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Bluelight: gateway drug?

Goodmane

Goodmane

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I was talking about bluelight to a friend the other day, and an interesting point came up. Is bluelight one of the causes why people start with drugs? I'm sure the amount of people is negligable, but still.

Ok, you have the dark side part, so everyone with half a brain realises things can go wrong. But there's also culture, spirituality, social banter, good experiences, and even instruction manuals on how to use them (properly). Those are good things. Dont get me wrong. Imagine how much dumb things would happen if it wasn't for this place.

But i started thinking, it was in fact this board that got me interested in shrooms and ketamine. Heh, maybe i'm just easily influenced. Yet you have to admit talking about all kinds of drugs tends to spark up some curiosity. And that curiosity might be the deciding factor when whichever drug is offered.

Any thoughts on this?
 
well, I'd say the internet in general is responsible...let's not single out bluelight. I first became interested in drugs reading erowid extensively, piqued my curiosity. Bluelight helped me along the way in safe usage, and it's a great community.

There are certainly some drugs I would have never known about or considered trying if it weren't for the internet and the plethora of information available on it - then again, I probably wouldn't be as knowledgeable and healthy a drug user if it wasn't there.

Condemning bluelight as a pathway for people to begin their forays into the drug culture or in drug usage isn't fair though...ultimately the prerogative is that of the user. No-one is FORCING you to take drugs - you read about them, you're interested, you decide to use them safely...I don't see that as a harmful influence. Some people just have an interest in such things, sites like bluelight facilitate the development of those interests...and so on.

edit: realized I'm really answering something else. to be more on topic, yes, I'd say bluelight definitely played a role in (as I've said above) developing my curiosity/fascination/whatever with drugs...all the talk gets a few bells ringing as it were, I agree.
 
I dont think so. From my point of view, I only knew the existence of BL after a friend was looking at pillreports for info on pills he already HAD. I think if you are influenced to try drugs for the first time by BL you have pretty much decided to do them anyway.
 
I can't remember how I found this site, but I knew of Erowid long before I ever heard the name "bluelight"...

Also, Erowid was the element that got me interested in LSD, but so far I have had no luck finding anyone who has it around here. Ah well.
 
I suppose it'd be easy to blame just bluelight, but that's like saying violence is completely attributed to video games. :\
Theres hundreds of factors, including previous experiences and friends of course.

Personally i was just surprised bluelight (or erowid for that matter) hasnt gotten more media attention/blame.
 
DexterMeth said:
I think you have to already be using drugs, or at least interested in trying them before even knowing about this site, let alone erowid.
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You'd be surprised, there's tons of people who only post in The Lounge ... some of them haven't ever posted in any of the drug forums here...
They have absolutely no interest in talking about drugs, they only come here to post pics of their dogs it seems.

They probably do drugs too though ... everyone does drugs =D
 
I don't believe it's the BL community encourages drug use, but simply the knowledge taht is provided on sites like this one and Erowid help to open peoples eyes, and dispell some of the myths propogated by anti-drug groups.

I didn't even find these sites until after I had began drug use, but I'll admit that they did peak my interest in other, "harder" drugs. It wasn't any sort of peer pressure though, it wasn't "OMG Negrogesic injects grams of tar, he's so cool", it was just knowling the substances for myself.

Has Bluelight encouraged me to use drugs? indirectly I'd say probably yes, but not because it advocates the use, because it tells the truth about drug use. The truth is the gateway, not Bluelight.
 
The internet & bluelight have only made me want to do drugs that I find near impossible to get hold of everything else has had no effect apart from a greater understanding of the drugs that I am doing.
 
hmmm...interesting point but i dont think Bluelight gets people started on drugs, but i do think it may influence you to try different drugs.

When i first came to BL i had done virtually all the party drugs (md, speed, etc, etc), acid and K. While i havent really strayed outside of my "regular" substances, after reading a lot of trip reports, i have found myself wanting more psychedelics.

But i feel i must point out that Bluelight is neither pro nor anti drug use, its a place to share your first hand information and get first hand info so you dont hurt yourself. In this process, you'll obviously come across references to drugs that sound completely awesome and its only in your nature to want to try them. Read some Trip Reports :)

The flip side of the coin is also true, have a read around The Dark Side (or TR again) and you'll quickly get a feeling of what drugs should be handled with care, and this will lead some to not want to try them at all.

So in my opinion, it all balances itself out :)
 
I came to bluelight after I had started and wanted to know more.

I already had an interest from a few other sites doing the rounds and found it one of the most easily accessible sites, but my interest was already there and it allowed me to make a more informed decision. I guess one thing bluelight has done is gottne me more into contact with other substances that yould have taken me way longer to get into (especially psychadelics) and soo has been more of a catalyst than a gateway.

I'm all about harm minimisation and always preach about it to people so I like to think that bluelight is *hopefully* helping keep others safer via people that read the site.

It's been documented that humans and animals seek to alter their state with substances all the time so it's inevitable people will do what they can but i have to say overall like KB i feel BL balances things out in the end too.
 
Yeah, refering to several posts already made, Erowid is more of a gateway drug than bluelight could ever aspire to...I mean, a library with over 3000 substances-there's a drug for every goddamn occasion!

"What do you wanna get high off this week?"

"I dunno, there's this guy that explains in full detail how to huff oxygen...."

"That would make the world hotboxed already! let's try that!"
 
Erowid was certainly the gateway for me to certain drugs, i read loads of shit on there about alot of drugs, especially peoples experiences.
 
without the forums you would have far to many dumb ass drug users saturating the world with their allagiance with addictology.
if you had tried ketimine prior to reading about it on blight you might not have enjoyed it as much due to worrying to much about the fantasy effects off all drugs....
 
Geez-A said:
I dont think so. From my point of view, I only knew the existence of BL after a friend was looking at pillreports for info on pills he already HAD. I think if you are influenced to try drugs for the first time by BL you have pretty much decided to do them anyway.
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That's how I found bluelight.

Bluelight has however piqued my interest towards trying a few other drugs though :)
 
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