Acid, pot, peyote, blow? What drugs did you experiment with in your youth?

Hmm, pot is slowly getting to legalized status here and maybe I could smoke it while drinking a martini and have a bong effect...
 

Hmm, quite right, but I am not sure that there are any local head shops. Oh, well, I'll check online...
 
Around here you can go into any Middle Eastern shop and buy a Hookah pipe... It's a legal bong..


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Having had a live-in boyfriend, late 70's, standing in front of a spiderman poster and I had to leave the apt to call his mother and sisters to tell them to come get him as I didn't know what to do with him, that was enough to keep me from indulging. But, oh wait, there was that summer of 73 when I had some serious giggles, but realized, this wasn't for me when I realized, all I needed was some globe lights to give me that same spinning weird sensation, though I missed the giggles part, not the munchies. Wait, it wasn't legal and all those drunk adults around, that was ok, no fair.
 
I thought the munchies were a great part! I was super skinny so it didn't matter, but being ravenous and the enjoyment of a simple baloney sandwich with mayo and a bag of Doritos or two or three.... was heavenly..
 
Growing up in Denver, it was a "right of passage" to go up to Boulder to the Coors brewery, on your 18th birthday, and have your first "legal" beer. There was a period of a few months, while in Germany, that I became quite fond of that good stout German beer, and it was a minor miracle that I didn't crash the car. Luckily, I survived that phase, and haven't been drunk in decades. I've never had any desire to experiment with illegal drugs, and would only support the use of marijuana for medical purposes. I keep a bottle of flavored Vodka, or Brandy in the kitchen, and have a nip before bedtime....relaxes me such that I usually get a sound 7 or 8 hours of solid sleep.
 
Don M. said:
Growing up in Denver, it was a "right of passage" to go up to Boulder to the Coors brewery, on your 18th birthday, and have your first "legal" beer. There was a period of a few months, while in Germany, that I became quite fond of that good stout German beer, and it was a minor miracle that I didn't crash the car. Luckily, I survived that phase, and haven't been drunk in decades. I've never had any desire to experiment with illegal drugs, and would only support the use of marijuana for medical purposes. I keep a bottle of flavored Vodka, or Brandy in the kitchen, and have a nip before bedtime....relaxes me such that I usually get a sound 7 or 8 hours of solid sleep.
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Some folks feel the same about a joint. Pot is only illegal because we as a society have said it's illegal... Alcohol is worse as far as damage and addiction goes.. and it's legal because we made it so.
 
QuickSilver said:
Some folks feel the same about a joint. Pot is only illegal because we as a society have said it's illegal... Alcohol is worse as far as damage and addiction goes.. and it's legal because we made it so.
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In some countries (India) pot grows wild at the side of the road. You can pick it and use it, but it's illegal to sell it.
 
QuickSilver said:
Some folks feel the same about a joint. Pot is only illegal because we as a society have said it's illegal... Alcohol is worse as far as damage and addiction goes.. and it's legal because we made it so.
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Alcohol, was once illegal too, till they fought to make it not so, law enforcement had their hands full and the so called upstanding general public, weren't all that against legalizing that gem that has been responsible for far too many deaths before and since, so high ho, high ho. I don't much really care for either, but as an idiotic teen, I made many a mistake. Still making mistakes, but nothing related to drugs nor alcohol. :D

Wait, wait, I take that back, I like a little drink now and again, but more juice than alcohol in it thank you very much, not back on my high horse if you don't mind and riding into the sun set. :playful:
 
It seems that no matter how many laws are passed, people will still fool around with these drugs. Prohibition should have taught us that the government cannot keep people from destroying their lives. All our current drug laws do is make the illegal drug dealers and Mexican drug cartels filthy rich. If people persist in using this stuff, the Best solution is to make it legal, control it, and tax it. Such steps might not do much to lessen the usage, but it would go a long way towards curbing the crime that is turning large parts of our cities into zones of Anarchy. Our leaders could learn much from looking at places like The Netherlands, and how that nation has handled drug usage.
 
Judging from all the stories about "Speak Easies" and bathtub Gin.... I'd say the general public likes to be sauced... Besides.. Organized Crime was making a fortune.. The Government decided they should be the ones making the money.. so they ended prohibition. NOW it's the drug cartels making the money.. but people are NOT going to stop using their poison of choice.
 
QuickSilver said:
I thought the munchies were a great part! I was super skinny so it didn't matter, but being ravenous and the enjoyment of a simple baloney sandwich with mayo and a bag of Doritos or two or three.... was heavenly..
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My munchies of choice were potato chips and ice cream or any combination of sweet and salty.
 
QuickSilver said:
Judging from all the stories about "Speak Easies" and bathtub Gin.... I'd say the general public likes to be sauced... Besides.. Organized Crime was making a fortune.. The Government decided they should be the ones making the money.. so they ended prohibition. NOW it's the drug cartels making the money.. but people are NOT going to stop using their poison of choice.
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Ever see the PBS series on prohibition? Really interesting and some was funny like the ice cream vans that actually had booze. Or prescriptions for whisky for medicinal purposes. The president and everybody else had plenty of booze.
 
Ameriscot said:
My munchies of choice were potato chips and ice cream or any combination of sweet and salty.
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Oh same here, and I had no body issues back then well into my twenties, but, still, eating all that junk, just wasn't healthy especially trying to find it late at night when everything is closed. Now I live up the street from a place called Munchies, so ironic. :D I haven't been to the place not once, but the aromas coming from there are quite tempting and their open till the wee hours of the mornings to serve the pub crowd I guess.
 
QuickSilver said:
That's the opposite about what we tell patients in the hospital... Ask for pain meds BEFORE you actually need them. It's very difficult to get pain back down to tolerable once it has become intolerable... but much easier to keep pain controls at an even level. So we tell them.. do not be afraid to ask for your med...don't be stoic and wait until you cannot stand it any longer. But this is in the acute care setting for acute surgical pain.. Addiction usually happens after people get home and the doc keeps refilling their prescription.
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This is absolutely what I was told when I had my hip surgeries. Matter of fact, the surgeon told me that severe pain can inhibit healing. So I took my meds as instructed, and quit when I wasn't in pain anymore. I guess I don't quite understand why people get addicted, because I certainly didn't get any "high" or good feelings from the meds. They just stopped the pain.
 
I did my share of hallucinogens and smokables while young, even made the requisite brownies, can still taste them. My mother never did figure out that the large 'tomato' plant at the top corner of our back garden was, in fact, something else. Man, did I take good care of that tomato patch! Favourite Munchie, chocolate, or French fries--even together. But pot often made me paranoid, many women seemed to experience the same reaction, more so than men. My son assures me that that has been his experience as well.
 

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