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Would you say drug use has made your life better or worse?

drugs that have had a positive impact on my life: psychedelic hallucinogens (psilocybin in particular)

drugs that have had a mixture of positive and negative impacts on my life: cannabis and benzodiazepines

drugs that have negatively impacted my life: everything else
 
Net positive overall.

I could have done without any psychedelics and a few potentially dangerous/addictive substances. But the milder stuff provides a break from my monotonous day-to-day routine.
 
Better though I did make some poor choices about which drugs to try and when to do them.

Overall I would say something like 80% positive and the negative is my fault.
 
Drugs unlocked something in me that I was always in touch with but unable to catalyse. To live a life without access to the feelings they induce would be to imagine a living nightmare.

100% better thank you.
 
Eh I'm sure we've all had negative impacts from alcohol and benzos but at the same time had amazing times because of them. I have gotten laid a few times because of benzos, there is just no other drug that gives me so much calm confidence.

Psychedelics , just like any other drug, can be positive or negative. Luckily for me my trips usually end up positive even if they don't start that way.

Drugs being illegal has had way more negative consequences for me than the addictiveness of them for sure.
 
At the age & maturity level I'm at now they have positives & negatives, psychedelics specifically have really helped me to deal with the world, others, myself, etc in a far more positive manner, but at the same time my highly addictive personality can certainly cause me to make some unwise choices with my drugs.

I'm trying to teach myself to be more moderate though, I have the willpower I just need to exert it. I also strongly believe that I started using drugs too early (subjectively), I did some seriously stupid shit with drugs when I was younger (mostly weed), and I feel like I should have figured a lot of shit out before I started fucking with my brain chemistry taking drugs all the time, and that I'd probably be in a better place in my life now had I waited until I was at least 16-17, maybe even 18, to use drugs (though I can't imagine what that be like? My teens were practically defined by marijuana use).
 
In two words: better, unequivocably. The experiencing self would certainly say so, but so would the remembering one. For me, they've all been about exposing range, in one way or another.

I was a late starter, to say the least. I didn't really get to know alcohol until I was 18, and I first tried marijuana at 20. Alcohol imbued a sense of epicness on an already exploratative period; a session was guaranteed to go well, and to last a long time. It has shown me the effect of confidence (on the interpretation of content - the dogmatist is listened to!) and the innocuousness of the dull mind. I don't know whether I like these revelations, but they were revealed. Alcohol has also been responsible (after myself, of course) for the only form of lasting damage drugs have inflicted on me, in the form of a nagging neuralgia somewhere in my head, which never quite leaves me. The hedonic treadmill never breaks (although I would dispose of this pain should the opportunity arise, I would find it hard to say it has affected my happiness) but alcohol is a primitive animal. The alcohol hangover, for me, is the most appalling waste of life I have experimented with, and I'm rarely 'drunk' these days.

Marijuana is magical. My early experiences (the first couple of years) were particularly psychedelic, although until very recently (six years on) it never failed to deliver a tremendous sense of novelty. Exploring the natural world was always enchanting, and music took on a new depth. Perhaps most notably, it reliably transformed me into the life of the party. Thoughts and conversation flowed, and other humans were a delight. With the power endowed, though, came increased reliance, and I found myself needing to smoke to come out of my shell, and get the most out of social occasions. The sparse use that characterised the early days (once a month) increased to weekly use, and last year, it wasn't uncommon for me to smoke three or four times a week. The frequency wasn't an issue for me, until the magic dwindled. I would smoke enormous bongs, but although the effects were there, I didn't feel high anymore - it wasn't novel. This couldn't be, and I now smoke once every week or two, but even so, it isn't as it was.

After several failed attempts (not through lack of trying), I recently had my first encounter with MDMA (it seems I need to eat more than my fair share). It wasn't a breakthrough experience, but the novelty was back! As marijuana has taught me though, this one is special. In a sense, the fight against the loss of novelty is futile - to experience is to know, and to know is to denoveltify - but learning likes high frequency, so to keep things new, keep them sparse.

So at the age of 26, I am a drug novice whose knowledge far outstrips his experience (or can it?), but thanks to those I do know, I know how to treat those to come.
 
Simple... positive... I wouldnt be who I am today, nor have the loving friends that I do without the influence of drugs showing me what an ass I was... Even cocaine showed me just how arrogant I had the potential to be (in a weird kind-of hindsight way)
 
it's such a complex question but ive talked about it w my close friend a million times. yes,yes, yes

while i wouldnt say benzos or pharms have really helped me move in a good direction, psychadelics completely revolutionized my ways of thinking n how i perceive things. (really im overdue for a nice trip i'd say..) drugs are harmful when you dont use em right, and i definitely dont use em right all the time, but.. if you use substances for your personal insight + benefit it's absolutely amazing. like unlocking this part of yourself you'd otherwise have no access to
 
poetryslut said:
it's such a complex question but ive talked about it w my close friend a million times. yes,yes, yes

while i wouldnt say benzos or pharms have really helped me move in a good direction, psychadelics completely revolutionized my ways of thinking n how i perceive things. (really im overdue for a nice trip i'd say..) drugs are harmful when you dont use em right, and i definitely dont use em right all the time, but.. if you use substances for your personal insight + benefit it's absolutely amazing. like unlocking this part of yourself you'd otherwise have no access to
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Thing about psychedelics are a bipolar/psychotic person can ingest them & they realize a part of themselves they never knew, like they ate able to go to severe lengths of killing people etc......of course I'm giving you the worst case scenario but it does happen.

Thing is, these people are already so messed up in the head, the drug is the tipping point.

It can also destroy a fragile ego......psychedelics can be so worthwhile & helpful to many people tho.
 
better all around, psychedelics and MDMA especially. I am now searching for a drug to replace alcohol on some weekends to prevent the neurotoxicity
 
Better from most everything? At the same time, worse...
I didn't make an informed decision about any of it, really. Some things I would repeat, others too but if only I could get away with them and they were safe.

I've learned a hell of a lot but it's mostly in retrospect. Regrets? Absolutely, but then again when IS ideal to try drugs and live with the consequences? Weekends? Not really, not always, sometimes sure, depends on the drug??

But some things enhance life and everything about it, those are worth at least knowing about. Doing again? Probably, if I can manage it.
 
twas worse, but after I kicked my IV heroin/cocaine habit, things got better, SLOWLY. Although I am addicted to benzos, and overindulge every single day, I'm in school to become a nurse, and am making straight A's.. I guess it pays off eventually to be a junkie afterall..
 
probably better

started with dxm/nitrous in year 12, then smoked weed and took lots of rc psychedelics and disassociates, at one point it got out of hand and i was doing different drugs almost every day. kept smoking weed for about 3 years, while easing down on other drug usage, used codeine, then suboxone, then heroin a few times (snorting), then suboxone again a bit, never picked up a habit, used benzos sporadically, never got addicted to them either, then i pretty much stopped using other drugs than weed, then i dropped acid a couple of times, went psychotic the second or third time and ended up in mental hospital. that trip showed me a lot of things about myself, and my mental health is a lot better than it has ever been, and i partly attribute that to having taken psychedelics.
 
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