Drugs. Be honest..

[Trivialpursuitofhappiness]

Inspired by the white bag thread, it just got me curious. I’m not a journo! Although, I suppose that’s what a journalist would say..

Have you / do you take drugs? What did you take and why did you?

I’ll be honest and go first, I occassinally use MDMA and I do use coke on nights. But I don’t have kids and I’d stop as soon as I was having them

Lots - really lots and lots - of MDMA and coke in my twenties and thirties. I still occasionally used cocaine until a couple of years back, now I’m completely teetotal. The comedown anxiety made them no longer worth it.

If I could get my hands on it I swallowed it or smoked it or shoved it up my nose! I had a fabulously misspent youth. Big group of friends all doing the same having a great time. I look back on those days fondly. Especially now we're teetotal and living through the ground hog years of family life.

I've never taken any drugs, although had a few opportunities at Uni. It just never really appealed to me. My teenage ex boyfriend smoked weed and I always thought it smelt repulsive.

I understand experimenting when you're young but once someone reaches about 25 and/or has children it all gets a bit pathetic and try-hard in my opinion.

Yes, of course. When I was younger I regularly smoked tobacco, weed & hash. I occasionally took MDMA, mushrooms, cocaine and on one occasion amphetamines, which I didn’t get on with.

Now, I’m old & boring and I stick to alcohol.

I used to live in Ibiza so yes quite a lot. Mainly E which was brilliant every time. Sometimes coke but wasn't really fussed about that and couldn't afford it. Speed sometimes but had horrendous comedowns. A bit of weed but it made me paranoid. Magic mushrooms were always a laugh. Acid and ketamine both too much for me. Never been quite the same since an acid trip in 2005.

It was fun and made some lifelong friends but glad those days are behind me now.

@MalorieSnooty

I have undiagnosed autism and was a HORRIFICALLY anxious and depressed child (masked the entire time, I was a complete wreck).

At uni, I was persuaded by an ex to try MDMA on a night out and, honestly, it was like someone had switched a light on.

I only did it a few times but it changed me. I don't get anxious anymore and am very happy go lucky.

I was not completely surprised by this. Psychedelic drugs show real promise in treating depression and anxiety. They think it may be because they allow the brain to make new neural connections.

Classical psychedelics for the treatment of depression and anxiety: A systematic review

Yes at university quite a lot and up to early 30s recreationally. Most things but not crack or heroin. Not now as I have a grown up job and a child.

I never got on with dope, the few times i tried it i felt sick and just fell asleep, so it was pointless..
Did mushrooms twice, but my thing was speed, i loved it.. until the last batch i did was cut with something, and i was really really ill.. lesson learned and i never touched it again!

Nope. It was never on my radar as a youngster.

Unfortunately as an adult, my job has involved dealing with the consequences of drug use and drug users.

The thing that puts me off drugs more than anything is the mental picture of them being transported in some less than sanitary person's vagina or foreskin. My favourite was someone who kept their drugs in their leg abscess. not envy.

I have never but want to.

I see it as another life experience. I'm glad I didn't cave in my teens. I'm glad I didn't cave in ny 20s because my mental health was fucked.

Now I'm more stable and happy. I know what I like and don't like. I know how to say no and be comfortable with my decision.

I'd like to try MDMA and coke.

I'm well aware of the dangers, the downsides and the upsides of these. I'm an educated woman who can read, do her own research and test my own drugs.

Back in the day 1994-2005 many many different drugs, anything that was going pretty much , it was great fun. Loved a rave and a after party.

Old married with kids now and very sensible, I'm so boring these days I don't even drink .

Those days were great fun though

You're all a barrel of laughs 😀😀 god I miss the 90s, raves at uni, we all did hash, mdma and speed. It was great fun but am too old now. Would be horrified if my kids did what we did though!

No, never. I can’t stand drugs, possibly because I work professionally with drug users and have only seen negative consequences from a young age.

Never tried it and never will.

I’ve been around enough people who take various drugs to know how idiotic they look when under the influence. Not something I aspire to I guess.

No, never been remotely interested or tempted. I social smoked occasionally at university because everybody did but never craved it or loved it especially.

No never, I was surrounded by a lot of cocaine in my younger years but I never needed or wanted to, so never bothered with it.

No, I’ve never taken anything illicit. Never felt the desire or the need to do so. Haven’t smoked either. I do drink though.

A little bit of cannabis years ago and some speed, but not now. I don't smoke or drink

Overate space cakes once - it was horrific, was still hallucinating 2 days later and one of our party found religion shortly after.

Tried speed once - didn't like it.
Got spiked with LSD once - didn't like it.

Smoked weed and took ecstasy / MDMA from mid teens to mid twenties. Also dabbled in most other things. Don’t regret it one bit, I had the best time ever and have loads of fantastic memories.

Stopped smoking as it started to make me paranoid, and stopped the pills as I couldn’t be bothered with the comedowns.

Still have the occasional line of coke on a night out, but it’s not a common occurrence.

Nope, never tried anything, not even a cigarette.

Alcohol, probably a glass or two 3 or 4 times a year. Mid 40s have been drunk prob less than 10 times in my life and never so much that I don't remember.

I never did any sort of drugs or drink as teen or in my 20s. Now though I microdose with mushrooms to treat my depression/anxiety.

I am in my 50's and never felt the need for even a spliff!

Leah Betts and if my mum found out was enough of a deterrent.

Tried a joint once (well, my friend said it was a joint, it had absolutely no effect whatsoever). I wouldn't have had the slightest clue where to get my hands on any drugs if I'd wanted to, just didn't seem to be a thing where I lived. White Lightening, however..