# Poll about illegal drugs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 19, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476 "2002-04-19T07:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![novacaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ea924/32.png) [@novacaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/novacaine)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/1 "2002-04-19T07:07:12Z")
I was talking with a friend of mine recently and the topic of drugs came up. He asked me what drugs I have tried and as I told him his jaw dropped in shock. Not shock that I had tried drugs, shock that I had tried so many. Then it occured to me that all my friends back in my home town had done just as many drugs as myself. To be honest until this conversation with my friend the other day I just assumed that most people that had tried drugs had tried them all. Apparently I was wrong. So I was just wondering how many differant drugs the users of the SDMB have tried. I guess I’ll start. pot coke meth heroin acid exstasy PCP specail K all sorts of pharmisuticals mescaline GHB alocohol Theres probably more but that’s all I can think of right now. You can imagine my memory isn’t what it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/2 "2002-04-19T07:16:54Z")
I have had alcohol. I’m hardly a jackass about those who try illegal drugs, but I abstain. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/3 "2002-04-19T07:19:20Z")
I have drunk alcohol a few times. (I think the first time when I was 10, a neighbor girl brought over some Vodka, and we all took a sip. Vile, vile stuff.) I don’t drink. I don’t believe I have ever purchased an alcoholic beverage. Unless you count the tiny sample bottle of “Finandia” vodka I got at Trader Joe’s, because I have a thing about Jean Sibelius. (Please ignore the semi-obscure Classical music reference.) I never drank it, I just kept the unopened bottle around. I’ve **never** tried any illicit drug, ever. It’s a matter of pride, actually. I’ve gotten a little bit of grief for it a few times. (No, I am not generally sanctimonious about my clean slate as far as drugs go. Just don’t try to foist the damned stuff on me.) ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/4 "2002-04-19T07:21:11Z")
Uh, that should be “ **Finlandia** ” vodka. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/5 "2002-04-19T07:29:31Z")
alcohol pot speed coke meth ( **once** , I promise) All of these were in high school or 2-3 years after. I have just been a drunk for the last 12 years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/6 "2002-04-19T08:05:54Z")
Just the first five on your list there. Call me a traditionalist. Although I am intrigued about this “alocohol”, of which you speak. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/7 "2002-04-19T10:08:39Z")
I’m boring. Alcohol and pot only. I am always surprised to hear herion mentioned as if it’s a minor drug. I was always taught that it was the worst of the worst and one try would make you a junkie for life. I guess D.A.R.E. is more effective than I thought… And based on what I’ve learned in my criminal justice class this semester, I now desperately want to try PCP. Apparently it makes you _almost_ completely unstoppable. You could take a few rounds in the chest and keep on kicking (until, of course, you die from blood loss or some such thing). I’d put on a cape and be like a totally f’d up superhero, the strongest man alive. Unstoppable. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/8 "2002-04-19T10:09:31Z")
Pot, hash, opium, coke(snorted, smoked, injected), meth, amphetamines, barbituates, muscle relaxers, pharmacutical pain-killers, acid and mushrooms, PCP, glue, gas, Krylon acrylic clear paint(whoa nellie!!!) and lots and lots of booze. Hey, you asked. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/9 "2002-04-19T10:41:50Z")
Nothing. I even try to abstain from caffeine, as I notice so many people seem to be addicted to it. But hey, for a person who does no drugs, my life is pretty weird, what with all the cool out-of-body experiences that I’ve had. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/10 "2002-04-19T11:09:57Z")
The second hand smoke at rock concerts. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/11 "2002-04-19T11:17:50Z")
alcohol pot Neither anymore, and I do not consider myself boring at ALL. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/12 "2002-04-19T12:09:07Z")
Alcohol (although not illegal) Pot (never called that on this side of the pond) Acid Mushrooms (only sorta illegal) Ecstasy Poppers (does that even count?) For quite some time, I’ve only indulged in booze and the occasional night on dope (pot). Now that I’m about to become a father for the first time, even those twin pleasures will become less frequent. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/13 "2002-04-19T12:10:38Z")
I have tried several. There are a couple I would like to try which I haven’t. There are several I will never, ever, ever, ever touch. There is one I do regularly. I am addicted to nicotine. I very rarely drink alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/14 "2002-04-19T12:11:05Z")
pot acid speed E special K A long time ago and I don’t touch any now. ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/15 "2002-04-19T12:14:42Z")
Oh, I found that having children made me hate these things with a passion. I’m very tempted to lock my daughters up until they’re eighteen 😃 If I ever found out they were doing what I was doing at the age I did it I don’t know what I’d do! ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/16 "2002-04-19T12:33:42Z")
I don’t do drugs in any way shape or form. I have drunk alchohol, and enjoyed it, but for various moral and philosophical reasons don’t any more. Hell, I even gave up _caffeine_ because it was an addictive drug. (Anyone who knew me before I gave it up could tell you quite how much of a miracle that is :)) I know a fair number of people who have done Pot, fewer that have smoked cigarettes (odd, but true) and lots who drink. I don’t know anyone IRL who admits to having done anything harder, but there are some who it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. That being said, I have no problem with other people doing drugs. I think it’s a bad idea, but completely their business. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/17 "2002-04-19T13:35:54Z")
pot - yes coke - yes meth - yes heroin - no acid - yes exstasy - no PCP - no specail K - no all sorts of pharmisuticals - ohhhh yes, I’m on 'em right now 😉 mescaline - no, but mushrooms (psilocybin) GHB - no alocohol - is Madonna Catholic? 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/18 "2002-04-19T13:39:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > **Poppers (does that even count?)** Oh yeah, I forgot poppers. 😉 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/19 "2002-04-19T14:18:07Z")
I used to go to Wendys for the straws. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/20 "2002-04-19T14:44:36Z")
Alcohol - on rare occasions and hardly ever more than one drink in an evening. Gave up caffeine some months back. Attempted to smoke a cigarette once - gagged for an hour. Never tried anything else - never had any desire to try anything. Well, except for chocolate… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476.md?page=2)