To ask the truth about your drug use?

[CantStopTheBeat]

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.

Weed in teens and early twenties. Still have some at weekends as I find it relaxing and it really helps with my fibromyalgia. I am in my fifties.
Was into the acid house scene. Used to do ecstasy, acid, speed and occasionally coke. Wouldn't touch any of that ever again. Stopped when I got to late twenties

Never taken anything not even a cigarette. Don't drink either...

Speed aged 16 and cannabis aged 16-18.. terrible terrible extended comedown, paranoia and lethargy for months after using speed every week over a few months.. and subsequent mental health weakness

I smoke weed every day pretty much, well I say smoke I actually have a vape pen with Thc oil. I also take it in capsule form. I dont live in the UK and it's legal where I live. I order online from the government or pop into my local dispensary. I have 3 children and both me & my DH hold down successful careers

Some pills and coke in my younger days, all night parties and raves you just did, all part of the fun. Nowadays it's a little pot here and there, helps with my MS

I had cannabis tea once. Tasted nice, but all it did was make me hypervigilant for about half an hour so I never bothered again. I also had a very high strength painkiller, given to me by a doctor, at a fencing competition where I tore a muscle. Very likely strong opiate based. That left me so high it scared me and I never wanted to be that out of control again, so I have kept off things since. I'm also a very moderate drinker, since my H was an alcoholic and ended up losing everything because of it, including his life.

Never taken or tried anything. One piriton knocks me out for hours, so god knows what anything else would do,

I’ve tried most drugs (apart from heroin!) and feel fantastic at the time but the comedown is definitely not worth it. Nor is lying awake with a racing heart at 5am chewing the inside of your mouth.

I do quite enjoy half a pill sometimes though. It’s called ecstasy for a reason. Had some lovely happy times on those in days past.

Weed a few times as a teenager didn’t like it

Did an enourmous amount of cocaine in my early 20s when I stopped competing at athletics at a high level.

Took a few halves of ecstasy over the course of 10 years - was a raves, curious to know what it's like but too control-freak to take a whole one and be totally off my face
Smoked, and still occasionally smoke, the odd shared joint
Done a line of coke twice, to stay awake at the end of an evening.
Taken mushrooms a couple of times at parties.

Never much as, as I said, I dislike the idea of being really out of it, and I don't like to spend money on drugs really. It was very much a social thing and I had a nice time.

Oh everything.

Weed never did much for me. Rediscovered it in my 40s & it rather agrees with me now, but not enough to seek it out - I buy a bit off a friend once in a blue moon.

I did lots of trippy stuff (acid & mushrooms ) in my youth. Had lots of fun times & a few scary ones. Don't have time for that nonsense now! Never really took to ecstasy, though.

Coke was always too expensive & fleeting to really appeal.

I bloody LOVE speed. Used to take it to party in my 20s, & to pull a work all nighter in my 30s - I'm a teacher & my best schemes of work/resources should definitely be credited to Billy as co-author. Haven't gone there for several years as I'm late 40s with a family history of heart problems & no wish to orphan my dc, but it really worked for me.

Also v keen on a cheeky tramadol with a glass of wine or two for lovely sleep & interesting dreams. Again, circumstances are such that I haven't taken it in years - it's very very illegal where I live now.

These days my vices are limited to booze & the occasional spliff. I don't move in druggy circles anymore, & I don't really miss drugs, but yes, I absolutely enjoyed quite a range for a good couple of decades with no lasting effects.

Smoked weed regularly as a teenager, daily for a while. Have had the occasional few puffs if around it since, but either it's got stronger or my tolerance disappeared! I do quite like the feeling and would probably do it a bit more at weekends if responsibility free and legal. But it's not so I won't. I don't want to be getting involved with buying drugs these days!

Weed, pills, MDMA, Ketamine, Mephedrone and cocaine when I was younger and out regularly.

Some were worse than others. I had a terrible terrible trip once and still get shudders thinking about it now. It was so bad I had to call my father (who I knew would kill me for what I was doing, but I didn't care) to come and tell me it wasn't real. I felt like I'd honestly lost the plot.

Later that year someone I knew died from taking a dodgey pill given to her by her boyfriend and I have never touched anything since, it scared the hell out of me.

I couldn't even tell you what possessed me to take everything. It was something everyone else was doing, I probably thought I was 'cool'.

Not a time I'm proud of but I don't hide it!

As a teenager:
plenty of hash (you couldn't get weed where I lived)
magic mushrooms (grew plentifully in the field adjoining a friend's house - she used to dry them and portion them up, we'd put them in tea)
a bit of speed a couple of times

As a young adult:
continued hash, then grass
MDMA (as ecstasy tablets)
cocaine once or twice

Now:
sometimes grass, but increasingly I don't enjoy
magic mushrooms very occasionally, maybe once a year, when the kids are away. But not as a party thing. As an 'explore your own head' thing.
I don't drink alcohol.

I've never taken anything, never wanted too, never tempted. Never seen the point.

Also quite shocked at how mainstream drugs are.
They are everywhere even as adults.
I realise I might have lived a sheltered childhood ect, but as an adult & teenager they were everywhere.

We've got kids, good jobs, a nice life but everybody around us seems to have had a problem with them at some point or use them occasionally.

People think nothing of it. Not a criticism, just an observation.

I've also watched people's lives fall apart after only occasionally using.

I did a lot of acid as a teenager and in my early twenties which I loved. Smoked weed for years and also did speed most weekends for years just so I could stay out all night. Loved it all but gave it all up because I realised I was spending a lot of money and the come downs were getting worse and worse.

I don't even drink now and am a reasonably sensible adult.

Just about everything in my teens. Cocaine, ecstasy, speed, valium, mushrooms, I dabbled in crack and heroin a few times and was extremely fortunate not to find myself addicted.

Why? Easily led, bad home life and mother who couldn't care less so I could essentially do what I liked, wanted to have a good time and thought it was 'cool'

From 17-21 (pre children) I was a heavy cannabis user which i used to self medicate for anxiety and numb out the reality of an abusive relationship.

I regret every single drug and would never so much as light up a joint now. I'm an entirely different person.

In hindsight I'd definitely say the company I kept influenced the drug use.

Mushrooms, cannabis, lighter gas!!!, valium... Think that's it. I didn't like mushrooms or cannabis, did like lighter gas but so dangerous that even I knew I was being stupid. Valium I just misex with a heap of alcohol and spent nearly three days half asleep. I never tried anything else despite it all being available because I had this feeling things would go badly 😁

Never taken anything. Like someone up thread said, I never had any friendship groups or boyfriends who were into drugs - even at Uni. DH has also never tried drugs. I’ve no idea how either of us will broach the subject with DDs when the time comes.

I have the occasional paracetamol.

Strange that no one has tried some heroin or crack..

Never taken or smoked any drug of any type. I do know a fair few people who smoke weed, and after a conversation with my mum ( aged early 70s ) who said she'd often wondered how smoking a few spliffs would feel. So I took her a couple so I guess I could be classed as a drug supplier !

@teeteeb
Acid - big mistake. Took because I was curious. Was horrible.

Agreed. I loved shrooms and some of the thoughts and experiences I felt were amazing. Acid was literally like being trapped in a horrible never ending nightmare. Plus, a comedown from a night on other drugs lasted me half the next day or the entire next day. I felt depressed and on a come-down and paranoid after acid for the next four days afterwards. Nothing about that experience was fun. As soon as it kicked it I was frightened.

Smoked a fair amount of weed as a teenager. It was mainly down to most people I know doing it.

I was well into the raving scene so took a lot of half exstacy and speed. Moved onto cocaine and crack, didn't like heroin. Stopped all when I was around 25. I still have a smoke of weed occasionally but wouldn't touch anything else.

Smoked lots of weed as a teen, probably almost daily at around 18/19. Loved it but gradually stopped because I kept getting bad throats/chests. Never really enjoyed alcohol so it was my way of relaxing, plus most of my friends did it. Did poppers once, didn’t enjoy that. I’ve never been the most emotionally/mentally stable person so never fancied doing anything like acid in case it freaked me out.