# What drugs have you tried **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015 "2012-08-01T01:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/142 "2012-08-03T14:47:05Z")
All except heroin and crack. The poll results would be more interesting if there’d been a none option. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/143 "2012-08-03T18:06:05Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > That reminds me of this guy [losing his mind](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-WucK8VRw) after a bit of salvia. The pertinent part starts at 1:00 and ends at 1:30. Kinda funny, a bit more scary IMO. Wow! This video is a great argument against ever taking salvia (note that I didn’t even know it existed before reading this thread). And the worst part isn’t even what the guy did, but rather watching the girl who afterward seems to be reduced to the state of mind and behaviour of a lobotomized cow. ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/144 "2012-08-03T20:44:07Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Getting stoned one time will do less damage to your lungs than can even be measured by normal means. True enough (by any reasonable expectation anyway). > [@](#): > > I for one never said a thing about breaking any laws. There are places and situations where you can smoke weed and it’s perfectly legal. To clarify, there are about a dozen or so states who permit it and ONLY for medical use. Although there is a federal which forbids it outright. I never understood how the two have co-existed. > [@](#): > > You are aware that many elderly people smoke pot for medicinal purposes right? I don’t want to get into that whole issue, but the fact is that they do, No, it’s not a fact; first off, “many” do not unless you have what is IMO an unusual definition of the word, and it has nothing to do with age. > [@](#): > > All I’ve been advocating, in short, is getting high on weed one time, in a legal and controlled environment with people you trust. Given that the only legal way is if you have a serious medical condition eg cancer, I can’t imagine why you’d advocate it, unless you’re only suggesting it to people living in countries where it’s legal or much more tolerated, or for people in the USA to take a trip overseas - which is a fun idea anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/145 "2012-08-04T01:29:08Z")
Weed, and nitruous (is nitruous a drug, even for purposes of this thread)? I’m curious about amyl nitrite/poppers. What are the effects? And also, hash: is it like super-duper-good weed, or a different high all together? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/146 "2012-08-04T01:30:47Z")
To me, one hit of hash was like maybe 5 or 10 hits of weed. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/147 "2012-08-04T01:45:14Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Other than marijuana, the only thing I’ve ever done was peyote. I attended an “authentic” (modern but sincere) Native American teepee ceremony and partook, but all it did was make me vomit horrendously. Other than that, and the uncomfortably high level of newage hippy-dippy-ness, it was a very nice ceremony. There was a big fire with lots of embers that the shaman arranged beautifully in pictures and symbols. Apparently peyote has to be prepared in a particular way to reduce vomiting, but for this particular religious tradition, unfortunately, the emesis was the point of it and any hallucinations were welcome but secondary. I ate as much as I could and kept as much of it down as I could, but I never even felt slightly high. It was an interesting experience and I’m glad I did it, but I’d absolutely never want to do it again. Damn. Maybe you & I were at the same or similar ceremony. The late 70’s? In Az? This is also the only “illegal” drug i have tried and even then they claimed it was legal under Federal law. I did see some visions of demons 😕 dancing in the fire. And I harfed my guts out too. Nasty stuff. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/148 "2012-08-04T01:50:27Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I’m curious about amyl nitrite/poppers. What are the effects? The one and only time I tried it/them, I felt like my heart was going to redline and explode. I don’t remember how long it lasted, but for a while there I felt like I had the metabolism of a hummingbird. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/149 "2012-08-04T05:42:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > _ **That’s** _ what you call some _mean-munchies_! :eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/150 "2012-08-04T05:47:12Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > Tried mushrooms and weed once. I am not a smoker so I could only take a couple of puffs before I started coughing. The mushrooms were very pleasant and not at all psychotic. Still, it was a grad school experiment and I don’t feel any guilt from it. > You guys would still vote for me if I run for Congress, right ? As long as you didn’t swallow. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/151 "2012-08-04T07:13:53Z")
Weed, LSD, and cocaine. Enjoyed the cocaine so much the first time I used it I swore I would never touch the stuff again - and didn’t. LSD appealed to the cheap college student in me. A $5 hit of acid, two packs of smokes, and I’m good for the night. Weed. Well, you gotta have weed when you’re tripping, right? 😉 And for those times your not, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/152 "2012-08-04T14:46:12Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Weed, LSD, and cocaine. > > \*\*Enjoyed the cocaine so much the first time I used it I swore I would never touch the stuff again - and didn’t. \*\* > > LSD appealed to the cheap college student in me. A $5 hit of acid, two packs of smokes, and I’m good for the night. > > Weed. Well, you gotta have weed when you’re tripping, right? 😉 And for those times your not, right? 😉 Yes. The only time I tried cocaine, I thought “I like this too much. It’ll bankrupt me or kill me.” So I never did it again. Fortunately, it seemed like a short-lived high or the temptation to continue may have been too great. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/153 "2012-08-04T15:03:56Z")
I see why they call you guys Dopers! 😃 I checked several myself, including Other, but have tamed down significantly since the Nixon Administration or so. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/154 "2012-08-04T15:32:19Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Yes. The only time I tried cocaine, I thought “I like this too much. It’ll bankrupt me or kill me.” So I never did it again. Fortunately, it seemed like a short-lived high or the temptation to continue may have been too great. I consider myself lucky. Coke never did anything but make my upper lip go numb. Oh, and it did help clear my sinuses. It was so abundant in the 80s I might have fallen down that hole if it affected me the way it so many others. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/155 "2012-08-04T16:30:31Z")
Coffee, tea, tobacco, all forms of alcohol but kvass and absinthe, marijuana, marijuana oil, hashish, hash oil, cocaine, opium, all kinds of speed including meth, a few downers, MDA, Oxycontin, LSD, mescaline, peyote, nitrous oxide. That’s all I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/156 "2012-08-04T17:15:54Z")
Coke just mostly made me hyper. And thirsty. Tried LSD once. Didn’t hallunicate, but I suddenly understood the term getting “fried.” It did feel like someone had cooked my brain in a frying pan or something. Pass. Shrooms just made me laugh near uncontrollably. It seemed like a good thing initially but I decided I don’t like being “forced” to laugh so passed. Really weed was about the only thing I ever cared for, and even the appeal of that faded as I got older. PS the results were about what I expected, although I am surprised how many said “nothing ever” and the low count on estasy, which I thought was the cool trendy drug. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/157 "2012-08-04T18:07:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Damn. Maybe you & I were at the same or similar ceremony. The late 70’s? In Az? > > This is also the only “illegal” drug i have tried and even then they claimed it was legal under Federal law. > > I did see some visions of demons 😕 dancing in the fire. And I harfed my guts out too. Nasty stuff. Colorado in the late 00’s. At least you got to see something! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/158 "2012-08-04T18:29:57Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I consider myself lucky. Coke never did anything but make my upper lip go numb. Oh, and it did help clear my sinuses. It was so abundant in the 80s I might have fallen down that hole if it affected me the way it so many others. It had a similar (non) effect on me – I thought _maybe_ I could see more stars in the night sky, so maybe it dilated my pupils or had a similar optical effect, but nothing else. I tried it maybe 3 times, and never felt much of anything, and I suspected that I was just getting some kind of white powder passed off as coke. But other people there swore they were feeling the full charge, whatever that was. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/159 "2012-08-04T19:55:03Z")
well… heres my story… I always avoided the woozy drugs, pills, heroin, crack… never wanted to feel a loss of control… did my time with alcohol as a youth, though…perhaps as a thrill and peer pressure… but now, it just gives me a headache…(my memories of getting sick on old rum and cokes still haunt me, 40 years later…I cant stand that smell:eek: I didnt try coffee till my late 30’s, I never knew it had a “use” I just thought it smelled bad, so I avoided it!!..long time drinker now. I like taste now as well…gotta have cream and sugar though. my personals: 1. I went through “a spot of bother” with coke and other stimulants…seemed easier than food, sleeping, and working out…haha…yeah right:rolleyes:. All better now. 2. Always loved marijuana, now that I’m older(58) it doesnt do the same things though, makes me feel sickly and paranoid. I think because its SO much much stronger now, thats the difference, and the different strains as well…kinda funny to me, as I tried to be an herb farmer when it was illegal, and chased it around and around, minimal success ,smoked 24/7/365…surfed and worked with it… haha… and now in California?, where I live, its more popular than booze, and easier to get!! And out of control as far as I can tell, within the legality as it stands… And the gold rush mentality is just wild too!!! …(as with the gold rush, folks do well selling bread and eggs to the farmers…or flatscreens and solar panels nowadays) 3… I have Always been intrigued by the psychedelics, as meditation and my flighty mind havnt really worked that well, towards solving the mysteries, which tend to intrude in my mind somewhat daily…(hence my following GDebates ha) Given that drugs only work if there is a receptor in our brain for them, and that our bodies can do everything naturally through those receptors…I know its a shortcut, but…well, like I said, I am curious and meditations and I havnt gotten too far. sooooo :o …I feel that its a humans birthright, like an orgasm, or tasting food or water… to access that part of your software which the psychedelics access, if you cant get access on your own…I dont know if that “function” of the mind is there for a reason?..but well YMMV ps the Mazatecs call Salvia “Ska Maria Pastora” or Leaves of Mary the Shepherdess…and IMHO, this is an apt description. One of the biggest unknowns I have ever encountered…Shepherd to what? No idea… The concentrated extracts, are, however,NOT a good idea for anyone but a well seasoned explorer, or a bungy jumper or someone of that sort of mindset… as its similar to an NDE, and you need to be able to deal with that. .And, like everything else we all do, whatever it is… do your homework first!!! Set, setting, intent and knowledge. 😃 Jupe ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/160 "2012-08-04T19:59:23Z")
Cannabis, of course. Used it all my adult life and it doesn’t seem to have affected my attention spa LSD; A half-dozen times or so in my 20’s. Liked it, in a way, but it’s pretty intense. Don’t think it would be a good idea these days, acid is a young (wo)man’s game. Hashish, which of course is just a concentrate of cannabis. Never tried coke when it was in vogue, or meth, seen them take too many people down. And besides, I never really moved in those circles. Long ago, there were some little white pills called cross-tops that truck drivers and others used to stay awake for long periods. I guess they were some kind of amphetimine. Took those a few times for kicks or on long drives. About all they did was give me jittery nerves for a coupla hours. Meh. Other: Recently had occasion to try something called “lettuce opium” extracted from a common weed, _Lactuca serriola_. It’s cheap, readily available and entirely legal, unfortunately it didn’t seem to have much effect aside from a slight drowsiness. SS ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015/161 "2012-08-04T22:27:35Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > Cannabis, of course. Used it all my adult life and it doesn’t seem to have affected my attention spa :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drugs-have-you-tried/630015.md?page=9)