Have you ever used Cocaine?

[Dahdutcher]

Nope.

But I'm against all drugs (Yes, weed as well), and would love to see them made completely illegal.

Well, except painkillers ofcourse.
Come to think of it, in what category does morphine fall? I know the doctors insisted I used it when I broke my arm.

captcha: high time
How appropriate

 

[MarlonBlazed]

I've done every drug except for heroin and crack, in the end I quit them all cold turkey and my life has been really messed up ever since... Do yourselves a favour and never do coke. Also to everybody who has never done any drugs but feels like bashing anyway, do the world a favour and do coke.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Why use cocaine when they are far easier, cheaper, far more effective things to use?
Shit I remember when I was on ADHD meds. That stuff is better than any cocaine.

Really? And also, you don't happen to know what'll happen if e.g. ritalin and thc/cbd is consumed somewhat simultaneously? Anyone?

OT: I've thought of it a few times, and although it sounds... "fun", I do not want to get into that sort of trouble. I'll stick to the occasional herb or alcohol, even though my psychiatrist discourages those things, too.

Probably make your heart explode. Honestly you don't need to mix. I know that I took 100mg once and easily stayed up for 48 hours.

 

[Lunatic High]

Weed is the way to go bar none. You'll never find a guy selling his kid's stereo for a bag of pot, or so deperate for such a fleeting moment of artifical pleasure that they are willing go as far as risking serious jail time. Plus its fucking expensive to boot and most people who do hard drugs like that really can't afford to. Its almost like smoking that way I figure somewhere between 70 - 85% of smokers can't afford to smoke. At least with pot you have a pretty good idea of where it came from THE GROUND, anything that has to be chemically refined or what ever isn't good to get hooked on. Although to be fair your lungs were only ever meant to intake air so pot does lose one star on that account.

 

[Quaxar]

Nope.

But I'm against all drugs (Yes, weed as well), and would love to see them made completely illegal.

Well, except painkillers ofcourse.
Come to think of it, in what category does morphine fall? I know the doctors insisted I used it when I broke my arm.

I like you!

What categories are you talking about? Morphine is an opioid, like heroin. It's just that opioids are also the most potent pain killers imaginable and in a right dosis and situation has few downsides than for example aspirin and such.

I never got why people are so against drugs. I never do drugs, nor do I smoke, but to take away ones right to do that i don't get. They only hurt themselves. It should be legal, but legistlated and controlled by the government. For example, you're allowed to do hard drugs in those big centers they would build, so they're no a danger to themselves or anyone else when they're high. They'd be pretty sure of the quality of the drugs and at all time it'd be easier for them to find a way to go to rehab, because everytime they would go out or back they'd get info on where to get rehab.

Your idea builds on an utopian society. Most people don't want to go to a special place to get high, they want to do it at parties with friends or something, it also means that somebody in the country'd have to start planting to satisfy the immense supply because I can't see any self-respecting gouvernment purchasing drugs from a South American drug cartel and that opens up a whole lot of more problems and restrictions. Compare it to the legalized weed planting in California only now you're not competing with the weird kid from next door but making a lot of very rich and very powerful drug lords quite angry.

Also, as a paramedic and med student let me tell you drug addicts don't "only hurt themselves". They are a menace to everybody, often quite violent because you just disturbed their high with your antidot, never mind that you just saved them from its letal complications, they steal to get more money for their habit, they either try to steal or trick you into giving them pain meds and they continue all this because they are physically and psychologically addicted.
And there's a lot of people that have to deal with all this on a daily basis, it's not a one person only thing.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

But really, no I don't and I never intend to. I'm actually pretty surprised as many people as their are have come forward here to admit they have, though I guess I didn't get out much in my teen years (I still don't) so the most I ever witnessed anyone doing was getting drunk off their ass and smoking weed. Though I did hear of others developing coke habits at school though I don't know to what degree they were being honest and quite frankly those kind of parties really didn't seem up my alley anyway. =/ So in short my experience with drugs has been basically non-existent and I think I'm better off for it.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

"There is a time and a place for everything, and it's called college"

So, yeah, few times in college. Never got a good enough buzz to wanna do it again tho. I'm one of those people who don't really do drugs but i'd try anything once, even heroin (the only exception being meth).

 

[Mint Rubber]

Oh man!

I open a random thread and I find it full of hard drug endorsements. I'm not gonna say the usual "I don't wanna live on this planet anymore" but the level of acceptance simply surprises me. Perhaps it's a cultural thing like east vs vest.

Do you wanna know what I think?

DRUGS MAKE YOU WEAK!

If you want to live in a fantasy fairy tale world where you have no control over your body or thought process...well, be my guest. You're not hurting anybody...or are you?

Every time you buy illegal drugs you support a system that plagues this world. You support a system that kills tens of thousands of people each year.
From South American self-styled freedom fighters who fund themselves with drug money down to smartly dressed husslers who engage in human trafficking and use drugs to keep their slaves in check, do you really want to stand next to these people and be a part of the system?

In college I studied Sociology and I had some courses in Deviant Tendencies (most of which were drug related) so that makes me a bit more vulnerable to this subject. Once you talk to a few people who work inside the drug-prevention/enforcement system, once you hear a few of the horror stories...it's enough.

Also...you think you're safe because you're healthy?
When I had an appendicitis operation some years back I found out that I'm allergic to a certain compound in the anesthetic. I had a glottic spasm and almost died, luckily I was on the operating table. Do you know where else you can find that compound? In you average, day-to-day, eat'em-like-candy ecstasy.
This kind of thing could happen to anybody. You're not dealing with real chemists here either so the risks are even higher.

There's no such thing as recreational drug use.

While you can argue that a glass of red wine 2 times per week is good for the circulatory system, drugs have no good side.
Think about this: a hard antibiotics treatment can end up giving you an ulcer. And this is a prescribed, tested drug. Just imagine what street drugs can do to you .

Doing drugs when you're not suffering from some kind of medical condition has ONLY cons. Therefore it is illogical to use drugs. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems really simple to me.

To OP: no, cocaine should not be made legal. Drugs in general should only be used when presciped by a doctor for a serious medical problem.

Some things in life may feel good, but they're just not worth it.

It's not my intention to preach. You're free to do whatever you want.
I can only hope for one thing: that this message reaches someone who's on the fence about drugs and convinces him/her not to do it.
That is all.

 

[Unsilenced]

On the one hand, cocaine can actually be one of the safer drugs if taken in small dosages. There's a reason it was used medically when it was legal.

On the other hand of course, it's also one of the easier drugs to OD on. Alcohol at least takes some effort to kill yourself with. With cocaine you can OD on your first go and not know until your heart stops.

I think if/when weed gets legalized we'll have a better idea of how to handle other drugs. I oppose government intervention as a general principle, but just suddenly legalizing everything doesn't seem like a great plan either.

I did a line once, didn't really feel anything.

Little bit more energy I suppose...but I wasn't impressed overall. Maybe I just didn't do enough

I hear that can happen the first time you do it, regardless of dose. Not that I would necessarily recommend trying it again.

 

[iseko]

That shit tends to make you aggressive. And it's bad for you in so many ways. Don't touch drugs. Don't believe the hype that drugs are somehow okay and that the government is trying to control you. Seriously, don't.

I don't even like it when people smoke weed in my presence. But it's the only drug I tolerate. If you do any kind of other drugs prepare to be seen as a piece of garbage by me.

1) it's manufactured and distributed by drug cartels, gangs and the mob. Those are not nice people. You buying and using drugs = you think those organisations are okay. In my book: you deserve to get a bullet

2) It messes you up and most hard drugs do it permanently. Cocaine is one of them.

There are hundreds of reason why you shouldn't touch them. These two are the most profound. Don't use em and don't associate with people that do.

 

[flarty]

Yes done cocaine on more than one occasion and enjoyed it.
Prohibition does not work, it didnt work with alcohol and it doesnt work with any other drug, it just drives it underground and in to the control of criminals.
If we were to legalize all drugs it does not mean everyone would automatically start shooting heroin and smoking meth.
If you look to portugal and how possesion isnt crime for roughly 10 years now, theres less stigma attached to drug use and addiction so more people are willing to get treatment.

 

[RJ 17]

This thread is likely going to be locked down...they don't like talking about drugs on this forum.

But the topic hasn't been locked yet so I'll say this:

Drugs are man-made substances, weed grows naturally. As such, weed is not a drug and there shouldn't be anything that keeps people from enjoying their "herbal supplements".

 

[Combustion Kevin]

didn't ya hear? coke's for rich people.
myself, I'm usually up for a spacecake piece, but nothing heavier than that.

I do think government regulation's the key, though, outright forbidding it only serves cartels and other criminals, placing the production under inspection and distribution in specialised stores, just like a liqour store, would solve many problems.
not all, I think there may be things I'm not thinking of, or problems that aren't apperent yet, but I think it's a step forward.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Nope! I smoked weed quite a bit when I was a bit younger, and one time there was a bit of crack in that weed, but that was an accident and not intentional. So that was really the extent of my illegal drug use. Most hard drugs are a little too damaging and potentially chemically addictive for me. Additionally I developed depersonalization when using psychedelics, which is why I've stopped smoking weed. Not feeling like you're in control of your body is pretty fucked up...

 

[Unsilenced]

This thread is likely going to be locked down...they don't like talking about drugs on this forum.

But the topic hasn't been locked yet so I'll say this:

Drugs are man-made substances, weed grows naturally. As such, weed is not a drug and there shouldn't be anything that keeps people from enjoying their "herbal supplements".

...

Um...

Ok, disregarding the whole idiocy of the "natural means it's good" thing (Lolopium), cocaine actually is refined from a plant as well.

There are plants/fungi/etc out there that can fuck you up. They're still drugs. They're psychoactive, therefore they are drugs.

 

[AndyRock]

the only drug I can think about being reasonable to legalise is weed, but only because it's ill-effects are less than alcohols, and so many people do it anyway, they're just giving money to weed farmers. Cocaine is another matter entirely, it has the potential to do massive harm in a short space of time, and the majority of people I know have their heads screwed on right, and so don't use it, so legalising it has a much larger potential for harm. The fact that drug cartels are making money from cocaine makes this a sort of dilemma, but I firmly believe that it should never be legalised.

 

[flarty]

Oh man!

I open a random thread and I find it full of hard drug endorsements. I'm not gonna say the usual "I don't wanna live on this planet anymore" but the level of acceptance simply surprises me. Perhaps it's a cultural thing like east vs vest.

Do you wanna know what I think?

DRUGS MAKE YOU WEAK!

If you want to live in a fantasy fairy tale world where you have no control over your body or thought process...well, be my guest. You're not hurting anybody...or are you?

Every time you buy illegal drugs you support a system that plagues this world. You support a system that kills tens of thousands of people each year.
From South American self-styled freedom fighters who fund themselves with drug money down to smartly dressed husslers who engage in human trafficking and use drugs to keep their slaves in check, do you really want to stand next to these people and be a part of the system?

In college I studied Sociology and I had some courses in Deviant Tendencies (most of which were drug related) so that makes me a bit more vulnerable to this subject. Once you talk to a few people who work inside the drug-prevention/enforcement system, once you hear a few of the horror stories...it's enough.

Also...you think you're safe because you're healthy?
When I had an appendicitis operation some years back I found out that I'm allergic to a certain compound in the anesthetic. I had a glottic spasm and almost died, luckily I was on the operating table. Do you know where else you can find that compound? In you average, day-to-day, eat'em-like-candy ecstasy.
This kind of thing could happen to anybody. You're not dealing with real chemists here either so the risks are even higher.

There's no such thing as recreational drug use.

While you can argue that a glass of red wine 2 times per week is good for the circulatory system, drugs have no good side.
Think about this: a hard antibiotics treatment can end up giving you an ulcer. And this is a prescribed, tested drug. Just imagine what street drugs can do to you .

Doing drugs when you're not suffering from some kind of medical condition has ONLY cons. Therefore it is illogical to use drugs. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems really simple to me.

To OP: no, cocaine should not be made legal. Drugs in general should only be used when presciped by a doctor for a serious medical problem.

It's not my intention to preach. You're free to do whatever you want.
I can only hope for one thing: that this message reaches someone who's on the fence about drugs and convinces him/her not to do it.
That is all.

no offense, but you sound like someone who has no experience with drugs or researched anything about the matter either.

 

[RJ 17]

This thread is likely going to be locked down...they don't like talking about drugs on this forum.

But the topic hasn't been locked yet so I'll say this:

Drugs are man-made substances, weed grows naturally. As such, weed is not a drug and there shouldn't be anything that keeps people from enjoying their "herbal supplements".

...

Um...

Ok, disregarding the whole idiocy of the "natural means it's good" thing (Lolopium), cocaine actually is refined from a plant as well.

There are plants/fungi/etc out there that can fuck you up. They're still drugs. They're psychoactive, therefore they are drugs.

You said yourself, "cocaine is refined from a plant". That means it's man-made. There's no cocaine plant out there you can go out, find, and do some lines from. It has to be prepared, therefore it is a drug.

The plants/fungi/etc out there that fuck you up, if taken by themselves, aren't drugs...they're plants/fungi/etc that can fuck you up.

And I never said "natural = good", I said "Weed grows naturally. As such, weed is not a drug and there shouldn't be anything that keeps people from enjoying their "herbal supplements". Specifically: weed. I don't believe I ever made mention of any other plants/fungi/etc, nor did I ever make the connection that we should go out and start eating/licking/sniffing everything we find in nature.

In short, all I said was that weed wasn't truly a drug, and I stand by that.

 

[Limecake]

Ok, disregarding the whole idiocy of the "natural means it's good" thing (Lolopium), cocaine actually is refined from a plant as well.

There are plants/fungi/etc out there that can fuck you up. They're still drugs. They're psychoactive, therefore they are drugs.

most drugs are refined from some sort of plant or fungus. Heroin, Cocaine, LSD are just concentrated versions (or in the case of LSD diluted version) of the plant/fungus. Chewing the leaves from the coca plant is not even close to snorting cocaine.

OT: I've never done Coke, it's never interested me and frankly I think putting anything up my nose is pretty nasty (let alone coke or heroin).

but I think all drugs should be legal, including the dangerous ones like heroin. It would actually reduce crime and allow us to better monitor drug use and it would greatly increase our ability to study the drugs and it's effects.

but baby steps, I'll settle for legal pot even if I don't smoke it anymore.

 

[The Funslinger]

I did a line once, didn't really feel anything.

Little bit more energy I suppose...but I wasn't impressed overall. Maybe I just didn't do enough

Well, there's only one way to find out!

OT: Yeah, pot has become almost universally accepted and the only people I've met still demonizing it passionately are the sort who like to feel superior, and are usually quite stuffy stick-up-their-arse sorts anyhow.

The edgy new thing for all the drug kiddies round here these days is MCAT, which I'm pretty sure is distilled from some kind of cleaning fluid. Skivvy as fuck. Beyond that, the sources people probably get them from are worrying. All this and more is why I wouldn't try it ever.

If I want to eat baby laxatives I'll visit the chemist.