Surf snatch, orange juice and adreno, don't get so defensive, we all did stupid stuff in highschool. Just when I was in HS we smoked pot and drank beer, we didn't chug OTC cough syrup and snort sleeping pills. But hey, if that's what the kids are doing these days, have fun!!
Zolpidem has given me the most intense hallucinations and mindfucks I've ever had. That INCLUDES shrooms. Don't underestimate it just because it's legal.
I saw a horde of 100 cats run across the playground I was on. I saw my friends tongue come out of his mouth and snake down his shirt. I saw a swingset and I thought it was Darth Vader. (I fucking kid you not, it still cracks my friend up when I talk about it, he was straight at the time.)
I smoke pot, drink beer, take shots, pop zolpidem benzos and opiates, eat mushies, whatever. The point is not to do "real drugs", the point is to do drugs that are either FUN, or LIFE-CHANGING.
Also, although I've never done it, "OTC cough syrup" has a highly potent dissociative hallucinogen in it (DXM). It's a "real drug", just like any other. In fact, I would venture to say that high doses of DXM are WAY more hardcore than weed or alcohol.
But that's not the point, like I said. It's not stupid just because you've never tried it. In fact, go out and buy 20 mgs of Ambien and down it on an empty stomach. Just don't come crying to me when you wake up the next morning naked in a ditch in the ghetto, covered in tattoos, with a sign around your neck that says "I'm an ignorant, generalizing asshole who thought that Ambien was for kiddies", with no memory of what happened. I warned you.
