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Age cut off age with drugs?

I will stop when the time is right and I feel the nedd to but right now im having fun being high all of the time
 
wooger said:
and she thinks that using drugs should be something you get over by the time you are in your early 20s
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Imo, you should use as little drugs as possible until that age, kids shouldn't be messing around with drugs too much.
 
alcohol and weed, I am gonna do my entire life. I stopped doing other drugs a couple years ago when I was 22. (did coke and E occasionally).
 
I can't personally see myself completely stopping at any age. True, there may be changes and phases of use that will alternate over time, but I can see myself still occasionally using drugs in 30 or so years time (I'm 29 now).

I just don't buy into the phase theory that many have about drug use - I don't use them necessarily out of need, but rather out of a desire to explore my mind, as such I tend more toward the use of psychedelics.

A parallel argument to the one the original poster made above is alcohol. Alcohol use isn't a phase for many people I know, although use may decrease with increasing age as a rule, many don't stop drinking suddenly when they are say, 22 years old. I see no difference with drug use really.

That said, sudden changes in circumstances in my life may influence whether I still will use drugs or not, but I do not consider age alone to be a factor; its far more complex than that.


euphoricnod said:
I think that as people get older they develop tastes and preferences with drugs and so it moves from an experimental phase into a more controlled, "I know what I like so I'll do it less often." Comes with maturity.
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There is a great element of this too - I think some do grow out of using drugs, whereas many kind of, for want of a better term, take a more mature view towards things with age and take drugs in a more controlled manner.
 
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I thought about this the other day...

will I ever stop taking MDMA or LSD/shrooms?

nah...I don't think so

All other substances...been there...done that...no thanks
 
Personally I don't think there is a cut off age, people talking about having minimum age limits is one thing but being too old? The only reasons I can think a person would entirely outgrow drug usage are; if drug using is inherently immature and something to be grown out of, drug use is cool and at a certain age if you still do it you are a try hard, the person had substance abuse problems in the past and needs to avoid drugs or they just decided they didn't like drugs/cared more about their health.

Now personally I think the first two are bullshit, the rest can be valid reasons but they by no means apply to everybody. Obviously as people get older drug use tends to decline due to many reasons including health, family responsibilities and reputation. Still everybody has some times in their life which would be entirely appropriate to use drugs if they wanted to.

I think responsibility is more of an issue than age, the more responsibility you have the less room you have for drugs in your life. So long as someone can use the drugs they use and meet their responsibilities I don't see any good reason why age or any other factor should force them to give up.

I think I will likely be using drugs until the day I die.
 
no, there doesnt need to be an age cut off with drugs with how you use them in whichever stage in your life. if anything, there should be a complete OPPOSITE of a cut off. it should be that youre restricted from using drugs until AFTER your mid 20's. you need to stay clean while youre young and really focus and work on making your future days set. youve gotta ensure that everything is going to be ok in the future. once your life is balanced and regulated, income and everything, THEN drug use is acceptable. if it starts to bring you down, abandon it, and DONT ever let it become too often of a habit. drugs are something that you pay for to make you feel good, but they can also fuck you over. dont let them fuck you over.
 
No, altho I'm getting on toward 50 and e.g. stimulants are likely to become quite dangerous to me as time goes on due to aging. I don't see any other age-related restriction on drugs except in matters of health. And even there, people often take their chances anyway.... I'm sure there are some over-50 cokeheads around :p.
 
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^^ thats a pretty good point. I think they become more dangerous as you get older as generally as age rises so does incidents of hypertension etc which obviously is not good news is you are using stimulants!
 
Dedbeet said:
No, altho I'm getting on toward 50 and e.g. stimulants are likely to become quite dangerous to me as time goes on due to aging. I don't see any other age-related restriction on drugs except in matters of health. And even there, people often take their chances anyway.... I'm sure there are some over-50 cokeheads around :p.
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I quit taking stimulants. That shit isnt good for your heart.
 
zyNc973 said:
no, there doesnt need to be an age cut off with drugs with how you use them in whichever stage in your life. if anything, there should be a complete OPPOSITE of a cut off. it should be that youre restricted from using drugs until AFTER your mid 20's. you need to stay clean while youre young and really focus and work on making your future days set. youve gotta ensure that everything is going to be ok in the future. once your life is balanced and regulated, income and everything, THEN drug use is acceptable. if it starts to bring you down, abandon it, and DONT ever let it become too often of a habit. drugs are something that you pay for to make you feel good, but they can also fuck you over. dont let them fuck you over.
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^^^^^

I agree......I cant believe how many people on this site started using drugs at 13 & 14 years old.
 
Chronological age is unimportant (besides very young use, which can damage physical & mental development). I think it's more of a personal thing which depends on your maturity, your health and your life situation. Some people can easily handle drugs and others should never ever touch them.

I did my fair share of herb, blow, speed, cid & etc. back in my late teens/early 20's, then at 25 I got married & started having kids, so I basically cut out everything except a bit of weed and alcohol now & then. Well, actually probably too much alcohol... Time passes - the kids are grown up now & I'm quite a different person than I was back then. For the past 5 years I've been having fun trying all kinds of new substances, but usually not more often than once in a fortnight. I didn't get to try MDMA until I was 46 (wow! what a day!) and I've been doing some amazing explorations with psychedelic RC's. Most of the people I indulge with are 35 or older, and none of us are daily users. We see drugs as recreational or spiritual, depending on the drug. NOT as a lifestyle or daily kind of thing.

I own a small business and I'm quite involved in community affairs. My drug use has had no effect on these areas of life. I don't wear t-shirts with a big leaf, or have any drug related tattoos. I feel no need to publicly advocate for drug legalization or whatever. Again, drugs aren't a way of life but just an addition and enhancement.

On the other hand, I have an old friend about the same age as me and he has really messed up his life with drugs. He's the kind of guy who always has to go farther than anyone else... the last man standing. He's totally screwed up his health, his family and his job. He knows it, but refuses to change. He's on a path of destruction and for him, drugs have not enhanced his life but have destroyed it. This has nothing to do with physical age, but has everything to do with mental maturity.

I know that it won't be too long until I'll be greatly decreasing my use of many substances, especially those that put a strain on my heart. Or I may have to stop earlier if I start loosing control of my usage. But until then I plan on having a good time and exploring my mind. I've got 4 fests lined up this summer and have compiled a good stash to carry me through. Life is good.
 
wooger said:
So after speaking to an acquintance who used to use drugs I started wondering about age.

Basically, we are the same age (25) and she thinks that using drugs should be something you get over by the time you are in your early 20s - think 21-22 and after this age it starts to become weird.

On the one hand I can kinda see what shes getting at. I mean I don't like to judge people as it is NOT my place to judge anybody but bouncing around on MDMA is not that unusual for a 20 year old but I guess by late 20s an awful lot of former drug users seem to have 'grown out' of other drugs and stick to alcohol...

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before or w/e but do you have a cut off age? or an age where you feel it just becomes 'weird'?

I'm not trying to rub anyone up the wrong way, just after chatting to this girl I wondered everyones thoughts..
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Interesting! Honestly, I disagree with your acquaintance entirely. I'm not a drug advocate of any kind exactly, but knowing what I do about adolescent development, I think that experimenting with substances is something one shouldn't begin until their twenties.

I smoked weed when I was younger, but I didn't experiment with alcohol, amphetamines, pain killers or dope until I was in my twenties, and I am glad because I am not sure how things might have turned out otherwise. It's important, I feel, for those prefrontal lobes to develop first before experimenting with drugs. I am sure a lot of people will disagree with me, so let's hear it...
 
Added to what everyone else has said, by the time you're in your late 20's, you start to realize the consequences of drug use. Safer to stick with the legals than fuck around and potentially ruin your life, especially at that age, when you're really starting to come into your own.
 
I think casual supervised drug use in adolescents is healthy.

Just letting loose once you hit your 20's with no prior knowledge or experience with the scene will probly get you arrested or in hospital... from OD or violence
 
In my high school/late teens I had done basically as much experimenting as you can, and I guess got the taste for most drugs outta my system. I'm 22 now, and nowadays I don't drink anymore. I smoke weed occasionally, but around 19/20 I found my niche with opiates and developed a long/large opiate habit that was my drug of choice. I'm just now getting cleaned up (hopefully for the last time) and am just gonna smoke weed on the occasion, and stick to my prescribed klonopin/soma.

I guess I 'refined' my tastes, and obviously I still enjoy getting high as much as the next guy but don't poly-abuse every random drug I come across anymore.
 
When they no longer interest me, I will likely stop using them. Until then, I think the idea of stopping because I am "too old" to still be experimenting, or enjoying them is silly.

Hell, I didn't START using drugs of any sort before the age of 20.
 
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