Drugs. Which have you tried?

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Everyone's talking about drugs this morning.

These days I'm a regular user of caffeine and alcohol.

I used to be T Total and caffeine-free in the nineties but I did enjoy cannabis regularly and ecstasy and acid less regularly.

I can't imagine taking those these days (with the possible exception of the odd spliff , because I'm too busy with the kids and can't afford to step out of the real world these days.
I also wonder how I'll feel if and when my kids decide to experiment.

How about you?

I think 'in my day' we all thought of it as experimentation and discovery but I really think the drugs available now are far stronger/more unpredictable and from what I can gather from friends still going out doing that young people today are out to get as f*ed as poss(for want of a better word)as quick as poss whereas my friends and I were about quality not quantity and getting nicely high .
Spider the Hotel Du Vin is nice and does feel special iykwim xx

nothing til age of 29, then e, coke and poppers. The latter two I did once and hated. E was great - only took half tab at a time and only did it about 5 times in total. Miss it but wouldn't do it now that I'm a mum. Addicted to pepsi max. Drink 1 or 2 glasses wine a night.

lol harpsichordcarrier, gas and air is just laughing gas (nitrous oxide), it's freely available.

by freely I mean you can probably buy some in John Lewis

well I will have a look the next time I am there mimsie...
which department, though?
Drugs and Sundries?

as i recall i wasn't bloody laughing..

nope catering, it's what you use to make whipping cream

Oh, hc, some unsavoury mates of mine were hooked on "whippets" (sp?), which was the gas you needed for whipping cream. Apparently you needed to look quite respectable to buy it, otherwise they wouldn't let you have any.

I never tried it though, recreational inhalants don't appeal that much, not least since I tried poppers.

Apparently, N2O is also called "hippie crack".

\link{http://drdrew.com/Topics/article.asp?id=1214\cite}. Also some information on how to get the N2O out of the containers ... more from a drugs-prevention perspective, though.

I went to a nitrous-oxide party once in Bangkok

Don't recall nitrous oxide doing anything for me during labour. In fact I asked the m/w whether they had forgotten to put the gas in the cylinder as it felt like I was inhaling just air!

dancesafe.org/documents/druginfo/nitrousoxide.php

Is another site about it...

I was off my head on gas and air when i gave birth! I only had it for a bit while i was waiting for the aneastesist (sp all over the place) to give me an epidural...

when then put a line in my hand I told them I was left handed (not!!!) Hubby told them otherwise, they completely missed my vein on the left hand to the point where it was all swollen and i just laughed gave them my other hand and said "round 2!"

Wasnt quite so funny in retrospect bruised for weeks!!

I am doing Cold Turkey off Nicotine at the moment- whilst dp is addicted to cannabis!

not saying that taking drugs can't be risky. like many on this thread i have tried various things and not all in the distant past either. but actually, though i do know of someone (BIL's DB) who was killed after taking ecstacy (walked on a train track and got run over by a train), I know loads of people who took/take drugs regularly and live pretty exemplary, successful, happy lives. many of them are successful professionals.

and i know 3 people, either my friends or friends of friends, who were killed or made paraplegic after walking or climbing accidents. just going up mountains. which is generally seen as a fairly sensible virtuous hobby.

just to put the risk-taking of drugs into perspective, if we are worried about safety perhaps it's mountain walking and climbing which should be banned?

Used to drink too much - my only positive role model growing up was Sue Ellen Ewing, really! Thought drinking was dead glam and both my mum and step-dad, and every grown up around me come to think of it were sops. Then working as an actor, the only girl in a group, I became a 'laddette' - a binge drinking female chauvinist pig and totally pissed away my twenties! Binge smoked too but never did any 'drugs' until I became sensible. Me and DP a few times a year would stay in and do e together, a very sexy tactile and spiritual experience. It was really fantastic. We certainly would do it again if we could get some good e's but they're mostly cheap speed these days so it's not worth it. We have taken magic mushrooms together too, not a great deal as we weren't after a 'trip' but to the extent where your senses are heightened, colours, tastes etc. I really can't believe that they've made it illegal to buy them now. When have you heard of anyone ever causing trouble on mushrooms as compared to alcohol?

I've only had one friend die and that was through alcohol. Alcohol ruined our family, and many other families that I know of. As far as I'm concerned it's the most insidious drug of them all. The rest is hypocrisy.

As for DS, we'll try to be as honest as possible I think. I'd be more worried about alcohol too though, I think. People will always experiment with drugs, it's part of finding yourself and can be a very spiritual experience. Problems start when they're used to blot out real life, which alcohol is + it makes depressed people aggressive, paranoid and psychotic while also giving them a sense of release - a bad combination.

Aw, don't let me have killed it!

Used to smoke - gave up 6 years ago
I was an original raver, you know the ones you used to drive round he motorways in a convoy and dance illegally in a farmers field. Anyway, every weekend used to do:
Speed, E's, spliff
couldn't do coke until we progressed to nightclubs, no where to make a line in a field!
Did this for about 8 years. Gave everything up before I started having kids 5 years ago.

Now still drink alcohol, in fact have just had a girls weekend away and spent 2 nights not going to bed until the sun came up, not bad for a 37 year old

feel like shit today tho!!

I tried smoking around 11, I took one from my mums packet to be rebellious, it was disgusting.

I first got drunk about 12/13, that was pretty standard among my friends, spirits then alcopops. Other friends got into smoking cigarettes, I followed suit. We would ask people to buy white lightening and sit in the park in school holidays.

Around 15 I tried ecstasy, nothing happened until 5am then I was flooded with it. I had to go to work and I remember dancing in my bedroom when I got home.

At college it was LSD, mushroom, ecstasy and speed (god awful stuff) at the weekends at house parties and clubbing. Most of my friends smoked weed and I did socially but never on my own and I rarely bought it.

By the time I went to University I was a bit over it to be honest but did do a bit of mdma and coke.

After that I had a lost few months where I did liquid acid and ketamine. Unsurprisingly I ended up on antidepressants for a short while.

There was then another short period in mid 20s where I took quite a bit of mdma.

After that it was no longer a lifestyle thing. I very ocasionally did coke or mdma if people had it. I gave up smoking.

I no longer do drugs and probably have one drink a month, if that.

Purely from a health perspective I think you have to stop drugs by mid 30s and aim for a healthy lifestyle.