Did you enjoy some chemical treats & smoking in 60s & 70s?

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Doesn't it irk you that what we could have gotten busted for in the '60s & '70s is now probably legal? The statute of limitations expired for most of us about 30 or 40+ years ago. Did you enjoy some chemical treats :) , way back when? underage, 21, smoking, drinking, too.:)
 

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Yes, I experimented with alcohol with I was 15, marijuana when I was 16, LSD, mushrooms, opium, and mescaline when I was 17. I enjoyed it for the most part. There were some bad experiences also. Like getting busted for dangerous drug possession. My Dad bailed me out of that fiasco. Then I gave my life to Jesus. Quit everything. :)
 
I went to high school in the 50s. I cant recall a single person being suspected of drug use. Beer was another story. Not sure what they all might have tried in later years.
 
Mostly smoke grass when I was in the Navy. I worked in the Eye Clinic, but there was no doctor- absolutely nothing to do. I had to sit, alone, in the clinic all day long, and "look busy". I couldn't read a book, just had to sit and" look busy." It helped to pass the time. I used it occasionally till I was 30. I did get into prescription narcs for a couple of months, back then. They were easier to get. It sounds disgustingly boring, but then I went on the straight and narrow.
 
Yes I did and it was mostly a positive experience so long as I was still finding out new stuff about the world and myself. But mostly because of the influence of the friend who got me to try things, it became more an about exploring the limits of ones capacity to excel at various things. That pretty much spoiled it.

In the way you hear that learning another language helps you to really know your own, I'd say that experiencing altered states can help you better understand what it is to be a human being. There is a receptive side to being that leads to wonder and appreciation. I don't regret anything from the few years around my early/mid twenties when I smoked some weed and tried some hallucinogens. But now that I've acquired a new appreciation for my unaltered state of mind, I have no desire for more.
 
Have never smoked cigarettes, drank little alcohol, but gambling unwisely, was permanently viscerally damaged by a splenic artery pseudoaneurym from a trivial amount of methylphenidate experimental use that has subsequently tragically, severely limited the rest my adult life.
 
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I never stopped, from 72 on anything that could be smoked, drank, snorted, or dropped I did it. I never got into smack or coke, everything else was fair game. I got my medical card, and then full legalization of cannabis came along, so I get to sit on my porch smoke myself silly, and not worry about anything which is the way it should have been all along.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Doesn't it irk you that what we could have gotten busted for in the '60s & '70s is now probably legal? The statute of limitations expired for most of us about 30 or 40+ years ago. Did you enjoy some chemical treats :) , way back when? underage, 21, smoking, drinking, too.:)
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My younger sister provided me with my first and almost last experience with pot. I was told pot improved concentration and because I like to read for information that sounded good to me. 😂
I smoked it and tried R E A D I N G- reading. Oops, that was too much concentration! 😂
 
Did a little pot and LSD during one year of being a teenager. The LSD was very memorable because my best friend and I did it before going on a 4 hr drive to visit relatives. Not sure what my parents thought about the two of us teen girls giggling in the backseat for four hours. Guess they thought we were just being kids.
 
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I moved to Hollywood in my late teens. 'nuff said?
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Yeap, I remember when drugs began spreading out of the ghettos and the music scene. Thanks to a play I read when taking a drama class at Hollywood High, I turned away from drugs. The play was about a woman addicted to heroin and I got the message that drug addiction is a form of slavery and I wanted my freedom, not slavery to a drug.

However, I did become addicted to tobacco. When I ran out of cigarettes my world stopped until I got cigarettes! Cigarettes came before food. I am very glad I did not risk other forms of addiction because I learned what it means to be addicted and a slave to a substance. It took years and several failed attempts and finally nicotine patches to get free. If it had not been for a grandson being asthmatic and feeling so bad he he would not go play, I may not have had enough motivation to break the habit. We lived together and I was able to quit for him.

Thank goodness I quit! The cost of a pack of cigarettes would make me homeless. Knowing what the addiction felt like, I would be paying the price if I experienced the carving.
 
I probably did more drugs and drank more alcohol than most of you, it's not something I'm proud of. I walked away from that life when I was twenty two and have been thankful every day since.

Edit..but for some reason I never smoked cigarettes, that just seemed stupid. lol
 
I knew the dangers of addiction (even to tobacco and alcohol) at an early age. I've steered clear and was surprised that even in college in the early 1970s, I was never approached about marijuana or other recreational drugs. I'm too much of a tightwad to spend money on something so totally unnecessary and bad health-wise.

My dad smoked cigars and a pipe, never cigarettes. Mom didn't smoke at all. As far as alcohol, dad liked beer if we were having Italian food, otherwise I can't recall mom ever drinking alcohol. I think they kept a small bottle of some kind of hard liquor (whiskey or something similar) for "medicinal" purposes. They did right by me by not saying "NO!" when dad had beer. He'd pour me a little shot glass so I could have some. That way it wasn't "forbidden fruit".
 
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Not sure what my parents thought about the two of us teen girls giggling in the backseat for four hours.
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Wow but I can sort of relate. I have a very sweet aunt who chatters way too much but is a little ditzy.

Early on in my pot smoking experience my just younger brother got married and had a reception at a relative’s house. We young people were downstairs getting high. When I came upstairs and opened the door there in the doorway was my sweet, ditzy aunt. I became self conscious concerned if she could tell what I was just doing. But as I stood there with her chattering away I took a long look into her eyes and realized she had no idea who I was or had been doing. It was her own insecurity which drove her chatter and prevented her from noticing the world around her. I had nothing to worry about.
 
My first experience with alcohol was malt liquor, in high school. Do not recommend that. :sick:
My parents smoked, so I tried it too and became addicted to nicotine. I have not smoked in a little over two years now.
A little pot back in my younger days, but seriously, it was very little. Oklahoma will never leagalize it but if they did I would try it again. Nothing stronger than pot,
 
Never did any drugs. I guess I was always high on the outdoors, and most likely always will be. I just never felt the need to indulge. However, I do befriend a drink now and then, and I don't judge others for their choices in the matter. Enjoy life however you want.
 

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