations. I don’t think they are all that common.

LSD is about being bombarded with incredible CONCEPTS, new understandings and insights. Most of which, as you discover later, are not encoded in your mind in verbal terms —— you “see” them in the sense of perceiving them (not in the eyeball / visual sense of “see”) and then as you come down you are less and less able to hold onto them and find that you can’t put them into words.

The only persistently recurring visual hallucination I’ve experienced (and others have corroborated that they get this too) is something I regard as a side effect: at a certain focal distance you tend to see surfaces ripple or “crawl” as if they were covered in a layer of slowly crawling caterpillars. You don’t see “bugs” in any detail like with heads and antennas and etc or anything like that, just a sense of squiggly movement; and it’s mostly only surfaces that are about 12 feet away from you, whatever those may be. It can be a bit disconcerting especially if your trip is going unpleasant, and can be described as things “dissolving” or as “bugs” by people who are disturbed by it, but you can also get used to it pretty easily.

Smoked a lot of weed, and still do on occasion. Tried coke a couple of times but didn’t like it at all…it felt like the skin on my face was being pulled taut from the back of my head and as I’m already too tightly wrapped, the last thing I need is to take drugs that make me even more so. Loved ecstasy and took it once a week with friends for about a year, then we all quit. I’ve taken Xanax many times and enjoyed it.
I’m in constant pain from a bad back and really enjoy painkillers because they make me not hurt. I can’t function at all if I take enough to be pain free, so my prescription dose of Vicodin just takes the edge off. I can and have stopped taking them for months at a stretch so while I have built up a tolerance to them, I am not addicted. During my near-death bout with Necrotizing fasciitis three years ago I was on Morphine and Percocet during my hospitalization and Fentanyl upon my discharge, I enjoyed them a lot. I’d take more if I could afford them, probably to the point of becoming addicted, so it’s good that I can’t afford them.
Never wanted to try LSD or 'shrooms, my brain is screwed up enough.
So weed smoking and pill popping is it for me.

So he was in a position to know.

I had been offered synthetic mesc at a party, it looked like someone had taken one of the purplish red color pencils, peeled off the wood and carefully sectioned the ‘lead’ into tiny cylinders. I didn’t try it because hallucinogens never really appealed to me. I was never fond of the idea of taking random pills/capsules, sharing a joint/bong/line of coke with someone I know is one thing, but the possibility of getting something really unexpected never interested me. If I didn’t like something, I didn’t do it again.

So it would seem!