At Staffs Uni in Stoke early 90s two of us decided we'd give all drugs a try, a kind of study! We already smoked weed daily and were already in to the dance scene (living in between Shellys & Stoke helped!)so that ticked off speed, pills, acid and shrooms and in later years ketamin and coke. And we're not talking the occasional night out, a group of us would start on friday and end on sunday most weekends for two years, not every weekend though as body needed to rest, occasionally. We knew a dealer who got us some brown.....im not going to lie, it was lovely experience. Beer and temazepam were our monday student night entertainment, often piercing the pill and chasing it.....cant remember any details of those nights!
Knew what we were doing and knew it was just an experiment although the dance drugs became a very regular part of my life and I dont regret a single experience, always knew it wouldn't last and it didn't. We just wanted to know about all 'popular'drugs whilst we were young free and single and I'm glad we did
Findings (personal opinions)....didn't like ket, coke over rated, everything else enjoyable. If you're not 100% sure you can stop any/all of the drugs do not try them (easier said than done for many)
42 years old now, 20 and 18 year old girls,comfortable happy life, just smokes now and the very rare big dance night out. But |i know not everybody would end up like I have soI could never recommend it
He was far better with horse than booze, honestly if I could have picked one to get him off, it'd have been the beer.
I've said this before on other threads about drugs, addiction is far more complicated than simply being addicted to heroin, or crack or alcohol etc. In many cases an addict is using multiple drugs and may be physically and/or mentally dependent on one or more drugs to differing degrees. For the cases where a user is addicted to both heroin and alcohol, the alcohol addiction often takes precedence in terms of treatment than the heroin addiction for the simple reason that it is much more harmful in health terms.
[i]My friend[/i] has tried most things but never H.
That said I do have a surprising large (and slightly worryingly so) group of friends who all got into it together.
I have seem the way it destroys lives and am immensely proud of them all as they have managed to drag themselves back from oblivion. I have seen people on the edge of physical and mental survival because of that nasty nasty stuff and watching them go through that journey was incredibly hard.
It is the one drug I am truly scared of and hope to god babybgoode never comes into contact with.
Pretty much everyone I know has at some point taken coke, weed, acid, E etc etc, but I've never met anyone who has done (or has admitted) to trying heroin.
My mate use to be a chemist and he use to run his coke through a filtration process to get rid of all the crap it was mixed with. Apparently pretty much 80-90% of what you sold was just filler, which kind of put me off a bit.
I have obviously lived a very sheltered life, the only thing I have ever tried is a few puffs of weed. Don't think I have even smoked a cigarette 😯
My mate use to be a chemist and he use to run his coke through a filtration process
Was he crackers?
Partied VERY hard up in Manchester and a bit down south but well grown out of it now
Offered brown a couple of times - even whilst proper boxxed - but always had enough sense to decline
I'm sure it would have been fun - but never wanted to cross the line
With the other stuff - awesome - best times i've ever had - mixing & matching all sorts and the experiences i had were amazing
Met my Mrs on an amazing trip at Glastonbury - all good times 🙂
Not looking forward to having a discussion with my children if i ever suspect that they're partying like i used to though...... 🙂
btw it should be noted that when I and I assume most of us did mushrooms, they weren't actually illegal!
Best legal high ever! 
(I've actually never tried any of todays legal highs, don't appeal at all)
The modern legal highs are just badly copied versions of the good stuff from 10 years back and are pretty nasty - the comedowns are evil and they're probably doing way more damage to the yoofs of today 🙁
Shrooms.......
Favourite thing ever!! 🙂
I think it's probably fair to suggest there is some correlation between ex-party heads and getting in to mountain biking/'extreme' sports. Seems like a more wholesome way of chasing a bit of a buzz.
The dark side of drug use is the significant mental health issues that can arise from drug use.
Having seen people in a drug induced psychosis or coming down off a weekend of taking "whatever was offered" and they're writhing on the floor because they're experiencing tactile hallucinations is enough to stop you ever wanting to take drugs.
Depression is another nice little side effect.
Yep - agree that there are serious dangers, but no less than other thrill seeking activities experienced in our youth
I bet most of us were complete loons in cars or on motorbikes back in our late teens and early 20s
Sadly, i know more people killed or lamed due to going too fast than people who talk about mental issues related to drug abuse
Maybe they don't speak about it - but i'm still very close to old party mates and i can only think of a few who went off the rails - and if it wasn't drugs which sent them that way, then drink would have done the same
I don't recommend them to anyone, but i'll always say that i had a great time on them 🙂
Tried most things, a lot in the source country. Quality has plummeted over the years as its moved from Hippy's and bikers and groups of friends organising supplies to serious criminals.
Smoked fresh opium in Laos it was lovely but way too lovely if you were a damaged person needing to block out life. Unfortunately this appears to be a major problem for poorer people who cannot afford the drugs in the long term.
However survived unscathed and don't play anymore.
People like getting trashed so might as well make it safe and legal. Raise some taxes and cut out the criminal gangs.