To ask the truth about your drug use?

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This may seem a silly question but since it’s an anonymous forum I’ll ask anyway. I’ve NC.

If you ever experimented or used drugs, what did you use and what made you choose that drug? I want to have an open conversation with my teenage child about why people may use certain drugs and what situations they will come up in but I don’t have a huge amount of experience on it. I know the internet has information but would like some realistic stories from the ladies of MN.

Have tried speed when I was younger on a few occasions. Liked it but hated not being able to sleep for a couple of days afterwards.
Only did mushrooms once but loved it. I've never giggled so much.
Like a PP I was scared of pills because of the Leah Betts story when I was growing up. An acquaintance of mine also died aged 14 from pills so never touched them.
I was around weed and draw a lot in my late teens almost everyone I knew was doing it regularly but I could never get on with it. It made me sick and stare at a wall for ages. Alcohol definitely was/is my drug of choice.
Haven't touched any drugs for about 15 years now but I'm glad I experienced it.

I've smoked a couple of times but that's about it. (And it did nothing for me apart from make me feel a bit light headed.)

I wouldn't even have known where to get a hold of drugs. I've clearly lived a sheltered life!

I started in my late teens, not sure why, I think boredom and it was just there, I come from a sleepy, naice town but there is a massive drug problem.. Coke, Mkat, ket, pills, MDMA, 2CP, shrooms...the usual party types. Weed made me very sick so I barely touched it. I was never actually that keen on any of it though, it rarely had the desired effect and I usually fell asleep, that being said in honesty I have some fun memories. I never got into trouble/became dependent but I know people who did/have, Exdp (DS dad) has melted his brain and it has caused him a lot of MH issues; most of the people he grew up and partied with are either on harder drugs, dead (suicide) or to be frank, losers. People who have never grown up and sit at home doing nothing whilst eating pills or can't even go to the pub without needing a pick up. Luckily for me (and DS) I hadn't done anything in the run up to me getting pregnant or before I found out, I haven't done it since (except the random toke drunk me thinks is a good idea). I don't miss it, I get offered and have no problem turning it down. I agree once in a while is fine, but I think it's a bit sad when I see people I used to party with every weekend still doing the exact same thing they were doing 10 years ago wasting money and having to 'adult' on a come down.

I think I'm probably in the minority here, but I have never taken any kind of drug (even weed) and never would. Cigarettes either.

Fresh mushrooms were indeed legally available in the early Noughties. One memorable afternoon we bought them in Camden then tripped in Regents Park for hours. About 2003. Think we solved the meaning of life that day. No, I don't remember.

You could even buy dried mushrooms "legally" for a while, as long as they weren't prepared for obvious human consumption, so not uncommon to buy them sewn into a little cloth bag as a pot pourri

I used to buy fresh mushrooms online - there was a site called Red Eyed Frog that sold them. We'd blend them into (disgusting) smoothies and go out for a walk in the woods. Sad day when the government put a stop to that.

I used cannabis half a dozen times. The fact that most of my friends used it meant it felt safe and normal to me. There was no peer pressure (there were people among us who didn't use it, and everyone respected their choice), but it was readily available. The only reason I stopped was because I didn't get on with it - no pleasant effects and some paranoia.

Alcohol was similar, except I did enjoy the effects and continued to use it. I don't use it often now because I don't feel it makes a positive contribution to my life as it once did, so I just don't bother.

Never tried any other recreational drugs, because they were less available.

Never have. Haven't felt the need thus far but but .... who the fuck knows what life my throw at you? Never say never, I guess.

Smoked weed at university and after, while working full time. Smoked pretty heavily, most evenings. Found it habitually addictive (couldnt chill or sleep without it) and have since stopped.

Taken coke regularly for years, maybe 10 of so, on average once or twice a month with periods of using it weekly. Always with friends, at parties, never in a bad place or when on my own. At the time, didn't think this was addicting but looking back we ALWAYS had it for parties/nights out. If I didn't have my own, it was easy enough to get some from friends/contacts.

Pills/MDNA - occasionally, for big nights or festivals. Great times, but horrible comedowns, awfully emotional for days after. Some of my fondest memories though - just feeling so happy, carefree and full of love for my friends and appreciation for the environment around me.

I don't regret any of my choices. I had fun and was never reckless. When pills were passed round at a party, I would stash mine until an hour or so after everyone else had taken theirs, just to see if they could be dodgy. Then when I would take it, I would bite it into quarters and take 1/4 each couple of hours, so 1 pill would last me til the early hours of the party.

Eve now, in my group (early 30s), it's commonplace to get some cock in for a birthday party/NYE, and we're all high-achieving professionals in full-time work.

Your son will probably be offered drugs in his teens/early 20s when his peers are exploring. If you're honest with him about the associated risks, he might make decisions based on logic (like I did with rationing my 1 pill) rather than peer pressure. But don't think you'll be able to scaremonger or convince him out of ever trying them. I never thought I would take drugs. I grew up with the DRUGS ARE BAD mentality, this applied to all drugs. Then I went to uni and it seemed everyone was smoking weed, my friends from home started doing coke (they all worked full time) so it seemed OK for me to do it too. That eventually led to holidays raving in Ibiza high on ecstasy. It's interesting how you become so softened to it all over time, it doesnt seem as scary when you find out more about it and all your friends are doing it.

I often wonder if any of my colleagues or family would ever suspect me for the secrets I have.

I'd like to add I am pregnant now and wouldn't dream of taking anything. Also plan to happily leave this kind of stuff in my pre-pregancy/parenthood life.

Smoked from around the age of 16 (now 34)
Weed occasionally 18-20
Weed again occasionally 26-29
Coke twice at 20, then again at 26
MDMA a few times aged 25.

I won't touch anything stronger than weed, and it's been over 3 years since I last had any. No desire to since having DS.

@PooleySpooley yeah they do taste disgusting, you have to hold your nose whilst you munch! 😂

@Wedgiecar58

Eve now, in my group (early 30s), it's commonplace to get some cock in for a birthday party/NYE,
Great typo! 😂😂

@ILoveBray never any drugs? Never caffeine or alcohol? Two common drugs that most people think are fab.

@easyandy101 Tbahs cool! I don’t remember being able to buy ‘pot poroui’ shrooms but it was so easy to buy fresh I guess we didn’t need to.

One of the saddest days was the shroom legislation changing.

Small numbers of people taking shrooms and loving the world, their friends and the woods - BAN THE HIPPIE DRUG

Large numbers of people drinking to excess every weekend and causing trouble - EXTEND THE LICENSING HOURS

makes total sense

Never taken anything in my life. I have epilepsy and I have psychic seizures (I stay conscious and feel either absolute euphoria or complete dread, there’s no inbetween, as well as dissociation a lot like the pethidine feeling) and I am terrified of setting one off or making it worse by fucking up my brain.

I had morphine for my csections and had beetle hallucinations.

I smoked weed in my mid teens to late teens but never really enjoyed it. All my friends were doing it so I just went along with it. As soon as I admitted to myself that it made me feel like shit - paranoid mainly - I stopped.

In my early 20’s I did ecstasy most weekends and a bit of coke occasionally. I did enjoy the e and felt that I needed to do it in order to have a good night out but reflectively, I realised it was mental escape from the abusive relationship I was in. As soon as I was able to physically escape I stopped the drugs. I haven’t taken anything since my mid 20’s (now late 30’s) but I do like a drink.

I’ve never even tried smoking either, despite hanging around with the smokers at school. I was probably the token geek friend 😂

I have taken weed,mdma,speed and a lot of cocaine although none for years and years

The one drug I wish I could give up and that has caused more harm because of its acceptability is alcohol

Weed - quite a few times, never really liked it
Ecstasy - about 10 times, really, really liked it, during my clubbing days, last time in about 2003
Cocaine - about 5 times (was expensive) also during my clubbing days, also not done since 2003, really liked it, would probably do again given the opportunity but am almost 40 with x2 DC so feel I should be a bit more responsible

Oh and poppers once, absolutely hated it!

"so much love for this! i think we have had similar experiences with our friends."

@PalmTree101

Atually, correction to my earlier post. Thinking back, although I haven't taken drugs recreationally, I have had them medicinally. Pethidine into my dural cavity (post CS pain relief) came with a terrific buzz, as I recall. (I don't recall the immediate aftermath of the CS in much detail, but my best mate who was my birth partner teases me that it was like something out of trainspotting. I vaguely remember falling on a slightly dried out NHS cheese sandwich like it was manna from heaven so I guess I must have been fairly out of my tree).

And gas and air during a wisdom tooth extraction was fucking brilliant - stone cold sober to 5 pints pissed and back again, with no hangover. I can see why people take drugs, just have no urge to do it myself.

Never ever. Child of two pharmacists who taught me the comsequences of experimenting on me and also their jobs. I gave too much respect for them, plus I'm a scaredy-cat

*Never tried anything. Not something I have ever fancied, haven’t even smoked.

Each to their own imo but it’s not for me*

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