If you wanna be cute I guess you can say caffeine. But, I’m really looking for what the average boomer would consider a drug. For me, its psilocybin mushrooms a few times a year. Weed here and there too
Endorphins. Just yesterday I did 1 km @ VO2 Max running repeats, and about 800m in I started feeling real good. Even my heart rate was slowing. I ended up overshooting the distance a little, and doing an extra interval; it felt so good.
Alcohol and, very occasionally, cocaine.
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Weed for regular use. But mushrooms changed my life. Can’t trip regularly though or I’m pretty sure I’d understand so much I couldn’t even semi-function in the world anymore.
Sugar.
Can’t live with, can’t live without. Should be regulated.
Sugar isn’t a drug lol
I mean, where is the line between what is and isn’t a drug?
Sugar affects how you feel and is habit forming. Seems on par with caffine
High Fructose Corn Syrup is pretty close to a drug. It blocks the receptors in your mind that signal to you “Okay, I’m full, that’s enough now.” Even sugar doesn’t do that.
I know it’s not by definition. However it’s effects are clearly measurably like drugs and it’s hellishly destructive.
Companies put it in almost everything to make things taste ‘better’, modifying our taste and needing more for the same effect.
There’s a lot of research, also the old sugar cartel and documentaries to look up on this and of course it’s also related to the obesity crisis. The focus has been moved from sugar to fat decades ago to get sugar out of the public spotlight.
Long story short, I would consider it a drug. We’re at the point with sugar we were with cigarettes in the 80s.
Mushrooms of magic.
Nontoxic, non-addictive, mind-broadening easy to safely dose and for me and my fellow psilocybinauts, a very comforting, mother-earthy, wavy high.
I take them very rarely, as in less than once every couple of years, but they are my favorite altered experience by far.
Alcohol is the obly “proper” recreational drug I’ve tried so tjat has to be it. I’d like to try some others but them veing illegal makes it hsrdr. Me being very drunk while typing this might have something to do with somethkng
Weed.
I have this spot on a low mountain that overlooks the valley I live in. A big boulder sits wedged into the mountainside with a lone scraggly pine giving it some shade. I just like to sit there sometimes, smoke and think. Relaxes me from all the stress I feel.
In my 40s. I partake in alcohol here and there.
A CBD/THC gummy is not only good for relaxation, but I’ve found that it helps with runny nose issues when I’m sick and stops the mucus drainage because it dries me up.
In general though, weed is great in an edible form. I don’t smoke it.
If I could choose only one? Alcohol, it’s great for relaxing and having fun, it comes in delicious flavours and is easy and convinent.
Fondest memories? Ecstasy - dancing to great music with in a crowd can be amazing, but for me sober, or even just with booze, it’s hard to bother with. But with some mdma I’ve had some truly amazing peak experiences. Although, I’ve found the aowish dose of psychocybin has a pretty similar effect without all the comedown nonsense.
But tbh, they’re all pretty fun in the right time and place.
Weed, it helps me relax my muscles and get my brain out of fight or flight work mode
Weed, usually at least some at the end of every day to unwind, don’t do it while working or for social situations (anymore) get too anxious lol
42y man. A couple of glasses of good red wine, or a couple of pints of a decent stout/dark ale and I’m golden.
Never bothered with other drugs
Maybe give a new thing a try, you might really enjoy it and benefit from it
What, like a light beer or white wine?
Hah yeah go wild you madman! 😂
But yeah at 42 might as well experience a bit more of life if you can. Why wait?
Though I don’t wanna sound like I’m trying to peer pressure you, a person should only ever do what they wanna do. All I’m saying is give other substances a thought. In particular, mushrooms have been scientifically proven to benefit mental health long term even from a single use
Enjoy life, however it works best for you
Yeah I’m not bothered about experimenting haha.
Might have 3 glasses of wine and a wank next time, really push the boat out.
Maverick!
A good Scotch single malt, preferably from the Islay region.
