Drugs

[Teuthida]

I know some of you guys have done some hard stuff and just wondering if care to share some experiences. It's 4:10am, I'm on Ritalin...my work is not getting done anyway so figured I'd create this thread.


I've smoked weed a number of times but I'm done with it for good now. I hated knowing that the feeling was false. Plus I'm paranoid as it is without an aid. One time back in my old college I smoked up by myself in the woods near my school and got back to my dorm before it took affect (for some reason I experience a 10 min delay). This was 5am.

I smoked a huge joint and really wish I hadn't. Tried watching Cartoon Network; too intense. Tried watching WMP visuals but same deal. So sat in my chair in the dark. I was thirsty but felt I couldn't risk reaching to the floor to grab a bottle of water. See, I'm prone to have panic attacks so when THC increases my heart rate I notice that, panic a bit which raises it more, and then freak out that I'll have a heart attack. Loads of fun.

I made it to the bathroom and swore that the face in the mirror wasn't me...if it was I looked sickly green and oh so dead. I moved my hands infront of my face and it felt like a stop motion clay animation. I curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor and rocked back and forth for I dunno how long. Then I made it back to my bed and must have passed out before it even began to wear off.

I swore I would never do it again after that. I did...several times...some of them quite fun. But now I'm totally off it.
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I have serious problems concentrating on my work. I'll get distracted by anything and everything. When I saw a professional comic book artist's work schedule on his web site Haul myself out of bed around 9:00am, then get started around 10:00 draw till 8... eat food...supposedly dinner...I don't usually take a break for lunch. Then go for a run around 10:30pm then work till around 2:00am. I knew I would never be able to do that without help. I decided to buy some ritalin off someone to see if it would help.

First tried it to read Notes From The Underground to test it. Worked like a charm. Sat perfectly still inhaling the book until I finished. During that time the side effect of feeling elated came over me. Was quite nice. About 3.5 hours after taking the pill I was hit with every side effect minus coma, vomitting (which I'm physically unable to pull off anyway), and hallucinating (which I get plenty of from not sleeping).

I became freezing cold and jittery. Again my heart raced and my own paranoia added to the feeling. My hands went numb and was honestly kinda scared. Three hours later could feel my hands again and started to stop shaking.

After that time I halved the pill but it didn't help as much...especially in terms of drawing comics since I constantly have to check references and get up and move around. So turns out it won't be much help for my work afterall. I did do that pic of Penguin while on it though...I can do work on the computer until my hands bleed without the aid of drugs.
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Sorry if bored you but wanted to get that out of my system. Probably won't try anything else; too paranoid. I'll stick to sleep deprivation and lack of nutrition.

So, anyone want to share? :D

[Typhoid]

So this may kill my reputation with the people here who actually know me. Which is almost half the active board.

Let's start this off. Shall we?


I havent really ever gotten into weed. Ever. I dont know why. I feel too much like I'm 14 when I'm standing around with some friends lighting a joint. That doesnt mean I'm opposed to doing it occasionally, Because I'm not. It's just I found weed hasnt much ever done anything to me. And I've had (Being from BC, and knowing my brother) some pretty "killer" weed. It's not that great. It just makes me zone out and wonder why I'm zoning out. I'd much rather drink.



From the stages of about grade 11 and 12, I had myself some drug issues. I had my whole extacy phase. I've done that my fair share of times. I wont condone it, but it is a fun drug to do, in moderation. Dont do too many caps at once, and then you'll be fine. Moderately speaking. It's fun. Really fun. I wont lie. You dont want to have sex with everyone, so thats basically a total lie. You're just touchy-er. But you dont notice. I would sit next to girls at parties, and put my arm around them and rub their shoulder, and not even notice I was doing it. It's not that physical contact gets you off, it's just that it feels good. Not "Oh my god, lets cream my pants" good, but good nonetheless.
Once, I remember I was on it at this party at my friend Anthony's house, and my friend Rob was also "rocked". We had to go meet some girls because they didnt know where Anthony lived. So the second we step out the door, Rob looks at me and says "Want to run there?" So I just started running. We apparently ran reallygod damn far, and didnt stop once. It was a 45 minute walk back from where we met them. And we ran the whole way there, near sprinting speed, while also carrying on conversations. That must have actually looked really messed up to people.
Two guys running really fast by them while talking about something in China.




And then about, halfway through summer last year, I got into Cocaine. Which I obviously dont advise anyone to get into at all. It's not that great. It's a total waste of money. It's hard to stop once you do it, and it makes your girl friends cry. Or at least thats what I learned from it. I really only have two things I remember about the times I did coke. One, is that once, I was talking to my friend Chelsea, but I was talking really fast, and I couldnt understand myself. Because I wasnt thinking, I was talking, and listening to what I was saying instead. And I was realizing it was making no sense, so I started to get mad at myself, and didnt understand that, which made me madder.
And the other thing I remember, is that Ashley found out I did it, and cried. And thats the day I stopped doing it.

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All in all, drugs are a waste of time, and a waste of money. But I suppose some people just get into the wrong crowds and stuff. Like me. Even though I'm still totally with the same crowd. Go figure.

I also found out that more people than you think, do cocaine. It's getting as big as weed around here.

But if I would advise anything, it would obviously be dont do cocaine. Dont do anything else either, but cocaine is addictive. Once you start, it's hard to stop. It's not like you'll die for it at first, but if its there, you'll go for it. Then after a while you start spending your money on it, and then 4 months later the girl you love cries and the cycle ends.

Stick with drinking, kids.

[Dylflon]

What is it with the hard substances around here?

Sean...er...coke?

Well...I'm glad you quit.

[Typhoid]

What is it with the hard substances around here?

Sean...er...coke?

Well...I'm glad you quit.

I dont know. It's odd. I know that around half of the grade 9's, 10's and 11's in Fox do it, or have a few times.



And yeah, shut up, I know it was stupid to get into.


And yeah, I stopped. I havent done it, or any other drug (excluding various joints) for a long time.

I stick to drinking now.

[Jason1]

Ive never really gotten into drugs. Ive been really close to smoking weed several times, and I swore I would at least give it a try the next time I was offered it, but then came along my lung problems, and I now highly doubt I will ever risk smoking anything ever again.

I do still drink on occasion, and when I say on occasion, I mean since I started drinking my sophmore year in high school, I have gone as long as 6 months between drinking, and at other times I might have a month long stretch where I do it every weekend. Just depends on who im hanging around with at various times. When I do drink it is usually quite heavily, and I only do it to get drunk. But I guess that is why everyone drinks right?

[Ginkasa]

One time, when Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix came out, I stayed up all night to read it and drank a 12 pack of Dr. Pepper. Then I continued to read the book into the day while drinking a new 12 pack of Dr. Pepper.

I stayed up until, like, 4:00 the next night. So, I was super sleep deprived, and really really "hyper" from caffiene. It was crazy.

And, uh, that's all. No alcohol. No illegal drugs. No overdoses. I'm a good kid.


/me shrugs and walks away

[Happydude]

*sees thread from afar*

*runs into thread smashing the door open*

DRUGS?!?! GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!!

*realizes there are no drugs in the thread*

this is false advertising!!! i'll sue!!!










anyhoo, only thing i've done so far and still occasionally do (about once a month) is weed.
i would really like to try 'X' or 'E' whatever you kids call it these days, just for the hell of experience, and i would also not mind trying LSD (i think that's what those patches are called) because i heard that was hella fun for halucinations.

and thats about it, i wouldn't try the hardcore stuff like coke or heroin or **** like that, just not me.

[Typhoid]

i would really like to try 'X' or 'E' whatever you kids call it these days, just for the hell of experience, and i would also not mind trying LSD (i think that's what those patches are called) because i heard that was hella fun for halucinations.

and thats about it, i wouldn't try the hardcore stuff like coke or heroin or **** like that, just not me.


The kids (now) call it E, first of all.

And second, E is a hardcore drug. I'm pretty sure LSD is too. E messes you up more than coke does. E drains your spinal fluid, and can make you die overheating by just being on one cap. If you drink too much water on a cap of E, you'll die from water poisoning.

E is pretty mohfriggin "hardcore".

[Happydude]

first of all, i know more about E than most people :p.

you can't actually die directly as a result from the drug. you can only die either by being stupid and not drinking or drinking too much and hence drowning your own body form the inside. (no such thing as water poisoning unless there is actualy poison in the water :p)

in either case i don't consider it to be hardcore.

as for LSD, it's in between, it has long term effects like flashbacks and stuff and supposedly it leaves a "scar" on your brain *shrug* haven't double checked on that. but neither of those drugs are addictive and that's what makes them not hardcore in my opinion.

[Typhoid]

first of all, i know more about E than most people :p.

you can't actually die directly as a result from the drug. you can only die either by being stupid and not drinking or drinking too much and hence drowning your own body form the inside. (no such thing as water poisoning unless there is actualy poison in the water :p)


Thats great. But I'm "in" the drug scene, so I'm pretty sure I know about E too.

I never said you can die directly from it. E makes you overheart without knowing it, and it takes away your apetite, and increases your need for fluids, mainly water. Causing the water poisoning.

So congratulations, you basically succeeded to say exactly what I said, only longer.


And there is something such as Water Poisoning. It's also called "hyponatremia".

Thanks for coming out though.

(Water Poisoning link)
http://www.erowid.org/culture/health/health_water_poisoning.shtml


Too lazy to read it? I'll just take a little piece out of it for you.

water poisoning results when too much water is ingested in too short a time without replenishing electrolytes, particularly sodium and potassium.

[Happydude]

well i guess i was wrong about the water poisoning thing then...and i like to restate stuff in a longer fashion. so :p

[Canyarion]

I have never done drugs. Never even touched a sigarette. :angel:

I do drink some alcohol, but not to get drunk. The tipsiest I've ever been was after 7 drinks spread over 6 hours. :p
I like to really enjoy my beer and feel that slight lightness in the head. I've never had te need to find out how much I could take.

Religion has a lot to do with this all. :)

[Teuthida]

I've only been drunk once. Taking shots of gin playing pool with friends. I think my accuracy actually improved.

Other than that I would only drink socially when offered at a friend's apartment or something, who were usually a number of years older than me and over the whole drink to get drunk thing. Usually never would have enough to even make me tipsey....though everyone would try to get me to loosen up a bit to no avail.


As for cigarettes: I'll NEVER smoke them. I don't see the point of having them unless already addicted. Don't get why someone would even start.


I've been to a hookah bar once but didn't see the appeal. If smoked a lot you felt light headed for a couple minutes but that wore off quickly. Plus anywhere they sell a bottle of water for $3 is not somewhere I want to visit much. The place seemed to be full of college students too, trying to be oh so trendy. That bothers me more than expensive water. It was kind of cool that was reading Alice In Wonderland at the time and had just got up to the caterpillar part though.

[Bond]

I've never done any drugs. A lot of my friends do, but I've just never felt the need to. I don't see how it helps you at all - rather than giving you a false sense of happiness and then becoming addicted.

[Dylflon]

I smoke pot every once in a while.

And when I drink, I get better at DDR. Finally beat Tsugaru when I was tipsy.

[Dyne]

I've never done any drugs. A lot of my friends do, but I've just never felt the need to. I don't see how it helps you at all - rather than giving you a false sense of happiness and then becoming addicted.

Same boat, except I do enjoy a nice cigar once in a while, and a good beer. But the cigars are very far apart to kick any nicotine addiction and the beers are never to get drunk.

[Vampyr]

I drink from time to time; whiskey, beer, vodka, tequila, etc.

And I smoke cigars from time to time, usually while I'm drinking.

My friends and I have a hookah that we smoke as well. I love it.

[DeathsHand]

I smoke weed on the rare occasion that it's available and I feel like doing so (in the sense that it's been available and I've passed on multiple occasions)...

Overall it just makes me slightly twitchy, then really tired... Some people told me that describes a "bad high" or something, and to try better "stuff"... But it happens everytime, even while my friends are like "ZOMG DOOD THIS STUFF'S REALLY FARKIN' WITH ME MAN, DOOD THIS IS GREAT STUFF ZOMG"...

... So you can see why I've passed on multiple occasions...

The only time it's really messed with me was when I had smoked a ton, then drank, then smoked a bunch more...

I kinda spent an hour or so on some guy's kitchen floor...

Alcohol by itself, on the other hand, I rather enjoy the effects of... Not a huge fan of the taste... But I deal... Especially if I'm already drunk...

Typically just beer and malt liquor for me... Occasionally a screwdriver...
I tried whiskey once... Nasty...

Oh and I don't smoke cigarettes... They funky...
Hookah neither (it seems to be one of the 'in' things nowadays, what with hookah bars popping up left and right, kids bringing them to parties, etc)...
And as for the 'hard stuff'... I'll pass...

[Acebot44]

I've never done any drugs. A lot of my friends do, but I've just never felt the need to. I don't see how it helps you at all - rather than giving you a false sense of happiness and then becoming addicted.

Word
:hump:

[Ginkasa]

What's a hookah bar...?


/me shrugs and walks away

[Professor S]

I experimented with drugs in college, and actually smoked a good amount of pot, but after graduating I basically gave it all up. Even my drinking has gone down a lot over the passed few years.

Here's a little view into your futures: When you hit about 26 or 27, your body starts getting REALLY PISSED when you drink too much. Hangovers to me used to mean popping a few advil with a gatorade chaser in the morning... now my hangovers consist of about 24 hours of dry heaving, fever and the shakes.

[The Germanator]

Never done any drugs. I've been tempted to smoke weed in the past, but have just never gotten to the stage of actually doing. I started drinking in college and I enjoy it. Probably drank relatively heavily there (at least getting drunk 3 nights a week), but now that I'm not there I barely drink because of my age anyways...

[Jason1]

What I dont understand is how people do shots of Vodka. Vodka is just plain sick if its not mixed with something. Tequilla is without question better, but some people flat out deny that.

[Canyarion]

I had vodka some weeks ago, just the plain stuff. It wasn't that bad. It's basicly water with alcohol... which doesn't taste bad. Doesn't taste very good either.

I had a glass of port tonight, I'll probably take another one.

[Teuthida]

Vodka is fine. Gin is nasty. Beefeater gin being the nastiest thing I ever ingested ever. But was intrigued by a Blackalicious song to give it a try.

Our house is in the middle of the street
I'm a talkin' head, talkin' head
Spittin' speech, Hungry like A Wolf, Where's the Beef?

Beef eater gin, in-toxicant, men-tal
Alternate, end-ings, opposite trend Zen
Copperfield, pen bend, topple and kill end men
Send them, in wind, tremblin', off of them skills

Gift of Gab, boy have you steered me wrong.

[DeathsHand]

What I dont understand is how people do shots of Vodka. Vodka is just plain sick if its not mixed with something. Tequilla is without question better, but some people flat out deny that.

I took a drink of my friend's straight-up vodka and I thought it was fine...
Granted I was already drunk, as given away by the fact that I drank my friend's vodka...

I don't share drinks... Or food...

And I wash my hands at least 100 times a day...

... Ok maybe that last part isn't true...

Whiskey is nasty by itself (wait I already said that)... And rum is nasty no matter what...

[Canyarion]

I wash my hands quite often as well. When I'm home at least.
I learned to share glasses (or bottles) when I became a student. :p Though I still won't drink stuff from my family or some old friends...... weird actually.

[The Germanator]

Whisky is actually my favorite hard alcohol to just drink straight...It's better with Coke or Dr. Pepper of course, but I like taking shots of it.

Definitely my favorite..Then Gin and Vodka. I really am not a fan of rum or tequilia, they kinda make me sick.

[thatmariolover]

Eh, I tried pot a few times, supposedly some really great stuff but I guess I couldn't tell. I dont' know why but the high wasn't really noticable enough for me to want to do it. I might try it again if given the opportunity but drug screens are a very real possibility around here with me job hunting at the moment so I'll probably play it safe.

Aside from that, I never drank until my last breakup which was... a couple years ago now I suppose. So, I never drank until after my 18'th. Now I go out and get fairly drunk once or twice a month with my friends.

Never tried anything else, not really interested in anything else.

[Canyarion]

At least I'm at a legal age to drink. ;)

[DeathsHand]

At least I'm at a legal age to drink. ;)

*glances at calendar*...

Just 11 more months, just 11 more months, just 11 more months...

[Stonecutter]

I drink quite a bit, or I did before I went on my SSRI. I LOVE beer, not in a "Let's go out and pound a cube of keystone" way but in a "hey, here's an IPA I've never tried before, let's grab a 6 pack." If any of your parents are wine snobs, that's how I am, just with beer.

On occasion (like 4 or 5 times a year) I'll get really ****ed up drunk, but that's becoming less and less common.

Pot intrigues me, I've never tried it, and I'm disgusted by all forms of smoking, so I'd never smoke pot, but if someone offered me an "adult brownie" I'd probably give it a shot.

I've taken Absinthe (http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/absinthe.shtml) before... it's basically booze but it works faster and you're supposed to hallucinate too. I don't know maybe you need more than one glass to really get high but it tastes so disgusting I didn't bother to find out.

Never done anything else, have absolutely zero desire to.

[Canyarion]

Absinthe has been rumored to work hallucinating (it's been forbidden in Holland for a long while), but I think it doesn't (anymore; it's legal here again).

[BreakABone]

I've never tried drugs, which I find pretty cool since like every person I know on this campus does.. guess what I get for going to an art school :p

As for drinking, well I've been drunk 3 times in my life, granted this has been over the last year or so.


First time being my 20th birthday.

As for taking shots of Vodka. Well it depends, I generally just take the shot and down it w/o asking what it is.

Some girl was impressed I took 3 shots without any chasers in like 30 secs. It didn't get me too messed up though.

[The Germanator]

Absinthe has been rumored to work hallucinating (it's been forbidden in Holland for a long while), but I think it doesn't (anymore; it's legal here again).

Yeah, they have asbinthe at most bars in the UK these days, but I think it was only recently reinstated as legal because they took the most dangerous ingredient (some sort of wormwood) out. I bought of a bottle of the new stuff recently and will report you on whether it gets me feeling weird. I assume I'll just feel ****ed up.

Oh, I used to drink grain alcohol a bunch in school (190 proof, 95% alcohol.) Some people used it to heat their homes, we used it to drink...Between my friends and I we had a pace of drinking one bottle a week of it for about 7 weeks, but then we all started forgetting what we had done and having real bad hangovers so we gave it up.

[Typhoid]

Haha.

The only thing I drink now is beer.

One night I drank 2 two six's of Disaronno within like, an hour and a half or so.

That led to feeling sick (because of all the sugar, and obviously alcohol.)

So me, Chris and Tim were at Subway, and I was outside hunched over spitting. Then I started puking. Chris came outside of Subway as I sat down on the curb with my head down, semi passed out, and said "Dude, do you want a meat, or veggie sub?". I didnt hear him, so he said it again. I didnt move, or make any indication, but I hear Tim yell from the inside "He said veggie!"

So we start walking away, as Chris is force-feeding me my Veggie sub, (which I'm sure would have been really good) so he shoves it in my mouth, and basically forces me to chew. Within 5 minutes of finishing my sub, I throw up. Only a little bit got on my pants (I actually DO mean a little bit, like, you can barely tell unless you know.)

And that, kids, is why I dont drink hard liquor anymore. That was about at the beginning of the summer. I've been a beer man since then. I can barely even drink coolers anymore. I can drink wine fine, unless it's red wine. I hate red wine.


On a red wine related note; Back a month ago when me and Andy would hang out every day, we would always drink. His parents made wine in their basement, and had ****tons of bottles. So he would always take 4 bottles of wine, bring them to my house, and we would drink 2 each. Thats pretty snazzy. It's way better than drinking wine from a box, like someone I know does. :p



And my beer story.(I need to even it out)

Me, Andy and Anthony always drink cold shots (if you dont know what they are, they are little 255ml cans of beer with 6% alcohol content)

So we always drink them. And we always have drinking competitions with them, [i]wherever we are. When we crack one, we yell out the number of whatever beer that is, and if you're behind that number called out, you have to catch up before that person finishes that freshly opened beer. Most people think we're retarded when we're at parties, and one of us all of a sudden yells "11!" and then 2 other people frantically chug beer.

And a few times, me and Anthony have wanted to drink, but he couldnt get to my house because he didnt have bus money or something, so we'll drink over MSN. And since we cant yell the numbers, one of us will call the other one, and there are no hello's, there is just a number. It's gotten to the point where if he calls here, and says a number, and my mom picks up the phone, she'll come down and tell me what number Anthony is on. We have supportive parents.

[Teuthida]

I learned to share glasses (or bottles) when I became a student. :p Though I still won't drink stuff from my family or some old friends...... weird actually.

I'm exactly the same way. Dunno what that's about.

[Canyarion]

I think we share a common personality because we both don't eat meat. ...