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Freebase Coke (Crack) - 1st time - Not all its cracked up to be

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Every now and then I like to try a new drug. This time I decided it would be crack. I didn't know what to expect other than some intense energy and euphoria. I made a 16 oz. gravity bong because I wanted my first time to be amazing. It was.

I took half of my dime sack and smoked it in a couple hits. No sooner than I could exhale did I feel the biggest rush I have ever felt in my life. I gigled and danced in euphoria (feel free to think I'm a dumass) for a minute or two to the song "Cocaine," by Eric Clapton. I felt amazing. I was so happy. I had so much energy. I came down about 5 minutes later but felt none of the side effects of a come down. I waited a few minutes and felt no craving.

About 20 minutes after the first time I decided that crack wasn't that addictive and finished of the sack. This time I felt some side effects on the come down. I have 5 bucks. I could walk accross the street and get a nickle bag but I'm not. Not because I have any self control, because I don't. Crack has such a bad reputation, and I can see where some of that comes from. It makes you feel great, but it leaves really quick, and that makes you wish you had some more. I feel the same thing but worse with weed. I'd rather have had a bag of weed than crack even when I was feeling the "craving." But every now and then, if I have a little extra cash, I'm gonna walk accross the street and pick up a couple of rocks for the hell of it.
 
I change the title to go along with the rules. Its not really a trip Report, rather, your opinion of Crack. Since there are not so many reports Ill leave it, out of curiosity of what Conversation may follow. I may close it though, you can make it more detailed and it would be better.
 
yeah you won't feel any withdrawals the first time obviously...
but keep it up and next thing you know you'll be suckin
dick for that damn white mouse lol, crack is a life-ruiner and it
deserves its shitty rep.
 
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untaMe said:
yeah you won't feel any withdrawals the first time obviously...
but keep it up and next thing you know you'll be suckin
dick for that damn white mouse lol, crack is a life-ruiner and it
deserves its shitty rep.
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Its really not that bad. I hear shit all the time about weed and everyone knows its not that bad. Yes crack can ruin your life. But I'm mentally unstable, depressed and have a history of addictive behavior and crack wasn't a problem for me. My point was, crack is bad, but not as bad you might think.
 
Youre dead wrong, Crack is a huge problem, and a horrible drug that ruins lives and keeps whole neighborhoods in danger. Please dont post misleading statements like crack is not that bad, because you tried it once and didnt jones. Just because you did not jones does not mean that some 17 year old kid who reads this and thinks that crack is not as bad as people say will not get hooked. If you do it enough I will bet my Ted Williams signed baseball that you will get hooked.
 
I thought that the general direction out here is that no drug is inherently bad or good in itself and it all depends upon the user ... yes, you can argue that crack is a horrible drug and has ruined lives, but also meth, alcohal, heroin, legal perscription drugs, pot, and even non-drug things like gambling and sex have ruined lives.

So maybe we need to hear from a few more people - - are there any occaissional recreational crack users out there or does everyone and mostly everyone end up addicted?
 
weekend addiction said:
Its really not that bad. I hear shit all the time about weed and everyone knows its not that bad. Yes crack can ruin your life. But I'm mentally unstable, depressed and have a history of addictive behavior and crack wasn't a problem for me. My point was, crack is bad, but not as bad you might think.
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seems like you have the perfect outlook

id give it a month tops before your selling your little brothers video games and talking like dmx
 
Ouch...

weekend addiction said:
Its really not that bad. I hear shit all the time about weed and everyone knows its not that bad. Yes crack can ruin your life. But I'm mentally unstable, depressed and have a history of addictive behavior and crack wasn't a problem for me. My point was, crack is bad, but not as bad you might think.
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If you continue using it, you will look back on those words and wonder how you could have been so stupid. At least consider the possibility that I (and others) may be telling you the truth, why would they bother lying when they have nothing to gain from it.

P.S. here's a kicker for ya: Your words are a good indication that you are already addicted. Otherwise you'd be looking at the situation with a higher level of caution... but you're not.
travelaroundNC said:
So maybe we need to hear from a few more people - - are there any occaissional recreational crack users out there or does everyone and mostly everyone end up addicted?
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It's not the right question to ask, because there are lots of occasional/recreational users for some period of time before they move on to addictive use.

Do you mean, people who stay occasional/recreational users forever? Yes, probably a few. Like one in several thousand, at best. I'm being really optimistic with that figure...
 
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MDPV Vagrant - - OK, I have smoked crack twice in the past 6 months ... and now you are saying that there is one chance in a 1,000 that I will remain an occaissional user and not progress to an addict. DAMN!!! OK people, I need to hear from people ...are there any people out here who have remained occaissional crack users for years ... i.e. maybe have smoked crack 5-6 times per year over the last 5 or more years without turning into addicts.
 
travelaroundNC said:
I thought that the general direction out here is that no drug is inherently bad or good in itself and it all depends upon the user ... yes, you can argue that crack is a horrible drug and has ruined lives, but also meth, alcohal, heroin, legal perscription drugs, pot, and even non-drug things like gambling and sex have ruined lives.

So maybe we need to hear from a few more people - - are there any occaissional recreational crack users out there or does everyone and mostly everyone end up addicted?
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You may not hear form them, because theyre all out looking for another hit and stealing anntennas from their neighbors cars to get high righ now.
 
Beenhead, that's cruel. I take it you must be very virtous and don't do drugs at all because if your ever started you'd be one of those people steeling money from their grandmothers and taking attanaes off neighbors cars,
 
travelaroundNC said:
MDPV Vagrant - - OK, I have smoked crack twice in the past 6 months ... and now you are saying that there is one chance in a 1,000 that I will remain an occaissional user and not progress to an addict. DAMN!!!
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Yes, that is an opinion or educated guess based on what I've learned over the years. Fwiw, I've smoked rock myself... it's been a while though (early 90s) but believe me, the memories still haunt me sometimes when I'm trying to get to sleep and keep me awake half the night tossing & turning. It's the only drug I'd gladly turn back the clock on if I could. Not a single, solitary "good memory" worth a damn from smoking rock. At best, it was a lot of wasted money and risking my @ss hanging around almost subhuman people. Not what I thought I'd see 15 years later (I didn't think at all actually, the drug led me around by the nuts the whole time).

BTW, so many people have traveled the path you've started on, there's a 100 ft. rut worn into the ground but maybe you're the 1 in 1000 (or 1 in 500, 1 in 100, do the numbers really matter), who knows... in the end, nobody's gonna know or care but you. Don't listen to anybody one way or the other, follow your own conscience on this 100%.
 
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In my opinion, crack is a negative drug, I've not heard of one crack user with
a positive outlook on his experiences with crack. Honestly I feel that any positive
argument towards the drug is a joke, sure, crack can be used responsibly, but this is
very rare... sure you can jones for crack the first time, but that's nothing compared
to what a habitual user feels, just look at a crackhead, is that how you want to be, I wonder how those people would've turned out if the drug had never entered their lives. Not to descriminate against crackheads... but damn.
 
*sigh* the tragedy of stim addiction.

I'm now pretty sure of one thing: the more a person claims they have no problem with a stimulant, the more addicted they really are.

:(
 
travelaroundNC said:
are there any people out here who have remained occaissional crack users for years ... i.e. maybe have smoked crack 5-6 times per year over the last 5 or more years without turning into addicts.
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The question is... why would anyone want to smoke it only 5-6 times per year? It's too pleasurable to only do it a few times/year, and too addictive to let yourself use more. There's no way to win. You're left wishing you could do it way more often, or wishing you had never touched it... there's just no angle on it that actually works out for people long-term.
Jamshyd said:
*sigh* the tragedy of stim addiction.

I'm now pretty sure of one thing: the more a person claims they have no problem with a stimulant, the more addicted they really are.

:(
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Crack is hardly representative of stims in general... isn't that slightly derogatory toward stimulant users? But that's another topic, I guess...
 
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Wow - what a discussion ... this quote: "why would anyone want to smoke it only 5-6 times per year? It's too pleasurable to only do it a few times/year" is an interesting one. There are lots of wonderful things people do and only do a few times a year. Going out for a marvelous $100 dinner at one of the best restaurants in the city is wonderful - but I only do it 5-6 times a year. Going to an all night sex orgy is a lot of fun ... but I don't do it every weekend. Going to the beach for the weekend and laying around the whole weekend is fun .... but I have too many responsibilities to do it every weekend.

Well, at least you all have given me lots of think about .... and seriously, at some point I do want to know if there are any happy occaissional crack smokers out here who really enjoy their occaissional usage. I guess we could ask the same for snorting coke or doing meth?
 
travelaroundNC said:
Wow - what a discussion ... this quote: "why would anyone want to smoke it only 5-6 times per year? It's too pleasurable to only do it a few times/year" is an interesting one. There are lots of wonderful things people do and only do a few times a year. Going out for a marvelous $100 dinner at one of the best restaurants in the city is wonderful - but I only do it 5-6 times a year. Going to an all night sex orgy is a lot of fun ... but I don't do it every weekend. Going to the beach for the weekend and laying around the whole weekend is fun .... but I have too many responsibilities to do it every weekend.
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Crack is an entirely different ballpark. On a different planet. We are talking about a direct hit to your brain's neurotransmitters that can be so powerful that absolutely no imaginable "real life" experience could compare. Including winning $1,000,000 at the lottery. You may not have experience this level of high yet, it takes awhile to sort of "tune in" to exactly what the drug is doing in your brain when you hit the pipe. When you do, there's no substitute (short of maybe slamming coke).

You will be prone to laugh at the concept of "responsibilities" and casually throw away things like a good job or important friendships because they do not deliver what crack is (seemingly) capable of. That rush that feels like you have become God. In the early 90s I used to smoke with this one guy in his apartment... it was totally bare, except for two worthless pictures on the walls and "his toolkit" in a lockbox in the corner. He somehow clung to "his toolkit" as the one thing he would not trade off for crack, because somehow he needed an entry back to workaday world to feel sane I guess.
Well, at least you all have given me lots of think about .... and seriously, at some point I do want to know if there are any happy occaissional crack smokers out here who really enjoy their occaissional usage. I guess we could ask the same for snorting coke or doing meth?
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Ask away, hope someone answers. I'm certainly not one of them, never was. Never even wanted to be, I just wanted to smoke as much as I could for as long as I could after doing it probably less than 10 times altogether. And the hell of it is that the first hit of a run is usually the only good one. After that you just jones like hell for more in 5 to 7 minutes later.

I'm known to still do (legal) stims occasionally, but smoking rock is good riddance to bad sh*t.
 
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