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What drugs have you done ?

Alcohol - a normal amount over my lifetime, never was addicted or drank too much even
Weed - used to be a lot ... cut it down to almost nothing 20 years ago
LSD - college years a handful of times ... cut due to bad trip
mushrooms - a handful of times ... cut to due bad times
speed ... once liked too much
MDMA ... 1/2 of one once, at a burn, to try a young person thing


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This thread sounds like a nightmare U.S. border guard.

Maybe MH is working for the US customs service...

This ain't sticking to me.

Alcohol, as has been well documented.

Weed, occasionally during my early 20s. I had a friend who was fairly into it, and I would inhale when I went to her place.  I haven't used it since I moved away from Edmonton, except for once a couple of years ago when I met up with her again. We shared a joint for old times sake.  It was ...interesting, and fun at the time, but something I can do without.  Also, due to my asthma, smoking anything is pretty unpleasant for me.  Maybe after legalization they'll have some THC gummy-bears or something that I could try.

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I have many many friends who have had major issues with it, some have become close to becoming street people I fear.

Boy...   that does sound super intriguing....     

My gf and I went down Maple Falls Wa. one time to visit another couple we had met while sailing in Florida. He was a full time studio musician and she also had a full time job. But when it was the weekend, and this was a long one, out came the coke. We shelled out a couple hundred bucks I think it was and joined the party. We chopped and snorted all those three days and had a great time, in large part because he had a 24 track studio for his own use right in the house. I got to bang away on the drums and strum a few chords with a headset on and even twirl the control knobs. However I don't recall any real wondrous effects from the coke other than we didn't need a lot of sleep. That was the first and last time I've ever done coke. Maybe it just wasn't that good a stuff.
On another note, I was a heavy cig. smoker up until about 16 years ago when I quit cold turkey. I have a workmate who was as heavy a smoker and also quit a number of years ago. We had a chat not so long ago and smoking came up. His claim was essentially "once a smoker, always a smoker". His idea was that even though beat the addiction successfully even for a long time it is still with you and given the right circumstances you would go buy a pack of smokes. I disagreed saying there are no circumstances under which I would do that, even including if the doctor told me I had 6 months to live. I might do some strange things but I wouldn't light up a butt. That conversation caused me to recall a comment from another workmate after we finished sharing a joint and I said I'm going outside for a cigarette when he said "I don't have an orifice in my body dirty enough to put one of those things". That's pretty much the opinion I have adopted now. I will admit though, I still like my beer, and I never let a Robby Burns day go by without a bottle of smoky single malt. I think if I hear I've got 6 months I'm on a plane back to Scotland for starters.     

I used pot heavily for quite a few years, then started having severe anxiety attacks while stoned which inspired me to give it up.

Yes- I feel that my experience was the same.  It went from being fun to a thoughtless habit and something I used to watch a game or a movie on TV.  But I started enjoying when it wore off, which told me that I wasn't enjoying it anymore. 

My dad smoked for 3o years from when he was 12 years old and was able to convince himself in his 40s that it was a disgusting habit after cigarettes went up to 75 cents a package. He lived into his 90s and never smoked again. Or wanted to.