(actual) DRUG DISCUSSION THREAD [DONT TELL MOM AND DAD EDITION]

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My experience with drug users is about the opposite. All my friends to the last one who fit that category are constantly keeping their loved ones in a state of worry about their actions. A lot of them are very smart and interesting people but they always fuck themselves over with bad decisions. one broke his brain permanently on psychedelics and flew to Morocco like he was a beat poet or some shit. Our only way to make sure he was alive for a full month was checking his facebook for schizophrenic posts. he's under therapy right now. And my little sister smoked who knows what once thinking it was weed. Dad had a superhero rescue mission that night. Those shaped my attitude but it's nice knowing people can do it right.

I don't think the "you can't be 100% straight edge" argument works because it's pretty easy to draw a distinction between chocolate and lsd based on how hard they hit you and how little we know of the mechanisms behind them. The bigger question is what value can be found in intentinally blowing up your consciousness for a while? Even if it felt nice, it would feel awfully dishonest and artificial to me. Plus the risks scare me like a little piggy.

See, that's where I draw the tolerance line. I can't make excuses for people who fuck over their social circle. I get it happen once... twice? But recurrent behaviour, I can't tolerate.

As for your sister, she was abused. Don't think of it any lighter. She trusted someone and they fucked her over. A lot of drug users are fucking self-indulgent scumbags with no sense of boundaries or limits. Someone does that to you, doesn't deserve an ounce of respect.

That being said... you don't have experience, that's fine, but you're really overstating the potency of the drugs. LSD can break your brain, sure, if you take like two, four tabs of a particularly potent mix? Most people take like a quarter or half a tab, it pretty much just makes you laugh at dumb stuff. As with anything, but with drugs particularly, if you don't have self-control please just steer clear of it. But truly, a small ammount of LSD isn't that much different from being happy drunk. Probably not as bad for your health, even.

Like, my friends who did cocaine, did it because a line makes you feel cool for about 30 minutes or so. They were smiling and being generally positive about things. Truly nothing scary or mind-altering at all... just a fun buzz.

It's all about quantities, I guess.

My comparison with chocolate wasn't meant to equate, it's more that the pleasure you derive from chocolate is chemically similar from the pleasure you derive from drugs. Because it ticks the same boxes in your brain, you know. They are obviously two very different things. For me, drugs are fun poisons, that's the line I draw from other pleasure-giving things. But everything you do messes with your brain, that was my point, taking drugs isn't necessarily a loss of control.

Like, you can eat so many sweets that you irreversably fuck your metabolic system. Like, they can literally "take over" your body, yet people aren't afraid of sweets. Doesn't mean sweets are "bad", just... moderation. Moderation and care.