Speed could be things over the counter at any Gas station, such as:

Yellowjackets
Truckers Luv It,

etc.


Those yellowjackets would make your heart beat out of your chest, but def did the job keeping you awake.

I never liked cocaine. Just wasn't a fan. Weird feeling, short high. Same with crack, although I liked it a bit more. Only did crack once, for a month.

Nah, wasn't particularly noteworthy for me. The few times i did cocaine it was just to sedate my drunkeness.

It's considered a party drug partly because it extends the night by making you feel a bit sobered up if you've been drinking all night. That's all i ever really used it for.

Shrooms do that too, but are even more effective at it. It's ****ing strange how well shrooms can cancel out alcohol.

But coke makes females horny AF, so it's pretty common to see drug dealers get a lot of pussy by trading 8-balls for it. Ive seen that first hand multiple times. Cocaine and Meth make women ****. And it's partly why they're so popular: Sex.

Sex, quite frankly, is a big driver in a lot of these substances, just not really with weed. Because sexual experiences while on drugs is..mine shattering.

When someone says, "lets get drunk, high and **** and i'll have you seeing God", there's damn near a literal sense to that.

LSD, ectasy, and shrooms were awesome

30 voters and 27 of you smoked pot.

🥰

I'm a little surprised that out of those 30....10 have done meth.

I mean... like a pink sparkly fish scale ball?

So here's my list. Like Franchise, I'm not proud of it but I also can't say it's not part of who I am now so there's no use in hiding it. If anything, maybe I can save somebody from going through some of the shit I have.

Nicotine/Tobacco/Vaping:
Started smoking cigarettes in HS. Smoked all through college until shortly after I got married the 2nd time. I got into this place where I only needed nicotine to sleep so I got down to 1 cigarette a day, right before bed, for several years. Then I quit altogether, which last about 10 years. I just couldn't shake it though and started vaping a couple of years ago. My vaping habit is pretty bad - I go through a ton of liquid and it's all 12mg which is the highest concentration they sell here.

Alcohol:
Had my first beer in HS. Drank heavily in college, especially when I lived in Germany. But I've never really been "addicted" to booze and I actually don't enjoy being drunk so I drink socially and infrequently now.

Cannabis: My 2nd love after my wife. LOL. I started smoking pot in HS, too. I've smoked it ever since - about 35 years now. I quit or smoked sparingly (and secretly) for 15 years while my kids were growing up but other than that period, I've been a daily consumer my entire adult life.

Cocaine: Snorted my share but that's the extent of cocaine for me. No freebasing, no injecting, no crack.

Meth: This was the worst for me and I already mentioned what it's like. You start out feeling like a super hero and end up looking like Gollum. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity to move to a country where it simply wasn't a "thing", which forced me to kick it cold turkey. Haven't done any meth in over 20 years and that include ADHD meds, which I have been on.

Inhalants: The extent of my huffing was Whip It's but dear God do I love those things. One, the make everything intensely weird for about 20 seconds. We use to call it "talking to Mr. Wavy Man" because everything had like strobe effect and it wasn't just light, it was sound too.

Shrooms: Yes, please. Actually had a bite of a shroom candy bar recently. It was fun but I don't do shrooms on the regular anymore.

LSD: I've actually done more LSD more than shrooms. Overall, I'd say 90% of my trips were positive, fun experiences. That 10% thought can be some awful shit at the time you're going through it. The hangover usually isn't fun either, it makes your back hurt something fierce. I honestly don't think I could do it at my age and still have fun so I've never tried.

Mescaline: Tried it once, very confusing. Can't remember anything really either.

Prescription Opioids: Hasn't everybody taken them at this point? If not illegally, surely you've had a script. Some doctors still hand them out like candy. Hell, my daughter got 7 days of oxy for having her wisdom teeth out. I've never abused them recreationally but I've taken quite a few over the years.

Benzos: More on this later, but I have taken prescription benzos of every sort. I've abused them on occasion but mostly I've gotten them from docs. I've taken Ativan, Valium, Xanax, and Clonopin that I can remember.

Molly: Only once. Felt too much like meth for me. Not sure I'd do it again.

Speed: As explained earlier, if you've done meth, you've done "speed". Before I was introduced to meth, we used to take white crosses, which I think were pure ephedrine.

Other: So this is where my story really starts. I started having issues at about 13 or 14 which prompted my parents to send me to a shrink. Since that time 37 years ago, I've taken probably 3 dozen SSRI's, MAOI's, antipsychotics, and other "mood" meds, including the aforementioned benzos and Adderall.

MY STRUGGLES WITH DRUG ADDICTION STARTED IN A PHARMACY.\

My very first script was an MAOI - amitryptilene. I was supposed to take it at bedtime but I had insomnia too so many times, I couldn't fall asleep until after it had really kicked in. It was a weird form on euphoria that I felt, I can't really place it now after all these years, I just know it didn't take me long to figure out I could take a couple in the middle of the day and have "fun". With a couple of years, I was drinking, smoking, and smoking weed. A couple of years later, it was coke and then meth. And I continued to abuse prescription psychiatric drugs the whole time as well.

So there it is - my story is an open book.

We love you.

For me, that's an absolute "yes".

I ****ing love coke, it's just one of those things. And I purposefully avoid being around it because I know I'd be the guy blowing his life savings in 6 months, getting divorced, and dying in a trap house.

Which brings me to another point: When straight edge people proudly proclaim their lifetime of sobriety.

All i can think to myself is, "sucks for you". Because quite frankly, sex on the right drugs is a mind blowing experience. It's so many level above sober sex. If you've never done it, you have no ****ing idea what kind of pleasure your mind and body are capable of feeling.

So....good for you and your sobriety, but you'll never, ever understand or know the level of pleasure i have. And then we're both gonna die.

Cocaine is "fun" for exactly what Detoxing posted...
The occasional night out with the boys drinking.

That constant wa wa wa wa sound. I can still hear it to this day.

In my nightmare the husband comes with.

I lived off-campus one summer during college and did meth the whole time.
I had purchased a loaf of bread, some mustard, and a package of balogna in like May, right before break.

In September when school started again, I still had 4 pieces of bread and 3 or 4 slices of meat left, both of which were moldy almost beyond recognition.

Ecstasy is number one. Good coke is number two. Won’t touch them now due to fentanyl and being 36 with a couple kids. But I did my fair share of both from 16-30

Just booze and weed and mushrooms every now and then for me now

Yeah, that's the thing. It worked out great for me because it basically killed any need for food. It's like the last thing on your mind and I remember being physically ill because I would have to eat with my parents to keep up the façade.

LSD and shrooms are actually quite safe. The problem is that you have to get through that few hours where you literally think you're going to die before you realize it's all in your head. :D

Bring back K2

And that right there is why I would probably never touch anything again. No way am I taking the chance that someone didn't cut my shit with fentanyl. The worst you had to worry about when I was younger was either some coke in your weed or some bullshit meth.

Honestly, sex on weed is better than not on weed. :shrug:

Due to a friend, I tried bath salts one or two times along with that synthetic weed K2 shit.

I found both to be incredibly stupid, no clue how people got additicted to that shit.

Just make sure if you do it...that it's with someone you trust and you're somewhere safe.

Baby laxatives sucked too.

MY drug usage stopped at age 25 when I got married.

The only thing I've done in the past 15 years is:
Kratom
Alcohol
THC Vape
Hydrodcodone
Natural DMT through meditative breathing techniques.


For all of you straight edgers wanting a way to naturally feel great (albeit short lived) I suggest you investigate:
It takes a bit of practice, but it's ****ing awesome when you get it down.

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Who's the 1 vote for Ketamine?

I did it once and walked to a concert from downtown KC to the River Market

I still crack up thinking about it. I felt like I had no control over my body movements at all

I envision myself slow-mo walking like Pacheco runs, just limbs flailing everywhere

It was great though

Thanks. In all seriousness, kindness means a lot.

Everything I did was from the ages of 14-21. That doesn't count nicotine, alcohol or weed.

EXACTLY.

I'm actually hearing it in my head right now. ROFL

There are points in my life where I can taste duster. I was soooo ****ing stupid with that shit.

Yeah, that's another huge reason I avoid street drugs now. Everything is getting cut with fentanyl an it's almost always instant death, especially if they're cutting it with coke or meth.

We bought, and even distributed, some meth back in the day that was cut with heroin. It was a bad, bad time all around. Not inclined to talk about the details other than to say "it's not worth it".

I did coke watching Cocaine Bear.

It's really too expensive to get into it but I like it. I think the movie was exaggerated.


I have some 1000mg cannabis infused gummies gets you high as ****.


Since my Hiatal hurnia surgery I've been able to breath no problems anymore so I said **** it and smoke some weed. I just don't ever want to smoke cigarettes again.


Unrelated to that I recently overdosed on my psych meds and was saved but am doing much better now. That was not recreational though. I think cocaine makes me feel better than my psych meds but I'm on new psych meds and feeling much better and have to keep it that way.

Tried weed once , even though it’s legal and can get it on every street corner now I don’t have any interest , I drink a few drinks a month normally sometimes less .

We bought it and sold it...but never cut it. Totally not worth it.

1. Shrooms
2. Weed
3. Adderall






4. Alcohol

For me, it was 14 to about 28 or 29 for the hard stuff.

Since I had kids (at age 28) I've done coke twice and I haven't done meth or LSD at all.

So for me now it's pretty much nicotine and weed with the occasional drink or shroom trip.

I always wanted to live out the Queens of the Stone Age song "Feelgood Hit of the Summer":

"Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy, and Alcohol"

It took 35 years for me and my doctor to finally find a treatment regimen that "works" for me. Like I said, I've easily taken 3 dozen psych drugs over my life.

None of them have worked for me the way marijuana does but at least now, they're not turning me into a zombie or something.

The Air Force kind of put a damper on doing anything, although I smoked weed a couple of times and never got drug tested. By the time I got out, I was just kind of over all of that stuff. Plus I knew that if I got back into it....there wasn't going to be a reason to stop.

Now I'll just eat an edible and then regret all of the food I'm going to eat before I pass out.

Yeah, we never cut ours either. Usually we could get it locally so we knew where it came from. But one time - just one time - we tripped it to Waterloo to a biker bar to buy some. It was pinkish and we didn't think anything of it, at least not until our first friend landed in the ICU.

I’m a “none” but definitely not a saint.

The worst part of doing meth came years after. I ****ed up my metabolism so bad that between the time I came home from Europe (I was in the best shape of my life there, cycling up a mountain every day in Schwabia) and when I got married the second time, I had gained over 100 pounds, in like 5 years.

I ended up getting stomach surgery it got so bad. My metabolism is slower than a snail's now and it sucks.

I can see that. My weight has fluctuated my entire life, so I'm kind of used to it. Meth ****ed up my sleep. I got out of the Air Force and would literally go to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and sleep until early afternoon on my days off. Now, I can't ****ing fall asleep and I have to take CBD/Melatonin to get 6-7 hours.

Grew up in a small town where even weed was considered the devil. So didn’t experiment with anything until about 23-24.

Weed about a dozen times. Would maybe give it a chance more if i wasn’t so paranoid about a random drug test at work. So far.. it’s okay. I know people swear by it. But doesn’t do much for me

Coke 4-5 times. I’m fine if I never do it again. The last time I did this only took one line and started to have a panic attack because it felt like my throat was closing.

Molly prob a dozen times. I’ll never forget my first time rolling. God it’s awesome. Would recommend to anyone looking to experiment. Pretty much just a concert drug tho

Shrooms 4-5 times. Got into it late because I always was terrified of hallucinating. I missed out. Don’t like heavy doses, but if it’s a reasonable dosage it’s a good time

You know me, i've never been one to give two ****s about over-sharing, so i'll go too:

Nicotine/Tobacco/Vaping:
Done it a few times. Never understood the allure. Does nothing for me. Tastes like a bum's asshole and mostly just gives me a headache.

Alcohol:
Didn't really start drinking until my early 20's. Had my first taste around 4 years old when my dad offered me a Budweiser. For the most part, it's neither here nor there for me. Call me a social drinker i guess. When i do drink, i prefer liquor over beer. Not really into beer at all anymore, but i order different alcoholic beverages depending on the time and setting. Beers have their place, but it's usually at a BBQ or at the beach or something. And yeah, i dont enjoy being drunk unless im ****ing. And i'm really good at finding my buzz and staying in that zone, which means i can drink enough to make sex last all night, while also not drinking too much and getting whiskey dick.

Cannabis:
I don't think i need to explain this one. We pretty much all know this is about. I toke in the morning before going to work, and then i sess when i get home and unwind. I'm kind of a boujee pot head. Pretty much everything i smoke these days is some sort of infused this or that, "Liquid Diamonds" and "Sauce" and all that other bullshit. Rarely do i smoke just weed.

Inhalants:
Whip-It's. Super short head rush, makes sex feel incredible 30 seconds at a time. If you've never orgasimed after a whip-it hit.....ooooweee that's a super strong nut. Liquored up and hitting whip its while you **** makes you let off porn star sounds. Same with Poppers. Stumbled across those at a porn shop years ago. Found out recently it's a popular drug with the gays. It's basically a more potent whip-it.

Shrooms:
Love/Hate relationship. Depends on the micro-dose and what you're doing. It heightens your emotions to an uncontrollable level. Of course, Sex is amazing on it. Me and the Wife took shrooms a couple of anniverseries ago, got us a nice hotel with a hot tub etc and ****ed all night. Went through a myriad of different trips. ****ed and felt like i was the literal god of Sex. Put on a Rob Zombie movie afterwards and felt like i could potentially be a serial killer, which kinda worried me. Chilled in the hot tub, felt like i couldnt feel the bottom. I swear that hot tub was 10' deep. Wife wanted to watch some weird ass Beyonce music movie thing....BIG MISTAKE. Shit had me trippin balls.

Tried gaming on shrooms once another BIG Mistake. Had one bad match and i swear it took me like 2 hours to get un-pissed.


Molly:
Another Love/Hate relationship. Absolutely hate rolling. Like Htis said, too methy feeling. Eyes rolling into the back my head while i lay on the couch guzzling water and OJ. NOT my thing at all. Hate it. But once you come down from the first few hours....nothing else in this world feels anything like it.

...the Sex...amazing of course. The slightest touch to the skin is just....euphoric. EVERYTHING is euphoric on MDMA. Everything. You have no idea your body and mind are capable of even feeling that way. At times, it feels so good it's practically an out of body experience. You can pretty much **** alllll night on it. Never sweated during sex the way i did on molly, that's for sure.

Problem i have with it though is that unlike other substances, i can't control when i cum. Matter of fact, might **** all night and never cum at all. Which totally sucks.

Does anyone but DenverChief and me know the meaning of the term "honeypot"?

A glass of champagne at a wedding and a Chiefs Super Bowl win.

From what I've gathered.....Detox likes to ****. LMAO

LMAO

If you're gonna do these things, you gotta **** on 'em.

I suddenly feel guilty.
At this age I can't imagine doing hallucinations like shrooms or acid again.
I would probably shit my pants and panic.

Anyone doing Kratom ?

I've been using it for a few years now.

Is that synthetic weed?

I see signs for it all of the time at the run down convenience stores. Not sure what it really is but it doesn't seem like something I would be interested in.

no. It's a more natural version opioid, commonly used to bring people off of opioid or speed addictions.

WHAT IS KRATOM?
Kratom is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia. Consumption
of its leaves produces both stimulant effects (in low doses) and
sedative effects (in high doses), and can lead to psychotic symptoms,
and psychological and physiological dependence. Kratom leaves
contain two major psychoactive ingredients (mitragynine and
7-hydroxymytragynine). These leaves are crushed and then smoked,
brewed with tea, or placed into gel capsules. Kratom has a long history
of use in Southeast Asia, where it is commonly known as thang,
kakuam, thom, ketum, and biak. In the U.S., the abuse of kratom has
increased markedly in recent years.

My dad told me a very wild story about the last time he did mushrooms. He was probably early 50s or so and him and my uncle were both sitting behind his house. The neighbors across the road had a hen house a couple hundreds yards away. Anyhow he said it was like 3 in the morning and a fox or raccoon or something got in there and slaughtered the whole lot. Got to listen to dozens of chickens being murdered while tripping and said it’s stuck in his brain forever lol.

Yeah that's a nope

I remember first hearing about this years ago on Church of Lazlo. Kinda surprising it isn't illegal. I have no idea, but have to wonder if politically all of the pressure is on legalization, rather than finding new things that should probably be illegal given the context of the other things that are illegal.

And I'm not saying I believe it should be illegal, either. Haven't heard of Kratom being a big problem anywhere, and it looks like it's sold all over now. Just seems inconsistent.

Man, only 5 boxes that I left unchecked. Thankfully that was the result of my rebellious youth from ‘95-‘03. Most of that was fairly harmless experimentation and fun. Cocaine got on top of me a bit back in the day though. Thankfully in the last 20 years it’s only been weed and alcohol.

I have never used drugs recreationally.

Weed

just the front row at arrowhead in the mahomes era

that's some good shit

I'm one of those weirdos that's never smoked a cigar or cigarette. It makes it doubly weird considering the era I grew up in and that my high school had a student smoking section. Never ever was curious about any of it. Weed, as well, and that might be wilder than the nicotine thing, especially considering today's climate.

Did ecstasy once on Bourbon Street. It was alright but not something I needed to feel again. I tried shrooms exactly once and went on to meet my future ex-wife that night. Never again with any of that demon shit, and you can cram the rest of it as well. I learned my lesson. Lol

Did a drug we called MDA back in the 70s but I don't know if that's the same thing as MDMA these days.

Looking at the poll my drug experimentation looks fairly common or average.

I forgot I tried Kava in Fiji , my face got pretty numb not really what I call fun.

I didn't do anything until 20 and Scottsdale.
But I made up for lost time.

Once or twice a year I'll bow to peer pressure and have part of a glass of wine. I've never tried anything other than alcohol.

Dr. Pepper and Pibb Xtra are the only gods who squeeze me in their iron fists.

Small town Iowa has Pibb Xtra as a constant BOGO.
I don't understand it.

My one experience with LSD was enough to make me never do it again. I'm far too high strung and brooding to take something that causes me to loose control of my emotions. That was a terrible night.

Never cared for pot. Hated the high. It just made me sleepy, hungry and stupid. Unfortunately I enjoyed the hell out of coke. That shit left a five year hole in my life in the early/mid-90s. At least I was a mostly functional addict - I managed to keep a job, not get busted and not die. Other than that, I was a waste of space and oxygen. Finally quit cold turkey, made a complete break from it, excised all the idiot coke buddies/parasites from my life and never went back. As soon as I did that, my life did a 180. I assume if I tried it now at my age my heart would simply explode. No thanks.

And God knows I've drank enough booze in my life to fill a water tower, but I'm pretty much done with that. My drunk days are long since over. Never developed a taste for wine, and honestly, I never liked beer, either - any beer. When I was young I just drank to get drunk, and that desire is gone. My favorite beers are the ones I dislike the least. Can't remember the last time I drank one. I'll still have the occasional finger of scotch or some random shot at a bar, but the amount of alcohol I drink in a year could fit in a coffee cup with room to spare.

At this point, my last vice is vaping. I switched to that from smoking prior to my ACL surgery last year and have no desire to go back. Vaping is cheaper, cleaner and doesn't make me smell like an ashtray or have coughing fits in the morning.

Oh, and lots of caffeine still. Lots and lots of caffeine. :D

Being born in 1961 I was exposed to the tail end of what were the real hippies. The innocence of smoking pot in the 70s on a warm summers day had a nice feel to it.

Same.

Smoked opium a few times.

I remember what the evil bitch who got me hooked on coke said about heroin - that the high was so amazing that she knew if she ever tried it again she wouldn't be able to stop. That was some amazing insight from somebody whose nose was a vacuum cleaner for the white stuff.

Never went down that road.

Lol. That's always been my #1 criteria for any sort of drug use: If it doesn't make sex better, I'm out.

Tripped on acid once and it was a stop the bus and let off moment after the walls went liquid. The Bus Driver wouldn't listen.

I hardly drink anymore and honestly don't miss it. For some reason no matter how much or little I would drink I would feel like shit the next day. If its a real nice summer day on the pontoon I might get my dangerous on and drink a White Claw.

Pot has been an ever presence in my life but the demons are alcohol and was cocaine. Alcohol and cocaine go together like bread and butter. Last time I did cocaine I was sitting in my basement on a hot beautiful summer day. The basement was cool/cold as always and my nose was dripping as I surfed the interewebs. It was like I was giving myself a cold. At that moment I was like "what the **** am I doing? This sucks!" I quit that day and it was one of the best days of my life. As each day passed after that I just felt better and better. **** that shit!

Cocaine
It takes a clear mind to do it
It takes a clear mind not to do it

-Jackson Brown

I knew a guy that dipped his cigarettes in formaldehyde and then smoked them. He called it "getting wet."

I was excited to add another drug to the poll but then googled and found out it's basically just PCP. Very disappointing.

Mushrooms. Probably did those 5-10 times and each time I couldn't wait for it to be over. The sound of the Atari Space Invaders while on shrooms was mind capturing and hideous both at the same time.

Pink Hearts speed back in high school. Black Beauties and Speckled Birds where a thing. I never did much of that stuff but it was a thing back then. I remember a guy dumping out a black beauty on the little flat drawer of his drafting desk and snorting it. I think they called the contents Butterflies.

I only know about this from Training Day.

On the topic of nicotine, cigarettes, cigars, etc. I just never saw the appeal. I suppose it does have a calming effect but the fact that it doesn't really take you anywhere just screams "NOT WORTH IT" to me.

Like someone said earlier, nicotine use appears to be more of a need than a want or desire. It's like you've got to scratch an itch more than you desire the actual feeling it gives you.

Idk if I'm explaining it well but hopefully you feel me.