I agree with your viewpoint entirely. I used to buy into the propaganda, but then after some of my trusted friends, who I know are good people, decided to indulge I went and looked into shit more closely. My research lead me to believe that smoking weed and most hallucinogenics had minimal unpleasant side effects, so I figured fuck it, I'll give it a try.Desler wrote:Never smoked even once, no desire to drink whatsoever. But done drugs (just shrooms and X). Go figure. I'm of the mindset, "If you're going to do something wrong, do it right." Smoking and drinking might be legal, but they do just as much damage as the other vices I've chosen. If I do choose to indulge my hedonism, might as well do something that reaps the maximum benefit with the smallest amount of effort and expenditure. Story of my life.Legion wrote: I quit smoking and drinking and have been on a healthier diet for quite some time. I used to like drinking, I used to like smoking (never done drugs, though) but I've come to appreciate my body ever since I started working out. Now if I could just find a girl to appreciate it with me...
Halloween means as much to me as the next dress-up party with people swinging their dongs at each other. Which is nothing.
I have to say I am glad I did, I used to get really bad depressions but since I've started smoking on a regular basis all that went away. I reanalyzed my views on life and now whenever I find myself worrying over something I just think "If this isn't something I'm gonna remember in [x value of time] then there is no point in stressing over it now." I'm not a fiend or anything like that either, I never smoke alone (no point imo) and if I need to stop for a drug test or the opportunity doesn't arise then fuck it, its no big deal.
I've also tried shrooms once over the summer, that was a lot of fun and i've been hoping to trip again. Everything was exactly the same as it was before but struck me as completely new and different. It seemed akin to dreaming while awake, for example if you look at some random pattern you can find things like faces in it if you look for it but when I was on them every stray subconscious thought that I had showed up (for example I was looking at a sidewalk that was mostly white with some blue stones in it and it reminded me of looking at an ocean from an airplane or something, a blue uneven surface with white for wave crests, but inverted so that it was a white ocean with occasional blue, and it seemed to me as if it started to move. I also saw the traditional

As for the other shit, I refuse to touch anything other than pot or shrooms, although I'd like to try acid and maybe X once. Coke and shit like that is bad news. I respect others' decisions to avoid controlled substances and don't pressure anyone into trying anything, although I'd recommend smoking a blunt after a stressful day to everyone.
Just my views.