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Drank very heavily for a spell in my mid twenties. Gave it up completely for two years when my second child was born. Then took it up again but only ever had few I don't like hangovers.
Smoked weed regularly from my late teens till mid 30s . Stopped it because I realised it was preventing me from ever doing things that I wanted or needed to do.
I started smoking a couple of years after I gave up the weed That might have been due to a residual craving for tobacco form my weed smoking days but it was certainly triggered by a work colleague who told me she thought the workmates who smoked were pathetic lowlifes. I took up smoking there and then ...for six years . Stopped in my mid forties wish I had never started.
I have taken speed and mushrooms and various other things in my early twenties.
I still like a dram or a beer occasionally a glass of wine but it's rarely more than a couple and can go weeks without any at all. Now in my mid sixties.
If you didn't take Es in the late 80s or early 90s then you really missed out on one of the greatest bits of our social history.
I was married in 1990 (at 23) - living out in the sticks, drugs and rave culture really weren't a thing. Just something you saw on the news.
On a Saturday evening I was more than likely in a field helping my wife and her mum set up for some horse show the next day! 🙂
Another boring one here.
No drugs no smoking no hookers. Alcohol occasionally, but never gone beyond a slight lightheaded feeling. Average 1-2 coffees a day. The occasional can of Monster.
Never felt any desire for it.
rarely hit it enough that i couldn't function by 10 the following morning though, had to get the training in.
christ, you must have the constitution of an ox. I used to struggle dealing with my bar job (ok it was a very busy student bar) at starting at 6pm on a Saturday evening if i'd been out raving!
I hate drugs. Never taken any.
How can you hate something you've never experienced?
The general theme I saw was coke just magnifieed your underlying personality
This 100%. It makes arseholes bigger arseholes, and makes nice friendly people even more friendly and nice. MDMA on the other hand makes everyone nicer, even the biggest arseholes. That's why football hooliganism disappeared in the late 80s/early 90s. They should put it in the water like they do with flouride.
Opposite for me, I'm an arsehole (UK version) and when I did E I was lovely, chatted to so many people. Bluergh, without it I hate people!
differnt drugs have differnt effects IIRC E / MDMA releases oxytocin which is the hormone that makes you feel love and loved. Its the thing that is released when you bond with a child. IMO this is why folk who have had a group they have taken MDMA with tend to have a large circle of good friends. they are chemically bonded via oxytocin
Done in both variety and quantity.
Yes. Used them all bar heroin and new synthetics. Hung out in charas factories in North India to taking donkey trains loaded with opium with the Hmong into China. Fun times. When the come downs became hard I stopped. Thoroughly enjoyed that period of my life, mad adventures, great parties and good friends. Now just alcohol on occasion, one of the worst drugs available to us.
I was 17 in 1990, and with the explosion of Acid House spent the next 20+ years heavily stoned, pilled up and/or tripping. Then kids came along and ruined my fun. 😀
Eventually stopped smoking in 2012 because I didn't want my young family to see me blithered on the sofa, and also Random Drug Tests became a thing at my work. Got back into biking around the same time to help recovery from a knee op and realised that exercise and nature was my new drug - and a LOT healthier.
Genuinely can't remember the last time I got really pissed - couldn't deal with hangovers in my youth let alone now I'm 52. Nowadays, I probably drink too much tea, and I'm only mildly addicted to cheese.
Hand on heart I can say I've never smoked a cigarette or done any drugs. During my teen years I saw my nan gradually go downhill from emphysema (I think it's now called COPD) as she'd smoked her entire adult life. At the end she couldn't breathe and it was horrible to witness. I was of the mindset that weed etc was still smoking, so eschewed anything that involved smoking/nicotine etc. To be honest though, nobody in my peer group back then did it either, so I wasn't around it. I worked with plenty of lads who did ecstasy and raved every weekend, but didn't socialise with them.
Never dabbled with hookers either, ftr.
I like a beer or a glass of wine, but I think I'm generally not an interesting life story (no tattoos, with the same woman for 34 years and married for 31 years, etc).
No ones every offered me any!
not one of the cool kids, but also not deep enough in the outcasts/greebos.
a real inbetweener
If you didn't take Es in the late 80s or early 90s then you really missed out on one of the greatest bits of our social history.
And the beauty of it is that in the pre-camera phone era, there is virtually no pictorial record of any of it. Thank Christ! The states we used to get ourselves in! 😂
Yeah I don't do anything illegal any more, but I had a 'future sound of london' CD in my collection, and several from Platupus records, so you can draw your own conclusions from that, hahah 😉
Similar. Music is the best way to describe it, and probably influenced my experience more than anything.
I went from this (anti drugs message)
To this:
Then, the following quotes sum it up "the drugs don't work they make things worse" "fun in the beginning but pain in the end".
Judging from some of the above, I was only a dabbler, but circumstances played a role there. Used to smoke a lot, but gave up 15 years ago or more.
Just coffee, chocolate and one beer or two at weekend.
Various forms of exercise have replaced drugs for me now.
One of the oddest experiences was on Salvia divinorum, didn't take enough for full on other-world experiences, but very very strange, didn't know who or what I was during one very short lived experience.
Alcohol, weed & shrooms were my go to's from mid teens to mid twenties, dabbled in others but preferred natural substances rather than produced, then I had kids and thankfully throttled back from the precipice. Was a social smoker for a few years which was a hang over from smoking joints.
Don't know about alpins experience in cycling whilst stoned but I found i was convinced I had a flat tyre if I ever tried biking in that condition.
work being done with e and mushrooms for mental illness. Very difficult to do in the UK because of our laws
not so- I worked for a pharmaceutical co in the UK. Our development centre was working on this- had a plentiful supply of Psilocybin.
Our Dev Centre manager was trying to get some E to work on treatment of PTSD- a massive dose is believed to “cure” it.
everyone on site had to be DBS checked due to the controlled substances on site
Not impossible but difficult and the laws limit what kind of research can be done.
One thing I am watching for is what comes out of Canada with its totally legal cannabis market
Miles took Acid and jumped off a tower block in Croydon.
Kev smoked loads of dope and eventually killed himself with an OD of something.
Ivor's brother overdosed on his toilet. His mum found him 2 weeks later.
Gary was introduced to dope by kev . The pair of them were large than life pipe fitters on the building sites.
Gary ended up as a bag of bones , visiting a and e every week convinced he had a brain tumour. Not sure what happened to him.
Shame.
Ah yes, Salvia
not sure if it can now, but 20 years ago i ordered some legally for a few of us to try
one mate took a deep lungful, held it, and exhaled...
minute later stood up and while continuously walking in a small circle said in absolute sincerity that it had did nothing at all...and continued to walk in a small circle for 5 minutes longer....
I on the other hand, was convinced a tractor tyre was pushing one side of my face up and up....
Yeah, I've got quite a history with drugs, started in my teens, ended the main blow out in my early 20's. Then trundled along with weed in my early 30's then got fully clean.
Was a massive mushroom head, lots of other hallucinogens as well, coke made me a nasty bugger so stayed away from that, some IV drug use with various concoctions of opiods a brief period of living in squatts, an overdose or two and then waking in up to find my mate dead next to me having od'd whilst I was out of it, made me seek help and get my life together.
The fact I managed to get an education and then a decent profession is a bit of a miracle really as I could have very easily been dead by 20.
It has taught me not to be too much of a judgemental dickhead though and possibly explains why I have a slightly odd outlook on the world
Done everything back in the naughties. Broadly speaking I had a good time, but others did not. I've never seen cocaine do anything good to anyones personality. I've seen people graduate from coke to crack and not come back. I've seen people lose their minds on weed, more from shutting themselves away from everything than the direct effects of it.
It has taught me not to be too much of a judgemental dickhead
Yeah I'm always arguing this point with folks when they make out junkies are scum. Noone wants to be a junkie or drug addict. Being an addict doesn't make you a bad person, but it quite often makes you do bad things.
Plenty of junkies I know were scumbags before they got anywhere near drugs. But I'm sure plenty were perfectly decent folks who at some point in their lives made some pretty bad decisions leading to where they are now
Whilst I have absolute regrets about how things ended up, at the start I had an awful lot of fun. One thing that still amuses me/ bewilders me looking back is how I absolutely refused to share straws with people as I'd read somewhere that it was a transmission route for hepatitis. Whilst at the same time shovelling industrial amounts of columbias finest, mixed with God knows what else, up my nose..
My boringness on this subject is quite extensive - I've never drunk alcohol, smoked or done drugs. Caffeine via Pepsi Max is my limit. I had friends who certainly went through pills and raves phases in the '90s and others who've smoked weed but it never appealed to me.
I've had plenty of medical-style drugs over the years I suppose, I'd definitely not be here today if not for some of them. My '90s drug experience was chemotherapy, which was pretty brutal in its own way.
Sorry @Cougar.... I apologise. Didn't mean to come across as belittling nor to cause offence. I certainly did not want to appear snarky... I know I'm a prick at the best of times, but snarky isn't really my style.
Apology appreciated but not really required. One man's cup of tea is another man's heroin and coming off caffeine is rougher than one might think, was all. Sorry myself for being cross.
Didn't take my offer, though. 😁
It has taught me not to be too much of a judgemental dickhead
Yeah I'm always arguing this point with folks when they make out junkies are scum. Noone wants to be a junkie or drug addict. Being an addict doesn't make you a bad person, but it quite often makes you do bad things.
Plenty of junkies I know were scumbags before they got anywhere near drugs. But I'm sure plenty were perfectly decent folks who at some point in their lives made some pretty bad decisions leading to where they are now
Whilst I have absolute regrets about how things ended up, at the start I had an awful lot of fun. One thing that still amuses me/ bewilders me looking back is how I absolutely refused to share straws with people as I'd read somewhere that it was a transmission route for hepatitis. Whilst at the same time shovelling industrial amounts of columbias finest, mixed with God knows what else, up my nose..
Well indeed, correlation does not equal causation.
All bank robbers drink water, therefore drinking water turns you into an armed robber.
Coke is really nasty stuff though, at best it will turn you into an annoying throbber who doesn't know when to shut up.
Don't ask me how I know that lol!
One thing that still amuses me/ bewilders me looking back is how I absolutely refused to share straws with people as I'd read somewhere that it was a transmission route for hepatitis. Whilst at the same time shovelling industrial amounts of columbias finest, mixed with God knows what else, up my nose..
I know people who now insist they will only eat, local, ethically sourced, fairtrade organic produce, all of whom spent 10 years ramming anything they could get their mucky paws on down their gullets and up their noses, all sourced from a bloke known only as Spider in a squat in Hulme 😂
All bank robbers drink water, therefore drinking water turns you into an armed robber.
Actually, a guy I worked with (who was more throbber than robber) claimed he never drank anything other then beer (Kronenberg) and coffee (Dowe Egbert's). Nobody disbelieved him, and despite our best efforts, refused to drink anything else. Regularly sunk ten cans most nights of the week, starting on the bus home. Then he got a BMW convertible and we heard stories of near misses during risky overtakes, and parking tickets, and reversing into parked cars. What a guy!
I was really into E / MDMA for a few years in my late teens / early 00s. Used to do it once a month for for probably around 5 years. Always in the context of going to clubs and raves with mates. I did a bit of DJing and it was all part and parcel of the scene.
I got into clubbing again in my early 30s and had a fantastic three years living in Leeds with a great group of mates, all around the same age. Used to put on our own parties and actually got to DJ in a couple of big clubs. Met my wife during this that time.
Now 42 with responsibilities, married with kids etc. Decks and vinyl sold long ago. The most I can manage nowadays is a couple of Belgian or German ales in a quiet hipster pub. 🤣 I still absolutely adore the music though. Best time of my life. My only regret is that I didn't party harder.
Never had so much of a puff of a cigarette in my life (the smokers at school and uni even tended to be losers rather than cool kids) and so never got tempted by anything else, although I like the smell of weed. Alcohol is a different matter - after the usual uni excess became a bit of a weekend biased binger but now it’s more of a steady more-nights-than-not pint or two. Never really touched spirts as I have always tended to drink to volume as much as incapacity and recognise that could go very wrong. Caffeine is a low priority and so are fizzy drinks, but that does mean when I have my one can of coke a year as a pep up when tired it absolutely does the trick.
I still absolutely adore the music though. Best time of my life. My only regret is that I didn't party harder.
You get a second go at it when the kids turn into teenagers and start being independent. Just don't go to the same parties as them, it looks a bit weird. I get out more now than I did in my early twenties. Also there's nothing better to discourage your kids from taking stuff than embarrassing parents off their heads on pills, MDMA and coke.
haha this
i went to see Chase and Status, bumped into my own daughter, then later bumped into my ex's daughter in the same place....
but yes, i now go to bigger things than i would have back in the day...
Just caffeine and alcohol. And ketamine served in A&E
christ, you must have the constitution of an ox.Yes, i did well into my 30's. All gone now though. Those occasions i have a beer or two, once every couple of months maybe, i'm useless the following day.
all sourced from a bloke known only as Spider in a squat in HulmeHA!! We had a dealer called spider lived round the corner from me at uni. Had a prime view when he got busted.
Was heavy smoker in my late teens/early 20s. Give up about 20 years ago now (best thing I've done) Used to smoke weed regular in my late teens, still have the odd joint and see no harm in it. Loved the disco biscuits BITD, Dabbled in magic mushrooms and Coke too bit I'm too tight to develop a habit with that stuff!
"I know people who now insist they will only eat, local, ethically sourced, fairtrade organic produce, all of whom spent 10 years ramming anything they could get their mucky paws on down their gullets and up their noses, all sourced from a bloke known only as Spider in a squat in Hulme 😂"
I know people now who're the still the same... Vegan this, organic that, the most ethical of the ethical, and yet will stuff coke up their nose, made from who knows what by cartels destroying forests, shipped by OCGs, sold by street level criminals without a thought in the world haha
TBH the most hypocritical are the ones who refused Covid vaccines because 'you can't trust it to be safe/you don't know what's in it' and yet continued to inhale anything they can find 😂
Best night of my life was on a pill of some description. but I've only dabbled in pills and powders on a couple of occasions and never suffered any after effects. Never smoked weed, never had mushrooms or LSD etc. Drank plenty in my time, but got a killer hangover from 3 shandies last week. Tend to keep it to spirits and wine now. Never have and never will smoke.
"One man's cup of tea is another man's heroin and coming off caffeine is rougher than one might think"
Stopping smoking weed was easy. Leaving the cocaine alone was easy. Alcohol was a bit more challenging but I've managed nearly two years without a drink and can't see going back to it. Giving up tea? Not a chance!
We cannot do proper research on this because its illegal
I don't think that's right There's just been a large study done by Kings College and Bath Uni. I think it was published in the BMJ but you can google it I think.
Oh shit... erm.
Weed, Speed, Coke, MDMA, LSD, Ketamin there are more but I can't think what.
I self-medicated a lot from the age of 14 to about 27/28 with illegal drugs and the nest 15 years trying to fill the hole with food, risk taking behaviours, anger, anxiety and depression.
I've met more than my fair share of NHS psychiatrists, came close to being sectioned once or twice. Did the drugs make me mad, or did the madness drive me to drugs? I'm not sure, but they certainly got along.
Most of my peers smoked just as much weed as I did, more even, but it's the smoking weed at 14 that did the most 'damage' I'm told, not being a coked up dickhead, or 24 hour parties on pills.
I don't drink, smoke or anything now. Well apart from the boxes of medications I take to be a normal member of society, it's a bit boring though.
sourced from a bloke known only as Spider in a squat in Hulme 😂
🤣I once knew a purveyor of various interesting herbs and fungi known only as 'Red'.
So called because she had bright red dreadlocks, tied in pigtails, like the Fraggle, hahah!
