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why do we do drugs?

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AndEEE got it : escapism. Escaping from the mundane. We are programmed to search for what feels good. Life was much fulfilling when we were close to nature and enjoying the excitement of war. Life is very boring in this century and definately discriminatory and unfair. But life is what you make of it. There are many things which can feel the same as taking drugs sometimes it takes more effort to reach what you were planning, sometimes a lifetime but success/love/and appreciation of the beauty of nature and life can feel equally as good and can last forever. There are other peak experiences, skydiving, snowboarding, travel, to give a few examples. Drugs are only an enhancer and a double edged sword. Perhaps you will reach some state of enlightenment but it will never take you all the way to your destination, nothing is so easy nor is meant to be. The problem is balance, you can spend much time repeating and repeating the experience in order to reach the perfect experience that you dreamt of but it will remain beyond your grasp. Dont take things so seriously, enjoy the feeling but dont let it be your goal.
Apart from the hitting the right buttons in the brain which we are programmed to need, drugs are interesting, there is so much to learn, it is like performing science experiments on your own body and visiting another dimension. But the important thing is to not let it take over the basic human need of survival. If the drugs are adversely affecting your ability to achieve/keep the job you deserve or live the life that you deserve then that is no good at all. This world indeed is not fair or requires compromises in your freedom to achieve financial reward which can give you more freedom (a paradox indeed). It is very easy to get into the habit of smoking weed all day every day and not really doing anything but chilling. Enhance life, do not destroy it. I hope to guide others from my experiences.
 
The thing with drugs is that they are, well, drugs. When we take them, we feel better, and in a way we've been trained to do that. Our concept of medicine is so reliant on drugs that we learn as children to take a pill to alleviate some kind of physical suffering. Companies market them in this fashion as well ("When the day gets rough, take..."). Now, Tylenol is much milder than the drugs done for "recreation", but why should it be criminal to come home from a rough day at work and smoke a joint, but fine (and encouraged) to come home and pop a few Advil? In a way, we're just taking medicine when we do it, and the source of the pain differs for each person.
 
Originally posted by Liquid Sky D:

Word.
Until you come down and realise you just fucked yourself up for nothing.
Your lows can only seem lower after being high for too long.
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Hmm...why I do X?
Well it lowers ur inhibitions for one, but most importantly of all, I do it for the memories & evrytime I roll, I try to recreate them, or @ least go one better.
 
Very good question...
Hmmmm.... Maybe I should start out with "why i don't do the drugs i don't do..." I don't do heroin or crack or coke or amphetamines because i think i would rather not be addicted to something and i don't like sending things directly into my viens or up my nose and I know i would love these drugs way too much. I have done MDMA to help me express my emotions better in everyday life and to help me feel empathy toward my fellow humans. I do hallucinogens to experience spirituality and emotion and thought on different levels than the usual ones i feel so i can have a greater appreciation for life and the universe and beyond. I smoke weed/drink to relax and unwind with friends and enjoy myself without being stressed about school(my college is highly competitive and has a course load half again as big as most colleges). I am interested in knowing who i am and how my body and mind work for me. I want to explore my brain(we only use a frickin tiny bit) and i find hallucinogens seem to help me. I also use drugs to exercise my personal freedom, and to express my opinion that people should be free to think and do what they wish if it brings no harm to others and no serious harm to themselves(smoke in your lungs is harm, but not imminent death). Using drugs defies the current "justice system" in my country, and I feel that it should be changed. People are allowed to use tobacco and alcohol, but the system doesn't seem to care.. hell, they love it, because it brings them money. Isn't corporate capitalism great.
I think people should ask themselves this very question, "why do i use drugs", as it is very useful in understanding yourself. You should also define "drug". Many people use caffeine a lot... alcohol and tobacco too.. Another good question is "what do i want out of this?" and then followed by "Is their something else I could use that would help me achieve what I want that wouldn't have the potential negative affects of ____" I use caffeine because i want to be awake and allow the lecture i am attending to be remembered.
Just my random mental ramblings
Know your mind, know your body, know your drugs.
 
I started doing drugs to have fun...to relax...to escape from life in general. I was a kid....maybe not in age, but in maturity...I thought that if I smoked a little weed with my friends, I would be "cool" just like them. I was curious...why do all these people go bonkers for these drugs? So I tried some...I became a pot head after my second year of college (I was an odd teenager, I didn't do anything other than smoke cigarettes and drink occasionally with my parents, I was introverted and had very few friends)...I lost all motivation in my life...I went through jobs like crazy...until I realized I had to stop. I began drinking after this...I drank myself to borderline alcoholism (everyone in my family is an alcoholic)...I liked the fact that I would loosen up when I was drunk...I didn't care what I did, I didn't care what people thought of me. Until I sobered up...and finding out what I had done when drunk just made me more depressed and introverted than I had been before. About a year and a half ago, I decided to find out what the "mystery drug" ecstacy was all about...all my friends were pot heads, I knew nothing about this new avenue upon I was about to embark. From the first pill I ever took, I fell in love with rolling...the feeling of community, the love I felt for everyone, the fact that it made me feel like I finally fit in...even if only for a few hours before the effects of the drug wore off. This past spring, I was introduced to my new life...Miss Tina..the bitch in the red dress...crystal meth. She does to me everything I love...I am talkative, open, uninhibited, I don't eat, I don't sleep, I'm losing weight...all the things I have always wanted in life, she gives me everything. All of these stages in my life have been entered into in order for me to be able to have more fun...to escape the bubble that I have lived in my whole life. I have never felt as thought I was part of the rest of the world around me...but the drugs made me part of that world. I have new friends now, people I love dearly. We have bonds that developed because of the drugs, but as different ones of us have dropped various habits, the bonds have remained, and become stronger because of the lack of drugs. I have given up on smoking pot, long ago. I have drastically cut my alcohol intake...maybe one drink a weekened, if even that. I have made a decision that I will not partake in the wonderful world of ecstacy until Christmas, possibly later than that. My new girlfriend, however, remains. She has become my stability in this life. I know that I am capable now of standing on my own two feet...of being the person that has always been hidden inside of me...that person has been released, the bubble popped forever....but I still cling to her...she makes my life easier...I can accomplish things so much eaiser when she's around....I see what I am doing as nothing more than a child who takes Ritilin for ADD...I court Miss Tina in order to make my brain function normally...not wander aimlessly....If I can break the hold that she has over me...I will prove to the world that I am me...the drugs may have helped me to this point of self-realization and independance...but they are not me...I am myself....and this is why I do drugs...so that I can be me and live outside my bubble....
 
Hi, the reason why I do drugs is probably out of boredom & loneliness. When Im dating someone I generally never have the urge to splurge with drugs as Im getting my kicks else where. The warmth of another person liking you, and the whole relationship in all its forms is my high. When Im single, i do drugs to convince myself that Im still having some sort of fun all be it in another sense. First started using drugs experimentally, then for confidence & now just to kill time because Im bored. Nothing beats the high of being in a satisfying relationship & there is no guilt associated with it either, unlike the guilt always associated with drugs....
 
For those few hours. I'm free!!!!! And doin something that alters your mind is just exciting and interesting. You just never know how far your mind and body can go.
 
I love taking the doors of perception swinging them open, tearing them off their hinges, and using them for firewood
Mostly its a sense of exploring my mind learning the limitless shit that it, mixed with the right amount of chem's can dish out. It’s like learning and exploring and conquering inner space. Sober I could only get lets say 5 feet out, with drugs I could be launched miles out into innerspace in a few minutes. And believe me iv got a long ways to go
That’s why I love psychedelics
 
I do drugs to test my limits. I want to know everything about myself, including how my body reacts to chemicals. Beyond the physical effects, drugs also open up my awareness of reality in new ways (I know you're all thinking, "well, duh," but humor me.) I feel like I can step outside of my cultural/personal "fishbowl" for a little while and try to understand what really matters. I think these understandings are profoundly personal and individualized, which is information most people crave. There are so many generalizations about human nature and reality... sometime's it's nice to get to know your own on a more intimate level.
 
I actually have a pretty generic reason for my drug use: I do them because I like them. I don't do drugs often (I've rolled twice, smoked weed a couple times, and I drink on occasion), and I do it mostly just because it feels really good. I like seeing things in a different light. I'm aware of the possible effects, and I'm willing to take the risk from time to time.
 
because drugs make that horrid feeling you get down in your stomach when you find out the girl you like and were starting to have a chance with, fucked some guy that dosnt even like her last night.
Thats why i do drugs.
Plus it makes me feel good 90% of the time. Gotta love that.
 
why do we do drugs?
why do feel more like ourselves on them?
more at peace?
why do some things make so much more sense with an altered state of mind?
is it still called escaping when you go to some place more familiar than the sobriety?
is the land of hallucinations and multi-colored pills more of a reality than the reality we’ve been taught to accept?
do we do drugs just because they’re fun?
or is it more than that?
do we do them because we love them?
we love the feeling? the idea? the thoughts that can only come from them?
maybe we love them because it separates the world into two groups. the group that trudges through life and never considers the other side, never hopes to glimpse the dark side of the moon vs. us the drug users, who embrace the life we chose and the changes it causes in us.
maybe the answer is as simple as we do them because we can, because we want to, because we like them. or maybe that is just one of the answers.
would any of us have chose the alternate route. there was that time when the sober path was offered to us all, and we skipped over it and opened the other door. would any of us have done it different?
drugs helped shaped who I am. a lot of my experiences in life can be traced to the effect of drugs. I would never trade any of those ideas that I have had, those thoughts and feelings, good or bad.
 
I was recently asked this by a freind of mine and i couldn't give her an ansewer, but i have since thort about it, even gave it a thort while on acid, and came up with this...
At the start (my first drug was LSD when i was 15) it was all about seeing things inside my mind, ie exploring my sub-conscious, but once i realised that it wasn't a wonder drug that did all it was cracked up to be I started just taking it for fun...
Now years later i have decided that i take drugs to FUCK me up so that i can not contribute to a society so fuck up as this... i know i sound stoopid in saying it. Also after a past gf relationship, i just wanted to get my self so brain damaged that i couldn't do anything, but after eating 2000ug of LSD and not being braindamaged i still try harder...
A freind of mine recently told me that she thinks i take drugs so that i can't talk to anybody, and i think she might be right... i dunno, i'm still trying to fuk myself up tho, and out of all the times i've tried to do this i've always come out of the experience feeling stronger than before, which leads me on another brain fuking mission...
 
I started because of boredom, but I can't say escapism, I thought: I can have fun & not be the media stereotype drug-user. So now instead smoking weed & doing nothing, if I tweak one weekend i'll clean my house & catch up on studying, if I trip one weekend i'll write long essays & use shrooms or E as concentrated mental therapy. Could I go back to a "normal" drug-free exsistance? I don't think so.
 
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