# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/21 "2002-04-19T14:51:48Z")
I don’t even know what Special K _is_. I had the same conversation with my **mother** a few years back, **novacaine** … …and she was shocked (despite all of the “Scared Straight” alarmist proselytizing freak-outs she put me through as a kid) that I _hadn’t_ done any illegal drugs other than pot (and alcohol, when I was underage)… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/22 "2002-04-19T14:55:15Z")
I’ve tried: alcohol (2-3 drinks/week) pot (2 times in my life. Just didn’t do much for me) mushrooms are legal here, but not for long, so I guess I’ll have to give them a try this summer. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/23 "2002-04-19T14:55:38Z")
I drink occasionally. Not very often, though I DID go to a wine-tasting last night. I’m still unsure as to whether I actually enjoy the stuff. I’ve never done any other drugs, never even been really tempted. I DO think, though, that they should be legalized and taxed accordingly. Most of my friends have at least smoked pot. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/24 "2002-04-19T15:48:53Z")
Anything available that did not require injections. Shrooms and MDA were my faves other than ETOH and pot which were essentially basic food groups. Right now I am a week into what I intend to be a longterm if not permanent attempt to not drink alcohol, seeing as I have repeatedly failed any attempt at moderation. I have one friend who always has pot. I look forward to getting high when I see him - mainly for golf, maybe 10 times a year. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/25 "2002-04-19T16:02:31Z")
Caffeine Every kind of alcohol but absinthe Marijuana on damn near a daily basis for 26 years Hashish Marijuana oil (once or twice) Hashish oil (once or twice) LSD (about 30-40 times) Mescaline (a few times) Peyote (only once, which is ironic considering my nom de 'Net) Various kinds of speed (green & clears, blue & clears, pink footballs, crystal meth, and others I cannot remember) Downers (a few times; I don’t like these) Cocaine Opium MDA Nitrous oxide Smoked crank once; didn’t do a damn thing for me Oxy-contin (one time and I shall never do the shit again; I despise drugs that prevent me from drinking) ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/26 "2002-04-19T16:38:44Z")
Oh, I forgot: all the stuff I got when I had surgery… Sodium pentothal (or whatever they used to knock me out) Dilaudid Morphine Demerol (the most fun of them all) Codeine And all the mind-altering prescriptions I’ve had (excluding anti-depressants)… Rivotril (Klonopin in the U.S.) - I still take this daily (for GAD) Valium Dalmane Restoril Ativan Xanax Serax chloral hydrate trazodone Imovane All fun stuff. 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/27 "2002-04-19T16:51:26Z")
Lesse… in no particular order: ~~Pot ~~ecstacy ~~opium ~~LSD (oh my yes) ~~mushrooms ~~huffing freon (uh, heh) ~~nutmeg ~~alcohol ~~cough syrup (no, not for coughing) ~~some form of speed, though whether it was an amphetamine or meth I don’t know And, er, that’s it. There are many more I’ve always wanted to try (to this day, though I haven’t used anything for quite some time, except maybe a beer with dinner here or there) but have never been able to get my hands on. I have actively rejected using ~~cocaine ~~heroin ~~ketamine ~~thorazine (well, hey, it is available to me and I do avoid using it :p) I would actively reject using (apart form what I have rejected) if it were offered to me ~~crack ~~ice ~~PCP I would love to use but never have ~~DMT-- this would be a priority if I had drugs as a priority in my life ~~Mescaline ~~belladonna (though I haven’t out of fear more than unavailability) ~~MDA ~~TMA-2 ~~ pretty much any psychadelic amphetamine ---
**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, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/28 "2002-04-19T17:11:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > **~~cough syrup (no, not for coughing)** Ah, [dextromethorphan hydrobromide](http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/dxm.shtml)… a cough suppressant that is, in actual fact, a dissociative along the lines of K. I tried it a couple of times. Once I glugged an entire bottle of generic Robitussin. When the stuff kicked in, _man._ Unlike any other buzz or trip I’ve had before. I got the “robo shits” - basically I cacked my bowels out for about twenty minutes solid (or at least it felt like twenty minutes). Then I was walking home through the park and I felt like every step I took was springing me high into the air. I get home and my roommate at the time (bitch) tells me my mother called and that it was important and that something bad had happened. So I called her back. My uncle had died of cancer. So there I was, tripping out of my mind, having to talk to my mother and be all philosophical. Tried it again and sat down for my umpteenth viewing of _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_. Robo shits. BAD robo shits. Never doing the stuff again. I’ve also done codeine extraction from OTC pills. Interesting, but generally a waste of time. When you have to set up funnels and filters and shit just to get a buzz… well, stick to booze. - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/29 "2002-04-19T17:23:13Z")
I never did any illegal drugs, and now that I’m much closer to 30 than 20 and married I wish I did do some experimenting when I had the chance. My wish list (that I will probably never do) pot ecstacy hash LSD shrooms oh, and ether. Just because of _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ 🙂 I would want to stay away from the narcotics and uppers/downers, as I don’t think they would add to my life experience. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/30 "2002-04-19T17:24:53Z")
Alcohol. That’s it. **Yosemitebabe** , do they play the music when you get the drink? ---
**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, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/31 "2002-04-19T17:27:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anonymous Coward \* > \*\*oh, and ether. Just because of _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ 🙂 \*\* I _don’t_ want to do it for the same reason! “There’s nothing so sad as a man on an ether binge.” Anyway I’ve researched it and it’s probably worse than you think. FLLV is one movie I cannot watch sober. > [@](#): > > I would want to stay away from the narcotics and uppers/downers, as I don’t think they would add to my life experience. Downers add much to my life experience… but I take them for medical (and sometimes recreational) reasons. They’re great before smoking pot - takes care of any possible pot paranoia. - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/32 "2002-04-19T17:31:10Z")
Caffeine Nicotine Alcohol Weed Cocaine Speed-both illegal and legal (Mini Thins, anyone?) Shrooms Ecstasy Heroin - only once. It was **too good.**. ---
**Author:** ![Clever\_Hans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Clever\_Hans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clever_Hans)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/33 "2002-04-19T18:05:09Z")
Everything but heroin, I used to be extrememly shy. Drugs did make my life better (you’ll never see that one on an after school special) I do little but drink nowadays, but I wouldn’t mind shrooming one more time, or frying but god knows I see enough stuff sober I don’t need the buildup. ---
**Author:** ![Lekman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lekman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lekman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/34 "2002-04-19T18:09:41Z")
Over the last 35 years just about all the above mentioned. Nowadays I’m big on red wine, smoke dope on a regular basis, and toot the occasional line of coke. Did anybody out there ever get into Romilar. If memory serves, it’s a cough suppressant based on Belladonna. I did loads when I was in Kabul in 1967. You could just walk into the pharmacy and buy it. Boy, had some wierd days on that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/35 "2002-04-19T18:18:59Z")
Hmm. The usual “gateway drugs”, and the more common hallucinogens, upper and downer pharms, NO2 a few times. Stopped taking much just as X, MDMA, etc were getting common. Early on, though, I made a conscious decision that opiates were not going to be in the line-up. I also have never been been a cigarette smoker, which strikes many as odd. I have my standards. As I get older my occasional experiences with weed (in the Netherlands on trips, of course) for some reason are more often BAD, to the point that I think after last summer I am officially done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/36 "2002-04-19T18:34:47Z")
I smoked catnip once. ---
**Author:** ![horhay\_achoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@horhay\_achoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horhay_achoa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/37 "2002-04-19T18:48:18Z")
nicotine alcohol pot acid shrooms various pain killers muscle relaxers nutmeg cough med opium (one of my favorites) ecstacy absynth banana peels (yes i know…) hash caffine nitrous I think thats all I will ever do ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/38 "2002-04-19T18:52:04Z")
Lessee… Alcohol Caffeine Nicotine Marijuana & Hashish LSD Mushrooms Ecstasy (a few times only—long before it was so popular) Opium (smoked—a few times) Speed (once) Peyote (once—no effect, didn’t eat enough) Only alcohol and caffeine these days, though. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/39 "2002-04-19T19:22:59Z")
Adrenaline, endorphins, and homebrew. I’m not gonna admit to anything else, 'cos my mum might be reading. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476/40 "2002-04-19T21:38:55Z")
Fun stuff… Pot (on a semi-regular basis) - we call be cheeba, though. Hash Exstacy (probably never do that again) Salvia Divinorum (fans of psychodelic drugs should try this before they make it illegal. Check out head shops or the internet). Shrooms Speed Peyote Poppers Various pain killers various muscle relaxents alcohol nicotine I’ve always turned down heroin, coke, and crack. Just not my cup of tea. Paxil [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-about-illegal-drugs/104476.md?page=3)