Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
for me its an upper 
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is alcohol an upper or downer for you?
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Threads about the effects a drug has on the body dont belong in drug culture, please post a question like this in basic drug discussion. Other Drugs is for more advanced drug discussin and drug culture is for everything BUT the dosage and effects of the drugs.
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
never said it was a stimulant. stimulant has a definition. 'upper' doesn't
upper doesn't have to mean its a stimulant as there is no real definition for it
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
chemically it is a depressant. there is no such thing as being chemicaly a downer.
upper/downer do not have scientifical definitions.
upper doesnt always meen stimulant ,downer doesnt always meen depressant....upper/downer do not have definitions, they are more of opinions
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Bluelighter
god you guys are getting too hung up on the scientific meaning of these terms... for me alcohol is an upper
.. for everyone alcohol is an upper than you morons. It really depends on the situation, like if your ready to go to a party then you down drinks and it feels like an upper. If you are sitting with the homies just drinking and chilling it will be like a downer. That has nothing to do with what alcohol is for you..it is just the situation. This is a stupid question to the op.
Sweet P
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Pedantic much? I'm well aware of all that... I'm sure everyone is.
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
i don't like how someone told me alcohol was NOT an upper. upper/downer are terms that the user decides.
theotherside
Ex-Bluelighter
In a social situation it can feel like an upper as it makes me talkative and nicer to people. After about 2 drinks, the buzz turns "toxic feeling" to me and makes me want to eat a shit load of food and fall asleep. I try never to go over 2 drinks so that the good effects outweigh the bad.
Sweet P
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I said it can feel like an upper. But chemically it's a CNS depressant. Geezus.
edgewise1
Bluelighter
It is really simple, so see if you can follow along. Uppers are stimulants and downers are depressants. It does not matter whether you like it or not, and it is not what the individual decides the term to be. If you think it stimulates you, fine and dandy, but if you ask whether it is an upper or downer, AS YOU DID, then the answer is DOWNER.
straight forward answer.. I really don't know why the op would take time to make a useless post like this.
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
stimulant doens't always = upper and depressant doesn't always = downer
alcohol is a depressent, i'm not arguing that.
but it is up to the user whether it is an upper or downer
like i said upper/downer do not have real definitions as stimulant/depressent do
shoolameet
Bluelighter
In the poster's defense he did ask if alcohol is an upper or downer for you? Meaning the answer is meant to be user specific, not scientific. He probably just couldn't think of better way to word the question.
And to answer the question: I feel like it's both. It makes me talkative and very confident, but it also can make me relaxed (or sometimes cry because of the depressant factors) and it always makes me sleepy.
Violenza666
Bluelighter
Both. It depends on my mood. I rarely rarely drink anymore though. Bad things tend to happen when I do.
edgewise1
Bluelighter
Folks, alcohol is a depressant, plain and simple. It does not possess the ability to stimulate the CNS. No matter how much you think alcohol stimulates you, your Central Nervous System is going to be depressed, because alcohol is a DEPRESSANT! Under alcohols influence you may think your stimulated, but it just ain't so.
Violenza666
Bluelighter
^True, I am not saying it's a "stimulant" but sometimes it makes me feel stimulated.. lol it's weird. I base it on my mood moreso than scientific fact. Because if something makes me feel stimulated even if it shouldn't then to me at the time it's a stimulant. It's like when oxy makes me hyper... it's a CNS depressant but it makes me hyper.
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
i never said it wasnt a depressant. i never said it was stimulant. i said for me its an upper FOR ME.
upper doesn't=stimulant necessarily