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Have drugs enhanced your life?

Have drugs enhanced your life?

  • Yes

    Votes: 329 79.1%

  • No

    Votes: 87 20.9%
  • Total voters
    416
Overall, no.

Smoking weed never made things good or bad really. Although spending money and getting caught by my parents did suck, generally it made life more enjoyable, and I met a lot of good people through smoking.

During one LSD trip, I realized that my shyness and low self esteem were unfounded. Basically realized "no one is better than me, we're all just people" and this stuck with me. I'm not the most outgoing person, as I'm kind of laid back and easygoing, but I really came out of my shell so to speak after this trip. All of my friends noticed the change, and this was the best thing to ever come from doing drugs.

Once my drug use progressed to cocaine and then opiates, things really went downhill. I stopped smoking weed, and would spend any money I could get on cocaine or heroin, and this is basically how I am today. I don't really have any close friends, just drug friends, and I don't even see them that often. I spend 95% of my time by myself, and the other 5% is spent mostly with my family.

Overall, definately a resounding "No", drugs have not enhanced my life, although I've learned a lot from many of my experiences, I think I would be better off in life if I never took a drug and didn't know what I was missing.

~CTdopeLove
 
Yes and No... Like if I would of never started useing I would probably would have gone further with my education and be more finacially stable and shit.. but drugs have also introduced me to some chill people and I have had alot of funny memorys... Its like two sided for me...
 
what mushrooms have showed me will stick forever, and the mushrooms never fail to show me things that i should change which brings immediate improvements to my life
 
wastedwalrus said:
To quote whoever it was that said it: only when I've been high.

Other than that they've been an awful setback for my physical, emotional, and personal development.
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you're not talking about psychedelics when you say this are you? (unless youve consistently gotten bad trips?)
 
To repeat a quote I was once told by a close family friend, very successful, was board member / executive at Filens Basement for many years, owned his own businesses, etc... "Your young, you don't need to spend these days becoming the serious person you think you should be, be who you want to be, have fun, live life to the best of your ability, you got the rest of your life to be serious and until then you got this one chance, embrace it, don't let it pass by like the world's previous generations have told you, they gave up their chance but you still have yours, make your own decision about this chance because no one's forcing you into anything more than to live each day of your life, except at this point you got the ability to do what you want with little consequence or stress."

A shorter version, "Have fun, be yourself, you got the rest of your life to be serious."

To basically say why I mentioned it, its moreso the struggle for some once drug come into the picture. For some its hard to become the serious-minded person with focus and organization, the career oriented person with family struggles that they need to deal with, either alone or with a partner because responsibility is key.

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euphoricnod said:
Overall Id have to y no theyve made my life harder and less enjoyable
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You gotta ask yourself though, would life be any easier had you not taken them or not enjoyed them during the beginning. The phases of use really play a part on the human psyche in their own ways, its just a matter of how deep you take yourself down the rabbit hole. However, heavy use doesn't constitute a "harsher" phase in one's use; rather, the drugs one uses does. The routines which impact people psychologically can be dependant on the drug of choice, or combinations, muchless the health risks associated with binges not well countered with nutritients (vitamins, minerals, fats, and proteins) and, ofcourse, sleep.

The worst experiences aren't always the drugs its the way your psychological behaviors overwhelms the situation which ultimately impacts outside variables in life's day to day. You put a person with "unstable" tendancies (depressive, anxious, shizophrenic, bipolar, etc) and you combine psychoactive substances with that set of tendancies and you can sometimes create miraculous and other times disasterous results. The times when someone has that miracle moment is when it really hits, its where solving the problem worsens the problem. Drugs fill gaps seemingly "curing" life's problems while being rather off-label treatments without regard to health in some cases.

Not saying all people with the "unstable" psychiatric evaluations in their medical history are subject to this case, though its just seem more common in today's society where filling the gap turns into maintaining the situation because no longer is there the ability to block out or counter that psychological hinderance.

I mean, any person is at risk for a tough time when looking at drugs. You also need to remember, I use the term "abuse" a lot but it doesn't coincide with a hard life or bad choices along the way, it just means someone repeats a task which poses risks though not substantial there just remains a risk and a relationship between the person and the substance(s). Ofcourse other factors such as economics, politics, ethnicity, religion, and gender, can call contribute in both positive and negative ways, while too idling a neutral pressence.

Another note would be long term, heavy, use and chemical changes. I mean, its a small factor for many as it is seen more commonly in undiagnosed or unnoticed cases which don't visably afflict a person. Though there are times and examples where they do. Not to mention there's the risk of death, and way street impurities or disease can contribute.

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Note: I put quotes around "unstable" to illustrate a point. The point being that the conditions I mentioned aren't definitives for abuse of something, or muchless influential in risk for abuse, everyone's different because having a single commonality, muchless an infinite number, with something linked to abuse does not always consider the single or multiple variables which may counter that link.

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Anyways, just some thoughts I had.
 
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At the end of the day, no not really.

They've made life more interesting, but they havent enhanced it, thats for fucking sure.
 
As I was reading through the posts I think I would agree with alot of them.. Yes.. there are things that are enhanced by drugs.. and then other things that get quite screwed up by drugs. When I was on my meth binges.. my life got really fucked up. But now that I only do opiates & pot.. life isn't so bad.. Although the only reason I get OC's is from having tremendous excruciating pain.. so I think the scale is even.. between the bad and good of drugs..
*sigh*
 
en·hance (ěn-hāns') :
1. To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
2. To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features

Overall, no. Drugs have caused a great deal of confusion, pain, loss and grief in my short life.

My life has, however, augmented, and possibly became more sophisticated through the complications the drugs created, but not through the drugs themselves.

I remember very few of my drug induced experiences, and with the exception of psychedelics, few of the memories play any positive role in my life today.
 
shroomster said:
The real question is this: If you had a chance to start over, would you pick up all over again?
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yesssssss

psychedelics have helped my life for sure
marijuana to a certain extent
and benzos to treat my anxiety
but besides that....no, they have given me great enjoyment though, but i have seen the dark side.......so my answer is a definite no overall
 
I would say 'yes'. I work in a field that deals with drugs, and when I'd started I had only ever used pot a few times a decade ago, a few times had used speed and once had used coke. Now, after having used crystal, GHB and ketamine, as well as injecting, I now a more direct appreciation of drug use and how it fits into users' lives. Obviously, self-experimentation isnt for everyone in my field though hehe.
 
I can't really say.

Think of it like this, each moment of your life is like a fork in the road. You always have an opportunity to change, but you can't always make it back to where you were..

Using that analogy. Would I go back to the fork in the road, the point at which I decided that this is the path I'm going to go down. No, I would do it all the same. I might not be so well off, I might not be the healthiest, society might see me as a non-respectable member of society.. Etc, etc, whatever.

BUT, I'm satisfied with myself right now. So yes, I guess drugs have enhanced my life. Then again, I've always kind of been rebellious, not one to settle for the bullshit thats going on that the bulk of society accept as fine and normal. Large corporations making millions while millions starve to death. Doesn't take a psychedelic revelation to realize a severe change is desperately needed. But drugs certainly help reaffirm this in my life, and inspire me to do something about it.
 
Haven't read the thread so it's probably been said before but it depnds which drugs. Some drugs have enhanced my life immeasurably,others have damn near destroyed it.
 
Chronik Fatigue said:
Haven't read the thread so it's probably been said before but it depnds which drugs. Some drugs have enhanced my life immeasurably,others have damn near destroyed it.
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agreed
 
I am in agreement with those who said that psychedelics alone have enhanced life.

Psychedelics remind me to laugh and let my inner child out. To see the world in colors and feel music through my body. Tripping always puts a jump into my step for awhile, unless I've done it too much and am left just feeling burnt. I couldn't imagine dying without my acid trips in particular.

Opiates makes it more difficult to keep the loose ends in my life tied and cocaine unravels me completely. I rape my bank account, energy, and health when I use and usually slip into a depressive funk. My world turns gray after abusing these substances too much. Can't find it in me to get out of bed at all, ugh shitty. Certainly has not enhanced me overall.
 
Psychedelics have helped me so much that I am inclined to say yes.

However, weed has definitely slowed my growth and maturity in the past. I'm very happy that I am done smoking it. And I have been doing way too many opiates lately, and compulsively spending money on them, although I would not consider myself an addict as of yet. I think this will stop when I go back to school and have something productive to do again, instead of sitting around with my thumb up my ass like I have been all summer.
 
I would say in a sense they enhance my life, but at the same time they really do cost alot of $$$. I really wish I had more control over my drugs use, but for the time being I think I'll be fine. The one thing I wish I never started fucking with was opiates. Leads to nothing but a huge tolerence and an even bigger hole in your pocket.
 
I was going to say NO at first then I thought about it and decided to say YES. Certain drugs have given me experiences in which I will never EVER forget, truely magical experiences and happy times that would not be possible without drugs and have definitely enhanced my life in some way or another.
 
Ungoliath said:
No, they've made me alot more jaded and hateful, they've made me realize truely how fake most people are.

Psycadellics made me realize how truely full of shit that I, and pretty much everyone who does psycadellics are. They trick themselves into thinking they have all the anwsers to all of lifes problems cause their high on acid, pretend to be all enlightened and all knowing when in reality they are the stupidest of them all.
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I've entered detox since this point, i can say when i abused drugs they made me learn alot about people and the interactions between people. Theres so much fake friendness and pseudo brotherhood in drug users, moreso in cokeheads and pillheads. People act so much like you friend, enemy or whatever it takes to get what they want with drugs. It changes people, makes them less human kinda, alot more , well, evil.
Think about it, hypothetically, if you sold coke, how many customers call you there friend, buddy, pal, ect... and treat you like their best friend? And if you didnt have coke, they'd treat you like scum...
 
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