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Romanticizing drug use and the drug culture

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When I was a kid I would read Burroughs, Kerouac, Keasy, bukowski etc and all the trip reports I could find on erowid and eventually that led to bluelight. I would watch movies like trainspotting, fear and loathing, drugstore cowboys, etc endlessly. Listen to lou reed, gg allin, iggy pop, phish, pink floyd...

There was another post linking drug use and the drug culture with social anxiety and that's pretty much me. I'm almost jealous though that my social anxiety is so strong I've never been able to get into the drug scene. I've seen people on this site start off like me even and end up social but dead and I'm still jealous of them. I'm old enough now that I know in my heart it's just an escape drugs aren't going to fix me but I so badly want to be a part of something, that I love reading about people getting together and tripping or shooting drugs even if it always ends up badly.

Anyways you get the picture. How guilty where you of doing this, do you still do this? Do you consider yourself a part of the drug culture? Or are drugs just a tool for you?

For instance myself I love hippie and particularly stoner music, food, movies, attitude, everything about it but I HATE pot.
 
I love cigar culture. I love walking into the cigar store connected to the Hyatt an breathing in the musky smells from the humidor. I love the assesories such as the heavy ash trays and ornate cigar cutters.

I hate smoking actual cigars though.
 
If you wanna be part of any type of culture, you gotta love doing whatever it is that culture does. I love doing drugs, so the culture kinda found me. Doesn't work the other way around
hope that helps
 
Xan_Fan said:
If you wanna be part of any type of culture, you gotta love doing whatever it is that culture does. I love doing drugs, so the culture kinda found me. Doesn't work the other way around
hope that helps
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Sure, that was just an oddity about myself I mentioned. I didn't mean to say for people to posts about not liking a drug but liking the culture. Just romanticizing it in general, which I think all drug users do at some point or forever.
 
Ohh, sorry. I'm a little geeked on adderall tonight, so prob didn't read it right...
I totally agree tho. I still romanticize my former heroin addiction and it was not at all pretty. But in my mind, I'm the troubled young artist that took to the needle haha! In reality, I was a damn junkie that didn't have a home.
I don't know why we do it. Maybe because it makes us feel better about doing something that is possibly killing us, taking away our dignity, our money, and our self-respect?
(Note: not saying that all drug users go thru that, only when it gets bad off into addiction)
 
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