Prompted by Iorm in Afghanistan.
I have:
Known two people personally who used crack (dated one).
Got offered some meth by a friendly cracker in the bathroom in Paducah Kentucky.
Seen plenty of ashy skinned crackheads in DC.
Known one guy (a Brit) who tried heroin once.
Known a number of people who snorted coke, one who was an addict, used myself.
Coke and meth. Knew one person who supposedly did heroin.
My contact with hard drugs? I always used latex gloves.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 27, 2009, 06:07:33 PM
My contact with hard drugs? I always used latex gloves.
Chicken. ;)
I've seen people snorting coke.
No other contact to hard drugs that I can think of right now.
Personally?
I've seen the odd shady goings on in a dark corner or a bar. Given "medicinal" cocaine to stop a nosebleed when I was about 12 in liquid form, soaked in a cotton ball and placed in my nose. Absolutely hated that had me flying off the walls for a few minutes, then shivvering in a ball right after that.
Professionally?
More crackheads and crack dealers than you can shake a stick at. GHB once, E a handful of times. Couple of meth addicts in Alberta (but not charged with possession). Hash a couple of times (does that count as a hard drug?). Mushrooms several times (same question). Never seen opium, LSD.
Selling prescription pills gets mentioned a lot, only ever seen 1 charge.
I've never done any illegal drugs aside from cannabis, unless you count the time I harvested opium from my own poppies with extremely minimal results.
I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if my sister in law has done meth, coke, etc., since she is a very heavy pot and ecstasy user and tends to associate exclusively with that sort of crowd.
Other than that I don't know anyone (other than various Languish ppl) who has even claimed to do drugs harder than what I named above.
Seen people take X. Hilarious.
Is X even hard? Still hilarious.
I was quite infuated with this girl that claim to Heroin in High School. No idea if she lied or not. Closest I've come to anything harder then Mush.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 27, 2009, 06:17:40 PM
Seen people take X. Hilarious.
Is X even hard? Still hilarious.
I don't think of it as a "hard drug", no, but I thought it was relevant to describing her case (i.e. she is a confirmed user of multiple drugs). She also uses shrooms... forgot about that.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 27, 2009, 06:17:40 PM
Seen people take X. Hilarious.
Is X even hard? Still hilarious.
When it dissolves seratonin uptake receptors and prolonged use actually fries the brain creating deadspots, yeah, I'd say it is.
Had a friend in High School who got into cocaine. He gradually moved into a different social group and he became increasingly absent from school. Eventually we hardly ever saw him and I graduated and I never saw him again.
A good friend used to smoke heroin a long time ago and then later had a few months with frequent cocaine abuse. Another friend tried opium in Laos. A friend of a former roomie was a junkie, another a polytoxicomaniac; his weed dealer recently died from multiple organ failure, a junkie as well. Former neighbours were frequently doing coke. Two colleagues snorted a lot of coke during their South America trip. Another former colleague was a polytoxer as well (E, Coke, LSD, Shrooms, Cannabis, no H though).
Through work I met about 2 dozen junkies. These people were substituting with methadon or polamidon; was unclear how much they consumed additionally.
Also remarkable was a 16 year old running his own meth lab in an appartment he rented for that purpose. He was still living with his parents.
I know a lot of people who smoke cannabis. Some occasionally, some regularly. I've smoked a dozen or two times after being offered - Never actually bought or rolled one. It was wonderful for my backache, but smoking is a big no-no for Crohn's so no more.
The only serious shit I've done are Valium & other benzodiazepines (for a week after the operation) and of course morphine for a few hours in the Reanimation Room.
Back when I went clubbing every weekend I knew a lot who did speed, E, ketamine and the like. Mostly very young people, between 15 and 20 yo. Many of those graduated to cocaine in time (when they got jobs).
The tally so far is:
Two served some time in jail for dealing (using is not penalized).
Three had to be hospitalized in a psychiatric institution for some time. they were already a bit weird. Drugs exacerbated that. Their heads will be forever fucked up.
One jumped from a seventh floor. He survived (landed on a tall tree). Spent months in coma. Haven't heard of him since.
Another dead, the one who did heroin. A new player was trying to get marketshare and brought some especially pure shit. That week a dozen or so junkies died.
Most of the people I knew who did hard drugs I lost contact with. I'd wager at least a few of them have serious health issues by now (it's been over 10 years). Most will function more or less properly, with some degree of brain or cardiovascular damage.
most of the above, some others and even done stuff that's not even illegal yet. while I am open to experimentation, I usually just stick to the classics.
I was never interested in heroin or anything to do with injecting. a big core of my cohort in my 20's became junkies when it got cheap, and I know two (offhand) who od'ed at a very young age. some of the others kicked the habit, others just faded away in dark basements over time. one survivor has to live with hep B.
I once fought for my life against 3 drunk & speeded up assholes in a back alley.
I won...barely.
I don't associate with users of hard drugs.
Dated women who was fighting meth addiction.
Known a few heroin addicts
My cousin fought a crack addiction 20 years ago.
Cocaine and pot were common usage amongst some former roommates.
But never tried any of it. Well except the pot.
Quote from: katmai on March 27, 2009, 08:36:04 PM
Dated women who was fighting meth addiction.
:worthless:
Have a friend who is a recovering heroin addict. And another who used to smoke pot. Personally never touched any controlled substance other than liquor (yes, this includes never smoking a single cigarette - can't stand the shit).
Oh, I tried poppers, once. Got dizzy.
No comment. :ph34r:
Back in the olden days I am pretty sure I tried a variety of substances that led me to focus my study away from class and more on the partying - then I flunked out of college. After I decided to end that, I returned to school and did quite a bit better.
I still think the worse was strong drink which led me to licentious women.
I know people who have been on hard drugs and jailed for use and distribution. I've never stayed friends once I found out, but I have used them to get hash/dope/whatever it's called where you are.
Quote from: Martinus on March 27, 2009, 08:44:59 PM
Oh, I tried poppers, once. Got dizzy.
Gave me a headache and I hate the fucking taste it leaves (via the nasal passages) :x
My best friend from high school pretty much tried everything except heroin. He never used anything heavier than pot on a regular basis, AFAIK, and I'm not even sure he uses that anymore.
Had a roommate in college who did coke and heroin.
Have had a bunch of casual aquaintainces in school and at work who were into God knows what.
Know a lot of people who've had problems with abuse of OTC medications--those don't really count as hard drugs, but some of them probably should.
Personally, never experimented. Had a close friend in high school who moved up from pot to coke, and made friends at work with a former crack/coke user who was ramping down on clinical methadone. Other than that, it's hard to find people in this county who don't claim to have done pot.
No acquaintance that I know of.
Seen people shooting themselves in Hamburg, and once a junkie dropped all his (fortunately wrapped) needles on the subway train here.
Quote from: garbon on March 27, 2009, 11:08:51 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 27, 2009, 08:44:59 PM
Oh, I tried poppers, once. Got dizzy.
Gave me a headache and I hate the fucking taste it leaves (via the nasal passages) :x
Yeah. Same here. I guess we are just too bitter - we don't get high, we get sick. :P
I've never come into contact with drugs. Don't personally know anyone in real life who has admitted to using them.
Only people I know of who use them are you guys :lol:
Drugs? Sure.
I have an ex who was a skag fiend.
I also dabbled in mind-expansion in my youth. The problem was that once the mind was expanded, it kind of retracted and became very, very cramped and uncomfortable. Kind of like a one-room apartment with no bathroom shared with a family of migrant workers from Bangladesh.
Quote from: Monoriu on March 28, 2009, 03:25:39 AM
Only people I know of who admit using them are you guys :lol:
FYP. ;)
Never done more than weed myself, and that only a handful of times, cause I didn't like it.
But lots of guys in my frat did coke, E, and shrooms on a fairly regular basis. One dude smoked weed multiple times per day for 4 years, in addition to weekly coke and E, and managed to pull off a near 4.0 in astrophysics.
An ex girlfriend became an intravenous heroin addict after we broke up, that was pretty cool.
And of course in Berkeley there were always lots of cracked out homeless people and gutter punks wandering around.
I knew a bunch of people who do cocaine.
I don't know any heroin people and only run into them when they're beggers/thieves, I think the bloke I half blinded once was probally a heroin junky.
I know a bunch of people who do pills. And shrooms.
Weed is bleh. Not so much in Sweden but elsewhere I know tonnes of people who use it. Its nothing.
I do know one girl who says she used to be into really hard stuff but I'm not sure what...
Myself I've only done weed a few times (Its not for me) and mushrooms once.
I tried coke few times.
My friends were smoking weed and hash.
Quote from: Tyr on March 28, 2009, 06:51:53 AM
I think the bloke I half blinded once was probally a heroin junky.
:huh: I must have missed this story.
I've tried some harder drugs though they, generally, weren't my cup of tea.
I know people who've done coke and E but I've never really known any addicts. That's about it.
I live in Vancouver. downtown I see crackheads everywhere, meth-heads if I go to the west end. My area reeks of pot pretty much everywhere. Junkies shoot up at bus stops. people drink aqua velva and rice wine out in the open.
As far as my own self: I drink beer/wine occasionally, smoke a little pot here and there.. have done lots of hallucinogens, etc...in my youth, but that's for young people.
I made some detailed descriptions back in KAPland daze(tm) if you were there you may recall.
In the mental hospital you find people who are into all kinds of drugs. Heroin, cocaine, Meth, what ever. Now that I think of it, they were sort of a screwy bunch.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 28, 2009, 01:30:00 PM
In the mental hospital you find people who are into all kinds of drugs. Heroin, cocaine, Meth, what ever. Now that I think of it, they were sort of a screwy bunch.
:lol: