I don't do drugs and never will. Some of my friends look absolutely flabbergasted when I tell them I don't drink... since we're all 16 we shouldn't be anyway and I have no interest in drinking anyway. All very stupid people sometimes. They come into school going "Oh wow I got absolutely wasted over the weekend." Good for you - you won't be bragging when you and a girl get wasted and start making things you shouldn't be... you know what I mean, and it very nearly happened to someone I know.

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I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs.

I tried nitrous oxide (laughing gas) once though; it was pretty fun. Everything becomes really funny.

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Poppy tea is opium pod tea. My friend says it's amazingly relaxing. I've thought about trying it, still unsure.

Weed is nice if you can find decent stuff. Here it's fairly cheap, but like I said, I haven't done it in forever. It's a nice mellowing out though.

I agree with Ubuu--it slows your reaction time, A LOT. After having done a blunt even with a few friends once, it was like I was in another world. Everything was going so slowly. This was my third time only. So yeah, it does affect your reaction time.

I only do it to relax, never drink to get drunk or get plastered high (except that one time, that wasn't intentional though). I just like to relax, because until I do, I worry all the time. My mind runs at a million miles a minute over a lot of things. It's also a good party thing--fun to do with friends.

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Eh, just caffeine, and rarely that. Gotta agree with Matthew Pate on the Slurpees, though.

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Opium HA! Told ya so

Yeah Opium calms the body, it's just what it does . It comes from poppy (I think)...yeah those little black things in your poppyseed muffins.

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Sigh, if only I could find a girl like you around here.

Can someone please clear something up for me:
I've heard that the teenage brain will not become fully mature until a certain age, and taking drugs or smoking weed etc during its maturing process will hinder its progress. Is there any merit to this claim? If so, what is the golden age?

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I don't do drugs, don't drink alchohol and don't smoke!!!!!
And NEVER will!!!!!

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I believe the "golden age" you're looking for falls between 22 and 26. This is when the brain stops growing (however, it continues to adapt after this, it is forever dynamic). There's a bit of truth to it. Drugs tend to mimic natural chemicals in the brain, and excessive use of those substances alters your brain's perception of and responses to your environment.

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I drink on occasion -- never while at home. None of my friends there drink, so what's the point?

I've smoked a couple of cigars, and that's it. Don't really care to try any other drugs (marijuana and above) simply because...I don't care to.

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if anything drugs expand the mind and perception.

bill hicks was the one who said drugs are around to speed up our evolutionary process or something, i'd be inclined to agree, they teach you a lot about yourself and the world thanks to the different spin they put on things.

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They also put stress on your neuro system, and dull the mind to normal stimuli with excessive use.

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I would post this really good article, but it's on a warez site. You've got mail.

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I don't do drugs or drink alcoholic beverages.

See, when you guys are all sayin these bad things about drugs and stuff.... What drugs are you exactly talking about? Because Marijuana falls into none of these categories...

Trust me, if you tried weed and it didn't do much for you, then you didn't smoke it right.




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You want to know why i don't smoke/drink/etc.? Simply because I don't want to. I have no hidden agendas, no meaningless statistics to pull out of my *** , no startling revelations. I just don't want to. So, if you want to say I'm being a close-minded prick for not using some type of drug, go ahead. I really don't care. In the end, all you're doing is making yourself seem as intollerable as those you're attacking.

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Who exactly are you speaking to?...

Thanks Yoshi.

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Let's see...

I've been known to smoke a cigar in celebration every so often... Though you don't inhale cigars, so I'm only promoting mouth and throat cancer.

Drinking for me is a social activity. I find enjoyment in all aspects of my life (except for volumes of CDCs, no man can enjoy homework), drinking just makes it all funnier. If you want to simulate a drinking experience without drinking, I'd recommend staying up for 24 hours or so and then go partying. The biggest difference is that when drinking you tend to pass out after you run out of stimuli (rather than in the middle of walking).

Also, I subscribe to the belief that drinking helps to streamline the brain. Sure, it kills off brain cells, but the first ones to die are the slow and weak ones. And a device can only work as fast as its slowest link.

As for drugs, I really have no interest. Also, the Air Force tells me that I'm not supposed to do them. And while they have various substance abuse programs, I really am not in the mood to risk my job and/or 2 or more years in a military prison. And garnished wages suck, too.

But that's just my 2 cents.

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Nope. Doesnt impare your reaction time, it makes you "zone out", as i call it, or most people that I know call it. You find yourself not paying attention to certain things, like you space out, not in a bad way where you just go retarded though. I dunno how to explain it, but the people that smoke pot here will know exactly what I mean. Anyways, this zone out effect is what has the effect on your reaction time, not the fact that you are high on pot. Common misperception. - Temperamental

OH AND UH WHAT THE HELL IS THE DIFFERENCE????!?!?!?!

BTW i dont really have any problems with people that do drugs. Thats there thing. If they can't be happy by just living normally than it's there problem. I'm just not going to do them because it's my own moral principle.

edit:Oh yea i do have one problem with drug people. The jackoffs that do drugs, start driving, and kill someone by crashing but they live. Those people deserve to be lined up and shot. Because they're to stupid to realize that they are way to stoned to drive.

Otherwise go smoke ur brain out or whatever.

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"BTW i dont really have any problems with people that do drugs. Thats there thing. If they can't be happy by just living normally than it's there problem. I'm just not going to do them because it's my own moral principle."

See this is the kind of ignorant bullcrap that we get annoyed at. You assume that we aren't happy because we take drugs! Thats ****in ridiculous. I could say that you aren't happy with your life because you play video games! Whats wrong your real life isn't exciting enough so you turn to video games..thats what I thought you nintendo head loser (SARCASM)

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This comment attracted my attention...

why are you so furious? you seem like you want to spark annoyance in drug users and make them pissed off at your opinions.

people not taking drugs is their own choice, as much as it is the choice of a vegetarian not to eat meat or a hardcore punk never to be happy.

In the end, i'll use the phrase "close minded prick" to describe the people who automatically think a difference in lifestyle or opinion is gonna end in agressive argument or conflict.

Really.... you should try smoking some weed it would probablys calm you down. (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, SEE THAT JOKE).

And on another note, your post made me feel that you are intolerant towards tolerance to the views of others, since your ideas seem to point towards the fact drug users are gonna pick you to bits on the pointless ideas you put forward.

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Hmmm...could that be what he was talking about?

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everyones ideas are pointless... they're all relative and destined to die out eventually.

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Just for the record, I disagree with everything spe has said, and he eats babies too.

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Opium is a depressent, same as alchohol and nicotine. And yes, it is from poppy plants. which is why you may hear it occationally said that you shouldn't eat a poppyseed bagel before having a blood test (no idea if there is enough opium in a bagel to trip it, i've just heard it said)

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nicotine is a depressant?

just made me feel addiced to nicotine.

i don't find that depressing.... in fact, i'm quite happy with the fact, since if otherwise, i'd be a weirdo for smoking and not being addicted.

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One poppyseed bagel probably won't throw off a drug test. But toying with fate is not good, at any rate.

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It DOES throw off a blood test--Various reports say that it does. Even though they're really damned good, too.

But yeah, it'd be interesting to try, and the fact that there's no addiction of any sort is the main reason I'd want to (at least not for your first few times). I wouldn't do it too much though.

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Opium gooooood.

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why not just skip straight to injecting heroin? cutting out the middle man worked in trainspotting.

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Fine! Cyanide!

I think it's better just to not try it; I mean, I'm sure heroin is pleasurable, but it's easier to not take it now, when that fact is merely assumed, than after I've taken it and I just *need* to have it again.



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Err... so being high causes you to zone out which impairs your reactions, but being high doesn't have anything to do with impairing your reactions? I suppose being drunk doesn't impair your reactions either.

If you want to do drugs, fine, but don't pretend they can't have side effects. I've had friends totally screwed up by drugs (ecstasy, even heroin in one case) so to pretend that drugs are fantastic and are only illegal due to the Nefarious Man is as insulting as to suggest that cigarettes don't cause lung cancer.

Too many people in this thread seem to assume that anyone who does not do drugs is some sort of close minded Luddite, or are so straight-laced they can't even Jaywalk. I don't do drugs for the same reason I don't smoke (despite its legality and increased social acceptance); it's no good for you and you get to pay for the privilege of destroying your body. No thanks. Those who want to do so are welcome to it, but please don't stink in public places (this goes for people who don't smoke or do drugs but don't bathe, either!)



While I confess an unfamiliarity with the current street price, from what I've gathered it is more expensive than cigarettes, and I would certainly consider buying them to be throwing your money away. At any rate, I was talking about drugs in general, not specifically marijuana.



No, it means that it depresses the body, not your mind; that is, you'll have slower reflexes, feel tired etc. As opposed to caffeine or ecstasy which are stimulants.

ok then, i better pop a pill everytime i have a cigarette then!

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hehe, Friend of a friend went to buy some shrooms, 15 min later they came out of the house, looked in the bag and found out they bought a $180 bag of peanuts!

well, thats my useless story.

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paying $180 for something which you can pick from anywhere damp and shady at a given time of the year is daft anyway.

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Ahh too much misinformation!

Nicotine in your body can work as a stimulant or a depressant, depending on dose and your habit of use.

Opium, belive it or not, is an opiate, not a depressant (same family as morphine, heroin etc)




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I've tried a few times, and yeah I don't smoke, so might you be right there, but I've had a monster fat piece of special cake, and that was so loaded, that when it kicked in (like an hour and a half later), we got the giggles for about half an hour, then just passed out!

Whoops.




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Matt--why are you trying to convince people that what they're doing is wrong? Seriously. You could say "Having money feels great!" for anything. Hell why'd you buy a computer? That's 700 bucks you could have spent on other things. You gotta draw the line somewhere. They just have a different distance.

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I'm not... I'm saying that's my reasoning for not doing drugs. I mentioned several times that people should do what they like, as long as they don't lie to themselves or others about the consequences.

A computer is more worthwhile than anything consumable that you don't require to live, anyway, since it lasts for years and you can do heaps of stuff with it. Hell, my computer is probably the thing I've got the most money's worth out of.