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Will you stop taking drugs once you get to an age?

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Hello all ! :-)

I drive every day something like 2 hours in total. It's a time I use to think and/or to meditate about anything I can't think on any other time during the day. Today a question raised into my mind:

Do you think you will stoping taking drugs once you get to an age? Let's share our thoughts on this ! What do you think ?

My personal reply:

Having in mind that I love mainly two types of substances: psychedelics + classic stimulants + MDMA; I will split them up:

I would say that I will stop taking classic stimulants/MDMA when I stop dedicating myself to the kind of electronic music I am actually performing: Acid Techno. It may look to be contradictory: It is absolutely not ! :-) Because at least where I live, party assistants are always (ab)using (from) stimulants (here the use of psychedelic is somehow socially 'restricted' to people that does not think bad about it) that's why I need to share the same 'mindset' than the people that is supposed to enjoy my music.

In an ideal world, I would learn to reproduce this mindset by just using the substances a very limited number of times. But I think this is really difficult even if you take the same substance an excessive/abusive number of times because there is no easy way to stimulate the brain in the same way, or to get the same combination of biochemical substances, without taking the substances at all, just using meditation or any other methods.

I could always change the MDMA or the Speed for Coffee with Irish Whiskey, eh? }:-) I am sure it will not work in the same way.

There is other question I would like to ask you, and maybe I should create a secondary post just for that: Could someone reading this, get an altered mind-state (without consuming ny substance) that could be realistically compared against consuming a weighted dosage of a high quality chemical?

About psychedelics: I consider I will use them during all my life, at least this is what I think now. Nevertheless: I will progressively schedule the different experiences so they are not so 'common'/'close' in frequency, like now, in my life (for example, changing the consume frequency I will take psychedelics once per year instead of once per month when I get 50).

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Peace & Love.
 
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Sorry but obviously you mean "Do you think you will stoping taking drugs once you get to an age?"

IDK. I'm going on 15 years of drug use and I'm still not satisfied. No matter how many times I do it, getting fucked up always sounds like a great idea.
 
I am wondering about this question, too. I've heard from several people that they've stopped having good experiences from psychedelics after a point.

I think psychedelics go really well with the 18-25 brain as it transforms into adulthood. After our ways are more set, I think breaking down our worldviews makes less sense.
 
I took benzo's for 25 1/2 years.
Been drinking beer for ~33 years
Smoking pot for ~30 years.
Mushrooms and Tryptamines for a shade more than 2 years

I was no longer comfortable using benzo's, and when I became a medical pot user I quit them totally. Yeah, probably an age related thing; I no longer felt my usage of them was safe.

I don't see ever using other classes of drugs than Cannabis, mushrooms/LSD analogues/Tryptamines and alcohol. Within reason I consider them safe to use. Alcohol I consider potentially physically dangerous.

I guess the answer to your question OP is that I will stop using a specific drug when I am convinced it is not safe to continue using it. I consider moderate alcohol use, daily MJ use and weekly mushroom use as 'safe currently'. But, extended/excessive use of any drug can cause problems. I unwillingly cut back on my mushroom use (I just freaking love them). Doing them too much; I grew them and they were ALWAYS there.

But if anyone's interested, suspending a 2 yearly once a week mushroom habit was fairly non eventful. Minor HPPD which went away after 8 weeks or so. 4-5 bad flashbacks which stopped after week 12. A moderate disruption in sleep pattern as well; still 7 hours a night (week), but no longer all in one go.

Tom
 
50 seems very young to me
as a cut off for anything!!!

although I do take smaller portions than I used to, I like to spike life up a bit.


today I watched the wind in the trees for an hour

after work

took some al-lad on the 1/2 hour walk home after coming out of the subway, and I was great by the time I arrived home.( peopel wrote about a slow come up- no way)

you know I can never stop working, I owe far too much money,

and I will never stop psychedelics - love the perspectives

don't stop what you love. just do it better.
 
The statistics on drug use can tell you a little bit about when people start/stop taking them.

The real cut-off times might have something to do with stages of mental development. I still think most people use psychedelic drugs when they are pre-mature.

I have thought maybe psychedelic drugs can give one a sense of experience and maturity. So it is a one and done kind of deal.

It may be that the first time you use a drug is the most interesting experience so the use spikes at around the age you get out of the house and are on your own, ie college freshman.
 
I see myself stopping most drugs once I get to the age where they get in the way(kids, job). I see myself taking a break to focus on work but I will always smoke weed if my job allows it.. Then once I get past a certain age, 60 or so, I see myself picking up on the drugs again. No use in being old and decrepit if you can't rail a fat line of dope, pop some xan, and smoke a fat blunt.
 
I am still young, but barring Cannabis I don't use any drug more than a few times per year. I'd like to start vaping my Cannabis more and smoking less, but other than that I don't really see any reason to change my habits.
 
I don't think age is why people quit, or "move on," it's about responsibilities, priorities, and investment. If someone wants to work towards a house, retirement, a career, raising kids, etc., then they can't afford to spend money on drugs, they can't take the risk of legal trouble, they're probably invested enough in the system, if not their community, that it's not worth the social scandal, or they may even come to think less of people still caught up in such activities when there are more important things out there.
 
I can't imagine stopping my use of psychs. I thought maybe when my partner and I get married, I'd have to quit... but upon further discussions with her, she doesn't seem to mind me using psychs. I have given up cannabis even though I'm only 21 (almost 22) because I feel it to be too habit/addiction forming (I used it daily for three years to no good ends) and to slow down motivation/mental processing; however, psychs can be kept to once or twice a month, and they don't do anything but effect me positively in my experience. I figure if I still have access to them later in life, I'll use psychs till some outside force literally forces me to stop, be that health or be that death. The simple fact of the matter is that I've seen nothing but positivity in psychs, while other drugs have blatant downsides, be that pot, booze or opiates, you name it. I can't imagine a life without drugs now, and while I have slowly become more used to a sober daily life, I truly can't foresee a non-sober weekend life in my future.
 
I don't foresee a time in my life when I won't be at least occasionally using psychedelics. I'm of an age where if I were going to "grow out of it" I would have already. I no longer use any drugs apart from psychedelics (and enjoying microbrewed beer). Psychedelics have never been anything other than a veritable wellspring of spirituality and intellectual discovery for me.
 
You shouldn't ever feel restricted to a specific index of drugs once you reach a certain age. A person should have no foreseeable end to their drug use.

I enjoy having the opportunity of to jump back to the psychedelic wagon whenever I feel like it.
 
Ill probably smoke cannabis until the day I die. But Ive recently given up stimulants (mostly) at the age of 27 because I no longer get the enjoyment I used to get on them as a youngster. I dont seek out psychedelics but when they find their way to me, Ill give em a whirl even at an old age. Opiates are a major no no for me. I have too much of an addictive personality to play with that fire at any age...
 
Wetrippymayne said:
I see myself stopping most drugs once I get to the age where they get in the way(kids, job). I see myself taking a break to focus on work but I will always smoke weed if my job allows it.. Then once I get past a certain age, 60 or so, I see myself picking up on the drugs again. No use in being old and decrepit if you can't rail a fat line of dope, pop some xan, and smoke a fat blunt.
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well here is the thing,
in my late 30's the fat lines got thinner
in my 60's I get the kick from much less lineage if there is any around
my preference is psychedelics, but coke is ok, and speed is yahoo! I am not about line size competition - substance appreciation - YES!
 
I used to think I was going to be a daily smoker til the day I died. When I hit my late 20s, pot started making me psychotic. I would hear voices even when sober, and could not assemble words in my head, thus making me speak in word salad form. I also became extremely rage filled and paranoid when I would smoke (especially if it was a bong, or a vape).

I have no history of mental illness or me, or any that runs in my family other than alcoholism, but I started recognizing the signs of schizophrenia starting, and had to quit smoking weed. My life got very good after I quit smoking weed, and now I like to use opiates, usually once every 3 days at the minimum. My tolerance has risen substantially, but I have never had physical withdrawal after years of abusing opiates due to me not letting myself use more than twice a week max, and never 2 days in a row.
 
I'm just approaching 40 and have smoked a lot of pot and drunk too much through my life. MD and other RC's I have only really dabbled with in the last 5 or 6 years.

Basically I sped up about 5 years ago in my early 30's, and am slowing down now, primarily because i have a child. As a result of parenthood I am relatively broke and tired which takes some of the fun out of getting wasted. The next days have been quite hard once or twice… it doesn't feel quite right to be looking after a child (post babysitter) when struggling with a hangover or comedown, not for reasons of safety but because I wish to be constant in my emotional responses to my child. I am also more concerned about my mortality, while I have always managed my risks fairly carefully, I feel guilty that I am increasing my chance of dying younger, either through smoking / cancer or potentially in the future a heart attack brought on by stims…. I may be over egging these risks but it does take a little of the gloss of the pleasure.

Still I think I will probably still continue to a degree for the next 20 years, just in moderation…...
 
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