Drugs- Your Experiences?

I want to be a lawyer, I don't participate in illegal activity, simply because if I got a criminal record, I wouldn't be able to work as one.

It all depends if you're sensible and responsible when taking drugs..

Yeah, "users" being the appropriate word.

I've said it before, I'll say it again....I don't want or need the respect of druggies.
I certainly don't need approval from people who won't even show their faces on this site.

I admit I am prejudiced yeah, but I've stated my reasons countless times.

Drug-users will never take the moral high ground over me.

I will never feel silly or ashamed of my views on drugs, yeah I probably have been overly harsh on this forum, but the underlying principles will remain forever.

Yeah they have. I never said I was better or more worthy as a person.

that's pretty sensible. but if you think lawyers don't take drugs then you're in for a shock. you have an amusingly naieve idea about who takes drugs. your bosses will quite possibly have been drug takers, and their bosses.

they just don't shout about, because of people like you. and they certainly don't go putting their photo on the internet.

Aye, that's fair enough.

I guess there's a spectrum, from mile to extreme usage. I admit I think of most as "extreme", probably unfairly. I have friends who do it who are off to uni and stuff.

I think in this thread I'll have to agree to disagree sorta thing.
Point taken.



^^^ this is what I said earlier.
I'm genuinely trying to see the other side, it's just difficult for me with my neighbors.
Doesn't help when people respond to my opinion with "lol".

Good for you if you're a 23 year old graduate. (That's not sarcasm btw).
But personally I think people (including you, and my neighbors) deserve better than harming their bodies through drugs.
But like I said, personal choice!

Approval, moral high ground and shame have nothing to do with how well-justified your opinions are. You've admitted prejudice, so it's hard to see why people should think your opinions justified, don't you think?

Exactly, that's where I'm coming from.

I'm sure there is probably a pretty big middle/upper class drugs scene, yeah.
I will inevitably come into contact with it one day I'm sure, I just don't want any part of it.

I'm actually quite shocked at the amount of people who support drugs on here, maybe that does make me naive.

Like I said earlier...I'll agree to disagree. There are pros and cons to the habit, I guess.

I posted on the thread in the beginning to explain that my experiences with drugs, although limited, have been negative. I didn't mean to offend anyone tbh, I think I probably cam across a bit too strong. Point taken.

The chances are you will find yourself around 'the other side' at university. When people in this thread talk about 'drugs', they are referring to things like weed, LSD, MDMA and magic mushrooms. I know they can sound scary or whatever, but they really, truthfully are not. These are substances that have been proven in the lab and in the real world to be relatively harmless and generally non-addictive. In terms of harm they belong on a totally different scale to things like heroin, meth, crack and even alcohol, and socially, they seldom overlap. In fact LSD is probably one of the most non-toxic, well tolerated chemicals you can put in your body. Once you get passed the prejudice and media nonsense the 'evil drugs' stereotype falls to pieces. The majority of drug users are just ordinary, functional, mostly young people. They are not 'druggies'.

The middle/upper class drug scene is the biggest drug scene there is.

I'll be honest, I'm not a drug counselor or expert, but the only thing I can think is that they must have been made illegal for a reason?

In many cases, literally no.

Actually that's not quite accurate. In most cases there is some kind of political reasoning behind it, even when there is zero medical/public health rationale. Before being outlawed, LSD was being tested in psychiatric applications with very promising results. It was a massive breakthrough and many scientists sung its praises. Even the US government was exploring its uses in much darker, more clandestine ways (often randomly dosing people without telling them). It wasn't until counter-culture got a hold of it that they started to consider it 'dangerous', and it was outlawed despite not meeting any of the criteria for scheduling. MDMA was a similar case, and weed prohibition has a lot of racism and corporate lobbying in its history.

Basically, it's a load of rubbish and there is zero correlation between classification (ie A, B, C) and harm to the user. It's a massive con that criminalises countless young people and ruins their lives by sending them to prison for what is essentially a victimless crime.

I've tried all of the common drugs. Weed, alcohol, cocaine, shrooms, MDMA, speed. All of them were enjoyable apart from this one time I got conned a bag of weed that was laced with bleach. Worst experience of my life, I felt like I was going to die in the alleyway I collapsed in.

I don't have any grips with drugs. It's all about moderation. Couple of lines of coke are fine, just don't go and blow £100 in a binge. I've got a gluttonous personality myself, but I can control myself and realize when it's time to stop. Also, I try to never use drugs for comfort. That's when you start becoming reliant, and eventually addicted. I only use drugs with friends with the occasional spliff or glass of whiskey in the evening by myself, and when I create artistically. The later produces amazing results and can really enhance your abilities. I got an A* in my coursework, with a short story I wrote while high as hell and drunk on whiskey. :P

Overrated

Why should the NHS waste their money on saving people like u.
Your signing a death warrant when u take drugs, is that why people take them? It's a temp fix, wouldn't it be better if u lot jumped under a train. ?


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