Is experimenting with drugs worth trying before I die?

Drugs can be a great enhancement to life if you use them for the right reasons. If you start using drugs to escape a reality you're unhappy with, then you're much more likely to become addicted. If your drug use is truly recreational it has the ability to make enjoyable moments in life even more enjoyable. If you are comfortable with your life and just looking for an experience then you should be find experimenting with drugs, and if you feel you have a decent amount of self control and you're willing to do research on everything you try before you do it. If you're smart about doing drugs then you have the potential to see so much more in life. Especially with psychedelics. Lsd inspired me to live my life and to enjoy moments and it also helped me learn who I am and see truth through out my life. It really does make you a more spiritual person. All the drug horror stories you hear is just what happens to people who aren't smart or don't do drugs for the right reasons.

Drugs can be a great enhancement to life if you use them for the right reasons. If you start using drugs to escape a reality you're unhappy with, then you're much more likely to become addicted. If your drug use is truly recreational it has the ability to make enjoyable moments in life even more enjoyable. If you are comfortable with your life and just looking for an experience then you should be find experimenting with drugs, and if you feel you have a decent amount of self control and you're willing to do research on everything you try before you do it. If you're smart about doing drugs then you have the potential to see so much more in life. Especially with psychedelics. Lsd inspired me to live my life and to enjoy moments and it also helped me learn who I am and see truth through out my life. It really does make you a more spiritual person. All the drug horror stories you hear is just what happens to people who aren't smart or don't do drugs for the right reasons.

Weed, Shrooms, Acid, DMT, and Molly are really the only drugs I believe any person should try. Everything else is too harmful, and just plain boring imo, to try more than once. The one's I listed will give you spiritual awakenings you could never have imagined (in the right setting), and you will be a better person in many ways because of them. They can also be tons of fun as well. Read up on "set and setting" and how to take these drugs, there are always tons of informative videos on youtube as well.

Just say yes. I did and had an amazing basketball career!

I think this line of questioning is very dangerous. I had many opportunities to try drugs, but always said "No thanks." However,

I developed a bad alcohol habit for several years and eventually recognized I needed to stop or I would become an alcoholic. I was also hopelessly addicted to caffeine for many years and finally spent a sick couple of weeks in withdrawal to escape it. Life has been better without alcohol or caffeine.

I shutter to think what might have happened with other stronger drugs. Could I have stopped? I personally see no reason to try to ever find out and know I made the right choice declining the opportunities way back.

Some of my friends who offered me drugs refer to their twenties as "the lost decade. Those were their worst years and my best years. Without a doubt, I wound up better off than any of them: got my degrees, married a wonderful woman ( who would have dumped me if I was into drugs), and started a fulfilling career. Maybe things would have wound up the same, but maybe not.

To OP. Heck yeah try them!!!! I mean what do you have to loose? The possibility of becoming hopelessly addicted??? No way could that happen to you right?!?! That's what I said 20 years ago. Pissed 15 years of my life away drugging, I can't remember half of that five thousand day long "party" and it took a stint in PRISON to finally get clean.

I for one regret ever trying drugs. And if you have even a one in a thousand chance of living my experience from trying drugs, the risk is too high. Stay away from them. No one in my family has ever been addicted to drugs, alcohol or nicotine. I was the first, so don't buy into "if you parents aren't addicts you won't be". It can happen to anyone - part of addiction is liking the high so much that you forever chase experiencing the original high again. Of course you will never experience the original high of your first experience so you keep using. And of course you will never know if the high is so great that you'll chase that high for the rest of your life over say... food, shelter and clothing until you try the drug. So no one knows if it's safe for you to try or not.

But go ahead, try it and see what happens. What do you have to loose right?

All these "rules" you're making for yourself, e.g.

* "I will never never mix drugs"

* "I will only do molly at these 2 big EDM concerts per year"

* "I will only do drugs on weekends"

* "I will only do shrooms outdoors with a trip sitter"

* "I will never touch heroine or meth"

* "I will never buy more than 1 gram of coke at a time"

you will violate before you know it. It's likely that you will violate several of those rules in the same night.

drugs weed, LSD or whatever, serve no role in building health.

consuming toxic plant alkaloids to induce a temporary alkaline state in the brain defies health logic.

I never crave stimulants, dope, booze etc. my body is so alkaline that my brain gets its preferred alkaline hit every hour of everyday.

i did a lot of drugs. all sorts. NEVER even considered going back when i made the commitment to be clean. i changed my identity by changing my beliefs. no discipline used at all.

drugs equal pain to me. health equals pleasure.

id rather be off my face on life purpose than numbed and eventually coming down off the artiface of dope.

life is the drug. lets take it raw.

get drugs and alcohol out of your system before age 23.

i started drinking in hs and smoking weed, harder stuff during early years of college. Pretty much stopped everything at age 23-23. now all my friends who were "straight edge" are just discovering dope and other drugs and its affecting their careers and many are living at home. your body is more resilient at a younger age.

if you come from a white trash environment i would avoid drugs completely though.

i will say that maintaining composure while drinking and doing drugs is good exercise/practice for mental toughness. youll find there are a lot of people out there who cant handle it and are crying, fighting, getting arrested, passing out, misssing work/class etc.

this has been the biggest benefit for me, mind over matter.

Listen to this guy. When you get older, you meet guys like this all the time. Many of them are still not clean. The reformed user and the user-till-death have something in common. They've needlessly made their life a mess.

An interesting phenomenon has taken place in America in which life expectancy for white males has DECREASED in the last few years. Drugs, suicide and liver disease have risen dramatically in the last 60 years. Heroin deaths are skyrocketing. What part of America do you live in where you're not seeing people you know die for their stupidity in chasing highs?

If you start using drugs, you could end up like the lying jerks on this board who tell you how wonderful drugs are (but oh, stay away from this or that 'cause maybe something bad could happen, but don't worry, if you're smart you'll be fine and you'll be cool). Do you want to be a pathetic loser who has alienated his family, has a dodgy relationship with the law, has caused trouble at work and spends your life chasing a feeling that you can no longer get just by living without substances? Or maybe living a life on government disability, hanging out at a bar and in a house that doesn't want you around or at some crappy coffee shop showing off your tattoos?

Pathetic losers.

Go ahead. Listen to all the worthless pieces of white trash who live to get high. They have a motive for their lying. It makes them feel better to delude themselves into believing that they're not the giant pieces of excrement that they've become. And if you get high with them, they've brought you down to their level. Now you can give them a sympathetic ear on the subject of why their life is so unfair.

Get Off My Lawn wrote:

Go ahead. Listen to all the worthless pieces of white trash who live to get high. They have a motive for their lying. It makes them feel better to delude themselves into believing that they're not the giant pieces of excrement that they've become. And if you get high with them, they've brought you down to their level. Now you can give them a sympathetic ear on the subject of why their life is so unfair.

PREACH IT BROTHER!

Turning to potential harms, the committee concluded:

Strong evidence links marijuana use to the risk of developing schizophrenia and other causes of psychosis, with the highest risk among the most frequent users.

Some evidence suggests a small increased risk for developing depressive disorders, but there's no evidence either way on whether it affects the course or symptoms of such disorders, or the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder.

There's strong evidence that using marijuana increases the risk of a traffic accident, but no clear indication that it promotes workplace accidents or injuries, or death from a marijuana overdose.

There's only weak evidence for the idea that it hurts school achievement, raises unemployment rates or harms social functioning.

For pregnant women who smoke pot, there's strong evidence of reduced birthweight but only weak evidence of any effect on pregnancy complications for the mother, or an infant's need for admission to intensive care. There's not enough evidence to show whether it affects the child later, like sudden infant death syndrome or substance use.

Some evidence suggests there's no link to lung cancer in marijuana smokers. But there's no evidence, or insufficient evidence, to support or rebut any link to developing cancers of the prostate, cervix, bladder, or esophagus.

Substantial evidence links pot smoking to worse respiratory symptoms and more frequent episodes of chronic bronchitis.

There's weak evidence that suggests smoking marijuana can trigger a heart attack, especially for people at high risk of heart disease. But there's no evidence either way on whether chronic use affects a person's risk of a heart attack.

Some evidence suggests a link between using marijuana and developing a dependence on or abuse of other substances, including alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs.

No, it is not worth it.