People who've never taken alcohol or drugs

[Pink Gregory]

Beer beer beer tiddly beer beer beer tiddly beer.

I don't drink to get drunk, I drink because I like beer. And Whisky. But not everyone likes the taste of wood and peat.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Yes what about it? I do not drink (I decided this when I was 13), I don't smoke, I do not do drugs.
We do exist, there is a whole community of us. Like here where I live in the frozen wastes of southern Finland we have our own club with events and such things.
I say this, the fact I don't drink smoke... etc is nothing amazing, it is just as easy as saying I don't eat meat or milk, or no-organics or whatever restriction you set your diet.
I do get some loos during parties and events tho. Being only sober man gets me that look.

But yes we exist, we just don't really keep vocal about because 1. it is as amazing as saying you do not eat carrots 2. We usually get "that look" towards us.

 

[Idlemessiah]

I honestly think you need a legit health reason to not drink. Drink has been part of human culture for longer than we've had BRONZE TOOLS! Why not keep up with tradition, join in and have fun.

As for drugs, done a few myself, won't do them again. I enjoyed it sure but there's always the social stigma, particularly at work. The last thing I want while I'm trying to get a promotion is for someone to find out I'm on coke and tell the boss. So no drugs for me thank you.

 

[Libra]

I myself have never had alcohol or drugs. It's a combination of health-based, financial, philosophical and genetic arguments. I have nothing against people who do make use of them of course, though I make sure to avoid drunk people.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I don't drink poison, and I don't swallow, sniff, inject, insert, or drop other forms of poison.

I don't even take medicine unless I absolutely need to. I know why I have a headache, or a cold (I rarely have either), but I don't know what is in that shit they call medicine, what it actually does, and why I should trust a pharmaceutical company that has probably have at least 2000 class action lawsuits against them in the last 8 years alone.

They only admit to their product's risks when they legally have to, when they have crunched the numbers and decided by a committee that it is more financially beneficial to pay the victims after the fact then halt production of a drug that studies have proven has horrific side effects.

There will NEVER be a cure for cancer, aids, or any other global pandemic where the patients don't die within a month's time and aren't highly and easily contagious. There is no money in it. Why in the hell would ANYONE actually cure those diseases when its a multi trillion dollar industry of "research" "treatment" "therapy" "fundraising" and of course "prayer networks?"

If eating a glorified jellybean could stop every STD, all cancer, malaria, TB, and be an actual panacea the inventor would be taken out so fast you'd think Superman did it. Altruism gets you killed, this should really be a commandment at this point.

If, against all mercenary tendencies, it were actually produced and marketed it would probably cost $10k a month. There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO chance of it being anything other than something you will pay dearly for, for the rest of your life. Even if it were possible to immediately cure and vaccinate against everything, there is no money in that.

Like Lex Luthor said "there is no money to be made in a cure, but treatment is a highly lucrative business."

Now taking some smack you got from some guy in a parking lot, that is just about the stupidest thing ever. The fact that they didn't just shoot your dumb ass and have both their drugs and your money is frankly astounding to me.

Drinking alcohol, as a social practice is something I don't really get either. I've more or less been forced to drink several things in my life. Tasted like shit, gave me a head ache immediately. Since pretty much every female I have ever met has been a total lush, and usually my ride home, so I don't find them all that charming when they are drunk off their ass.

You think that you are all confident and sexy, or whatever. Nope you are just sleepy, and unintelligible. Also known as rapebait, or a car accident about to happen depending on where you pass out. Also, deciding to become a vegetarian and doing your Zoomba classes won't make you lose weight when you are still pounding JD and bar food every night.

 

[Fireface]

I have never had any alcoholic Drinks and never used any drugs excluding say caffeine

 

[Sarge034]

I drink socially most of the time, but I do drink by myself on occasion too. I have never used recreational drugs though. I got contact high from pot at a concert once but only slightly. I just don't find the appeal. My mind can entertain me well enough without seeing freaky shit that aint there.

But the real reason I don't get shit faced drunk and I don't do drugs is because the thought of losing control of myself scares the fucking shit outta me.

Edit- Fuck, I lied. I do enjoy me a cigar on special occasions. Weddings and the like. Other than that and booze I'm clean.

 

[Snotnarok]

Drink? Sure, drunk? Never.Never did drugs either, seen too many doing them to ever want to, I mean if it's for you sure but man the effects of some are just ...insanely creepy. Coke heads going from 20 to 200 after a short bathroom visit, heavy pot users just derping and trying to pretend they're not stoned when their eyes are so blood shot and they're struggling hard to focus.

After surgery I even turned down the pain killers just because ..well A it didn't hurt afterward and B I just don't like taking meds.
I have been accused of taking drugs as my eyes are always heavily dilated, always have had that issue and it's why I have to wear sunglasses outside of my eyes tend to catch fire. Either way, got pulled out of class and the teacher was like "Something you'd like to share with me" and me being even more ignorant to drugs then I was COMPLETELY clueless.

What drug DOES make your eyes dilate? I'm curious to what the hell she thought I was on by my eyes alone ...since I was drawing and staying quiet as I always did.

 

[babinro]

My reasons for not drinking are extremely simplistic.
It tastes bad.

I have no desire to get drunk despite never having been drunk before and any wine/beer/alcholic beverage I've sampled has always tasted awful. There's also other benefits to not drinking... I'm very poor and alcohol is costly for my income level, and it's typically an unhealthy choice(a very minor benefit all told considering what I eat).

I also don't like hanging around people who are inebriated. It's a turnoff with the opposite sex and frequently annoying with the same one. My experience with drunks has always been a great reminder of why I have no desire to drink myself.

All told alcohol has never had any appeal to me on any level. I don't give in to peer pressure so it's always been simple in social situations or with friends to decline a drink.

 

[LetalisK]

I binge drink about once a month, but have never done drugs. Unless you count copious amounts of Nyquil because I'm sick. >.>

 

[Guffe]

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You raise some interesting points. Let me start cutting up your argument a bit.

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I start of here by also saying that if I somehow came of as too aggressive, or similar, I'm sorry.

I know the debate you're trying to rouse here, I've been in a few of these myself. And the debate/discussion about "non-harmful drugs" like Cannabis is world wide. Uruguay did legistlate it just about a month or two ago, so I guess many countries will be monitoring the situation over there.

The one part I'm pretty glad you picked up was the part of "drug dealers being scum" (well most of them anyways... at least that's what the movies tell me ). This is the major part in the drug business, plus the part that people don't understand drugs and overdoses happen due to this etc.
But the fact that people die from 1) overdoses, and 2) the drug market itself. I mean drug cartells in Mexico are basically at war killing each other for land to grow Cannabis in and then the "normal street tugs" selling the stuff don't have the Santa reputation either.
If some few chosen drugs were legistlated, what will happen? Will these, at the moment criminal organisation, try to stop this whole thing making it even worse and affecting the civilian population around them, or what will happen? Because I doubt they will freely let go a business worth several millions just because some politician said the drug store can now sell "their product".

But yes, this is one of the biggest debates out there, and I have no idea when a conclusion will come to it. Like with most other big debates.

 

[game-lover]

I just don't see the appeal. At least for drugs and stuff.

Don't especially see it for alcohol but I was mostly curious to see how it would taste. I can tell you right now, that's the main reason I haven't done anything with it.

So far none of the alcoholic drinks I've sampled have been good to my tastebuds. I can't drink if it's icky.

Everything else is just lack of appeal.

 

[Aramis Night]

I do not voluntarily do drugs. When i was a kid back in the 1980's a doctor prescribed me Ritalin as an experiment to treat me for depression after my first attempt at suicide. It turned me into a violent bully. I didn't go looking for victims, but if any other kid paid me the slightest disrespect, i would see red, black out and come to my senses as teachers would be struggling to tear me off my victim. One day i woke up with a conscience, felt deep regret for all the people i hurt and refused to take any more of the pills.

Moved to a new city with my parents. City has a huge meth problem. Watched as all my childhood friends that i made there, and my parents became tweakers. Buried my father last year. Cardiac arrest brought on by meth overdose. He was 52. He had been dealing it to my old childhood friends.

Got my first GF at 17 yrs old. Had only known her for 2 weeks. She invited me to stay the weekend with her since her parents were gone. She was only 15. I had no intention of sleeping with her at the time. She knew my position on drugs. She spiked my drink anyway and took my virginity. Didn't learn about her spiking my drink till 6 months later. Just remembered her having sex with me as if it were a hazy out of body experience that ended with me crying at the foot of her bed, unsure how i could have let that happen. My only first hand experience with alcohol.

 

[Stu35]

I drink but I don't do drugs. I find it stupid to do heroin, crack, cocaine and other drugs. I don't understand why people take them. If you are doing it for medical reason, then I have no problem.

When you say "other drugs", how about Cannabis?

Given that, objectively speaking, it's not nearly as bad for you as Alcohol.

The reason that Tobacco and Alcohol are legal (in the UK) and other drugs are not, is purely for cultural and historical reasons, and drugs are mostly dealt with the way they are (again, in the UK) because of political influence and uninformed opinion, rather than actual facts.

For an example of the sort of thing I'm talking about: This is a Wikipedia Article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_classification:_making_a_hash_of_it%3F](*shrugs* if you're that interested go find the source material yourself) regarding a report by an independent committee, released in 2006, which addresses many of the problems with the way drugs are currently classified in UK law.

Personally I don't use drugs any more (mostly because, as part of my job, I'm tested for them), but I drink fairly heavily(albeit, considerably less than I used to). I've not been a smoker for about a year now, before that I was quite on-and-off with the smoking.

Mostly I've just started to get a little bit older - I can't drink and smoke all night then go play Rugby the next day like I used to. I need to spend money on things like a Mortgage and bills as well, so I can't afford to go out binging like I used to.

So, these days it's a couple of pints of an evening, and the occasional smash-up when the occasion demands.



I don't regret Drinking, Smoking or taking Drugs, and whilst I'll never understand those who don't see the appeal of them (same way they'll never understand why I do see the appeal), I'm a live-and-let-live sort of person these days, if people want to go round being all healthy and nonsense then that's their decision.

 

[Aramis Night]

Addendum: I do on the other hand abuse caffeine like a single mother abuses her kids. It was the only way i could keep up with all the tweakers i lived around without becoming one. Now i just do caffeine recreationaly.

 

[Gamer87]

I know it's bad for me, but I usually get drunk 0-2 times a week. I drink for the taste and for the buzz.

I have never used any type of drug though, and never intend to do so. First of all it ruins your body and secondly it gives money to the criminals who make and distribute the drugs. I'm also a non-smoker because yuk and unhealthy.

Caffeine I also try to stay away from. That shit just does crazy things to me

 

[Multi-Hobbyist]

I've done plenty of things. IMO (which, no one should care about in the first place) those who don't do these things, aren't quite living life. Now, there are a PLETHORA of other ways to experience life and all it's wonders, but everyone should live a little in some way or another. I'll drink every now and again, but when it comes to chemicals (among other things) I don't have an addictive personality. So I'll really only smoke cigarettes during extreme moments of stress, if not, then when I drink, which is about every other weekend. And depending on the situation at hand, I'll either drink in excess for a party or just enough to have a jolly old time. I am an avid fan of The Pot, and to this day the only reason I can say why is due to the psychological AND body high that comes from it. I've tried cocaine once, but I cut myself off there out of fear that it could develop further. I've eaten magic mushrooms plenty of times, tried acid 5 times, but I've never done meth or heroine. We all need to draw the line somewhere. And those who stray away from these things, I'm sure you have your reasons. And good on you for sticking to your ideals. Just experience life in any way you can, and you don't necessarily need drugs for it, but some can open your mind further! =)

TL;DR - If you're living straight edge, I hope you're making it worthwhile.

 

[Evil Smurf]

My view on alcohol is this:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/12caec259590056aea8138a930902b3f/tumblr_mocxs3WfLz1qjpxbbo1_500.gif

I'll say this, I like to have a drink every weekend (with friends), usually getting drunk, only because I like the taste though.
As for drugs, I've had enough experience with them to know that alcohol is all you need in a drug. Alcohol is great, it brings people together and makes bad music bearable.

 

[Patathatapon]

I sort of took alcohol once. I had a sip of wine and spat it out because it was terrible, like drinking acidic knives, and another thing that was so "alcoholic", it froze in our freezer within a day.

I'm allergic to opium, and marijuana, so those are out, and the other drugs seem too... life risking to even want to bother with.

So for me, no religious reasons. Just allergies, distaste, and having a stick up my ass (I call it my spinal cord)

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Here!
I've never seen the appeal at all. I actually have had alcohol though, but rarely more than a sip. I think it tastes absolutely terrible.