Man...

I think I smoked pot every single day of college from the first day of second semester freshmen year until the day I got a job offer in October of senior year. Haven't touched it since. I actually used to smoke it once a night just to fall asleep, but then quit when the risk outweighed the reward.

I tried opium once and only once. I felt like a retard the next day. It was taking me ten minutes to get simple jokes. classes were way over my head. It was like my mind was stuck on "slow". Fortunately I felt better the next day and never touched the stuff again.

I had way too many friends who fried their brains on LSD and cocaine to ever consider touching the stuff.

I had one rule in college: never show up to class or work drunk and high; and never miss class or work because I'm drunk or high. I never broke the rule.

Excellent advice.... never show up drunk AND high... pick a mode and go with it!

How bright were these people before they dabbled with coke and acid? I ask because I know several people that did those drugs and went on to lead healthy productive lives... and I don't mean they just got by, they became a successful business owners and one a very well paid computer network tech.

Not everyone that got drunk in collage ended up in the gutter.

I am not defending drug use but if we are going to make progress against drug abuse as a society we need to do away with the urban myths if we are going to move forward.

I'm not talking about "dabbling" in coke and LSD. These people went from doing neither to doing large quantities of both, together, daily over several months. One girl had gone from pretty bright to so spacey normal conversation was impossible. One guy (who I thought was pretty bright too) blew his entire inheritance of $200,000 funding this whole drug fest in his first semester of college. He suddenly no longer had the grades nor the funds to continue attendance.

But it can mess with your spelling for the rest of your life... ;)

Hey man your repressing my creativity... it passed spell check it must be right!

I too know people who have blown obscene amounts of money on drug binges, no doubt the time and money could have been much better spent.

However my point being talking about people "frying their brain"

Back in the fifties it was taught that smoking weed would turn you into a mindless zombie for the rest of your life... didn't exactly happen did it.

Do you know what those two people are doing today?

from my 2nd year of HS all the way until 2nd year of College I smoked weed 3x a day. I've tried Opium, as well as well as glass as a kid- luckily I never picked that up. I used to refrain from drinking (simply due to lack of availability) to the weekends, then I would knock down on the averge of a fifth every weekend.

When I hit 20, all of a sudden I simply didn't want to do it anymore. I quit weed straight out and haven't smoked in 17 years - it was killing my motivation and my grades and progress in life showed it. I simply drink these days and even now that's dwindling. What I've noticed is that those who continued have pretty much progressed into a full on obsession or "lifestyle" as it seems.

One of my old smoking buddies, who we used to smoke in his bedroom as a kid still smokes several times daily - in the SAME bedroom he lived in as a kid. He's 37 now, and at graduation was voted "most likely to succeed". Quite sad.

rjp

True Story/Kids Today
 

Friend told me about his little cousin and friend that came to his condo to visit. They went out for a smoke. He thought hmmm... kinda young but thats OK. When they came back in he noticed his cousins friend slumped over with a wasted look on his face. he later found out the kid was huffing freon from the A/C outside with a baggie and a wrench. These kids were 14 and 15 years old.
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Yes, very sad... I have a few friends that still smoke weed and we are talking into their forties, it is apparent they are in an arrested state of development. I think that is what motivated me to stop so long ago... we were all in out thirties but still acting like teenagers :eek: I figured it was time to get out and move on.

Your tastes and needs change. Frankly, I detest druggies. As you go on, the odd behaviour becomes less acceptable and it flourishes into a full blown social handicap. I've seen it too much to be receptive to the concept.

I know of no successful druggies - the ones that have money are on borrowed time. I can honestly say that had it NOT been for the drugs growing up I'd have a financially easier life.

rjp

Never experimented. I knew what I was doing. ;)

I lost track of the guy. Last I heard he had become a full-time drug dealer to fund his many expensive habits.

The girl I still see from time-to-time. She's still spacey--still not quite there. She still lives with her parents and can't even hold down a job waitressing.

but the important question:
is she hot?

ATTENTION:

THIS IS THE DEA. EXPECT A VISIT FROM US SOON. WE HAVE ALL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE ARE CURRENTLY TRACING THEM TO YOUR HOMES. MOST LIKELY IN THE EARLY MORNING WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP.

THAT IS ALL.

Crap, I hear helicopters, black ones. :)

Oh, wait...I work near an airport [whew].

Druggies don't sleep in the early morning, they only go to sleep late in the morning, that is , if they go to sleep at all

:D

Work is for sleep.

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Yep.

I had a few shots with her. Always ended up backing out. Too much baggage, too many issues, not enough functioning gray matter.

Just weed and "E"

Good thing I lived in a small town and couldnt get my hands on anything else at that point in time.