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
Caffeine. It’s the only drug I take recreationally.
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
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
At my age, ibuprofen.
At your age you be profen?? Is this a flex cause you can get it up as an old man or are you admitting you’re a teenager? Cause you be profen ALL night long?? Hey guys this guy be profen!
Naproxen sodium
The difference between Advil and Aleve is experience.
Tell me more.
YOU BE WHAT? YOU BE PROFEN ALL NIGHT?
Alright, relax lmao
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.
As said on that one Dr. Dre song, smoke weed every day. Well, vape because my lungs aren’t great, but same difference.
Small world, Dr. Dre is also my Primary Care Physician!
Alcohol. It’s easy to get and I know how I behave and what my limits are. Usually comes in a tasty package too
Thats fair. I always pick weed over booze because I consider all the calories in booze. But, then I smoke weed and eat 4 dinners anyway so its a wash.
At least the 4 dinners aren’t empty calories, so there’s that. They actually contain stuff that’s good for you. So not really a wash. Plus excess eating doesn’t damage your body to nearly the same degree as a similar number of calories in alcohol form, you can just exercise it away, or shift eating habits to account for it.
Mushrooms a few times a year are great. LSD is also beautiful but you really need to plan a full weekend for the experience (start early on Saturday and recover Sunday) to get the most out of it.
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.
I did LSD for a few months when I lived with a few friends, I loved that stuff.
LSA is pretty cool too and you can make it yourself without any risk of poisoning. Not sure about the rules so I won’t explain how unless someone says it’s cool lol
I assume it’s allowed info because a basic web search gives lots of results, and there’s even a subreddit dedicated to it
https://www.reddit.com/r/LSA/comments/mp45p4/lsa_beginners_guide/
Only tried it once and I wasnt a fan of how long it lasted.
For a few months… straight?
Every time I’ve tripped, I’ve had zero interest in taking it again for like several years.
Also, doesn’t tolerance build immediately, and you need to like double the dose each time you do it again?
In my very limited experience, tolerance for shrooms is very quick, but not so much for LSD.
Lol a few days straight, but then just sporadically over a few months. I didn’t notice much as far as tolerance buildup over those few days
I tried LSA and it just made me sleepy. Maybe my does was too low?
It’s either LSA or LSH, it’s been almost 20 years since I made it so I forget which is which, but basically the process involves extracting one of those and turning it into the more potent other.
For me it was like a much weaker LSD, but you still felt it quite a bit.
