What Are "Hard Drugs" and "Soft Drugs"?

It’s a soft drug if you buy it from a white guy. It’s a hard drug if you buy it from somebody who’s black or hispanic.

along with benzodiazepines (aka benzos). It’s because they all work on the same receptors–the GABA[sub]A[/sub], which slow down brain activity, preventing seizures. These receptors, when addicted, become less sensitive, so when you remove the drug, the natural neurotransmitter (GABA) doesn’t work as well.

And it can take a long time for your body to fix the problem–even after the risk of seizure itself has diminished, you can still have lots of perceptual and anxiety producing effects. It’s possibly the longest withdrawal.

Soft drugs are the ones you tell people you use. Hard drugs are the ones you are actually using, and the ones you say only hopelessly addicted losers use.

Hard drugs are the ones that are both illegal and addictive. Coke, heroin, meth, crack, those are hard drugs. E, shrooms, mescaline, weed? Soft. That’s not to say that some on that list aren’t potent drugs that you should respect, just that they aren’t something that you’ll jones for in the morning.

soft drugs; laxatives

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