I am no longer interested in prowling around looking for dealers and risking arrest. If someone ever pulls some out and offers, though…
Another “none”. Can’t see the appeal, even if they were cheap and legal.
Legally - vicodin, codeine[big meh there] parafon fortis, demerol, morphine, torodol and a few others over the years - whatever date rape drug they use for parathyroid light sedation is a hoot. Count backwards, then 10 minutes later you are exchanging jokes with the anesthetist while your surgeon is twiddling around in an open gash in the front of your throat painlessly :eek:
Semilicit - betel premade chews, I liked the rose flavored ones. Blue lotus in alcohol is relaxing.
Illegals - LSD was interesting. Shrooms are very relaxing, marijuana takes the edge off my chronic pain and lets me get to sleep. cocaine is a total waste for me. I tried it at a party and had numb front teeth. I tried it again at the urging of my BF of the time telling me I obviously didn’t get the ‘good stuff’ so the good stuff made my nose run and put my front teeth to sleep. i figured if I was going to spend $185 for drugs, I wanted to at least get some dental work out of the deal.
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Well yeah, if you’re not going to try them, I doubt you would see the appeal. On the other hand I tried a lot of different ones, and only one ever appealed to me. So there may be a reasonable chance that if you try one, it won’t appeal to you, and it would have just been a waste of time.
Everything except crack.
An attempt at listing others: hashish (really just filed under marijuana), nitrous oxide, spice, oxycodone/hydrocodone/morphine/etc, ketamine, many benzos, 2c-b, methamphetampine/adderall/ritalin/vyvanze, diphenhydramine, dmx, ghb, flexeril/ativan, opium… Hm there’s probably more I’m forgetting.
Of these, I only drink regularly. Most of the items I listed I tried only once, just to see. I find drugs simply fascinating - a way to get a completely different perspective on yourself from yourself. Or something. I’ve always been curious about it. How can one know that something like LSD exists, and makes people see and think wild things, and not want to see what it’s really like firsthand? Not want to see what it really does to them?
Special link about how smart people are more likely to take drugs, I take it with a shaker of salt but nonetheless
Why the fuck is this not public? I picked all the listed but I’m not sure if the mescaline was really mesc and I bet there’s more. I want to know!!! What kind of degenerates post here.
I accidentally ingested alcohol once. That’s pretty much it. I’m surprised so many people used cocaine though and I personally don’t know anyone who uses pot for that matter (of course in privacy in may be otherwise).
I am intrigued by people who have never tried any mind-altering substance because they don’t see the appeal. How would you know unless you tried it? I mean, well, I’m not at all interested in uppers because they sound scary and unpleasant, but there are a lot of different substances and I can’t imagine that someone wouldn’t find anything about any of them appealing.
Not that I’m saying anyone SHOULD try them. I’ve never used anything illegal except weed (which I don’t care for) but I would like to try some others if I wasn’t too scared and responsible to. If I could be sure nothing bad would happen, I’d like to see how it felt.
And actually I guess I am kind of saying that people should at least try alcohol (unless they can’t for health reasons, of course, or if they feel they’re prone to addiction). Obviously no one is going to listen to me about it, but it’s just what I think.
Me too. I find these sorts of answers perplexing; bordering on disingenuous. I mean, ok, you may not like what you imagine drugs would be like for you but how on earth could you not understand the concept that being able to take a pill, smoke a joint or drink a drink and (for a while at least) escape whatever unwanted feelings you may be feeling and feel good is an incredibly appealing concept for people and the human condition in general?
Well, I don’t care what other people do so long as they’re not harming me in the process, but I use sex and / or novels to achieve the effects you describe.
And if you’ve never had your mind altered by any substance then how would you even begin to imagine what it would be like for you? It’s like if you had never tasted food before (no taste buds or tube fed or something, I don’t know!) and you just went around saying you don’t see anything appealing about food.
List plus Salvia Divinorum. Thought there were a few others on here that had tried Sage Wisdom.
I think it’s not only a good idea for every adult to get “high” at least once on pot or something similar, but you’re cheating your self if you die without having done so.
It’s not about getting high at all, it’s about seeing that there are different ways in which to interpret our surroundings. I know that this sounds like stoner bullshit to people who have never tried any “illegal” drug, but you only have to do it once to see what I’m saying.
It’s really quite laughable to hear someone say “I don’t have to get high to…” or “I’m just fine without drugs in my life blah blah…”
Try it once, then you can speak from a point of experience instead of one of ignorance.
I open the floor to all the people that have smoked pot to the point of intoxication as a brief experiment, that feel that the experience was detrimental to their life. Count me in as a person that no longer chooses to do any drugs at all, but is glad that I at least saw what it was like.
This is one case where the moral high ground people are the actual fools, speaking about something they know nothing about. We’re not talking about junkies, stoners or crack-heads, just people who have gotten high at least once. Again, I can only speak about pot usage.
No, you do not. You may enjoy those things, but they do not change your way of seeing things. They give you pleasure I’m sure. You simply can’t compare your experience to one you’ve never had before.
Before dismissing the validity of altered states, consider the great minds before us that considered such states to be a very important thing. I’m too tired for a simple Google search ATM, but there is no shortage of great minds that tried if not ravaged drugs in their pursuit of knowledge. Huxley, Freud, Sagan, Jobs, Leary, etc.
I didn’t dismiss the validity (nor the value) of altered states. I was responding to Ambivalid, not you. I am not interested in experiencing altered states. You are probably not interested in some experiences that I find valuable. Not all humans are the same.
I’ve smoked some weed, but other than that, nothing. Not that I wouldn’t be willing to try one or two of them once (except for crack and heroin, which are just low-class), but no one has ever offered me any, and frankly, that pisses me off. What, am I not cool enough?
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.
I took salvia a few times years ago. It really is something.
Ketamine is being tested as a method totreat depression quickly and reliably. We even think that we know the mechanism. It increases the amount of BDNF (brain derived neurotropic factor) in the hypothalamus.
Ecstasy is being tried as a treatment for PTSD (also OCD - if you need a cite)
Amphetamines are used for ADD and a variety of other illnesses and disorders.
The list of abused drugs being use constructively isn’t long yet, but it’s growing.
Abuse of certain drugs can’t be allowed to bias legitimate and important research. I’m not trying to derail or what not, but given the number of responses that seem to take the attitude of
“well, y’kno, drugs, thy’r bad . . . m’kay”
I figured it was worth mentioning.
I apologize for the intrusion and thank you for your patience.