What drugs have you taken?

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt

On a side note you druggies should try Crack Cocaine. Its a media myth about its addictive qualities. No more addictive than cannibis.

Seriously. Try it every couple of night for a few weeks and you will see. Plus its getting cheap these days. Why waste your money on smoke when you can have a real good whack and not get addicted?

When Is It Best To Take Crack Cocaine?
As a rule of thumb, it is profoundly unwise to take crack-cocaine. The brain has evolved a truly vicious set of negative feedback mechanisms. Their functional effect is to stop us from being truly happy for long. Nature is cruelly parsimonious with pleasure. The initial short-lived euphoria of a reinforcer as powerful as crack will be followed by a "crash". This involves anxiety, depression, irritability, extreme fatigue and possibly paranoia. Physical health may deteriorate. An intense craving for more cocaine develops. In heavy users, stereotyped compulsive and repetitive patterns of behaviour may occur. So may tactile hallucinations of insects crawling underneath the skin ("formication"). Severe depressive conditions may follow; agitated delirium; and also a syndrome sometimes known as toxic paranoid psychosis. The neural aftereffects of chronic cocaine use include changes in monoamine metabolites and uptake transporters. There is down-regulation of dopamine D2 receptors to compensate for their drug-induced overstimulation. Thus the brain's capacity to experience pleasure is diminished.
The social consequences of heavy cocaine use can be equally unpleasant. Non-recreational users are likely eventually to alienate family and friends. They tend to become isolated and suspicious. Most of their money and time is spent thinking about how to get more of the drug. The compulsion may become utterly obsessive. The illusion of free-will is likely to disappear. During a "mission", essentially a 3-4 day crack-binge, users may consume up to 50 rocks a day. To obtain more, crack-addicts will often lie, cheat, steal and commit crimes of violence. Once-loved partners and children may be cruelly cast aside. Whole communities can be disrupted by crack-abuse. Whereas "empathogens" such as Ecstasy - which trigger the release of more serotonin than dopamine - will typically promote empathy, trust, compassionate love and sociability, "dopaminergic" drugs such as cocaine or amphetamines, if taken on their own and to excess, can easily have the reverse effect. There are complications - cocaine's affinity for the serotonin transporter is actually greater than for the dopamine transporter. But simplistically, cocaine tends to be a "selfish" drug.

There is perhaps a single predictable time of life when taking crack-cocaine is sensible, harmless and both emotionally and intellectually satisfying. Indeed, for such an occasion it may be commended. Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". This was a judiciously-blended mixture of cocaine, heroin and alcohol. The results were gratifying not just to the recipient. Relatives of the stricken patient were pleased, too, at the new-found look of spiritual peace and happiness suffusing the features of a loved one as (s)he prepared to meet his or her Maker.

Drawing life to a close with a transcendentally orgasmic bang, and not a pathetic and god-forsaken whimper, can turn dying into the culmination of one's existence rather than its present messy and protracted anti-climax.

There is another good reason to finish life on a high note. In a predominantly secular society, adopting a hedonistic death-style is much more responsible from an ethical utilitarian perspective. For it promises to spare friends and relations the miseries of vicarious suffering and distress they are liable to undergo at present as they witness one's decline.

A few generations hence, the elimination of primitive evolutionary holdovers such as the ageing process and suffering will make the hedonistic death advocated here redundant. In the meanwhile, one is conceived in pleasure and may reasonably hope to die in it.

These young druggies dont know the pleasure they are missing out on by having a few weeks on the ol'pipe.

Its as addictive as hash........

Maybe a couple of them should go out and have a bash for a few weeks and report in?


I hope you are just baiting us all Merc because you have as much knowlage of this subject as an Eskimo has about the desert.

'druggie' -get a life mate ffs
So ALL drug users should burn in hell? You dont drink tea/coffie/alchol (the most dangerous drug) or pop anadin for a headache or wot about your grandparents and all the pills they are on for there various ailments?
Because something is illegal does not make something morally or sociually wrong.
Laws are made for man not man made for laws and I am proud to have been busted a few times.
Suck an egg mate, while you are at it read a book or 3:D

FFS Merc what the hell is biting your scrotum

But seriously crack coke is pretty heavy **** and I know you are talking the piss but at the same time what if someone took what you said seriously?

Merc,


you funny man, me gonna find you and put a few dots in your drink,ninja style:D

The old coke can have very different effects on different people. For me its that absolute best! I feel great and I usually dont get too arogent towards other people. But then again im not the most aggressive person in the world (a bit too laid back if anything) so maybe that has somin to do with it.

Just feel great and usually get really funnny as well

Originally posted by catspring
6. salvia

Whats that? Is it Salvia diadorum?

Originally posted by rubadub
http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia.shtml

Ah yes that mint. That what I know it as my mate was taking about getting some.