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Drugs. Which have you tried?

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 10:09

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 Wink, 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?

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 11:54

Good post bluejelly.
I guess it doesn't feel 'seedy' when you;re in it though does it? That's the trouble. I was having an absolutely fantastic time and I think it has definitely done me much more good than harm. I wouldn't put it like that for the kids to hear though.

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noddyholder · 01/03/2006 11:55

I have tried them all too although stopped all that years ago.I enjoyed it all at the time but now find the whole scene wuite dull and get my kicks elsewhere.Like someone else said I don't have an addictive personality but who knows with ds.After seeing what cannabis has done to my brother I wouldn't recommend it and cases like his are on the increase esp among young men.

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 01/03/2006 11:55

Before i had the kids i used to smoke cannabis alot. Never tried any other drugs - was too scared that they would kill me!

I used to have friends who were herion addicts though and would be there when they were smoking it but never tried it - I could see the state of them. I used to watch the kids and keep them away from it, poor little mites Sad

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 01/03/2006 11:56

There kids not mine - I was only 15 at the time.

Frenchgirl · 01/03/2006 11:56

don't have an addictive personality I think
enjoy coffee and drink, hate feeling drunk though (a bit merry is fine) since I've had dd
Used to smoke but gave up when I met dh (hates smoking), which was quite easy
that's it!
English SIL enjoys regular marijuana
dh tried pretty much everything at Uni

sweetkitty · 01/03/2006 12:07

Have never smoked

taken the odd spliff but not keen due to having to smoke it

uppers - used to take a fair few same with downers

speed - took it fairly often in my late teens/early 20s

ecstasy - same as speed last had a pill more than 2 years ago

cocaine - started taking it maybe two or three times a year in my middle/late 20s not had any for more than 2 years

never tried magic mushrooms/acid/heroin

would say I also used to be addicted to caffeine and painkillers as I used to get loads of headaches and kept having to up the dose. Was also taking caffeine tablets too.

alcohol - well the usual binge weekends from my teens to well about 2 years ago

yes 2 years ago I first got pregnant with DD1 and due to BFing/pregnancy haven't been drunk in ages, I don't really miss it to be honest.

I have one fizzy drink a day and some chocolate my only vices now.

WigWamBam · 01/03/2006 12:11

I'm another Sandra Dee ... never smoked - not even a single drag on a cigarette. I don't drink (used to, but don't like alcohol much and have never been drunk), have never taken illegal drugs, I don't even do caffeine all that often (two cups of coffee a week, everything else is caffeine-free).

Boring old fart or what! Wink

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 12:27

Your mum must be so proud WWB. Wink

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WigWamBam · 01/03/2006 12:36
blondie82 · 01/03/2006 12:43

Spidermama, i can remember the mickey finn days too. drum and bass all nighters and all that business.
tried cannabis, ecstacy and coke.... dont have anything like that anymore though.
can honestly say i did love magic mushrooms Blush though!! havent done anything drugs wise for a couple of years now.
addicted to cherry coke and have the occasional fag while im at work....

magnolia1 · 01/03/2006 12:43

Social smoker now (only accompanied by a large glass of wine Grin)

Alcohol on a regulare basis but only terribley drunk every couple of months Blush

Cannabis makes me sleep!

Experimanted with most other drugs apart from Heroin.

Magic mushrooms at the age of 19 was the funniest experience ever but dh wasn't impressed to come home to find me giggling at the ceiling Blush

magnolia1 · 01/03/2006 12:44

Meant to say don't use cannabis now because it makes me sleep.Smile

blondie82 · 01/03/2006 12:45

magnolia, i know the feeling!!!
watched a french film with english subtitles when i was on them, must've pmsl through the whole thing!

NotQuiteCockney · 01/03/2006 12:46

Now: maybe a unit of alcohol per week. A cup or two of decaf coffee per week. Not much sugar. Nothing else.

In the past: quite a bit of booze. Some cannabis. Some mushrooms (why did I have to be pg and bf when they were briefly legal in this country!). A fair bit of acid. E, once. Synthetic mesc, once. Poppers, briefly (ugh).

I liked acid best. I miss acid. I can't take it while I'm in charge of kids (duh). I can't take it at home, even! (I always want to go out, but I always run into people I know here, and then what would I do?) I will take it sometimes in the future, when I'm not bf or pregnant. I'll go away for the weekend or whatever. Somehow.

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 13:04

I miss acid too NQC.
One day we'll meet again, me and acid. (sigh!)

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NotQuiteCockney · 01/03/2006 13:06

I have no doubts I will do acid again.

You used to take it with clubbing? Or what?

I always used to take it in the daytime, so I could get a good night's sleep afterwards and not feel quite so much like poo the next day.

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 13:07

Not clubbing, no. A couple of times out in the woods. It's great outdoors. Often just indoors listening to music or at parties.
I find it's not very sociable though. I tend to go off on one on my own. Bliss!

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DumbledoresGirl · 01/03/2006 13:07

My body is a temple of undiluted purity (except for one packet of fags smoked, but never inhaled, when I was 15).

I don't mind my children having the odd drink but if they get blind drunk in my presence or start on drugs, they will wish they hadn't been born.

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 13:09

Daytime tripping is a good idea. A grown up picnic perhaps, which is over in time for bedtime.

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NotQuiteCockney · 01/03/2006 13:10

Yeah, outdoors is good.

I used to always go up the mountain in Montreal. Or try to go up the mountain.

It's not a sociable drug, no. My first time, I was convinced I had fluid leaking out from between my fingers (which I also knew wasn't real), and I kept wiping the imaginary fluid on my friends. I don't think they appreciated it.

NotQuiteCockney · 01/03/2006 13:11

I always felt so so so bad the next day, though, I don't think I'd be ok to take care of kids then, either.

podkin · 01/03/2006 13:11

The only time I did acid was at Glastonbury in '97 - the rainy, muddy one (well, one of them anyway). I recall sitting with a friend at 10.30 on the Friday morning thinking 'everyone else is in work, and I am sat in a field, off my head !' - it all went funny after that and I just remember mud, watching a ciggy burn down (enlightening) and my friend standing in a puddle wearing a hi-vis jacket, peeping a whistle and directing the crowds around him...ah fond memories...Grin

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spidermama · 01/03/2006 13:12

Liquid from the fingers eh? Last time I did it I spent hours getting in touch with the lizard within. Grin I don't think anyone else would have been particularly interested in my inner lizard so, no, not a sociable pursuit.

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fastasleep · 01/03/2006 13:12

Am amazed the holier than thouers haven't come and got this thread yet!

Maybe tonight they will..

What's acid like? I'm curious now! Does it have any scary side effects like E, suddenly killing you and whatnot? Grin

FrannyandZooey · 01/03/2006 13:13

I will plead the 5th on all the details but I also miss acid, and speed Blush

I am squeakier than squeaky now. I gave them all up, one by one, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar