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How do people in your life react to drugs?

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The reason I ask is because I have two very distinct group of friends. The first group I met in my highly conservative, Christian high school -- they've graduated, while I'm currently attending my last year there. It's not as if they're angels: they drink, sleep around, can be mindless assholes, etc. I would say we aren't as close as before, and I really only hang out with one person from that group nowadays, but she's the exact same way.

On the other side, there's my other group of friends (who also don't go to my school) and are so far off into drugs I frankly can't keep up. I would say we've gotten pretty close, and in fact, I haven't felt like I've had such a good pair of friends in years.

The trouble starts with group one and my entire school basically whacking me over the head with the words, "drugs are bad, bad, bad, didn't you hear? you have no mortals, stop destroying your life." It's getting on my last nerve, and I don't know what do about it. I've met many intelligent, thoughtful and loving people who do drugs, those ranging from potheads to hardcore drug-users. I'm going to go as far to say that they embody those qualities more than so than group one and my school.

Not that it matters. Seems in todays society sipping a beer is a-okay while smoking a joint is punishable by beheading. It makes me angry, and I would really like to know if you guys have found the rest of the world to be as self-righteous and egotistical.
 
People that go on & on about how drugs are horrible & are closed minded & have probably never really tried them.
 
It takes one to dabble in drugs for the veil to be lifted and to gain a broader perspective on the subject. Once you realise quite how far removed the government stance on drugs is from the reality of what they are, you can start to make your own decisions.

You learn that drugs are not evil. They don't even have any remarkable properties about them. It is our body's reaction to them that is remarkable, and that the fact that they exist within nature shows that the process of reacting to 'drugs' is a natural phenomena.

We, as a species, have the intelligence to recognise this phenomena and utilise this phenomena for our own individual benefit, and for the benefit of others.

There is nothing 'good' or 'bad' or 'evil' or 'moral' about the act of 'taking drugs'.


People seem to forget this fact that at the end of the day, everything about drugs is perfectly natural.
 
They're probably simply concerned mroe than anything, especially as there is a stigma against drugs in our society. Do your thing quietly and carefully....
 
If it is bothering you that badly, you can always avoid them & be more open about your use. I found that as soon as people knew what I was doing, they wouldnt say anything to me. It became like the "dont ask dont tell" policy. They stopped telling me how bad drugs were & I have to talk to them about any of it. We came to an understanding.
 
My main group of friends are all stoners to one degree or another. No hard drugs, but we're heavy pot smokers with the occasional opiate/hallucinogen. The rest of my friends don't use but have no issues with pot/lsd/k/perc/etc use. I come from a hippie/freak background so most of my relatives are pot smokers.
 
Most of the people in my life that I care about are users of something or other. My family is the obvious exception but even then I'm not sure exactly where they stand on the issue. I imagine if they found out I did drugs they would be saddened and perhaps disappointed but it wouldn't be a deal-breaker. With regards everyone else in my life there are plenty of "puritans" about the place but the circles I run in are generally pro-drug at least. That said I'm probably one of the more serious users out of everyone I know, one of my best mates is interested in going further with me but and I'm pretty sure he's doing it for self-destructive reasons (I don't know what he's running from, I'm not sure if he even does). Most of my mates are just stoners but some are explorers like me. In short I know a lot of cool people. Don't worry about your schoolmates, I agree with Mona Lisa, just keep your activities quiet until you're around people who aren't hypocritical and judgemental. We live in a fucked up society but we knew that already didn't we? :)
 
I guess I can relate OP. Funny how some of my friends go on about dope being the great satan, meanwhile they're railing oxycodone because it's so legit.

"Needle? Not me, NEVEEEERRR!!!"

Not exactly the same, but close to.
 
"Seems in todays society sipping a beer is a-okay while smoking a joint is punishable by beheading."


This is not true at all.... If you are just smoking weed, I find it hard to believe that HS students in 2010 would have a huge issue with it if they drink. Weed is mainstream, but if you are doing any other drugs at all, that is your problem, that is why they view you negatively
 
well my close friends can be split in 3 groups: group 1. they do E, coke and weed and are open minded about drugs.
group 2. they do soft drugs but don't do E etc.. they are not against it as such but don't think it is their thing.
group 3. don't use and i don't talk to them about drugs much but they are not against me using them, they will just say "are you on E again" (in a joking way)

another group who i don't hang around with any more got on my nerves.. if i said i did E they would assume i was a drug addict and wake up every morning shooting H in fact even if i said i did weed they overreacted (i smoked at a party once, away from them in a field with a mate, when i came back they had found out and acted like i had bloody murdered someone, refused to talk to me, said omg you do drugs! I am so disappointed) what really got me going though was my mate often got very drunk and for them it was a laugh and accepted but if he smoked a bit of weed..shunned and called a druggie and addict (almost ended his relationship as they were saying he had a drug problem to his new GF) so closed minded.. i no longer speak to them now.
 
I have people who do drugs who I know and are generally open minded, not drug users that think that they're better because their drug is "softer", and of course then I have normal non-drug users, and usually to start off they're cold and angry towards any drug use whatsoever, but I'm generally complimented for my ability to get along with people and I'm generally considered to be pretty smart and courteous, as are most of the other drug users I spend time with. What helps is that a lot of times nobody would suspect that people in my circle are users, so when they find out generally it kind of shifts their view of what normal users are like.

I've honestly not met a whole lot of people that were really up in arms about people using drugs. In high school I attended a school where we had a lot of rich kids with a lot of money and not much to do, so smoking weed and drinking was prevalent and the school was really pretty liberal about it all as were a lot of the kids since they became desensitized to it over time, and slowly stuff like heroin and such began moving in...and despite what a lot straight edge kids may say, doing drugs in that school sure as hell made you cool. In my case although a lot of people may have not agreed with drug use, it made me pretty well known/badass to both be smart/in all sorts of advanced courses and to be a drug user that's easy to get along with. On the other hand it was ridiculous, I never thought that I was much of a topic of conversation, but within a few weeks of me starting heroin just about everyone and their mothers knew about it, even if they never even met me. (My best friends mom didn't like me coming over anymore because it apparently came up at some parent meeting, and some random person none of us know approached my brother at church and asked if he was the brother of that kid that does heroin)

Of course then in college every floor of pretty much every dorm had a small time dealer of some sort, and for the first time in my life I met girls who were heavier into drug use other than just drinking, which was pretty sweet...I love hot chicks who do drugs (but aren't like addicts or anything), watching em hit a bong gets me going. But very few people looked down on drug use there, at least when it came to drinking and smoking weed. Hard drug use was somewhat more frowned upon, but still wasn't exactly the target of much hatred.

Then again, all through my life in southeast Pennsylvania there has always been one drug that has been viewed as the devil, and that's meth. I've only ever actually known 1 person, in college, that ever talked about doing meth. Around here meth is considered the worst of the worst and anyone who does it is generally shunned by people around here. Of course I don't really have anything against it, it's just another drug, but intolerance still is rampant among people unfortunately. I probably wouldn't do it or would only do it once or twice if it was free just because I'm not a fan of uppers, but there's still nothing wrong with people that use it responsibly.
 
my friends are cool about it
my parents know i have an interest and they hate it and I can't even change their mind about weed being one of the worst drugs
otherwise i won't tell people I meet because it would just get me into shit
 
almost everyone i know does drugs and knows people that do hard drugs so everyone is kind of desensitized to them
 
my friends are all drug users. most dont dabble with the hard shit like heroin or coke but they dont judge me much for it.

my g/f doesnt know. and i try to keep it that way.

my family for the most part hates it as all they see it doing for me is getting me arrested and nodding at the dinner table. most have no experience with drugs, and none have experience with coke or heroin or things like that.
 
a lot of people in my life are naieve about drugs. it annoys me quite a lot, the fact that quite a few people i know slag off drugs, drug users etc, yet consume a lot of cigarettes and alcohol without a blink of an eye. my parents are typical "all drugs are the same, they're all bad, blah blah" typical brainwashing media bullshit
 
My friends can be separated into two groups: drug-tolerant and not-so-drug-tolerant. The first group is a delight to smoke with, and occasionally do harder stuff with. The second I see less because none of them smoke, and they hardly even drink. Not that they're boring, but their interests just don't quite coincide with mine.

My family is very against drugs, as far as I know. Well, except for my one cousin, but that's because she's a complete BAMF.

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ColtDan said:
a lot of people in my life are naieve about drugs. it annoys me quite a lot, the fact that quite a few people i know slag off drugs, drug users etc, yet consume a lot of cigarettes and alcohol without a blink of an eye. my parents are typical "all drugs are the same, they're all bad, blah blah" typical brainwashing media bullshit
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I think this is true for my family and drug-intolerant friends; they are ignorant and think all drugs are going to kill me instantly.
 
My close friends except for a few always make fun of me for a doing drugs. Like not in a mean way but they like making jokes about how I smoked bible paper once (yeah I know) and how I must of wanted Jesus in me. Just little things but yeah they don't care that I do them but they won't be partaking in it. My other best friend is my number one girl I get high with. She stopped for a little but we still smoke together once in awhile.

My parents hate drugs. My mom always bitches at me for supporting marijuana and she tells me how all people who were in high school who smoked it look like burnouts now. Also my father just doesn't want us to touch drugs because he knows what it can do (ex crackhead) but he believes we only smoked marijuana once... Lol and he doesn't know I've done other drugs.
 
None of them know. The only people who know I use drugs occasionally are the people I use them with. I'll talk with anyone about my personal opinions and views, but my own personal use isn't a defining factor in who I am so it doesn't really come up.
 
I am very similar to Citizen Cained, in that I classify my friends into 3 groups
Group 1: Drink casually, most have girlfriends or wives, good jobs, and are on track to be successful. I generally surround myself with this group of people

Group 2: Party at least 2-3 times a week. Occasionally smoke weed, but not regularly. I call these guys 1-2 times a week when I want to go out and get drunk

Group 3: Roll, Trip,Deal, Party almost every day. I call these guys when I need to reality for a while. Usually these guys get the call once a month or so

It's funny, but the first group consists of my best friends. I'm closest to them and I can always count on them to have my back. They are definitely the most boring though.

I don't like combining friends from those different groups though. It's nice to get away from school, job hunting, etc and party hard on occasion. I know in the back of my mind that they really aren't my friends though, and that most of them will probably end up getting into more hardcore stuff and eventually wind up in jail or worse.

I only have one friend I would consider to be a part of all 3 groups.
 
Before i experiment with drugs i hung out with a crowd of people who were very anti drugs. That defiantly changed though when they found out i had taken Mushrooms/LSD. I fucked them off after they gave me "get off the drugs or your not hanging out with us anymore" speech.

My mum doesn't know for certain that I do drugs, but I'm pretty sure she has a fair idea. Surprisingly the other day, I came home after a shit day at work with my face dragging on the floor and dad asked me what was up and i said nothing, but then he asked if i had been on the "chems" again lol, I casually turned around and said "No, not recently"...He laughed and ok.

ColtDan said:
a lot of people in my life are naieve about drugs. it annoys me quite a lot, the fact that quite a few people i know slag off drugs, drug users etc, yet consume a lot of cigarettes and alcohol without a blink of an eye. my parents are typical "all drugs are the same, they're all bad, blah blah" typical brainwashing media bullshit
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Also, as ColtDan mentioned, This is my Brother/Parents view on everything associated with drugs.
 
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