What drugs have you done?

Dustin Kesselberg · 4th May 2006, 08:29 PM

Describe your experience.

Dustin Kesselberg · 4th May 2006, 08:44 PM

Please delete....Botched making a poll.!

Dark Jaguar · 4th May 2006, 08:45 PM

Hmm, I wonder... Are you talking about mind altering drugs, just the illegal kinds, or any sort of medicinal drugs? I'm thinking it's illegal mind altering drugs.

At any rate, I've never done any of those. My mind has been altered enough by the legal ones that I actually have needed, and I haven't even taken the worst of those by a long shot. I'm just talking about being a little giddy and not being able to think as straight as I want after one of those niquile (sp?) medicines, and I dislike THAT too much to ever really want to experience it again. I have done steroids, perscription actually to increase the strength of my diaphram (I was apparently having trouble breathing, I really don't remember too much as I was a kid at the time and most of the conversation was between my mother and the doctor), but to be honest I really don't remember anything about how that affected me. I guess I just didn't notice anything.

I have however been AROUND people who were high on "the weed". I can only say that at first I was with friends, and then eventually I was around people I could only pitty. Sadly enough, though I was not affected, they were all cracking up because they could "swear" I was high. Thinking I "almost walked into that wall" when it just wasn't happening, for example.

Well, I can only say what's fun is to intentionally lose to them in a fighting game in the most obvious and direct way possible and to have them not even notice you are doing it, and then suddenly actually play the game seriously for a few rounds. It is a sort of "intentional handicap" thing I had to do after noticing how their skills were dropping. I hear a lot of people saying they "play better when high", but I suspect they are playing agaist OTHER people who are high.

I've also had the pleasure of handing around a crowd of drunk people while sober, and that too is an experience. Not one I'd relive, simply because I don't think I can stand drunk people, but certainly it can be properly defined as "an experience". In retrospect it sure was funny, in a sad sort of way.

At any rate, observing the results of taking substances like that, I can say that I have no intention of ever taking them myself. It doesn't really "show who you really are" (as someone who made a religion out of alcohol once tried explaning to me) so much as CHANGE who you really are, and you are changed into a moron. There are nice morons and mean morons, but they are still morons.

Dustin Kesselberg · 4th May 2006, 08:59 PM

I have a poll in the other thread. Post it there.

Chris Haynes · 5th May 2006, 09:26 AM

Well I take Allegra during the day in Spring when the pollen is particularly active, and then I take benadryl in the evening to for the allergic itchies and to help me sleep. Fortunately, because of a fairly cold winter and cool wet spring the pollen is not as bad as in the past.

I have had some narcotic pain killers while in the hospital when giving birth. The stadol was okay, but demoral made me sick. Not surprising, the percodan I got for my wisdom teeth extraction had me hurling the entire weekend afterwards. I got some other narcotic when I broke my ankle, and made me hobble to the bathroom to hurl, the same thing happened when I was give vicadin when my back went out (and, again, it was an inconvenient time to drag myself to the bathroom)... So I have figured out that I am one of the 10% of the population that cannot tolerate narcotic pain relievers.

Otherwise, I just use an occasional ibuprofen for transient back pain (and have been much more diligent about back exercises).

One kid has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, so he takes atenolol daily. He also has to take antibiotics anytime he goes to the dentist. He also took antibiotics after his wisdom teeth were removed. He was give a prescription for a narcotic pain reliever, but he never needed it. So I threw the stuff away.

Hellbound · 5th May 2006, 09:31 AM

I took a good dose of chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile via inhalation.

Not a lot of fun. Have plenty of tissues handy.

bluess · 5th May 2006, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Huntsman

I took a good dose of chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile via inhalation.

Not a lot of fun. Have plenty of tissues handy.

Tear gas? Uck.

Darat · 5th May 2006, 10:14 AM

Thread closed see: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=56360

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4th May 2006, 08:29 PM	#1
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5th May 2006, 09:26 AM	#5
Chris Haynes Perfectly Poisonous Person Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Wacky Washington Way Out West Posts: 4,214	Well I take Allegra during the day in Spring when the pollen is particularly active, and then I take benadryl in the evening to for the allergic itchies and to help me sleep. Fortunately, because of a fairly cold winter and cool wet spring the pollen is not as bad as in the past. I have had some narcotic pain killers while in the hospital when giving birth. The stadol was okay, but demoral made me sick. Not surprising, the percodan I got for my wisdom teeth extraction had me hurling the entire weekend afterwards. I got some other narcotic when I broke my ankle, and made me hobble to the bathroom to hurl, the same thing happened when I was give vicadin when my back went out (and, again, it was an inconvenient time to drag myself to the bathroom)... So I have figured out that I am one of the 10% of the population that cannot tolerate narcotic pain relievers. Otherwise, I just use an occasional ibuprofen for transient back pain (and have been much more diligent about back exercises). One kid has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, so he takes atenolol daily. He also has to take antibiotics anytime he goes to the dentist. He also took antibiotics after his wisdom teeth were removed. He was give a prescription for a narcotic pain reliever, but he never needed it. So I threw the stuff away.
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5th May 2006, 10:09 AM	#7
bluess Illuminator Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Dithering between book choices in a shop somewhere. Posts: 3,431	Originally Posted by Huntsman I took a good dose of chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile via inhalation. Not a lot of fun. Have plenty of tissues handy. Tear gas? Uck.
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4th May 2006, 08:44 PM	#2
Dustin Kesselberg Usus magister est optimus Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma Posts: 4,673	Please delete....Botched making a poll.!

4th May 2006, 08:45 PM	#3
Dark Jaguar Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,666	Hmm, I wonder... Are you talking about mind altering drugs, just the illegal kinds, or any sort of medicinal drugs? I'm thinking it's illegal mind altering drugs. At any rate, I've never done any of those. My mind has been altered enough by the legal ones that I actually have needed, and I haven't even taken the worst of those by a long shot. I'm just talking about being a little giddy and not being able to think as straight as I want after one of those niquile (sp?) medicines, and I dislike THAT too much to ever really want to experience it again. I have done steroids, perscription actually to increase the strength of my diaphram (I was apparently having trouble breathing, I really don't remember too much as I was a kid at the time and most of the conversation was between my mother and the doctor), but to be honest I really don't remember anything about how that affected me. I guess I just didn't notice anything. I have however been AROUND people who were high on "the weed". I can only say that at first I was with friends, and then eventually I was around people I could only pitty. Sadly enough, though I was not affected, they were all cracking up because they could "swear" I was high. Thinking I "almost walked into that wall" when it just wasn't happening, for example. Well, I can only say what's fun is to intentionally lose to them in a fighting game in the most obvious and direct way possible and to have them not even notice you are doing it, and then suddenly actually play the game seriously for a few rounds. It is a sort of "intentional handicap" thing I had to do after noticing how their skills were dropping. I hear a lot of people saying they "play better when high", but I suspect they are playing agaist OTHER people who are high. I've also had the pleasure of handing around a crowd of drunk people while sober, and that too is an experience. Not one I'd relive, simply because I don't think I can stand drunk people, but certainly it can be properly defined as "an experience". In retrospect it sure was funny, in a sad sort of way. At any rate, observing the results of taking substances like that, I can say that I have no intention of ever taking them myself. It doesn't really "show who you really are" (as someone who made a religion out of alcohol once tried explaning to me) so much as CHANGE who you really are, and you are changed into a moron. There are nice morons and mean morons, but they are still morons.

4th May 2006, 08:59 PM	#4
Dustin Kesselberg Usus magister est optimus Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma Posts: 4,673	I have a poll in the other thread. Post it there.

5th May 2006, 09:31 AM	#6
Hellbound Abiogenic Spongiform Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a handbasket Posts: 9,018	I took a good dose of chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile via inhalation. Not a lot of fun. Have plenty of tissues handy.