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How open are you about your drug use?

Too open with everyone, probably. I've started talking less and less about drugs recently though.
 
With some friends, I'm 100% open, but I have friends that I know would judge me if they found out half the shit I do, so I keep it pretty low key around them.
 
For me it mostly depends on the who, what,when and why of things. At this point in my life if I don't know you I really don't even want you knowing that I ever smoked pot. That is mostly just because I have a daughter and am at a different point in my life. I life in a pretty small town it's hard enough just confincing everyone that their first pot dealer doesn't even smoke anymore. That's the who....the what is depends on the drug.....I have used a lot of drugs in my life and some that even my closest friends don't know about and that i would never tell them about. When is kinda like who......maybe there is a certin time when it because okay or needed for me to tell someone but not often and the why......WHY THE HELL AM I GONNA TELL SOMEONE. I have to have a good reason to tell someone, not because I start a new job and I wanna be "cool." And for the most part there really isn't a good reason WHY to tell anyone.
 
I am open with family and friends, but dont say a fucking thing if I dont know the people I am around...
 
I am somewhat open. A few really close friends know about everything I've done... a bunch of my other close friends, while complete stoners, are very anti-hard drugs and I stay hush hush around them. My parents only know I smoke pot; my brother knows I've dabbled in some hard stuff but he's fairly anti-drug.

When it comes to my fellow grad students, I don't say anything really. Especially not to faculty or my supervisor! I think he knew I was baked a couple times though lol!
 
I'm pretty open about the hardest drugs I use with my family, (close family, not like distant realives that live half-way accross the country and only see every few years if that, thatd be weird). Yeah my intermediate family and my cousins family knows, since we both use, other cousins family only knows i've always been a phish-head and did lots of acid and pot, they tried to keep us seaperated cause of that.. lol.

I don't nessacerily tell my parents EVERY little time i get high and inform them of every little drug run but they generally know whats up. but.. on the othe hand.. my mom has driven me to score dope 4-5 times. Hell-shit-fire even my grandpa un-knowlingly took me to the ghetto in Chicago( not super-dirty ghetto, we were safe enougth..) to cope dope. Its not like my mom used or even let me use in her ride, but she took me a few times, before i was going into rehab twice, and a few times after we dropped off some family members who live 15 min from my dealer(come on I was in the area 15 min away with the loot and it was an hour+ from home,no fucken way i was going home empty handed and paying someone $20 to drive me back.. LOLOL).. Thats about the closest my parents, well mom has gotten to my scene.. she was all OMG WTF get me out of here the whole time.. LOL LOL

I used to sorta hide like coke and H from my hippie friends who only did pot, acid, schrooms, etc.. Then sooner or later as using H took over every aspect of my life, I started taving about how great it was and the people who weren't bout it went away and I was left with the hardcore dope fiends.. and then whats the diffrence..

So yeah I used to hide this and that from people who would freak out about it (coke/heroin). I was alwaYS completly unabashed about weed, like it was a freakin echinecia sp?, and about as much about acid and X, esp X. I'd extol the virtues of those drugs like there was no tommorow, I didn't give a fuck who I offended.I kinda hid my general drug use from my parents till I was 15-16, then seems like one day they just accepted their son was a druggie and it was easier than fighting it.
 
I'm completely open to anyone who asks (with some exceptions, such as certain job interviews, some customers at work, and people my family wouldn't want to know).

I've got no issue with my drug use. I'm not ashamed about it, so why would I hide it? My doctor knows full well, and this has made it difficult for him to remain unbiased, which is a bit disappointing, but I'm changing doctors.

The only thing I'm not completely open about is my steroid use. The stigma attached to needles, even for non-recreational purposes, is still huge. And because I am not huge and stereotypically "roidy" people don't believe me anyway.
 
Seeing as drugs are illegal, I think it's best not to let anyone know what you use/distribute. There are a lot of snitches and do-gooders out there who will use your openness about drug use against you sometime in the future, when you're least expecting it. Say bye bye to your job, your children, or your freedom when that happens.

Even if you're just a casual user, you never know when you could have cops blackmailing you into snitching on someone.
 
i am about as "closed" as one can be about my IV habit. only my girlfriend of years knows (she wouldnt if she hadnt snuck on to my BL account) and my dealers/random junkies around town i might cop with from time to time.. but none of my real friends know.

its nice to have a place like Bluelight where there is a certain level of anominty and a (mostly) judgment-free atmosphere.
 
MaxPowers said:
Not that open, although people get curious when they realize I know a lot about drugs.
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Ditto. I don't like being dishonest though, so I won't ever lie when people ask. But I try to so as much preventative damage control as possible. If I'm in an environment in which it's welcome or around people that I know are friendly to the cause, however, I'll open up a lot more. But otherwise, proceed with caution. Don't deny, but don't instigate- just be inconspicuous (although, I have broken my own rules on occasion 8) )
 
hmm, this has garnered a lot more nice responses than I was expecting!

I think I'm going to be waaaaay more discreet about my use from now on. It's hard for me to hide the fact that I know a bit more than the average bear about substances, but I think it would be smart to keep my mentions of taking illicit drugs to a minimum. I'm starting to feel like I can't even tell my close friends about several facets of my use, which really kind of saddens me even though it's probably for the best.
 
I think people who are open about their drug use, are either kids or naive to think that doing drugs is perceived as "cool" because no one who isn't doing drugs with you thinks it's "cool" they think you have a problem and will probably steal from them for a fix.

so yea shhhhh
 
It seems like everyone but my grandparents know. At school random people I've never even talked to will walk up to me and be like, "dude easy on the heroin" which is weird because I've never done heroin.
 
GbizzleMcGrizzle said:
I think people who are open about their drug use, are either kids or naive to think that doing drugs is perceived as "cool" because no one who isn't doing drugs with you thinks it's "cool" they think you have a problem and will probably steal from them for a fix.

so yea shhhhh
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Drug users will never get anywhere if we stay in the closet.

I don't care if people think drugs are "cool". I also don't care if people think that rolling every couple months or tripping every couple weeks makes you the equivalent or one step away from a crazed crack head.

The fact is that people will continue to think that all drugs are horrible until drug users that aren't horrible become more visible.

Just like any other group looking for acceptance. At first your villianized, then you become a joke, and then you're on your way to being accepted.

Observe the image of blacks in america in the early 1900's. Crazed negro's out to rape white women.

Versus the image of blacks in the 1940's where there was still a lot of fear but black face actors and the little black kids on "Our Gang" started to make being black more acceptable, though still looked down on.

Versus now, where while racial jokes are still quite common serious hatred is on the decline and looked down on.

Same thing with homosexuals. In the 50's "The Homosexual" was out to kidnap little boys and trick them into sexual relations.

In the 90's Will and Grace made homosexuals a joke. Flamboyant funny men that are just oh so flaming.

Now pretty much everyone knows someone who's gay and out of the closet about it. There is still a lot of hate over sexual preference but once again it's on the decline. Gay is more acceptable.


Then we come to drug users. Stoners specifically. In the 40's marijuana drove people mad and led them to play the piano way to fast and run over old men willy nilly. It also drove negro's to seek relations with white women.

Now pot smoking in a humerous light is becoming quite common in the media, Stoners aren't widely considered drug addled threats to the good of society anymore. They're just considered a joke and are constantly lambasted.

Then we look on the serious side of things with pot smoking becoming more widely accepted and even legalized in the medical context.


It's like that cheesy saying "The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step".

You're not getting anywhere staying in the closet.
 
junctionalfunkie said:
^"We're here! We're high! Get used to it!"
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=D

hahaha, my day was going shitty, you just brought a ray of sunshine into it.

Thanks.

<3
 
Im %100 open about my drug use with very few people.

Im mostly open about my drug use with most people....
 
I used to be too open about it. I was young and rash and too rebellious. The sad thing is that people's perspective on you change radically when they find out you use.

Now I only open up when I feel that it's the "right time." It's tough to explain. Generally, I wait until they know me well enough to be unbiased they find out about my usage.

EDIT: Oh, but to this day only two people in my social circle know that I used to be addicted to benzodiazepines. It's just something that I don't feel the need to mention anymore. And yeah there's also that attached drama that I'd like to avoid.
 
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