I understand this position, and appreciate your candor/outreach effort. However, what I'm hoping is that we can get to a place in the future where our "fix" is in fact healthy and productive; I am attempting to set an example. My fix used to be something along the lines of:
1 large glass poppy seed tea
one giant bong rip dank nugs
two large coffees
Why relate this? Because it got me no where. Now I'm not about to tell people what drugs to do, but they certainly shouldn't be ostracizing me for not doing drugs. Do you agree?
Of course one should not be ostracized for their abstinence from drug use. I definitely aspire to have a morning fix similar to yours and ingest things that are healthy for my body and mind. But I feel like Drug Culture, as a forum, attracts the heaviest users of substances and perhaps the largest number of addicts on Bluelight, except of course for The Dark Side, but this is a forum for "lighthearted conversation about drugs" rather than conversation about getting clean. Perhaps we haven't admitted to ourselves we have a drug problem. Perhaps we feel like we have our drug use under control. Perhaps our drug use actually ISN'T a problem.
Whatever the case may be, however, most of us in DC are multiple-times-a-week drug users, all the way up to multiple-times-a-day drug users.
I'll use myself as an example: I'm physically addicted to 4 substances: benzodiazepines, opiates, caffeine and nicotine. Obviously, this is not a point of pride for me, but rather a statement of fact. If I don't manage to "fix" each morning by ingesting each one of those substances in some form, I will end up with, at best, a nagging psychological craving (caffeine) and at worst, a grand mal seizure in which death is a possibility (benzodiazepines). At the very least, I'm not going to be feeling good - hell, I'm not going to even be feeling like a NORMAL HUMAN BEING -- if I don't get these "fixes". Perhaps it's the word "fix" that is where the misunderstandings come into play.
When you say you take your psych meds at the proper dosages and use herbal supplements, it can seem condescending to someone who isn't comfortable with the amount of drugs they use but who still wish to talk lightheartedly about drugs. It's not the "let's get the posters of Drug Culture clean" thread, lol. Although I'd love for all of us here to not have any problems and use to our hearts' content, it's not going to happen.
I feel like you were unfairly disrespectful to the BLer escape20 with your list, comparing his use of heroin to your use of dextroamphetamine. That list you made comes off as being made by someone who has been hurt by an addict's behavior at some point in your life or who is currently being hurt by the behavior of an addict. Maybe it was your own admitted addict behavior that hurt you and made you project that hurt onto the other posters of DC by making really sarcastic and hurtful comments. I'm sure most posters in DC who saw your post didn't have nearly the reaction to it that a few others did. Maybe a lot of posters had that same reaction. Either way, almost every BLer who regularly posts in DC, I feel, are for the most part awesome people who practice the philosophy of Harm Reduction that Bluelight preaches. They are very valuable people who's practice of Harm Reduction in their own use and in their influence of telling others who aren't Bluelighters about Harm Reduction is something I feel like is a huge success in the world, where sadly enough, what a person decides to put in their body can put them behind bars, with murderers and rapists. Do drug users/addicts belong in prison? Absolutely not. Are all drug users/addicts going to end up in prison? Absolutely not. Perhaps the American government would like it that way, but it's not going to happen.
OK, I think I addressed everything I wanted to and I feel like the actual "incident" that happen didn't warrant any sort of personal attacks but I think some good did come out of it and that's what BL is here for right?
And let's not kid ourselves and remember that ALL of these drugs here were legal at one time or another and may STILL be legal in certain countries. "Legality" is a poor way of defining something that's safe.
(Sorry I went on for so long about nothing.)
My morning fix was... a couple bags of heroin, 2mg of Klonopin, a cup of coffee and 3 Pall Malls. %)