DRUGS. Have you ever done any?

[cringemaster]

Heres a question, that after reading Scar Tissue, I have to ask.

 

Have You Ever Done Drugs?

 

I'm just curious as to how many of my fellow mac users have done any types of drugs (excluding caffiene or Alcohol if you're over the drinking age)

 

Feel free to post what you know (or what you've tried) below, but only as long as it doesnt jeopardize your job or something.

 

Heres a list of everything considered a recreational drug.

[kramer2k]

Heres a question, that after reading Scar Tissue, I have to ask.

 

Have You Ever Done Drugs?

 

I'm just curious as to how many of my fellow mac users have done any types of drugs (excluding caffiene or Alcohol if you're over the drinking age)

 

Feel free to post what you know (or what you've tried) below, but only as long as it doesnt jeopardize your job or something.

 

Heres a list of everything considered a recreational drug.

 

I do enjoy a fine cuban every now and then...cigar that is.

[Danyel]

Hi Kramer2K:

 

I was watching E! True Hollywood Story (THS) about Hugh Hefner. Hef says the best recreational drug is Viagra (but it was not listed on the Wiki )

 

I'm not sure why Caffeine was listed on there. There are lots of American kids hooked on soda and "power-sodas" like Monster and Sobe.

 

--danyel

[cringemaster]

I do enjoy a fine cuban every now and then...cigar that is.

 

well, are u underage?

[Zealot]

See my sign . .Only for medical use .

[killbot1000]

Drugs are cool

[Universe_JDJ]

Nup -- Unless you mean medicine

[killbot1000]

No, I mean illegal drugs. If you do almost everything only every once and a while, very little harm comes to you, when you're young, enjoy a little experimentation

[Alessandro17]

I tried soft ones. If you lived in Amsterdam it was almost impossible not to.

But my body seems to reject every kind of drugs, including alcohol and tobacco.

[mifki]

Im pretty resistant to drugs, i.e: i dont get hooked easily (which is a good thing). So i have tried a couple of different drugs (alcohol, tobacco... nah j/ks more than that)

[Sabr]

Nahh. They're illegal for a reason.

[mifki]

Because the government are evil bastards and wont let us do what we want to our bodies , i havent touched any drugs (apart from booze and smokes, caffeine paracetamol and aspirin) for ages, since last august, i see no need, i find other ways to be happy

[gwprod12]

Drugs are illegal for a reason. That's indisputable. The reason just isnt a good one.

[killbot1000]

Drugs are illegal for a reason. That's indisputable. The reason just isnt a good one.

 

Perfectly said!

[Conroe Mac]

I did drugs when I was younger. I'm glad I did.

[LifeDroidGenesis7007]

Drugs all around the world have been globally illegal for dozens of years now, and before that, many people throughout history and place still wanted them banned. Now the reasons for this are usually misguided. Many different types of drugs will be correlated with violence, or insanity, or stupidity. This has happened for thousands of years, mostly starting with the legend of the 'Old Man of the Mountains' in which a particular Siite section of Islam broke of and started their own version of the religion. It was said that these Nizari Ismaili produced the first ever assassins and they would execute other believers of other types of Islam who threatened their own. They were first termed 'Hashishiyya' because of their reported hashish use (edible marijuana resin), the word then changed to assassin in the west. One of the very first misguided understandings of drugs happened here because people thought that the hashish that they ate made them more violent, however the plant does the exact opposite, it usually causes feelings of well-being and calmness. Other such stories exist for other such drugs, but this is one of the most popular stories of its kind.

People have always been scared of drugs, and it is usually the people who have never tried them. Thousands of accounts all throughout history of observed drug use hail it as 'bad.' But for millions of peoples who used drugs they were just a part of life. For ceremony and prayer, drugs were sometimes even considered gateways to communication with God. All throughout Asia major and minor, drug use played a huge role in ceremonies and for recreation. But there have always been people who saw it as bad and dangerous to social order.

However every single drug, besides the extremely current drugs, has been used all throughout history as medicine. Opium, marijuana and cocaine were all extremely useful anesthetics. Even alcohol has medical uses. Doctors for thousands of years have written down hundreds of different drugs that also cured ailments.

There has also never been a time where any drug actually threatened a society. Though in China, higher officials always feared that marijuana drug use was anti-social and made people unruly, drug users never threw any rebellions of their own. Most tried to keep to themselves and where fairly un-confrontational.

This all leads to the illegality of drugs today, which is largely caused by miss-information. Take the illegality of marijuana which had traveled to the US with the Mexican populace in the early 1900's. Many different propaganda films where created to scare the American public to believe that marijuana caused people to murder and go insane. By extension, that Mexicans were insane murderers. Farther from the truth then anything they could have said this gave the US government a way to control the Mexican populations coming to America.

The prohibition era was caused by Christian extremists who caused such a religious panic that the entire country of America banned alcohol. A drink that had been used widely for thousands of years, even by Jesus Christ himself, was suddenly illegal because a small minority threw themselves into a moral panic and tried to force it on everyone else. It didn't work.

In 1986 the US threw itself into a crack-cocaine frenzy. In one year stories covering drug use went up 400% and the country was scared out of its mind. It was believed that crack, a diluted and highly processed form of smokable cocaine, was being used by kids all around America. Though at the time crack use was dropping, the American middle class wanted new laws. Unfortunately most of these laws were laws that disadvantaged minorities and low-income peoples of inner cities. Because of extremely strict punishments for the simple possession of drugs, people where getting thrown into jail left and right. The prison populations exploded and by 1991 one in every ten black males was in the punitive custody of the state (parole, prison, probation, etc.) This particular crack scare worked to control black people and poor people, similar to how marijuana laws were made to control Mexicans.

The point is the illegality of drugs has always been unfounded in reason. Moral panics and religious fervor have always led the race for newer and stricter laws against drug users. It continues today with the recent ecstasy scare, which, though a smaller moral panic, led to extremely harsh penalties for users.

However the game is changing these days because drugs are becoming more and more dangerous. The newest forms of heroine, crack, methamphetamines and ecstasy are more potent then ever and contain more chemicals than most other drugs. The new drugs do not simply change the way a person feels or acts; they change the person's brain. These drugs are chemical cocktails with usually unknown chemicals. Because the drug trade is illegal and there are no health restrictions, more and more dangerous drugs are being developed every year. The market is just that big. With millions, possibly billions, of potential users out in the world today, the illegal drug business is larger than ever. If there is a connection between drugs and violence it is at the dealers' level. Because their jobs are illegal and the dangers of getting robbed are so high, dealers all around the world have to be tough and unwavering. The business has been taken up by gangs and other small organizations. The illegality of drugs, just like the prohibition of alcohol, created more organized crimes. And it has also thrown many innocent people in jail. There have been countless stories of the states overreaction to drug use. People getting caught with a few grams of marijuana would get sent to jail for dozens of years.

Drugs can ruin peoples' lives, but it is inside every one of us to decide whether or not we want to risk it. Drugs can create many friendships and many wonderful times with people, and they can also get you killed. But there are hundred of things out there that people do that are bad for their health and potentially life threatening. How many people eat fast food everyday? How many people drink alcohol? How many drink coffee? All potentially harmful, but if controlled, mostly harmless. It is up to the individual and not the government to decide what is acceptable to use and enjoy. In the pursuit of happiness and the survival of the mind, people use drugs. To heal and to pray with, people use drugs. To make friends and to enhance feelings, people use drugs. The risk of over use will always be there, and so will the drugs. However it is for the person to make up their own minds, and not for others to make up their minds for them.

[killbot1000]

Drugs all around the world have been globally illegal for dozens of years now, and before that, many people throughout history and place still wanted them banned. Now the reasons for this are usually misguided. Many different types of drugs will be correlated with violence, or insanity, or stupidity. This has happened for thousands of years, mostly starting with the legend of the 'Old Man of the Mountains' in which a particular Siite section of Islam broke of and started their own version of the religion. It was said that these Nizari Ismaili produced the first ever assassins and they would execute other believers of other types of Islam who threatened their own. They were first termed 'Hashishiyya' because of their reported hashish use (edible marijuana resin), the word then changed to assassin in the west. One of the very first misguided understandings of drugs happened here because people thought that the hashish that they ate made them more violent, however the plant does the exact opposite, it usually causes feelings of well-being and calmness. Other such stories exist for other such drugs, but this is one of the most popular stories of its kind.

People have always been scared of drugs, and it is usually the people who have never tried them. Thousands of accounts all throughout history of observed drug use hail it as 'bad.' But for millions of peoples who used drugs they were just a part of life. For ceremony and prayer, drugs were sometimes even considered gateways to communication with God. All throughout Asia major and minor, drug use played a huge role in ceremonies and for recreation. But there have always been people who saw it as bad and dangerous to social order.

However every single drug, besides the extremely current drugs, has been used all throughout history as medicine. Opium, marijuana and cocaine were all extremely useful anesthetics. Even alcohol has medical uses. Doctors for thousands of years have written down hundreds of different drugs that also cured ailments.

There has also never been a time where any drug actually threatened a society. Though in China, higher officials always feared that marijuana drug use was anti-social and made people unruly, drug users never threw any rebellions of their own. Most tried to keep to themselves and where fairly un-confrontational.

This all leads to the illegality of drugs today, which is largely caused by miss-information. Take the illegality of marijuana which had traveled to the US with the Mexican populace in the early 1900's. Many different propaganda films where created to scare the American public to believe that marijuana caused people to murder and go insane. By extension, that Mexicans were insane murderers. Farther from the truth then anything they could have said this gave the US government a way to control the Mexican populations coming to America.

The prohibition era was caused by Christian extremists who caused such a religious panic that the entire country of America banned alcohol. A drink that had been used widely for thousands of years, even by Jesus Christ himself, was suddenly illegal because a small minority threw themselves into a moral panic and tried to force it on everyone else. It didn't work.

In 1986 the US threw itself into a crack-cocaine frenzy. In one year stories covering drug use went up 400% and the country was scared out of its mind. It was believed that crack, a diluted and highly processed form of smokable cocaine, was being used by kids all around America. Though at the time crack use was dropping, the American middle class wanted new laws. Unfortunately most of these laws were laws that disadvantaged minorities and low-income peoples of inner cities. Because of extremely strict punishments for the simple possession of drugs, people where getting thrown into jail left and right. The prison populations exploded and by 1991 one in every ten black males was in the punitive custody of the state (parole, prison, probation, etc.) This particular crack scare worked to control black people and poor people, similar to how marijuana laws were made to control Mexicans.

The point is the illegality of drugs has always been unfounded in reason. Moral panics and religious fervor have always led the race for newer and stricter laws against drug users. It continues today with the recent ecstasy scare, which, though a smaller moral panic, led to extremely harsh penalties for users.

However the game is changing these days because drugs are becoming more and more dangerous. The newest forms of heroine, crack, methamphetamines and ecstasy are more potent then ever and contain more chemicals than most other drugs. The new drugs do not simply change the way a person feels or acts; they change the person's brain. These drugs are chemical cocktails with usually unknown chemicals. Because the drug trade is illegal and there are no health restrictions, more and more dangerous drugs are being developed every year. The market is just that big. With millions, possibly billions, of potential users out in the world today, the illegal drug business is larger than ever. If there is a connection between drugs and violence it is at the dealers' level. Because their jobs are illegal and the dangers of getting robbed are so high, dealers all around the world have to be tough and unwavering. The business has been taken up by gangs and other small organizations. The illegality of drugs, just like the prohibition of alcohol, created more organized crimes. And it has also thrown many innocent people in jail. There have been countless stories of the states overreaction to drug use. People getting caught with a few grams of marijuana would get sent to jail for dozens of years.

Drugs can ruin peoples' lives, but it is inside every one of us to decide whether or not we want to risk it. Drugs can create many friendships and many wonderful times with people, and they can also get you killed. But there are hundred of things out there that people do that are bad for their health and potentially life threatening. How many people eat fast food everyday? How many people drink alcohol? How many drink coffee? All potentially harmful, but if controlled, mostly harmless. It is up to the individual and not the government to decide what is acceptable to use and enjoy. In the pursuit of happiness and the survival of the mind, people use drugs. To heal and to pray with, people use drugs. To make friends and to enhance feelings, people use drugs. The risk of over use will always be there, and so will the drugs. However it is for the person to make up their own minds, and not for others to make up their minds for them.

 

Perfectly said.

[mifki]

Perfectly said.

 

 

Perfectly said.

[Alessandro17]

Very good post, LifeDroidGenesis7007.

 

There is a {censored}load of hypocrisy among most Western governments. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, Red Bull and similar drinks are sold freely everywhere.

My Psychology Professor used to say that tobacco is more dangerous than cannabis, alcohol more dangerous than heroin.

[Prawker]

Perfectely Said

Perfectly said.

 

Perfectly Said!

[LifeDroidGenesis7007]

Is there really no-one who disagrees?

[non sequitur]

I choose not to do them, just because i feel i don't need them.

 

from American Scientist Online

The above said, there is a lot of hypocrisy in the legality of drugs.

[LifeDroidGenesis7007]

Oh My God, this graph is completely kick-ass.

[kernalzero]

all i've got to say is that during my pharmacology class we learned one among many important things about marijuana...our body has receptors for it, why do you think we have a receptor in our bodies that will only bind with THC?? :pirate2:

[zenchicken]

I've done my share.

I don't regret it.

I continue doing some, mostly legal.