Pssh, aren't you all so totally your own people, so invunerable to peer pressure and social reality. Fuck off, I'd say everyone at one point or another have taken drugs that they didn't want/need/have any interest in in some circumstance because you felt like it was, in one way or another, expected of you. It is a reality of being part of the drug culture- the scene is always very closeknit, closed and suspicious, I'd really be suprised if you hadn't at one time been 'forced' to take drugs (even if that just meant taking a hit off a spliff you had no interest in) just so some tweeked out cunt will relax and stop insinuating that you're a nark or whatever. Besides, drug use in social situations is almost exclusively for the purpose of social-bonding (which is why heroin isn't a very popular social drug) so it is very easy for cretins (75-90% of any given group) to assume that refusing to take drugs is a rejection of the group- I have heard the words "What, aren't my drugs good enough for you?" used with muderous seriousness. You snort the meth.
I'm not saying that I blame my drug problems on anybody else or anything like that, but at least I know myself well enough to be able to say "Man, I done some dumb shit for some dumbass reasons". Case in point- meth, I hate stimulants, I don't enjoy their primary effects, I hate their fucking side effects and other than for having to stay awake/go to work I would never take stimulants (and even then in those situations oral ritalin/dexamp is more than sufficent), yet I've taken meth multiple times, eachtime in a social situations where it came down to 'fuck it, be part of the moment'.
It's like when you're really drunk and you know that you're gonna vomit in about 15 minutes and you're just having a bit of a breather before you make your way out of the bar into the alley to have a nice wee vom then your friend punches you in the shoulder and you turn round to see a shot that he's just bought you. You drink the fucking shot and you vomit 15 minutes later, that- for better or for worse- is how friendship works much of the time.
Peer pressure. She's a bitch.
I agree 100% with everything stated.
Once a group bond's with drug's they usually progress through different drug's together , and when 1 person turns around and says No , the group will encourage them
to try it with the rest of the group , not with bad intentions but more or less because they want you and your personality to be on this drug with them for many reasons
including making their experience a more enjoyable one because their friend is doing it with them. nobody likes to sit there and do drug's around their best friend if their
best friend happen's to be against it , you would feel like your doing something wrong...
Im sure when you guys meet someone new that doesn't do drug's you tend to make a habit of not stating how intensely good last night's LSD trip was
mixed with the left over 200mg's of DXM along side a joint. However when you meet someone who shares your interest in drugs you feel like your closer to them
because you don't have to hold back a part of your personality that you otherwise do have to hold back , hence the reason people pressure their friend's to do drugs with them
so their friend can have a good experience and have a changed outlook on the drug so there is alot less judgement. its part of the way the drug culture works.
So many times ive heard people who are simple stoner's and nothing more say things like "weed is natural and can't kill you , ill NEVER touch amphets , people who use them
are fucked" then 6 months later or some shit run into them and hear that they tried speed and loved it and their persona has changed to "cant talk shit about something until you try it"
for them to have changed their oppinion from not wanting to do it ever to having done it , something/someone has influenced that decision , forced or not someone has
captured their curiosity and it's lead to them trying a drug they never wanted to try.
