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Why did you start using drugs?

Why did you start using drugs?

  • Stress

    Votes: 69 19.1%
  • Peer Pressure/Influence

    Votes: 61 16.9%
  • Curiosity

    Votes: 303 83.7%
  • Mental Health Problems

    Votes: 86 23.8%
  • Physical Health Problems

    Votes: 21 5.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 46 12.7%

  • Total voters
    362
Why do you get high?

Mods please move to appropriate forum :):)

I have a simple and very direct inquiry for anyone reading this... My simple enquiry is, "Why do YOU choose to use drugs and why have you chosen your drug(s) of choice?"

My answer for above question is, "Boredom, loneliness, depression and an eventual overwhelming desire to feel good regardless of life's circumstances, and that in general drives me to seek out and use Methamphetamine in order to skyrocket my self perception, value and esteem all the while feeling absolutely amazing, simply it allows me to detach from reality and for atleast a while the world can't truly hurt me anymore.
 
''Why do YOU choose to use drugs and why have you chosen your drug(s) of choice?"

I would say alot of people use drugs like psychedelics, stimulants, dissociatives and more generally A/ because they want a good time ? but people do get high because of dependency, addiction, emotional issues (oooh my bf just bumped me, lets get high sort of scenario) experimentation (most of the mates who have said this are usually in the process of a 10year expeirement lol)

But me i get high to perceive life in a different way, i get high becuase the whole idea of drug culture, the feeling, interaction with people etc is intriguing.

The very idea of getting high has got me high I like it that much (not hinting that i'm in realms of addiction @ all!) but yerr i get high because like many other people I enjoy a certain substance and the effect it has on me :)
 
hmmmmm. good topic. with me, addiciton runs heavily in my family. i feel that being sober is being a part of a boring simple aggrvating world. when i get high, (drug of choice: anything/everything) everything is different. and every single chemical that changes the way we percieve things is unique. every chemical unlocks dorrs to feel different things and each one of those things is awesome! being sober is boring!
 
I think the overall common denominator in a vast portion, possibly a majority of those who use narcotics initially used in order to in some aspect 'fit in' and many came to find and every day more will come to find that drugs make you feel good and allow these people to detach from reality in such a way that the experience of the high and becoming detached proves in many's mind that the drug counter culture or what you may call it provides the Chanel and tools to enjoy life as they could never before and the joy, wonder, bliss of this temptation, this escape from the world will make you happy again and life will improve. Ah we all know the cycle, the system, how the culture works from the inside and out, and that all drugs have potential for abuse, in moderation nearly all drugs would in some form or manner provide a detachment from reality. But humans as a species meaning MYSELF, YOU AND ALL OTHERS have flaws in our attitude we have for life and in turn how we act in the world. That as humans our own deeply set greed and desire for power will ultimately lead to an imbalance of power and due to.greed some not all but some people would take those substances and abuse them and in no way or form conceivable benefit society. Greed and human falability is our downfall... We can see it every day, address it.everyday, aggressively attempt to placate people in a particular area and pursue any number of measures to stop drug abuse. Short of a dictator style regime emerging as the source of sole government, power, justice and control there can not be a total control and in turn halt of illicit drug trade and in turn abuse of narcotics. Eh, fuck it :p have fun using YOUR drug and try to be safe and possibly in some minuscule benefit your community, state amd nation as a whole.
 
Quick reply lmao I also find being sober boring if there is nothing to do. Flip side is I enjoy sobriety and my normal clear, smooth albeit wild thought processes and in being sober truly being able to enjoy something ((example, myself spending a day with my lover :) )) and if I undertake something while influenced i.e. the same.example, that while I'm influenced instead of finding a natural joy and happiness being caused by an event as such this was that I find instead muted emotions from others and instead of a wonderful celebration it concludes instead as an emotionally damaging experience. Drug use is in my own opinion, which I come to find is shared by a surprisingly large number of people, drug use should and in personal opinion be legal across the spectrum with all substances available. That in doing so if the government was to impose :/ (god forbid!) regulations, quality standards and controls, an over head body of control with the singular goal and objective of regulating the legal flow.and transaction of narcotics and in overseeing regulatory standards, quality control of all substances that are sold to the public this move while controversial, possible in theory, colossal in reality and the government incapable of pursuing this course. Only through control, standardizing, quality assurance and as such a result of government absorption of all narcotics trade, ensuing streamlining, standardization, and as a result a controlled, legal narcotics trade in America where with control drug quality as in purity and clean methods of manufacture would allow for much cleaner, pure, and in all reason safer drugs that would be consumed by Americans, and an inevitable result of standards and quality control and a public knowledge as a whole that government supplied and purchased narcotics are as safe as they can be and no longer will toxins and/or poisons be an issue with narcotics and the focus of American labs that specialize in drug research and study can retool and refit a number as facilities with research into harm reduction of narcotics use, the ability to negate negative drug side affects, study into the discovery of a possible buffer/protection substance or method that when administered to a person would in every aspect molecularly and mentally shield the said person from drug induced side affects... Ah drug induced ramblings lol I can only wish that in some way the federal government nay the world as one global community will be able to be convinced to initially listen, then actually hear, then meet and vote on the validity of a.bill that in essence does legalize narcotic use in the US. The catch of the bill being a government established committee being selected by the people and given the task and resources to construct a first functioning foundation, infrastructure and base of operations that a newly formed and strictly non government staffed (federally funded although) agency in turn will be able to assimilate and use as a control center in the now regulated, taxed, quality controlled drug trade. Ahhhhh! Rambling well if the government would regulate all narcotics albeit abuse would still exist and occur but you could through regulations and limitations that go with the laws newly passed, allowing the regulation officials to effectively limit drug use and with enforcement of limitations decrease addiction and direct harm that is resulting from drug use and availability of narcotics would in all likelihood for a time decrease and in their absence the government could institute a coast to coast informative campaign to bring all Americans into the loop and to allow all competent Americans to realize the gravity of drug use and even though seemingly backwards the.desired direction that this legalization and subsequent regulation and control of all narcotics will allow for a much safer much more regulated and efficient society to exist. Drugs if abused are bad, duh, drugs in moderation only a bit bad. US government stance, incarcerate everyone involved... We totally can jail and forget these victims of a disease that instead of combating the federal gov chooses instead to attempt to ignore and when faced with the drug epidemic the government jails without regard and does not rehabilitate offenders, only anger countless millions and drains the economy to support the now overflowing justice centers. Well legalize drugs and control it, better to act now with control still at hand uncle sam... The lines are being drawn across America, speak out and help save our nation! Unification is unravelling our country as we speak. Act now American citizens, for once let our VOICE be.heard!
 
It really depends what I'm getting high on!
Weed: I smoke a lot of weed (canadian, no one gives a shit about pot) so i generally get full body shakes until my first blaze of the day
Stims: I hardly sleep due to a chronic pain condition and I hate being tired
Psychs: Why would anyone NOT do psychedelics?
 
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WTF............please use the edit button & separate this story into paragraphs.

Exactly. It's really hard to read one huge block of text, and many BLers will just skip over your post if you don't use paragraph breaks.

You should also know by now that BDD isn't the place for social threads or threads asking "what drugs did you do today?" or "why do you get high?". Drug Culture is a more appropriate place for this thread, but I can't promise the mods will keep it open as there are already similar threads in DC.

B D D - - > D C
 
i use

stims- to get shit done

opiates- to feel the nod

benzos- to relax from my racing thoughts and problems

alcohol- quick fix from anxiety

bascially i use drugs to make myself feel enhanced and better than i feel on a regular basis..



I am now off of stims and opiates and working on getting off of benzos and I have realized that life is so fucking boring now.........LMAO I still want to stay clean though because my path is very distructive and i don't want to die.
 
I generally can't cope with the boredom of normal life. But I do also love the exploration factor of taking a new chemical and changing your mind state. I think it's amazingly interesting. I love trying new chemicals so that I can experience something new.

Although psychadelics are great if you relax and have a good think about something. Your whole thought patterns change, you can see things that have always been there but never really noticed. You can see how beautiful the world is. I got a lot of my current beliefs from revelations I had when having a trip.

So a short answer would be, I take drugs because of boredom and the excitement of trying something new.
 
Mods please move to appropriate forum :):)

I have a simple and very direct inquiry for anyone reading this... My simple enquiry is, "Why do YOU choose to use drugs and why have you chosen your drug(s) of choice?"

My answer for above question is, "Boredom, loneliness, depression and an eventual overwhelming desire to feel good regardless of life's circumstances, and that in general drives me to seek out and use Methamphetamine in order to skyrocket my self perception, value and esteem all the while feeling absolutely amazing, simply it allows me to detach from reality and for atleast a while the world can't truly hurt me anymore.


Why not?
 
Oh, and Opiates. If I'm stressed/upset about something then Opiates wrap you up in a nice warm cotton wool blanket and you feel safe for a couple of hours. It's beautiful. You know it hasn't made the problems go away but you just feel safe. Kind of like when yoou was young, if you fell over and scraped your knee. A big cuddle from your Mum makes you feel so much better. Your knee is still scraped but while you are being cuddled, it just doesn't matter.
 
Oh, and Opiates. If I'm stressed/upset about something then Opiates wrap you up in a nice warm cotton wool blanket and you feel safe for a couple of hours. It's beautiful. You know it hasn't made the problems go away but you just feel safe. Kind of like when yoou was young, if you fell over and scraped your knee. A big cuddle from your Mum makes you feel so much better. Your knee is still scraped but while you are being cuddled, it just doesn't matter.

Yea, and then when the opiates wear off it's like a 7 foot tall rapist in a clown outfit rips that blanket off you and uses it to smother you with in the back of his van.
 
I'm gonna merge this with the thread we already have on this topic.
 
Yea, and then when the opiates wear off it's like a 7 foot tall rapist in a clown outfit rips that blanket off you and uses it to smother you with in the back of his van.

Yeah, withdrawls are a bitch. That's why I keep my usage low. I never take them more than 3-4 times a month. I'm more of a stimulant person anyway.
 
Curiosity, I continue to do drugs because I like them.
I don't use any to escape from reality, I just feel good and socialise better.

I don't want to try every drug, only the ones I think are safe enough :D lol.
 
Started drinking at 14 as a form of escapism mainly. To make my life more tolerable. My father was diagnosed with an incurable, degenerative neurological disease and my mom was running around with a homeless alcoholic while I was left home to take care of my dad and my mentally disabled younger sibling. Alcohol turns into marijuana which turns into LSD and ecstasy which turns into oxycodone and cocaine... Blah, blah. You all know the story. I like pills so much I've entertained becoming a pharmacist. Probably not a good idea though. It would be like a child molester becoming a preschool teacher. Too much temptation around me. Now my mom is dead and my dad is in a home and I guess I just never stopped the habit or learned how to cope in any other way.

I also like getting high. Go figure.
 
When I was really young I thought drugs were for losers, I thought to myself look at these stupid losers, why would I want to become like that, I thought I'd never ever touch drugs,.. then life majorly fucked me in the ass and all that changed.
 
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