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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
malfunkshun said:
responding to the OP:

drugs have enhanced the portions of my life during which i was high
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Haha isn't that the truth!! Drugs have led to nothing positive in my life. But I also abused them, so who's fault is that? I know. Was never a fan of the psychedelics because I always felt like I was just losing a grip on reality, and I like to be in control of a situation, and that def wasn't happenin.

I used way too much MDMA and hydrocodone and I'm actually beginning to feel the affects of this stupidity. My brain just feels sort of worn out, not nearrr as sharp as it once was. Oh yah, throw booze in the mix because I still abuse the hell out of that.

Drug 'abuse' has just deepened an existing depression/anxiety problem and made life more difficult to deal with. I've cost my self the chance to recreationally use drugs to help enhance certain aspects of life. But, gotta think positive. There will hopefully be brighter days ahead..:\
 
yes.

Mostly because I met alot of my friends at "drug scene" type of places, but they are not just drug friends, they are my good, real friends.

I also learned to understand the feelings that drugs can cause, it made me less judgemental of people who have fallen to addiction, I understand the incredible highs, and the crushing lows they can bring...it helped to understand, and now instead of laughing at someone having a bad trip at a rave, I'll try to talk them down, get them some water, hug them, and maybe a benzo if needed. Instead of spitting on a junkie in the gutter, I'll grab him a coffee and offer him someone to talk to.

So yes, they enhanced my life.
 
rangrz said:
yes.

Mostly because I met alot of my friends at "drug scene" type of places, but they are not just drug friends, they are my good, real friends.

I also learned to understand the feelings that drugs can cause, it made me less judgemental of people who have fallen to addiction, I understand the incredible highs, and the crushing lows they can bring...it helped to understand, and now instead of laughing at someone having a bad trip at a rave, I'll try to talk them down, get them some water, hug them, and maybe a benzo if needed. Instead of spitting on a junkie in the gutter, I'll grab him a coffee and offer him someone to talk to.

So yes, they enhanced my life.
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That's a good point rangrz. You can always relate to someone sooo much easier when you've been in their shoes(or close, maybe a couple sizes smaller)
 
Drugs kept me out of jail. I did a lot of stupid shit when I was in my late teens and early 20's. I was facing jail time and used my ADD (wich I had been diagnosed with at an early age) as an excuse. I found one of the pioneers of ADD research and checked in.
I was coming off a huge meth addiction at the time so the study group thought I must have had the attention span of a fruit fly. So this group of Dr's gives me insane amounts of ritalin. I was given 80mg 4 times a day and a side script of 60mg when needed on days that I was working over 10 hours.
When it was time to go in front of the judge I had 2 shrinks along with my lawer tell the judge that my decision making skills were so bad that my life would change on Ritalin and the help of the "life coaches"It did. I no longer had to hustle for money and I had all the pharmaceutical speed I wanted. The ritalin helped me to get out of trouble and get thru going back to grad school.
Years later after not touching any form of speed for at least 8 years I found the gloryous opiates. They helped me because I was so strung out from work the gym and family I was a raging alcholic with violent tendencies and a love for causing trouble while drunk. I had a friend (this is the compressed version) who turned me on to some perc's one day and found that I could feel all the things I love from opiates.
I was calm, full of energy, felt warm and floaty, and could tolerate people. So yes drugs can have a positive place in peoples lives. But I know to watch out cause anything can bite you in the ass quick.
 
I haven't read this entire post but I cant see by the title that it would be a psychedelic VS. "hard" drugs battle. All I know is that LSD has helped me put a fair perspective on my decisions. THC has prevented me from doing anything I know was wrong while high on TCH. And DMT has helped me know why I exist.

Xanax has helped me forget how fucked up up the world we live in is.

Alcohol has helped me with... uh... nothing

sooo..... I don't know
 
this was a tough one i had to vote yes because lets face it they have in many great and special ways, and some of these substances have properties and can do things that nothing anywhere else on this planet can do , on the otherside of things, drugs have been detromental to me mentaly and physicly... but u gotta take the good with the bad:D
its all about not goin crazy on em and a little respect 4 these gifts
 
I've learned almost too much about myself and also made many friends through the ups and downs of the span of my drug use; but I can't say that overall they've enhanced my life. I pretty much threw away everything good that I had going for me (good GPA, ACT/SAT scores, and scholarships) at the end of high school over the course of 2004-2007 as I partied away freshman year of college and then got back into meth with the addition of injecting fall of 2006. That pretty much washed my so called life down the gutter within a year. Voluntarily dropped out of my $32,400/yr private college to go to inpatient treatment which didn't get me clean anyways.

Finally just starting to chip away at all my financial debt over the past few months and I stay far, far away from needles now. Especially considering that a series of IVed stimulant overdoses has left my heart in rather rough shape for someone my age.

As of right now drugs have damaged more than they've enhanced my life due to my own abuse. I suppose the next couple years might change that if I keep on track, hold down a job, and party responsibly and in reasonable moderation.
 
i would say drugs have enhanced my life. Not meaning that all the enhancements were positive. Drugs have allowed me to feel higher highs and lower lows. Drugs have enhanced all spectrum's of my emotions. I wouldn't be the person I am today without drugs...both good and bad. From the bliss of shooting heroin to the agony of withdrawals, from peaking on quality LSD to heavy depression following MDMA abuse from having bundles of dope living the high life to being homeless sleeping in my car from doing speedballs and fucking my ex all day long to kicking heroin in a jail cell.

I would say drugs have taken away more than they've given me altogether but thats because I have a tendency to abuse drugs. Drugs have given me insane experiences that I (probably) would not have experienced had i not used drugs. These experiences no matter how awesome or how terrible have made my life more complete with the memories that will remain with me until I die.
 
made life fun sure enhanced not really. its nice to step outside normalcy now and again and i enjoy all my times in altered states but other then drain my wallet they havent been any better then the times i hung out w my buddies sober
 
Right this very second, they've enhanced it to the point that the sun is shining at 3 AM

But in a few hours it'l all be meaningless until the next time
 
Call me a pussy but I cried last night and I couldn't sleep. I was watching a movie, "Things We Lost In The Fire". I thought to myself, "how did I go from smoking marijuana to smoking heroin?" I remember in 7th Grade, the last year living in Cali before moving to Arizona. I had friends, a lot of them. Before moving I didn't tell any of them, I don't know why. Moving to Arizona I knew nobody until High School came around. I made friends, good and bad friends. I hated being ordinary, I hated not being interesting, I hated not being noticed, I hated not being perfect, I hated myself.

Smoking marijuana changed that. I was interesting, people noticed me, I didn't care to be perfect but most of all...I wasn't ordinary. I met people who were interesting, places I never could have explored without the drug culture surrounding me. With speed I became a stand-out that people enjoyed being around. At 16 I fell in love and after making love for the first time I felt alive. When I was 17 I was already living away from home in an apartment that I shared with my girlfriend. I had a good paying job. I had so many friends. I experimented with so many drugs and the nights...the fucking nights...I never wanted to end. But like everything else, it had to end.

Deeper and deeper I hid an opiate addiction that finally was noticed, when it became clear I lost my girlfriend, my place, my job, and lost most of my friends because I fucked them all over. I fucked everything over, including myself. After losing everything good, I spun deeper into opiate addiction. Too many awful things happened. Meeting an old friend introduced me into something I can never & will never forget. Heroin. After cooking a piece of tar on a spoon into a liquid substance, I rolled my sleeve up and spiked my vein, mixing it with my blood. "God kissed me" That feeling cannot be described in words other than so. I chased it but God will only touch you once. Chasing that feeling led to disasters too long to list. A list I'd rather forget but I can't. These days I may be clean but its so hard to forget what God's kiss felt like.

I think I now know what I was running from...myself. But why? Is being ordinary so bad to resulting to drugs like heroin? Was it worth it? It seems as though I have everything these days, my own home, in a week a wife whom I love more than myself, a business I built with my own two hands from illegal money that now profits through clean money. But the monkey on my back will always be there and when the monkey gives me a tug, these days can feel just as bad as when I had nothing. Even if I could have everything in the world wished for this addiction debilitates the things most valuable...your mind, soul and heart. Addiction did not enhance my life. Its the one thing that has held it back.
 
I think psychedelics have been extremely therapeutic to me. I have been forced to examine my inner self over and over and confront myself on issues I'd been trying to block out or forget. I have overcome alot of fear and anxiety that I had been struggling with for years, I've been able to resolve alot of inner torment and see things in a whole fresh new perspective. Of course not all thoughts and ideas stay with you once the trip is over, but I do believe its as if I have begun to reprogram my brain somehow. Now I feel all the "bad trips" are said and done, and that they weren't actually "bad" but enlightening and honest. I think next time that if I begin to have a bad trip, I will be able to be in control of where it leads and what the outcome will be. All my trips in the past two months have been spectacular and beautiful now that ive gotten most of the darkside out of the way:)
 
Yes and No. They've definately made me a more open, calm, empathetic person. They've increased my music appreciation exponentially, as well as opened me to different types of music. They've also given me so much insight into everything and I believe I am much more enlightened and wise because of it. But I find myself somewhat preoccupied with drugs (not in a 'just wanna get fucked up' way). And not sure if they've messed badly with my brain chemistry.
 
I voted yes, but I'm not sure if the headache would have gone away if I didn't take the aspirin...Did marijuana and LSD change the social direction of the 60's and 70's, or were the attitudes and ideas developing regardless?
It's fun watching the styles of that period come back. My sister just gave me a photo album for my birthday, 55, the pics went as far back as 69, I had really long (full) hair - it's pretty sparse, and buzzed at this stage. I got very nostalgic, and couldn't help but remember all the promise the World held then. The whole world, it seemed, wanted Unity & Peace, at least through my idealistic eyes. I wish that attitude, that went along with the'styles', would make a comeback as well...I wish 'I' could be as optimistic, as I was then, about our future....It's been a blast to live thru, but it doesn't look too good up ahead...BUT...I'll do what I can to make it a better place. I never procreated, theres a contribution-I really never wanted the responsibilty of perpetrating life on anyone...I've always been 50-50 on the Karmic issue of 'kids' do they create it, or speed up your development? I'm as green as I can be, other than all the energy I consume between this PC and my other electronics...I'm not solar, yet...anyway-this is getting journal proportionate...so yes-I think so-I think drugs do enhance...
 
There may have been some instances where yes, they have enhanced certain things. Psychedelics do, and other drugs occasionally. But for the most part what drugs have done to me is taken over my mind, caused a problem, and it's just something I can't bring myself to stop.. Nor do I even want to. I don't use like I used to, but it still causes problems in my life. I think I'd just rather have drugs with the problems they cause than none at all. =o

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For me definatly yes, i only take Psychedelics so maybe thats the Reason. They inspire me, give me spiritual Insights, i wouldnt say ineed them, but they can be very pleasant.

Also i have noticed, that Psychedelics, have an Aftereffect for me, that never goes away.

bye Salvia
 
Yes, I would say overall they have had a positive impact on my life. They have helped me build some very strong friendships with people on deeper levels than I would have ever thought possible.
 
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