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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
weirdly enough, i think they have enhanced parts of my life. ive met so many amazing people and have had some crazy experiences. ive been able to open up to people and figure out things about myself *especially while on X* and well all in all if i hadnt done some drugs then i wouldnt be who i was today : )

and random but when i started doing X i also started making straight A's ... yea you heard me...straight A's lol
 
id have to say that drugs hav opended my mind in more ways then one. trippin has made me see that things arent always as they seem and rollin just made me more opento ne things. i think everyone will agree with that though. as long as ur not just doin drugs just to do them they should make ur mind more acceptable to new thngs and experiences then before u used.
 
Depends on whether or not they caused my schizophrenia.

But fuck it, even if I knew, like Eminem says, I'd prolly go back and do more shit they said that I shouldn't.
 
In some ways drugs have enhanced my life and expanded my awareness. I wouldn't be the person I am today without having explored so many different forms of consciousness/reality, and God knows I've met some interesting people along the way. However, drugs have also done bad things to my brain and body, and it's a constant struggle for me not to get sucked into a spiral of abuse and dependency. One day I hope I can quit them entirely, because to be honest, I'm pretty sure I've already gotten everything out of drugs that I can. Now it's just getting redundant.
 
I've tended to find drugs enhance my life in narrow areas, while narrowing it in other ways. Oftentimes the combo is self-contradictory -- for example, stimulants enhance my sex drive, while killing my desire to leave the house so I can meet sex partners.
Trizzle said:
However, drugs have also done bad things to my brain and body, and it's a constant struggle for me not to get sucked into a spiral of abuse and dependency. One day I hope I can quit them entirely, because to be honest, I'm pretty sure I've already gotten everything out of drugs that I can. Now it's just getting redundant.
I can relate to everything you're saying, except I've been realizing lately that struggle is futile. Not because things have gotten worse, but because the part of the brain involved in dependency isn't in the conscious part at all. In other words, "No Administrator Rights - ACCESS DENIED". The dependency part of the brain has a small, exclusive database with entries like 'food','water','sleep','breathing' and such. Oh yeah, and the new entry that gets added after prolonged substance use: 'drugs'. And this little database program has full administrator access. Whoops :(.

P.S. it seems to me the 'drugs' entry gets virus-scanned and quarantined if drugs are not supplied for awhile. But is restored to "active" status again if drugs are ingested. How's that for an analogy? ;).
 
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Drugs have enhanced my life as they were the reason I became a pharmacologist. And I have figured out things by personally using them that would have been difficult for researchers who have not use the drugs they work on. Some of the best discoveries come from self-experimentation and researchers who are willing to take that extra risk.

At the same time, I think drugs have made my depression (which I have had since long before I ever tried drugs) much worse; although with that said, my knowledge of drugs has allowed me to figure out a rather unusual combination of drugs that are contraindicated in the drug literature which have completely eliminated my depression for over 4 months now.

MobiusDick

To paraphrase a TV theme song: You shoot the good, you shoot the bad, you shoot them both and there you fix the downs in life, the downs in life.
 
shroomster said:
The real question is this: If you had a chance to start over, would you pick up all over again?

Yes I would.

I never made drugs my life or revolved my life around them (I never became addicted, in trouble with the law, or blew thousands of dollars on them) and I don't regret anything that I've done but I'm glad I was pretty knowledgeable about them and educated and I didn't do what friends of mine did and just take them in large doses of drugs without knowing anything about them. Like some friends of mine talked about how they wanted to drive on shrooms and I told them how they shouldn't do that and they laughed at me or some would think that shrooms in larger doses are a party drug like pot/booze can be but they're not.

I've learned things about myself from psychedelics (even pot) but it wasn't always correct information about myself, and sometimes it made life more confusing but I was a teenager/young adult then and those are confusing periods of life even if you don't use any drugs at all.

I've became a lot more open minded, gotten into being in the moment and trying not to concentrate on the past/future; but I think that would have happened even without taking them.

I do wish that I'd never tried tobacco but I never smoked it daily or got so addicted to it that I had to start smoking cigs daily, and drinking alcohol daily for months in moderate/large amounts while taking an SSRI was not a good thing to do either with depression or getting treatment for depression; but at least I'm not an alcoholic.

I'd say that they've enhanced some things but not been helpful at all overall in other ways.
 
I've grown a lot from quitting addictions to drugs, and I suppose the experiences I've had with and on drugs have made for great stories and have connected me with people that I never would have known otherwise. There is a real bond you have with someone when you do drugs with them or even drug talk with them, it's unlike anything else.

So I guess I would say that my past use has been beneficial in finding myself and others.
 
I'm pretty much stable and a generally nice person (some may disagree hehe) and I believe it's because I have done and still do drugs.
That doesn't mean I susbscribe to "drugs are good".
I intimately knew several people who destroyed their lives or even outright killed themselves with drugs.
 
Absolutely.

They've been responsible for some of the greatest moments & insights of my entire life. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. Without drugs, all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. *dies*

They're but one part of what makes life great though, & by no means the most important in my life. By holding them in the right perspective, they've opened the doors to innumerable new ones.

I would not be who I am today without drugs, & for that I'm grateful to them.
 
PinholeStar said:
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I really really really look forward to the Final Cut as the old DC DVD sucks donkey dick.
I will probably watch the DVD on ket.
Less than 3 weeks to go.
*groan*
 
Yes I think drugs have enhanced my life at this point. I see things in a different perspective, and I'm overall more peaceable person while I'm using or even when I'm not. They have helped ease a lot of anxiety problems and I'm more socially active then before.
 
Immensely difficult to say. Dope, pills, speed, coke, booze, all of these definitely fucked my life up hardcore. Psychedelics helped undo some of that damage and all and all helped me improve my life. Weed's really neither here nor there. All in all, however, every drug I've done has helped make me who I am today, every mistake and every step I took in the drug world has built character, so I guess I'll say a qualified "yes" ... even my fucked up addictions helped me grow as a person, in a way, and now I'm workin w/addicts which is something I love ...
 
Definately. A great big yes. I've made the best friends anyone could ever have and have had some of the best experiences anyone could ever have through drugs :)
 
They have influenced my writing as I can see things in a different light. The addiction part helps me to really get into a character's mind. I'm also not depressed when high but extremely so on the come down.

On the other hand, it's destroying my life and putting strain on all the relationships I have. I'm only seventeen and things are starting to get shady--some cop was asking about me because there is something going on in this area among teenagers regarding drugs and parties and somehow my name got stuck in the mix. I'm not in trouble--yet--but my dad is telling me to save my own ass and stop. I honestly can't.

I've also learned a lot about myself and the depths of my disorders and emotions. It has also helped me to become more open minded about things that I was previously more hesitant to do out of fear of being judged. Now, I look at everything as an experience that life has to offer--something that can make me feel more connected--and I take advantage of it.
 
Drugs have definitely enhanced my life, now that I can get high on opiates every now and then I feel so much more enthusiastic about life and im feeling real emotions again of course this isnt while nodding only on low doses.

I would start over again with the same mindset, I say this because my body is pretty fucked from meth and using multiple drug cocktails, I assume my brain is pretty fried from too much MDMA and dxm(not together) and I get anxious, paranoid, panicky and all sorts of mental shit but im learning to deal with it which I dont think I could do without drugs or at least it'd take alot longer. Drugs have forced me to sort out alot of problems, some were caused by drugs but I guess what im trying to say is drugs and the culture taught me life skills and made me a person far from naive.

And of course my anti-depressant luvox is a lifesaver, I held off on taking it for months and honestly didnt believe that an anti-depressant would make me feel better but I am glad I was wrong.
 
This is such a broad question. There are so many aspects to "life" that you could be talking about.

Does weed enhance my ability to study, concentrate, and memorize lots of information in a short amount of time? No.

Does it enhance my appreciate for music and all that is visually appealing? Fuck yeah it does.

Both those things affect my "life" but have different effects on it.

Have I done some stupid shit and wasted a lot of money on coke? Yes.

Have I had some of the most fun and most euphoric night of my life on coke? YES.

So the question is too broad to answer.
 
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