I was discussing things we used to do back in the 70’s and early 80’s with a friend, and the topic of marijuana came up. When I asked her if she had ever tried it, she said, “I tried it once, but it didn’t do anything for me-it only made me sleepy.” By her tone, she was clearly trying to imply that she was somehow morally superior because she resisted its sordid effects.
Have you ever heard(or even used) this excuse tied to the use of illegal drugs?
I know people who have told me that marijuana didn’t get them high, but not as an “excuse” or as a means of conveying moral superiority.
Everybody has heard that excuse, or at least a slightly different flavor of it. It sounds remarkably like “I didn’t inhale”, doesn’t it?
My mother told me the exact same thing after a trip to San Diego. I am not sure why. I was only 15 at the time.
I’ve said it myself, about hashish, but then the drug in question *did *put me to sleep. Out like a light. Any illegal drug I’ve tried has either made me feel physically ill or extremely sleepy. I’ve often gotten laughed at when saying this, and accused of trying to imply that I am somehow morally superior because I resisted its sordid effects. I didn’t - it just made me feel like crap.
I’ve heard that one before, along with “I tried it but I didn’t feel anything” and “I tried it but it made me really sick… I guess I must be allergic to pot.”
Never with any implied superiority, though.
San Diego made her sleepy? 
I’ve said it, because it’s true. I toke and I sleep. I don’t feel superior about it because I’d rather be able to smoke and have a wild time, dude, like everyone else. But it’s not the case.
If I said what your friend said, with an emphasis on the “me,” it’d be my way of saying “I dunno what’s wrong with me. I know it totally makes everyone else high but when it comes to me, I just want to take a nap.”
I don’t get the moral superiority aspect of it. Lots of drugs affect me differently than they affect most people, but that doesn’t mean they don’t affect me. Codeine does nothing for my pain, but it sure does make me cranky. Vicodin knocks most people out, if I take it you have to scrape me off the ceiling. Weird chemical reactions hardly equal superior moral fiber.
FTR, I used to love weed. I could smoke a whole joint myself and go on about the meaning of life for hours. Now I take two hits, I can’t follow Seinfeld and all I want is a nap. It sucks getting old.
It just made me sleep, too
- but then I’d go sleep-walking and rape & kill.
It doesn’t do much to me but I don’t think it’s a morally superior thing. I had the same problem with coke but I loved acid. I think it’s a good reason for when your friends want to toke up but you don’t want to waste their weed (or your lungs) for a non-effect but still let them know it’s OK to go ahead.
Maybe it was physical superiority she was trying to convey, like the drug version of being able to “hold your liquor.”
I run with a weird group, so the reasoning is a bit different, but among the alt religion crowd “It didn’t have any effect on me!” is supposed to somehow indicate superiority. It’s a bit convoluted, but hear me out: people take drugs to “expand their consciousness”, right? But Moonwolf SilverRaven is so enlightened already that pot has no effect on *him *- his consciousness is already expanded without those “crutches” mere mortals like you and I need. :rolleyes:
My boyfriend says that pot just makes him want to sleep, that’s why he hasn’t done it since he was like 14. No superiority intended, just that if he’s going to take something to enhance having a good time, it’s gonna be liquor because that does produce the desired effect.
Pot messes with my muscle control, very quickly and in a bad way, so I don’t use it.
If I was trying to be superior I would say I’ve never tried it at all because I’m just law abiding that way. But then, that would be a lie because I did try it twice.
Yeah - I’ve tried pot a grand total of three times. Each time it did make me sleepy - not really anything more. So I would stick with alcohol. More fun, and not actually illegal.
I never meant any kind of “superiority” when I would tell people that - it’s just what actually happened to me.
I’ve heard people say that.
I always proudly announce, then, that I did indeed get high my first time. Mass giggling, the time going by strangely, all that stuff.
I don’t get super high every time I smoke, especially if it’s been a while, though. Last time I smoked, I don’t remember feeling any real effects, but when I was doing it more often (i.e., college), I remember feeling the effects quite vividly.
I’d be more surprised to hear that than the other, actually. It was common knowledge when I was in college that it takes 3 tries to actually get high (we had some idea that the THC needs to build up in your fat tissue a bit before you’ll feel it, but I don’t know if that’s true or not), and that was certainly true for me. So when people say, “I tried it once and it didn’t work” that goes right along with my experience…only I didn’t stop trying! But I actually don’t know anyone but you who’s gotten high the first time they toke.
The last time I hit a joint, I could not walk for three hours. Crippling anxiety attack. It has done that the other times I’ve tried, too.
Interestingly enough, because I love love love the way it smells (and the taste that implies), I tried putting a couple teaspoons in my poultry stuffing a couple Thanksgivings ago. ** Nowhere near** enough to affect anyone at all – just for flavor. It was wonderful!!!
Mom says it about booze. But I never got the vibe that she felt superior about it, she just doesn’t like drinking because it makes her sleepy.
I say it about alcohol, too, to explain why I don’t drink that much. I’ll have an occasional beer with dinner, but I never drink more than that. Not because I feel superior to people who do drink, but because it’s boring to me to drink a handful of beers and promptly fall asleep.