Do you have experience with psychoactive drugs and life?

Hello,
I am 21 years old and in community college. I'm in a General Psych class and I have to do a research paper, I chose permanent effects of psychoactive drugs. I've met alot of unique people in my time who have used drugs recreationally, I myself do. I'm just trying to see how many people here lead "successful" or "productive" lives and use drugs. I"m planning to break the stereotype of drugs being evil for my classmates. If you can help, thanks.

Oh, and the "successful" & "productive"...that's completely individual. I think you're a success if you're happy and productive if you're making/keeping yourself that way. By all means, tell me your own definitions and what makes you feel like a great individual.

 

well basically drugs have opened my eyes, I was very depressed(sister died, alot of shit happened, then i found psychadelics, please keep in mind that i found them about 3 yrs ago, but i only had my first taste of them about 2-3 weeeks ago now, It is hard to explain but, the first drugs i ofund were mushrooms and peyote, I am 19 yrs old, I used to be a snobby, cold hearted bitch, but in the last 3 yrs I have changed so much, they have opened my eyes to everything, especially nature, and spirituality, I am now at uni, and am planing a trip to mexico soon, I know that if i never found something that intrigues ad opens my eyes so much, I dont no where i would be know, as I was going through a very hard time, people say drugs kill you, I honestly think from my point of view they saved my life.

 

Im working from a differnt field but have the same issue..breaking the stewreo type. What the crux of the problem is is that 'psychedelics are bad because they make you hallucinate' This is what people think, the stereotype automatically follows that hallucinations are inherently evil! LOL
Well, its like the prejudice over racism etc, people would ignore the cry to reason and evidence.
Maybe the change in language would help...forget the term hallucination ( i believe iots wrong anyway ) and replace with 'visions'


Alas, i think mass prejudice is what we are up against


K

 

Oh, yes, thank you both so much

 

I had my first experiences with pot, when I was 16, I started shrooms with 23 and RCs with 24. Now I´m 32, working as a physician (in psychiatry and psychotherapy) for 6 years now. My fiancee is also a physician (in surgery), she´s been using drugs for more than 7 years now.
Drugs gave me the possibility not only to view life from a different angle, but also to understand my patients better.
It´s possible to use drugs in a safe and responsible way, but it requires very much discipline!

 

I wouldn't say drugs are evil but they did change me.Esp tripping a lot.I'm not the same person I used to be.

 

Good thing for the anonymity of the internet ey flow?
But, that's my bag too. Don't have the degree yet but getting there and it's more along the lines of research in educational psych. I know for a fact that certain drugs were good towards expanding my perspective and thus allowed me to ask more questions. Some were not so good and just weren't for me I credit lady Sativa for starting me on the road to discovering myself in ways I never would have imagined and certain psychadellics for providing a tool towards seeing beyond this immediate reality. I suppose i'm succesful both by societies definition as well as my own more personal goals, though the personal is far more flexible and brings me greater satisfaction.

 

Yep!
But at the hospital, where I work, most of the other physicians (even my boss), psychologists and nurses know about the things I do - and most of them do the same:
80% of them do pot regularly
40% of them have done shrooms at least once
20% of them have done RCs at least once
10% of them have done LSD at least once

So folks:
that´s what your doctors and therapeuts do in their free time!!!

 

This is sort of opposite of what you want to hear but is sort of good in a way, I dunno I'll let you interpret it how you want. Well it was new years coming into the year 2004. I was hanging out at a friends and we werent gonna go crazy just smoke a little pot and have a few beers, not drop dead wasted. So its like 11'ish and we decide to msoke a little. We made a ong out of some old bottles and shit and went outside to toke. The weed was apparently laced with something because it was like no other experience I'd ever had with pot. I dont know really what to compare it to because I've never had any psychedelics, and I dont know much about them. But at that time in my life I was having some emotional problems with my parents divorcing and all that. So I had just decided that pot was my way of "getting away" and that I was just going to smoke pot all the time, flunk out of school, work at some fast food shit and smoke. I'd say I was in depression at the least. Even ahd thought abuot killing myself and others. SO that night after we had smoked thats when the other drugs or w/e was in it started to kick in. This is where I'm going to break off from the other's story because I dont know what it was like for them or if they experienced all of the same things. So first I started having audial hallucinations (or visions lol) and I could hear dirt bikes like, some one was riding a dirtbike out in the road. So I asked the others if they ehard it, and they said they didnt untill I had said sumthing but they heard it too. So we looked out the window and couldnt see anything but I was convinced I had heard it. They went and got on the internet while I continued to look. It was then that I started having visuals. I saw a toddlar sized gorilla wearing a black leather vest and a little biker cap, with a bannana in his hand riding a little chopper with stars and stripes like the american flag on it. It was at that point I started to wonder if it was laced. I told them what I had seen and they looked but couldnt see it. But one of the other kids did say that he had seen an aligator under the bed earlier. We both laughed at him and then ignored it. I started to think like those deep thoughts you have when your high and I layed down on the bed. I started to hear a siren in my head like a rising and falling noise. Then I felt my hear start beating extremely fast like much faster than just the usual weed high. Then I closed my eyes and I could see all kinds of crazy colors and just weird shit. Like I saw myself falling out of a big tree, and at the top of it my parents were there arguing. I jsut watched myself fall untill I landed in a sort of patch of grass like a pile of it that jsut caought me. I opened my eyes and I couldnt see the visual anymore. But the siren was still going and my heart was still pumping extremely hard and fast. Then I started hallucinating that my nose was bleeding. Like I could feel the blood running down my face and out of my nose. But I couldnt see it and this scared me a lot. Then it felt like my throat collapsed not like it shrank up buit more like it got very limp and just the top fell onto the bottom so my throat was this tube that was very limber and flexible and it jsut fell sort of like a deflated baloon, the air was only coming in, in small amounts but it was enough to keep me alive. Then it was like my heart accelerated to the max like I couuld hear it and all that like it was getting ready to burst. It was then that I started to wonder if I had overdosed or something and if I was going to be okay. It was like that thought alone just triggered terror. Then with ym eyes closed I started to see all kinds of signs of death. Like I saw my tombstone and my death date was jauary 1st 2004. Then I saw the friends house that we were at, I saw his mom come runnning in the room and start shaking me and throwing water on my face and slapping me, then yelling at my friend and telling him to call an ambulance. I then thought I was literaly going to die. I then started to pray and then I realized that I didnt want to die. Then I'm not sure if I said it out loud or not but it was like I screamed it as loud as I could. After that all my visions stopped and I was jsut in like a normal high state, li ke jsut a normal weed high. I spent the rest of the night eating cake, and smoking cigs. That nest day I looked back on my experience and realized what it did for me. Now my parents are still in that state of fighting and all but I'm happy with it. Its like I'm jsut grateful to be alive. And of course I am no longer suicidal or wanting to kill others. That night really helped me. So I hope that you can use that. I dont mind if u copy it word for word or whatever if u like it that much. Just wnating to help. Oh and yes I still smoke reefer.

 

man if thats all true and not exagerated tehre was either pcp or dmt in that bud. im glad it worked out for u tho, but in the future i would make sure i know what kind of drugs im doing