What was the first drugs you did and why?

[BlueBull]

Mushrooms, soon followed by LSD

 

[hexagram]

MDMA. Had a 250mg bomb on the same night my gf of three years broke up with me, when I was still really drug naive, having only smoked weed a few times beforehand. Didn't feel anything for forty five minutes, then had 8 hours in pure heaven. Then an afterglow that lasted ages and helped me get over the break up. I miss those early MDMA afterglows.

But yeah that experience sparked up a huge interest in drugs, think I always will have a place for drugs in my heart.

First RC was aMT.

 

[Jesusgreen]

If we're not counting Caffeine, Alcohol, Cigarettes and Weed like you said then Nutmeg was the first substance I tried other than those in my young foolishness I'm not sure whether to count it though since I didn't really ever get much of any effects from it other than a couple of times getting some mild ones.

If we count the first solidly active substance other than the ones mentioned above, then Ketamine would be my first.

TL;DR story of my first time with Ketamine: I was hanging out with some friends from college at a park in the city skipping class, wanted to go pick up some bud but my main dealers weren't around. It was then we ran into another friend from college who came to sit with us and he asked if it was okay if he did a line of Ketamine there - we had no reason to object, and I remember laughing as he spilled the line on the ground and proceeded to snort it anyway from the concrete. It was this funny behaviour and his silliness that ensued that got me interested in Ketamine and finding out what it was all about - I'd read about it in the past but hadn't been particularly interested.

Eventually we sat down in an old parking garage which looked a right tip, there was broken glass everywhere, mud, shit, piss, spilled booze, and I thought he must have been pretty damn high to not mind the conditions of where we were sitting - I mean I've been in some bad places but I could barely hold my gag reflex in at that point. We sat down and a friend came over and sorted my weed situation, then at that point the guy with the Ketamine asked if anyone else wanted a line, I said I hadn't tried it and was interested, so he made a nice line for me.

I snorted it and waited, it seemed like ages was going by with no effects (contrary to all my future Ketamine experiences, where when snorted it would hit basically instantly), in this time the guy who gave me the Ketamine and his girlfriend proceeded to give me some tips, tell me what to expect, and tell me stuff like how to stop myself from holing if it was a bit strong etc, as well as warning me about the drip I was about to experience.

Sure enough, the drip hit moments later and the taste wasn't great but it wasn't really bad either, certainly not as bad as they'd made out, I remember it felt a little sandy going down the back of my throat. At this point I knew the effects would come soon. I was getting tired of sitting around near an ocean of piss though and decided to stand up and stretch my legs. At that point I remember saying something like "Woah" and being drawn to the lights like a moth.

I went on to smoke a couple joints with my friends and didn't take any more Ketamine that day but spent the next hour or two in a pleasant "bubble" as we used to call it, I still remember a few silly moments from that day like needing to piss and taking a piss in the middle of the pavement because I thought it was a bush, and nearly pissing on someone's kid. Oh and going into the pound store and joking that "If there's 2 drinks for a pound, then one must be free, since everything is a pound here" - to which one of the others proceeded to pinch a drink and sneak it right through the big detectors. Was a simple grab but being on Ketamine it felt like some Derren Brown shit.

Next up after that were Cocaine, Methylphenidate (Ritalin) and Mephedrone, in that order.

 

[Sammy G]

The first drugs I did were whatever my mother would dish out from her prescriptions if she was feeling that way. Usually painkillers - must've started off with codeine but it was eventually DHC by the time I was a teenager. I remember having these pretend migraines so she'd hand 'em over. Which she did with an eagerness that only now seems a little bit wrong. She really loved watching them kick in, especially treble-digit doses of DHC, which is a bit generous for a headache maybe. It'd be a few years down the line before I'd make the connection between this and 'drugs' anyhow, by which time I was already keen.

Wasn't really bothered aside from that until my late teens. Taking drugs was the conformist thing to do at school, so of course I avoided it like the plague. Smoked a few joints through peer pressure and didn't enjoy it, watched my friends take acid and act like idiot children. Not for me. I liked alcohol though, and speed was good because it meant more alcohol and more confidence, which was a really big factor back then.

It wasn't until personal circumstances drove me to find something to help me sleep that I began to experiment with weed again as a student. I liked the way it mellowed me out and dissolved my worries, but mostly I liked the fact I didn't have to stay up for days anymore, as that was becoming a nightmare. Kerouac used it didn't he? It must be okay. I suddenly changed my attitude - a bit.

Around the age of nineteen, I decided it'd be fun to drop acid. Just around the point most people lost interest in the stuff. I loved it. Then when acid wasn't available a few weeks later, I was convinced to try MDMA. It took some convincing, as once again in my ignorance I'd decided that MDMA was for morons. Wrong again. Well, either that or I was a moron. Maybe both. It really was a revelation though, which I often forget about all those disappointing follow-up experiences later.

After that, the floodgates opened and it just becomes the usual 'try every drug that's offered you' kind of affair. Sometimes I'm glad I resisted for so long, and others I wonder what I missed. I'm proud of the fact that the tentative conscious steps into 'drug use' were all mine and not part of some teenage group ritual, I guess. I'm not proud of the fact I clung for so long to useless, empty partying that wasn't really fun and hedonism that wasn't particularly pleasurable, but that's another story.

 

[neurotic]

paregoric/opium tincture. it was available OTC and i always took it when i had diarhea as a kid. when i read it contained morphine on the label i figured i could get high off of it, after drinking what was left of a bottle and not feeling anything, i decided to go with two bottles (30mgs of morphine). i remember that day like it was today. i chased it with water, and then patiently waited to see if i'd get any effects. soon enough i was lying on the park bench going 'feelsgoodman'.

 

[furryfreek]

Well, besides weed and booze, I think the first thing I tried must have been shrooms, just before fresh ones were made illegal in the UK. Me and my mates were all kinda' naive with drugs back then, so we didn't bother with scales or any of that nonsense. I somehow managed to fall asleep at, I guess, around the time the experience was starting to peak and had some really trippy dreams. I couldn't remember the dreams that well at the time, let alone now, though I do remember crazy mosaic like visuals and that the main theme was that I could turn back and fast forward the passage of time at will. The dreams were sort of like typical trip induced thought loops but with more depth and a sort of lucidity - I could turn back time, do something a bit differently, causing the rest of the dream to play out a bit differently (though I think it always wound up the same way before the next 'loop'). Strangely though, I think the trippiest thing was waking up and coming back to reality. It must have taken me at least 20 mins (and that's accounting for moderate time dilation) to get my head around the fact that time is linear after I woke up.

 

[Chatative]

Well, besides weed and booze, I think the first thing I tried must have been shrooms, just before fresh ones were made illegal in the UK. Me and my mates were all kinda' naive with drugs back then,

Should have been the same for me... I'd bought some shrooms from a shop that sold them & unfortunately I was rather naive, & didn't store them right. I ended up with a bag of mush instead after putting off trying them for too long. Those were the days. :D

 

[St3ve]

The first one's I took after classic alcohol, cigarettes and weed were LSA and salvia followed closely by San Pedro (legal, legal, legal x)). First illegal one was LSD, good Alex Grey blots :D. At that point I still had a thing against stimulants and was reluctant to ever put anything up my nose. A little over a year later my friend shared some of his last mephedrone right after it got banned in the UK. Then followed MDMA and various RCs x).