Drugs with little negative impact on my intelligence with respect to power?

[teziar]

I've only drank and smoked weed from time to time and I'm looking to start trying some drugs for the experience. Maybe alone, maybe with a pal.

I want as good as possible ratio of strength of the drug with respect to its potential long-term harm on my intelligence.

Which drugs would you suggest?

 

[Toz]

To be honest, it's not so much about which drug you take as about how often you indulge in it. You can get away with doing most drugs, as long as you don't do them too often.

 

[Slash5331]

To be honest, it's not so much about which drug you take as about how often you indulge in it. You can get away with doing most drugs, as long as you don't do them too often.

This

 

[regfairfield]

Yea....everything in moderation...but with some drugs it's rapper easier said then done.....honestly tho alcohol probably the worst

 

[tweex]

To be honest, it's not so much about which drug you take as about how often you indulge in it. You can get away with doing most drugs, as long as you don't do them too often.

Well, sort of.

Some drugs are just inherently worse for you than others. MDMA for example is always going to be worse for you than MDAI, and Meth always worse than Adderall.

Then of course there are a few drugs that you can eat a tablespoon of with every meal and be fine, such as Piracetam. And others that can seriously fuck you up with a single high dose.

It is all about balancing risk and reward.

 

[tyrael]

Well, sort of.....It is all about balancing risk and reward.

True. Teziar, basically think of taking "drugs" as a cost/benefit analysis - there will be a cost in taking any illicit substance (this cost can vary wildly however - on the substance, the dose, ROA, BA, bio-variability [differences in each person and they way they metabolise the drug], blah, blah) but obviously there's benefits (eg, getting "high").

I don't think anyone could say whether any damage may/may not occur to your case in particular (it would be ill-advised to imo!). Really the best you can do is mitigate the situation by taking what ever precaution is required for said drug (I guess either ask on here or do a search, I'm sure someone else would have asked your same question before ).

Just fyi, there is (obviously) no correlation between intelligence and (sensible) drug use*. Well not that I'm aware of, if someone could cite studies I'm happy to be wrong.

Good luck! Play safe!


* That's not to say certain drugs aren't (neuro) toxic, they can be! Especially re dosage/quantity of use, I'm sure a 20 year long meth addict would've sustained damage!

 

[Twisted_Arm]

Treat each new drug as if getting into a pool. I hope your the type to test the water before leaping in...I leap before looking, and thats got me into trouble a few times. Live n learn, then get Luvs.

 

[bingey]

I think tweex is right on about the balance of risk and reward ,What's intelligence if you can't put it to use?

check out this guy -->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s he was unable to do his math without amphetamines (or so he said)

or this guy/kid I knew who kept failing his high school because he was too anxious to take his exams , very smart guy but he would have graduated already if he had some proper (intelligence reducing) anxiety medication.

 

[bennyZA]

Treat each new drug as if getting into a pool. I hope your the type to test the water before leaping in...I leap before looking, and thats got me into trouble a few times. Live n learn, then get Luvs.

For real. It's easy to jump in with some harder drugs once you're comfortable with some less hard drugs. Just know that it's not easy to moderate. If it was, there wouldn't be so many people with so many problems, no one wants to be an addict.

 

[tweex]

or this guy/kid I knew who kept failing his high school because he was too anxious to take his exams , very smart guy but he would have graduated already if he had some proper (intelligence reducing) anxiety medication.

Well, maybe. I personally found beta blockers to be the absolute best for test anxiety. They don't stupify you. Really no need for benzos unless you have failed pretty much every other anxiety treatment, but a lot of psychiatrists seem to see this in reverse.

 

[tyrael]

....or this guy/kid I knew who kept failing his high school because he was too anxious to take his exams , very smart guy but he would have graduated already if he had some proper (intelligence reducing) anxiety medication.

This is really unfortunate! Especially when one begins tertiary studies and in general such an emphasis is placed on "the big - pass or fail - exam, at the end of the year/semester" which is not only inadequate for many students, but so far removed from "real life" in the profession that it's ridiculous! I know at my University (and I've been there a while! ) a large part of study is not just the textbook knowledge! We're told from day one that we're also taught how to research/study (properly, at a high level expect in academia and R&D professions) and basically how to conduct ourselves in our profession (after graduation and the student begins to work in that field) - an emphasis on "real-world" situations and how to handle them. Compare this with exams; a 1 - 2 - 3+ hour exam whereby one must regurgitate all the knowledge crammed in throughout the semester/term .... this isn't how the "real-world" occurs. (I'm sure those being attentive could guess my areas of expertise however) If a concept/procedure/methodology is required for me to perform my work, there's always the Internet, textbooks or colleges which are available to (normally) just remind one of where to begin and continue from there. A situation whereby there is no access to peripheral/additional sources in a working environment in my experience is extremely rare (maybe I've just been lucky? ).

 

[teziar]

Thanks for the informative comments; I think I will do a bit of research on which drugs are the least neuro- and exitotoxic and start my quest from there.

One problem is that I have very few friends who have done, or talked about anyway, of having done other drugs than alcohol, weed and ecstasy at most.

The other factor is that I would want to get as pure substance as possible, and to actually compare substance purity among distributors I would have to have connections to multiple dealers so I would have to go through the effort of that - but I also don't want to damage my reputation by spreading the word that I want to try different drugs among my peer students, so it is a bit problematic for me to obtain drugs that I would be willing to use.

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

We don't give drug recommendations on this site. Do your research and if you have a question about a specific drug we can help you then.

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