I can start - The first time I did coke was with the wrong people. They thought me how to make it into crack and within a week that was the first (and only) time I smoked crack.

I stopped hanging out with that crowd because they were bad news and I’m not about that.

Pot. There’s nothing wrong with it, and it’s legal in my state, but I quickly realized that if I didn’t want to weigh 300 pounds, I couldn’t do it. It felt like there was no end to the amount I could eat.

Just though of the last time I did shrooms (~10 years ago). It was snowing but way more than normal. Me and my roommates are high AF on shrooms stuck inside because of the snow. One of my roommates gets a call from his girlfriend’s brother - he’s stuck in the snow around the corner from my house.

He’s a drug rehab therapist.

We spent the entire night, high on shrooms, with a drug rehab therapist. It was kinda sorta stressful at the time but in hindsight it’s the plot of an episode of some random sitcom

Edit: it was acid not shrooms

I had the full college experience with the line also drawn at needles. I cannot recommend MDMA on a weekly basis for 10 months unless it’s all an elaborate scheme to end up winning a national award for a column about your first suicide attempt.

The middle part was fun … I alternated my home base in Seattle with a girlfriend in Victoria, had dropped out of college for the second time to work at a startup, and quit that six weeks in at the end of a meeting at which it was disclosed we were discontinuing all of the projects that differentiated the company.

We met on the NWTekno message board and enjoyed each others’ company sufficiently for me to head up there for the first time and miss the final ferry for the day from Port Angeles by five minutes. So I did what any reasonable person would and chartered an international flight. Unfortunately, my sole threesome ended poorly, and the only solace I could find was in buying my groceries one last time with an extremely strong U.S. dollar.

Never really made a habit of anything but E, though I turned 21 less than two weeks after waking up in the ICU with a collapsed lung, allowing me to fully explore alcoholism for 20-plus years.

I did shrooms for functionally the first time (I don’t count mixing them with other things once as a comparable experience) in December, and wow, had that been exactly what I needed to fully give up drinking. I never liked pot, despite my second ex-wife being always stoned, but I’ve found D8 to be perfect for the remaining low-grade body aches and irrational anxiety that the shrooms couldn’t help on.

I’ve rolled twice in the past decade, both times with dating partners, and I would do so again if a connection opportunity presented itself. But I’m well past getting fucked up beyond recognition for its own sake or trying to interact with strangers while high.

Drugs are tools. The manner in which they’re used is what makes them good or bad for the user.

6 months clean from Heroin in a few days at 20y.o, (second go round) so I guess that. I’ve done practically every other non trash-tier drug there is to some degree. Opiates are the best until one day they’re suddenly the worst, and the day always cometh. I’m just glad I got out as early (relative to others) as I did.

Most of them. Like you, I pretty much did everything that wasn’t injectable. I calmed down after I had kids, but ended up severely alcoholic when they were a bit older. That ended with a mushroom trip. After that I microdosed for a while as it improved my mental health, but I haven’t felt like I needed it in a couple of years.

Booze, weed and pills although pills were a rarity, weed became habitual and booze was infrequent but overdone when I did.

Can’t kick nicotine it seems though and I don’t really care.

'Used to smoke weed on something like a weekly to monthly basis to help unwind. I stopped after I got on an Adderall prescription to help tend to my ADHD.

Adderall has some pretty restrictive control measures in the US, and weed still has some more substantial restrictions federally. My medical provider says they might test me for weed and other drug usage randomly, and that if I’m caught with something federally inexcusable in my system, I’ll be booted from my prescription.

Is it something I could finesse my way around so I could keep up with my weed unwinding days? Probably. It definitely helps to live in a weed legal state, and if I end up dropping my Adderall for something less controlled, I could see myself getting back into weed. But my work and education have benefited from my prescription though, and even if the risk could be made slim, I’m personally not that comfortable with putting that on the line.

Besides, there’s other vices they don’t test for that fit in just fine 🥴.

Officially the most boring person in here reporting in!

I heavily smoked cigarettes for a month when I was twelve, then stopped overnight. Had a cigar once or twice and smoked shisha (not sure if it’s the right word in English) twice. And I only drink alcohol occasionally. At social gatherings a couple glasses and at home maybe a glass a month.

It’s not that I’m opposed to drugs in general. The opportunity just never presented itself and I’m not curious enough to actively seek them out on my own. If I was offered shrooms, LSD or anything really, I’d probably also set it up more like a controlled science experiment.

DMT. I love psychedelics and read Dr. Rick Straussman’s “DMT: The Spirit Molecule” but for some reason, it just didn’t agree with me when I did it in my early 20’s, and now I’m not sure if I’d try it again. I didn’t break through, I saw colors but I mostly sat there panicking and unable to move or talk. Friends smoked the same stuff at the same time and had great experiences, so I guess it was just me. Pretty disappointing.