What drugs have you taken?
 

Somewhat controversial one but this isn’t exactly a site for children and virtually the whole world takes drugs at the weekend anyhow (legal or illicit) so it’s just one of them.

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i'm a sucker for an ibuprofen when i'm feeling crappy

Alcohol and I tried a few fags in my teenage years, but never stuck to it, I have genuinely never seen the appeal of doing drugs at all and those sorts of people that go on about what different things they took in the clubs every weekend, as if taking drugs is a replacement for having an actual personality, do my nut in

Great post.

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Did a lot of recreational drugs when I was younger...when I was clubbing no-one really drank alcohol

Alcohol
Marijuana
Tobacco
Cocaine
Ecstasy
Ketamine
2CB

Nitrous oxide/poppers too but idk if you’d consider them drugs as such.

Painkillers.

Ibuprofen, paracetamol etc.

For pain only, obviously.

Alcohol
Tobacco
Marijuana
Ketamine
Magic mushrooms

I’m looking to try D.M.T. in particular one day but I’m too paranoid about having a bad trip. At least mushrooms wear off after a few hours. Edibles and other psychedelics go on for hours and hours and when you’re having an angsty trip that doesn’t make for much fun. I don’t get bad times like that on edibles anymore (I’ve become accustomed to the process of microdosing) but I feel like other psychedelics once you take enough to get you high at all really don’t have any off-button.

Anyone on here had any experience with D.M.T./L.S.D.?

I have used LSD many times. I never had a bad trip but I have seen people who have.

I smoke tobacco occasionally...I have a glass of wine almost daily and have tried marijuana twice years ago.

Drink and cigs.
Bit of hash back in the day.


Speed...whatever that equates to now.
Opiates.
All prescription of course.
I take 23 tablets a day so god only knows what is in them.:blush:

Alcohol and of course the hardest Drug out there... Calpol.

Never been very attracted to reality altering drugs like LCD, too worried about it going badly

I will occasionally take drugs that enhance your experience though like coke

E's were fairly popular in my peak days. Definitely the greatest feeling as well, everything was just so good and they gave you great confidence to chat, much better than doing speed, where the come down was horrible.

LSD (or as we called them, trips) just used to make me have a permanent grin on my face that I couldn't get rid of.

Coke is just too expensive because you have to keep going back for more as the buzz doesn't last that long. On an E you could go all night long.

I'm just a beer and cigs man these days. My drug taking days are well and truly over.

8 from the list, I'm not falling into this trick of incriminating myself on a public poll :oh:.

These days I wouldn't have anything other than very occasional alcohol. Frankly the idea is just exhausting.

I'm wondering why heroin/opiates aren't on this list? Not that I've done them (other than sneaking a couple of 60mg dihydrocodeines from time to time :umm2: ) but just wondering if it was a deliberate choice to not ask about it?

I don't think this tbh. I see drugs as enhancing my personality somewhat rather than giving me one. Confidence especially. Which seems to be a common reason for getting drunk to many.

I mean, I can quite happily do without too. But if theres stuff on offer and its not a hard line for me, and the situation is right, and I feel like it I will go for it. Hence, having tried so much :laugh: The opportunities present themselves so often I often think its meant to be.

That was me until recently when I was a little silly and didnt quite understand a drug I took and its effects, as I trusted the person who had it to not have anything daft. And they assumed I would know about what I was about to take. Crossed wires really but ended quite well and my fear of tripping badly has now gone. Seems to be about your mindset rather than much else from what I have heard, think its gunna be bad, it will be bad. Hence avoiding for all my life as I knew I would just panic on the first try.

I remember in the 90s working in offices and going around London and the UK doing presentations and meeting people you could definitely tell those who were on E every weekend and raving and those who were not

Also people would change all of a sudden and lose a bit of weight and you would think "yep they have just discovered E"

The change on the terraces was remarkable too

This is me. Rediscovering it after many many years. I think the positive changes are down to more than just E though, personally :laugh: But it has certainly helped lift me when I was down over time.

The God’s-honest truth is that I actually forgot about the likes of heroin but either way I just feel like including that on the poll would’ve been a step too far. Anything from alcohol to straight coke are the drugs that are seen as more socially acceptable to experiment with. Heroin’s just a dark hole that not many people would even admit to taking in the first place. Meth. was already kind of pushing it. Heroin is just something else.

Crack Cocaine is pretty hardcore too isn't it? I always thought that was at a similar level to heroin

I would probably put crack at around heroin level tbh. Would be one of my firm lines. Which I am sure anyone who cares is grateful to know :D

I took a lot of drugs in my younger years and I do think they changed me...quite a lot. I was the typical raver....out all weekend and off my face from friday to Sunday. Spent the week recovering to do it all again. After I decided to calm it down a bit, my confidence was massively affected. I was always quite shy but without the effects of the drugs to help me, I became painfully shy and had no confidence. I know a lot of people like that. Took ages to build my confidence back up without that crux. We all used to go to a club and then back to various places afterwards and everyone knew and loved everyone etc etc.....we all decided to meet up once.midweek on a carpark....without the pills and whizz, everyone just sat in their cars smoking weed and nodding at each other.

I don't regret any of it but they did change me.

That’s true but I feel like more people would admit to doing coke in any form (even the harder crack form) than heroin (which most people see as a straight-up no-no).

I’d never judge anyone for taking any kind of drug but heroin’s a very funny one. I’d have to be on a well-paid dare to even consider going anywhere near it in anything other than the medically-prescribed derivatives of it.

Seem to have changed me in a positive way. Its hard to explain but I kinda get more mental clarity when I am high? Like, stuff I know deep down but try to deny to myself, I deal with mentally and become better and less stressed for it? And that spills out into the rest of my life too. One night like this can make permanent changes. Its odd. As really you would expect the effects to wear off as the drug does but it doesn't for me seemingly. That said, drugs have helped my pain issues massively also, so that helps. Maybe they are tied in together? Who knows.

I know not to cane it too much though, else the positive effects could change.

I really hope this doesn’t come out the wrong way (I’m literally just asking out of curiosity) but have you ever done anything beyond crack?

No. Not done crack either :p

Mind, apparently diamorphine is 'clean heroin' so I have tried that in labour but not outside of that.

Wasn't the original intention for Ecstasy (or at least one of the idea's for it use) as a therapy for people (particularly soldiers I think) suffering from PTSD? A way for them to open up and talk about trauma that they couldn't ordinarily cope with reliving and talking about? I'm sure I saw that on some documentary. Sounds a bit like what you're saying there

You lot make me laugh with drugs
They just interfere with your brain,the idea that you are a better more confident person while on them is nonsense

You are the same person
It’s like going out and not drinking you see all the idiots making fools of themselves, well that is or was you.

Talking too fast or too slow. You couldn’t dance before drugs you can’t sing before drugs you ain’t some love machine you just silly people thinking you can



In every case you look ridiculous

I read that too. Its used (or was used) somewhere for marriage therapy also as it lets people open up more than they otherwise would. You lose your filter. So everything comes out. Oddly, I seem to have now kinda permanently lost my filter with certain people (and even situations, I suddenly have no issue dancing in public, which I never thought I would say) and its made everything much better?! Its so so hard to explain but I really feel like I am changed for the better now and everything is so much easier.

Not encouraging anyone to take drugs by any stretch of the imagination however I cannot deny my experience tbh.

(Also maybe relevant, I had LOADS of life changes at the same time as this. So its possible the drugs only contributed slightly, or not at all. But it all seems kind of tied in together, a chicken and egg situation if you will)

Yeah, cannabis in all forms is great for pain relief. The current propaganda would have you believe that the only good cannabis extract worth talking about is CBD because it has medicinal value but doesn’t get you high (because the government still sees getting high on pot as a rabbit hole akin to demoniac possession even though worse things happen involving alcohol every day). THC on its own (the part of the cannabis plant that does get you high/stoned) has medicinal properties that CBD alone doesn’t (treating PTSD for one).

As far as the weed thing goes I just find it funny that a drug which even in its most unregulated street form hasn’t ever killed a soul (not directly anyhow) remains illegal whereas something that’s as taxed and legally regulated as alcohol is probably the most dangerous of them all after the obvious hard drugs (not that there’s anything wrong with drinking in moderation). Can you imagine how many more people would die from poisoning if we lived in a prohibitory-esque era and people had to buy off the black market every time?

Oh for sure. I find societys obsession with alcohol while looking down on other, often safer forms of drug, kind of bizarre.

People have been taking drugs in different forms for thousands of years. It might not be your game but I’d rather live in a nation full of stoners than borderline alcoholics. Because the truth of the situation is that alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana and that’s not something that can be denied.

Tell me which is worse between a drug which at worst (and only in its unregulated form with not enough CBD to mediate the psychoactive effects) triggers a latent schizophrenia in a very small minority of heavy users (which wouldn’t be an issue if Mary-Jane was legal) but hasn’t led to a single death and something which destroys millions of people’s insides and kills them every single day. How many people do you know who get high and start stripping and jumping on cars in the middle of the road?

I definitely won't argue with that, for one alcohol alone killed my mum (she'd never have touched any other drug, but 15 years of wine was enough) and also my wife worked in addictions when she first qualified. Heroin (usually combined with benzos, but TBH it's rare for anyone to be abusing one without the other, they just go hand in hand) is by far the #1 problem for addiction services... but right after that is alcohol at #2. No other drug even comes close after that. Plus of course, most people who have addictions to other drugs (heroin included) have alcohol problems as well.

Yeah was going to say that you did have other huge life changes that will have a big positive effect on you too

Sorry to hear about your mum, TS.

Fair game. :)

Maybe. But we feel good while doing it.

And its a case of perspective really. Some will think it looks ridiculous, others will have their day brightened by someone behaving in a slightly twat like manner.