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What drugs have you given up and taken up as you have gotten older.

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What drugs have you given up and taken up as you have got older?

For example, I don't use coke, ketamine, 2cb at all anymore.

Sometimes G, shrooms, benzos and micro acid. But rarely.

My main staple now is meth.
It kind of gives me everything I like in a drug.
Just taming the beast and being disciplined with it is the challenge.
 
Everything that would require a dealer or darknet. Dissociatives, GHB when i felt it would end soon didnt though its still a big problem i hear.

Mostly the way of use changed. Binging on MDMA and alike or Speed is a phase past.
Alcohol addiction at older age, which they said is unusual (normal start age of drinking is 16 orso not 30+). But that put me in a black hole for a while.

And i started giving out money to my kids, my ex, charity people at your door.
It was for research for treatments of kids suffering PTSD. But in general the worse i get treated.
Be it cops, house renter companys, local politics or people on i-net.

The more i enjoy the moments like just yet, the talk with the collector i had. Quite good moment.
 
I spent my formative years on cannabis, speed and psychedelics.

Got a heroin habit aged 30. Gave it up 20 years later.

Got a crack habit around the age of 40. Sacked that a few years later.

Didn't start taking MDMA until my late 20s, still do it whenever I can.

Started serious drinking in my mid 40s, still going strong, but working on it.

But when I think about it, weed is all I really need...
 
Given up mdma (too taxing / shit now anyway), coke/crack. amphetamine, nicotine

In my 50's have taken up occasional opium, occasional methylphendiate, occasional modafinil.

Cannabis has been a mainstay, always had access to high quality and many forms, very lucky. Have always used the occasional benzo / downer too, and have never been a drinker above once a month maybe (which I'm very thankful for having known plenty of alcoholics well,)

Oh, used to love my psychedelics but had a 20 year break. Loving them again now but it's only once or twice a year.
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
But when I think about it, weed is all I really need...
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IME, it is. 45 here. Done lots of pretty much everything. Quit drinking and benzos almost 3 years ago and with that came quitting most everything else.

Aside from sweet sweet marifuckingjuana (and an occasional mushroom or DMT trip). Seems to me life has become much simpler, even though it’s more complicated with kids, careers and all the other adult bullshit. I don’t know how I did it before but I know I was barely hanging on and it wasn’t going to be sustainable.

Anyway, yea, weed rules. Always has and always will. It’s undefeated.
 
ChickenScratch said:
IME, it is. 45 here. Done lots of pretty much everything. Quit drinking and benzos almost 3 years ago and with that came quitting most everything else.

Aside from sweet sweet marifuckingjuana (and an occasional mushroom or DMT trip). Seems to me life has become much simpler, even though it’s more complicated with kids, careers and all the other adult bullshit. I don’t know how I did it before but I know I was barely hanging on and it wasn’t going to be sustainable.

Anyway, yea, weed rules. Always has and always will. It’s undefeated.
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He summed it up pretty good.

"weed is all i really need"
but I do love my prescibed dex-Amphetamine, so for me a also little speed.

Ocassionally I, well daily feel the need to take some sort of downer. Benzos, Kratom or Alcohol.
The last one, the wulf in sheeps clothing, I had to cross on that list .
To addictive I couldnt manage it, went to my dr., NA, mental healthcare and a detox as last resort.
Very learning experience, but as far as detox centers go. This one was a farce. 10 % succes rate 😂

So i try to restrict and cycle my downers use to an acceptable degree.
Well i try. but at least I know quitting these is something i can do myself.
Like how I got of GHB/ GBL with a slow taper DIY. Stunned the people at detox though,
as they deal with lots of people who cant. And have no clue how to help em? Eh Xyrem, pharma GHB.

Then last but not least, I am strangely drawn to Lysergics. LSD has never been popular or avail able in my youth.
When it was it was so strong it knocked me of my arse.
Mushrooms and the other Tryptamine and also the Phenethylamines, except Mescaline and 2C-T2.

Mescaline, probably the best phenetylamine around. Is still on my to do list.
Killed a few kilos of San Pedros when my 1-st kid was born. Kids, cactusses and nursing woman bad combination.

Lysergics, love em more then I used to love MDMA. Which is super euphoric, but also a bit of a feel good drug (total diff mechanism offcourse) like Alcohol, GHB. You can take it for pure pleasur/ hedonisme.
Lysergics which my mind/ body now handles very well. Are after the three mentioned the drugs I stiil do.
 
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I was all about stims and alcohol in my 20s and started moving more towards psychedelics in my 30s. I rarely drink these days but continue to have a love/hate relationship with stimulants. Having a prescription probably doesn't help.

I've been off stimulants for a couple of months (save a couple of trials with 3mmc) and I'm not sure whether I'll start taking them again or not. Sometimes I feel like I can't manage without them and others I feel like they do more harm than good. The grass always appears greener on the other side.

Cannabis has remained a consistent part of my life since my late teens save for a handful of 1-3 months tolerance breaks. I have planned to stop completely a few times in the past but on balance I think it's been a net positive in my life over the last 20 odd years.
 
I drank a lot of alcohol when I was in high school. I started drinking when I left the house and was drunk when I went to bed. It helped with anxiety. After I finished school I did not feel the need for it anymore. My life changed. Now I drink only a glass on occasions.

I met a girl three years ago who smokes cannabis. Now I do, too. But only on weekends when I see her. But I smoke a lot of cigarettes.
 
I was a club hopping candy kid. Used to wake up the next day in strangers beds. Used to use speed or coke if there was no x around.
Pop a perc or a stick for a come down. . .

Now I won't even take a Tylenol when I have a headache.
 
I gave up psychadelics and pot because i started to notice how much i hated the feeling of them and how abnoxiuos and pretentious the other users and culture were in my experience, so i hated the scene hated the high and just lost interest and motive to use them pretty quickly, but for a while before i grew up from it, i was using despite my disdain just out of desperation to distract myself from the reality of my life. I have had moments in the last few years were i had nothing else to use and a desperate urge to escape and all i had were psychadelics or pot, and every time it was always regretable and severly impacted my mental health (psychotic depression and insomnia)
I grew into using drugs that made my life easier to confront rather than drugs that distracted me from my life, primarily stimulants to improve my performance at work, and sedatives to help my sleep disorder and negative affect. But as the years went on the drugs lost thier originally potent utilitarian efficacy, then i started to abuse them chronically and heavily to maintain a facade of normalcy, after so long i had a major breakdown and now i use sporadically with highly variable results. Right now in my life i dont use drugs that often and when i do its usually for a practical purpose like controlling my energy and attempting control over my affect. From time to time i use ketamine recreationally, but otherwise im using drugs to bring myself to a functioning performance. To be as susinct as i really can.
 
I was realllyyyyy into LSD from 17-19, but then I stopped having the time and brain capacity for it. 12-14 hours a trip is a LONG time, and i wasnt really in a position to be doing it, anyways, + the fact im schizoaffective made my trips stop being fun after the first 5-7. I learned to appreciate shrooms more (last significantly less longer and dont make me feel like im sticking my fingers into a psychedelic electrical socket).

Now i dont even like shrooms that much. I didnt overuse them, i used them at most, twice a month. but now theyve gotten... uncomfortable and weird. Bodyload is not as nice anymore either :+(

i hated stimulants for a few years then got heavy into them, and started doing adderall VERY consistently, as well as tried vyvanse and concerta. I have recently done cocaine for the first time in 4 years, however i dont plan on buying another gram for a while (QUITE a hassle to get and it was $45 for the gram i got . i dont think i can get cheaper than that, and i dont make much money and have to pay weekly rent now).
 
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