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Why do you get high?

Nowadays it's because I lack the creativity required to entertain myself any other way.
Also for escapism. I'm doing the wrong drugs for that tho.
 
um, getting high is for losers... I'm just experimenting with various induced physiological changes.

J/k, of course. Different reasons for different things at different times. I've enhanced, explored, escaped. I also get high just to go about my day. Since I'm on daily meds that directly affect my cns.
 
Because of boredom, to escape reality, I always keep thinking to myself, if my life was different would I still be doing drugs.. everything for me it's more fun on drugs, going out, talking to people, working, everything is more fun. In fact I don't think I can live a sober life being happy.. and a lot of my sober friends are not happy, they're always stress, they have axiety..
I don't have any of those.. I would probably killed myself by now, if I wasn't on drugs.. In fact my life sucked soo much before that I tried to kill myself, I took over 50 pills with alcohol, but just end up in the hospital, with a very very bad headache, drugs makes me enjoy life a lot more...
it does have some, but they are minor things compared to the benefits for me..
honestly the only minor thing for me is people finding out, people judge drug users.. which itself can have consequences.. that's why I have learned to keep it a secret, to some people..
 
I smoke weed everyday all day. I get high because its a hell of alot better than being sober! I enjoy the way i listen to music when im high. I enjoy the "zone" i get in when i play guitar/synth when im high. Basically weed is a musicians best friend. Also if u like to mix alot of drugs especially hard drugs weed seems to kinda smooth things over and make the many subastances you abused blend well together.(i.e. Taking some Oxycontin hitting some coke then smoke a fat blunt of blueberry.) One thing i dont like is trying to type high im so baked right now its hard to connect thoughts... im also fucked up offa 8mgs of suboxone so i keep noddin... lol
Peace
 
It's fun. I enjoy altering reality. I want to open up and uncover my unconcious. It's something to do in a social setting. Something to do when you feel down and want back up. Something to do when you're bored. I like the tastes of some drugs, others the smell. I like experimenting and discovering new drugs and how they work. I like to trip out and visualize and draw, to unlock my creative side. Some drugs I do because I love then a little too much. I don't do drugs cause I think it's cool or whatever. I'm in an experimental phase =D
 
Adventure, learning, escapism. Some of my best and most happy memories come from times when I was on drugs. Not to say that drugs are my everything because I consist of more than that. If I wasn't taking drugs I'd probably have a horse. That would be my thing. But I think that's just as, or probably much more dangerous than taking the drugs I take.
They fascinate me, I enjoy them. I love them! Without them life would be... well... different and scary! I could probably cope though... I think.
And they give me plenty to write about.

this thread makes me wish i could explain "euphoria" to people who don't do drugs. if only they knew...
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And this.
 
I get high for the euphoria. I also get high to escape the pressures and stress of everyday life.
I also have quite an interest in drugs in general.

Drugs have done a lot of good for me, but also a lot of bad. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I always wonder if I'll ever completely "stop" for good. Breaks occur - I'm kinda on one right now. But technically I'm not, since I'm still drinking and smoking cigs, and popping codeine.
 
Hello everyone! I feel graphomaniac tonight, just a little bit... :D There's going to be some off-topic but it's still related to what we discuss in this thread..

Well, let's see. I would like to extrapolate a little bit on this topic to sort things out for myself and maybe to relate to some of you as well.

The some of the main reasons for me to take drugs are:

Escapism. To escape boredom if I am not motivated to do anything else. Waste time which I try not to do, since it's a pretty precious commodity!
Spiritual experience (I developed my own spirituality that loosely based on Pantheism)
Mind expansion (with some substances - the ones I try not to use more than once or twice a year).
Uppers to help me study.
Downers to help me relax or fall asleep if I have extreme cases of stress. The last resort...
Painkilling effects
As a social thing (just like people share food among each other or alcohol)

The only substances I did a lot for the first reason was weed. I felt depressed and wanted to escape the reality but it failed, since there's just no way to beneficially escape the reality. Because that's where we live, abandoning reality on purpose is never a good thing. It's like escaping your home to have a vacation. But you can't be on a permanent vacation, otherwise it's not a vacation anymore... And as soon as I took a long break from Cannabis I discovered that I have more motivation and I started to enjoy doing things as much if not more than I used to do in the past before smoking started to take too much of my brain and body power.

Being unhappy with myself.
Looking for an easy way out... Soon enough though I realized that there's no easy way out.
To get some creative thoughts flowing especially if I am stuck in writing or in some sort of tricky situation in life. More about that later...

And sometimes just have a blast and push some pleasure centers! :) Something I try to do the least amount of time, otherwise I start to feel that such kind of pleasure is the best and I start loosing interest in life. Which lead me ones to the point when I started to realize that I was lying to myself and being dishonest with others in order to pursue that kind of feeling. It was a revelation for me, I got myself together and since then I was much more careful.. And feeling better in general. Human minds and bodies are just made to function most of the time without any kind of inhibitions, that's something nature figured for us very well. When we are sober we are in the most control, in order to survive we must be in complete control most of the time.. Human mind is a micro-universe that balances itself, taking it out of the balance too often is not good. Our brains are just not made for it!

The most important though: drugs allow me to look at things, myself and the entire world I can perceive in general from a different perspective, giving me a break from the usual perception. I am really good in communicating with friends and all kinds of people in general: it really helped me to be successful in relationships, at school and at work, etc.. One of the reasons for that I believe are mind expanding drugs that allowed me to find unorthodox solutions, see faults in my actions and helped to see what others around me are all about (or at least to find out more than it could be possible otherwise, I don't think that it's literally possible to know all about something..). But it drains a lot of energy from me to be social all the time, so mostly I preserve that energy and live like a loner. They also helped me to see deeper or to look at things I would normally not even notice, especially when it comes to reevaluating emotions and events in life (retrospection, self-analysis). Just like we need to have a mirror to see our faces we can see ourselves without looking at our own reflection. The same is similar with our mind, we can't really evaluate it unless we distance ourselves from it... But some sort of knowledge of Philosophy and/or Psychology is very helpful as well in such circumstances; it all creates some sort of synergy that works very well for me.. And of course reading classics - ultimate way into the depth of human souls, haha :) In order to think productively and well there must be some sort of basis of knowledge and life experience, definitely present within an individual. Drugs will never substitute those things but may add a lot to it... In some scenarios...

Is life better without any psychoactives at all? I don't think so.. Just think having no tea, coffee, chocolate or mind altering drugs that are used medicinally to improve human lives and sometimes they even save them.

However, would I want to reduce the amounts I took in the past?
Absolutely. I could get better results even if I could exercise more moderation. More doesn't mean better. Especially when it comes to psychoactive chemicals. The best results are achieved using bare minimum. Using too much ruins things for millions worldwide. The great balance is so hard to achieve! But it's a risk people have to go into if they choose to use such substances.. "Someone who never risks - never gets to drink champaign."

Do I regret anything? No. I learned a whole lot of useful stuff, even if sometimes my experiments end up

(mostly used to end up, I am much more knowledgeable about things now, at least much more since when I started to experiment and learn about psychoactive substances.. but shit still happens!, "Whole life to live - whole life to learn.")

pretty badly, at least I know now better what is what and where should I be in relation to that. I find these to be good skills not just for drug use but for living life in general: to know when enough is enough, what my body and mind are capable of, what parts are weak and what are strong, how certain things/emotions/chemicals/etc can affect people under certain circumstances, and possible consequences those circumstances can lead to... And how to deal with all of that... Of course I don't know the answer for everything, far from that, but I do know some I wouldn't know otherwise :D

I would not be able to find out so much about my own being without certain drugs... Would I be happy if I would never use any drugs at all? Yeah, probably in many ways my life could be much easier but this extra dimension made me be in life where I am, and I wouldn't trade this existence for anything else.. I don't know what kind of life I could have instead but I am glad I am at least a thinking thing now, and that's more important for me than money or extra-long lifespan, or ability to run marathons, or many other things I don't think are that useful and necessary to be happy.... Otherwise I would be studying business, haha :D

In conclusion: drug use can be beneficial as a part of general life experience but by any means drugs CANNOT substitute other ways of growth and development of human personality.

Plus drugs are very unique to an individual, unlike sports, meditation or reading - which are important and useful for everybody with no exceptions (if we talk about an average healthy person). If to exercise correctly there are benefits for health in any human who exercises well. A person can leave a healthy life and be just fine let's say without LSD but if person doesn't exercise at all than the odds are the quality of life will be very low. . What I am getting at is the idea that drugs are very tricky when it comes to evaluation of their benefits against risks. That what makes their nature so unique in the world. Am I too confusing or does my point makes sense for you as well?

The last example that makes drugs so unique is also due to the fact that mentality among individuals can vary A WHOLE lot, unlike the basic physical performance of human bodies is pretty much the same across the entire Earth. The twins have exact bodies but they may react different to different substances - you just never know! And no one can tell what is right for you or what is not. So much is based on intuition, research and careful experiments to explore.

Human mentality is very fragile and it's very easy to fuck it up even by an accident. That's why drugs are not for everybody.. In the past we had shamans now we have all kinds of other groups of people who use for a variety of reasons.. Which got out of hand a lot recently but I blame the lack of truthful education and unsuccessful wars on drugs in the world that basically support the organize crime and make drugs a part of it... I wonder if someday it will be possible or not to live in synergy with drugs and have no violence and unnecessary death associated with them, the society where drugs are just a thing that people respect and they don't mean any more or less than any other thing for a human being. I will use cars as an example. Cars are heavy and people can be easily killed if a car is used as a murder weapon. The same with drugs, that should be used according to purposes they are intended for, not in a way that it's harmful for the general mass...

Ex. Weed (Cannabis) is much safer drug than alcohol and should be suited better for general relaxation than drinking a lot of alcohol, since the only health benefits of alcohol usually disappear after more than a couple of drinks are consumed, unlike with weed. I can see that during the dark ages brewing was a way to get rid of harmful pathogens that were present in water but now there's not as many benefits in alcohol for the most of the world where fresh pure water is available. . However, I know that some people are reacting very negatively to Cannabis and it is not a way out for them if they want to relax. Or vice versa people can't stand alcohol by love to smoke Cannabis. However, as we all know the current society doesn't leave a choice. And the choice is the most important thing about drugs. The choice!

I think this "success/failure" experience of mankind with psychoactives resulted in the way the majority of the public perceives them historically. It's just something that can be so intense, so that it is easy to see why most people can become scared of such things and don't enjoy them, or not find benefit in them. Or try get rid of them completely. What is least understood is the most hated and mistrusted by human kind. But it shouldn't prohibit people who find them OK from using them. I mean our body and mind are the only things we possesses, who but not individuals themselves have rights to decide how his or her body and mind should be used? Definitely I don't want some people in the government to decide what is better for me and what's not. The choice is there for everyone.

The fact is that such things have been around since forever and there are reasons why the human evolution and human behavior somehow kept drugs around at ALL times throughout the history of our race. Of course it's a large generalization but it still makes sense, I hope at least :) Like some sound and legit theories that attribute discovery and usage of psychoactive plants as a major influence on creation of world religions and human spirituality in general. The Hindu Veda written 3000 years B.C. talks about psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana that has been used since forever for religious purposes as well.

P.S. Plus I have a degree in Biology and some background in Chemistry, so that psychedelics have always interested me a lot.. Before I even started to pursue those disciplines professionally.Thank Gods for the most part my interest in all kinds of drugs is expressed on more of a theoretical than a practical level, however I had a lot of both ;-) "Curiosity killed the cat," people say. I believe it's better to be a curious cat than a lazy fat one. Especially if I still get to keep the nine lives until they run out, hehe.

P.P.S. The happiest moments of my life I had when I was sober. Drugs can make me feel quite euphoric but this feeling was never something that became very important for me. Think about childhood... I felt the happiest in my life when I was a kid but as adult life hit it started to become harder to experience the same purity of emotions.

P.P.P.S. Sorry if you think it's too long and also forgive me for using silly proverbs throughout the post :-P
 
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I smoke weed because reality seems bleak to me, and it adds just a little flavour to the broth.
I have generally depressive tendencies and benzos help me forget who I am, at least for a little while.
I also like to make music and opiates are definitely a catalyst for expressing my soul through that medium.
I take stimulants in party situations so I can let myself go and rave my ass off.
And finally I take psychedelics because I love the philosophical headspace it puts me in, plus the visuals are freakin awesome.
Sucks that its so hard to get psychedelics where I am, all the folks in the UK like the drugs that shut the mind off, not open it up :(
 
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The best drug or perfect drug For me would be euphoric like opiates relaxing like cannabis induce hallucinations relaxing but not sedative like more like a stimulant awake focused.I use drugs to chill relax have fun party focus boost my creativity and a few other reasons.
 
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