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How often do you guys use your recreational drugs of choice?
I take pills pretty much every weekend while I'm at uni and I've been thinking about what kind of effect this has on me. I don't go overboard, usually only take 3 max. I've decided to lay off the coke this year, both for moral reasons and the fact that I get quite bad heart palpitations so I shouldn't really be touching the stuff.
Do you ever worry about the physiological consequences of doing drugs or do you just get on with it and have a good time? I prefer a comedown to a hangover so I prefer to take drugs rather than getting totally pissed. But when my head is so hazy the next day, or if I'm sitting on a sofa at 7am talking absolute crap and thinking I'm somewhere else, I do wonder what kind of damage I'm doing to my brain. :chin:
I take pills pretty much every weekend while I'm at uni and I've been thinking about what kind of effect this has on me. I don't go overboard, usually only take 3 max. I've decided to lay off the coke this year, both for moral reasons and the fact that I get quite bad heart palpitations so I shouldn't really be touching the stuff.
Do you ever worry about the physiological consequences of doing drugs or do you just get on with it and have a good time? I prefer a comedown to a hangover so I prefer to take drugs rather than getting totally pissed. But when my head is so hazy the next day, or if I'm sitting on a sofa at 7am talking absolute crap and thinking I'm somewhere else, I do wonder what kind of damage I'm doing to my brain. :chin:
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Went through a bit of a mad phaze a while ago and decided to calm it right down...
I aint done speed coke or mushrooms for a long time... I have given up weed completely for about a year now...
I still do pills, but thats only once every couple of months!
I still think I drink a bit too much though...
I'm sure I'll go through another hardcore stage and so forth.
I used to take shit loads of Ket but I've fallen out with it, I haven't had it for 5 months apart from a tiny line I had in September.
I do smoke weed though, that never changes.
Cocaine, I used to have a serious problem with a year ago as some people here may have heard, now I have cut down alot but I still probably do too much, I like to have a line before and after work sometimes when I can afford it and very rarely before college and I like to have a few lines before I go out drinking...but even this I'm trying to cut down.
Speed, I haven't done in a long time, used to do that every weekend too but now I only do it at raves and clubs when I'm on pills already. Don't do Mushrooms very often, last time I did them was in Amsterdam about a month ago. Weed I smoke most days of the week but hey it's always been that way lol
The only other drug I took on a regualr basis was weed, but after a couple of year I noticed that it had some seriously negative effects for me.
The only thing I do now on a regualr basis is drink. And I love it.
Oh and the odd drinky
I used to hammer pills whilst at uni, every weekend in the 1st year until I got the blues quite bad week on week and decided to cut down to about once a month.
Now I only take pills every so often, though consumption may be on the up after last weekend.
Others like ket or coke, as and when they appear. I'm not that fussed.
I am a bit high atm. Ho hum.
Psycological issues? Come and go, with or without aid from substance tbh.... I see people who take and don't getting psycological issues. Don't worry, get on with it as best we all can!
Used to smoke daily and take all sorts at the weekend. I just prefer to get pissed these days tbh.
I have a mate like you. He used to smoke alot and now won't touch it.
He says no matter how relaxed and carefree he feels, after a smoke, he'll ALWAYS find something in his head to freak out about. He says it's just not worth the hassle anymore, which is understandable.
that's when I like it best.
That's exaclty it, though for years I used to love getting stoned.
The only times I can smoke it now without getting paranoid is once I'm pissed (but then I tend to just flake out), and after I've taken pills but then I can't smoke too much else I'll feel edgy again.
summer i was doin pills every weekend and and weed every day but now its back to college and back to reality. split up with the bf who i used to pill with and the few other people i DID pill with have stopped altogether( though perhaps for good reason- one mate of mine started when he was in year 10 and boshed 14 in one school day. pills have REALLY fucked him up).
so the fact that i hardly ever do them now is because of lack of opportunity really.. all my mates are very anti drugs and dont know i do pills or anything so i cant do them with them( plus id hate to be the only one out of it). so i usually have to wait til a random house party or whatever.
if i could id do them every weekend. cant wait til uni!:razz:
I only do it when I know I've a biiiiig night out or if I know I can blag some free ones, ha.
Gonna be doing it this weekend, my current squeeze is a pill pimp so I'm well in there, mwaha.
That's very true. I remember when some people in my friends group first started using MDMA they believed it to be the greatest substance ever. After some time they weren't getting the same effects and concluded that the MDMA they were getting wasn't as good as the original stuff. It was actually just that they'd been using most weekends and the drug had lost it's novelty, and tolerance had built up. I believe it is possible to regain a good proportion of the original effects through periods of abstinence, but I don't think you'll ever get the same magic again.
So so true.
I remember the days of taking like 2 pills and being absolutely MASHED for the whole night....these days I have to keep 'topping up' like every hour and end up doing stupid and un-needed amounts of pills in a night....it's not really worth it, you might aswell take E infrequently (about once a month or less) and let your tolerance stay reasonably low so you don't have to waste money and go through fuck loads of pills in a night to get the same or maybe even a worse buzz than if you take say 3 pills but only once a month or whatever.
used to take shit loads of speed too, but haven't touched that in years, don't really bother with any other drugs, maybe the odd line of coke, but I can never afford it so it's usually only a couple of times a year if I'm feeling flush!
I definately feel alot better for it.
I'm trying to get him to lay off them though because its got to the point where he won't even consider going out if he hasn't got any (which is rare, because there's ALWAYS some around). Sometimes I just want to go for a few drinks but it seems the whole weekend revolves around drugs.