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Are you a successful drug user?

kinda.

i feel like i'd have made more progress in my career if it wasn't for weed, but that's kind of a mis-leading statement. pot hasn't so much made me lazy as made me content to explore a lot of different paths and find happiness in the successes and experiences i've had in many areas of life. i was a high-achieving hard sciences person in high school, but kind of got off that track for a number of reasons. when i got back on track, i ended up studying/working in psychology and public health for awhile before i finally chose to get back into math about 7 years later. i've also had the free time to really get back into running, something i hadn't really done for about 7 years either.

i absolutely work my ass off to achieve the goals that i do set for myself . . it's just that at this point in my life they haven't been as career-oriented as they would have been otherwise. i'm getting around to it, and i'm honestly happy now that i've been able to see so much of life before i really buckled down and started working like a grown-up.

as for booze, it probably wouldn't hurt to drink a little less. but for me, that's kinda like saying i should eat more greens and not stay up so late. sure, i'd probably be a little healthier, but you've gotta pick your battles.
 
id say that iam a successful dope user. i have a 2 year associates degree and i own a liquor store that brings in roughly 3000 bucks a week. at 29 yrs old been doing dope ritually everyday for 10 years now.
 
I don't know really. I started drinking at the end of high school, and smoking weed everyday at the end of college.

Once I began smoking weed everyday, my grades actually improved. I would get all my work done right away, so I could spend the evening with my bong. I also used psychedelics during the vacations and summers, and more so than any other drug have psychedelics enlightened my thinking. I also think marijuana has enlightened me a bit as well. I did very well in high school, and I attended a very good college and had a 3.8 GPA with a degree in physics and a degree in astronomy.

I now go to graduate school, and I use opiates once or twice a week - heroin if I can get it. I also smoke everyday still, and I don't worry about doing my work or studying while high like I used to. I'm in the beginning of 6-7 year program, and I'm doing well in it so far.

So, on the surface, it appears I'm a 'successful' user. I'm a different person though. I really think smoking weed everyday for 3 years, and using psychedelics about a dozen times have changed me permanently. I think it's an enlightened change for the better, but the result is that I'm extremely frustrated with society's failures.

I know marijuana isn't physically addictive, but I'm dependent on it to have a good time. I don't go out very much, because why should I go to a bar and spend $20 when I could smoke $10 of weed at home and not be hungover? I'm awkward socially because I don't interact much socially, and it's rare that I ever hook up with a girl. I really think if I never smoked weed I'd get out more, but I blame society for my own problems.

I also enjoy opiates more frequently now, and this just means that I get out even less. I'll still usually do things if someone calls me, but I'll never take initiative to do anything, because smoking weed and heroin and staring at whatever's on tv is awesome lol.

I guess my drug use isolates me from society, and I blame society for my own social problems. On the other hand, I feel my drug use has enlightened me, and I'm a much calmer person than I used to be. It's also hasn't really affected my schoolwork, but right now I doubt that I'll make it through the longass program I'm in right now. I'm sure if I never used drugs I'd be much more motivated, but then I'd also not be aware of so many other wonderful things around me. Not sure how 'successful' I am.
 
i seem to be coping ok. managed to complete a professional degree, got a job in the field and have held it for 2.5 years, working full time.
 
I love the myth of the "high functioning addict". I thought I was a highly functioning drug user as well, but that was mostly denial and my blindness to what opiates, alcohol, and crack were doing to me. As a pharmacist I thought I would be able to moderate and regulate my use carefully, but addiction has a way of sneaking up on a person and justifies all sorts of bullshit. High Functionioning drug use is not a type of drug user, it is just a stage in the development of a serious habit.
 
Successfully in life means that you are happy, nothing else. I use drugs on/off and usually I'm pretty happy guy so I am successful.
 
Absolutely, everyone has a unique talent and if that happens to be yours fucking roll with it.

I graduated with honors from a very good liberal arts school about a month ago. I am, however, unemployed. This is more on account of the economy than my ongoing relationship with the poppy and her children though.
 
blissfulMenace said:
the only reason i dont consider myself a successful drugs user is because ive been arrested for drug charges, without that i can ace school, and perform perfectly fine at work, even exceptionally well
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Fucking Amen. If it wasn't for drugs being illegal i could use them indefinitely without ever running into problems that could get in the way of my success. Except.... weed, it being one of the more benign drugs still always does the most damage to life. Because when i smoke.. i do nothing. and want nothing.


So thats why i don't smoke anymore unless i am on something else.

And no i am not a daily user of anything. On bad weeks are all use something every other day. but never drugs on in the same family. Like no benzo binges or opiate binges
 
Freelance writer with steady work/pay and a Bachelor's degree here. If I'm ever less than successful, it's because of reasons other than drugs, like lack of motivation, boredom or general fatigue.

Of course I'm not shooting dope or smoking shards...just marijuana, poppy tea and propylhexedrine in moderation for me. And pills on the rare occasion that they're around.
 
Medical Student checking in, recreational use has never been a roadblock for me.
 
Here's a good'un:
You know how you feel guilty sometimes while on drugs? Like... 'I haven't washed up!' or 'Mother looked at me funny when I was holding those empty baggies' or what not...
Well I was at an awesome rave back in the day when I was still at school and realised I hadn't done some preparation for an English task I had to do. I did it there and then to release myself from the guilt which would otherwise spoil my fun! On pills, a little weed, 2C-B, drunk and after several nos balloons. I got an A! Yay! And I also got 100% on one of my real GCSEs! YES MATE! WAHEY!
Say yes to drugs :)

<<<< Oooh! It's my 100th post! Yay! =D I <3 BL!
 
I've bought 4 houses and sold 3. I've lived in Japan for 2 years. Started a tour company in 2006, which failed unfortunately and never got going. I've saved and traveled the world twice:

First time 2005:

Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Polland, Holland, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam.

Second time 2008:

Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Spain, Sweden, Scotland, New York, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile.

I've never earned over $40,000NZD (which is about the average income here/nothing great) ... but I've always been OK at saving.

I'm 31 now, so I think I'm doing OK. I love my drugs, but I don't think they've got in the way of me running my life the way I want. I started using weed/LSD occasionally from about age 17. Started on speed at maybe 20, ecstasy at 22. Between 22-31 I've tried basically ever drug that you don't inject and I've been using ecstasy on a monthly basis on average for the last 7 years or so.

After 10 years in the corporate world in tele communications and insurance, I've gone back to school to re skill and am doing a Social Work degree. This is a degree which will see me working in an under paid, under resourced and stressful industry.

But, know what? I decided that I'd prefer to do something where I feel like I'm actually making a difference in the world and earning less money, that being a monkey in the corporate world where I'm earning better money but making no real difference to the lives of others.

No offense to anyone who works in the corporate world, but I just worked out it wasn't for me, and what would make me feel like a real 'success' is being able to work in an industry that I am passionate about (supporting people).

Two interesting clips I saw recently:

Century of the self

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151

Story of stuff

www.storyofstuff.com

Kinda makes you think ...
 
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successful as it gets...lol

i am successful when i have drugs and i am at work on them feeling like i am flying high....when i am in the wd and at work i feel like crud but nothing a few lines wont fix....ha...work to support my habit....habit to support my work....i know it cant last forever...so gotta enjoy those bricks when they are around....om.%)
 
Thought about trying to moderate your usage so that it becomes something you can really enjoy occasionally and not all the time? Drugs are great, but I think there's a time and place for them - and when you're studying or working, that maybe isn't the best time or place. Dontcha think?
 
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