General Chat

I never actually did anything - I watched other people indulging, and it was offered to me but I just never had the desire to. (As a younger teenager, I remember that those friends of mine who did experiment with smoking, drinking, drugs etc had parents who certainly didn't smoke. My mum smokes and I've ended up teetotal, non-smoking and never tried any illicit substances . . .)

Aged 17 to 19, I had a very intelligent friend who got into smoking dope and seemed to just withdraw. He started missing college a lot and then dropped out of university. Seemed to enter this world of "can't be bothered" - possibly that side of him was there before. What I remember most about him is thinking, "You talk absolute rubbish when you're stoned" but then I was completely sober. In the end I lost touch with him but he never seemed to accept that I didn't want to try it and I got fed up of having to justify myself all the time.

An ex of mine smoked dope and tried many times to get me to use it too, but the one time I tried, it did nothing for me so I didn't bother, he was a smoker (cigs) and I wasn't so I suppose that made a difference too. He has never really been right, and is now divorced and living in a shared house at the age of 66, nothing to show for his life, he rarely worked after we split up, and I don't think his three daughters have anything to do with him now either. From things I have heard he always dabbled in drug taking of some kind.
A young friend of my son's tried various drugs and ended up almost suicidal, his head is so messed up now that at 26, he has never held down a job and lives on benefits which he will do for the rest of his life, he is depressed and sadly I would not be surprised if my lad one day told me this friend had died through his own hand. I have seen it with others too, and am glad that my son only occasionally smokes waccy baccy and doesn't bother, as far as I am aware, with anything more than that and the occasional cigarette, he does drink more than I think is sensible but lack of money at the mo is helping him drink less.

A friend of mine lost her daughter to drugs one Christmas morning, her husband went to see why the girl in her late teens, hadn't turned up for Christmas with the family and found her dead in her flat because of drugs.

When there were the programmes and ads on tv saying Just say No, to discourage youngsters from starting on the rocky road, I would show my son even tho he was only 5 and tell him he must not accept tablets or things like that from people. It's the way a lot of pushers get their customers by giving them stuff to try till they get hooked and then they are trapped in the circle of drug taking and theft etc to get money for drugs.
Tragic.

Lizx

This was never going to be a light hearted thread

Suzian I am glad you are proud of your brother, not all 'junkies' deserve it but unfortunately those who do often don't get the recognition that they should have had because of their habit.
My ex brother in law committed suicide with drugs, he was a junkie and an alcoholic who tried many times to go 'straight' but always failed. I may have to take shame for this but I always saw him as weak and felt that his death under a bush was a callous revenge on parents who had for years bailed him out but in frustration had finally told him 'to get a life'. Looking back maybe the parents did him wrong but it is too late for that now.

Amanda ..see I said I would come back.
Yes it is a mugs life but then there are so many mugs out there. I think that you were very brave to own up to what you have done. Most will own up to a bit of wackey but rarely to the rest.
I can understand where you were coming from on the H but think that in yourself you managed to get lost. ( that is not a critisisim). I lived once in the shadey world of drugs and saw far too many people go down that line, but it is difficult to live around addicts and not succome ( ee eckers where is me spell check when I need it ) Once in the middle it is hard to know where to draw the line.
I allowed dope and speed in my flat but refused to allow any other drug !! Did that mean if somebody was tripping that I would refuse them entry ....errrr no. ( at the time I think my flat was the drop in centre of every druggie in ealing ! ) I hated seeing ‘friends’ lost in the space of 2yrs I went to 9 funerals. Eventually I had a choice to leave or join them I left.

But do not get me wrong because I had some fantastic laughs during that time and would never erase it.

Julie as I said ( and once again apologise for the inadvertant ignore) I did take on board your comments. When we moved to Spain ( well even before that) cos my OH had long hair (yeah most females would have killed for it ) and likes wearing leather (mmm no comment there) he was labelled a ‘druggie’ I have to laugh cos he is so upright and all that. When we owned a pub a customer once offered him drugs, well if his feet weren’t some where in the sky ( being so laid back) we may have been 1 customer less that day instead we gained a valuable one who knew we wouldn’t allow drugs in the building !
Back to OH he tried a smoke once was violently sick and has never anything touched it again, he does smoke cigars and he doesn’t drink.

Rose
As I said earlier you and your opinions ( cos I like them) are always welcome on any thread that I put up. Hey if you disagree with me I can live with that how boring would life be if we all agreed

Have never taken nor will I ever take drugs....they are addicitve and it does not matter what they are or for what purpose you take them.

Liz, there is not a lot to say except thankyou for sharing

Janet do you take painkillers ?

Never took any in my life. One night, aged 16, I was having a crafty shandy in the Royal Children pub in Nottingham with a girl friend, when these two chaps at the bar offered us some whacky backy. I've never run out of a pub so quick in me life, and ran for the bus to take me home to my village, 10 miles away.
I uderstand that some years ago, my son, grew some Magic Mushrooms in my airing cupboard, but it was years after, when I found out.
Julia in Derbyshire

I have probably said this before, apologies if I have, when I was at college we used to have a really friendly group who were mainly on one floor of the residents block ( I lived out) and also mostly taking same subjects.

G *** came into the seminar one morning and was telling us and the tutor (who had just asked if there was much drug tasking these days by the students) about his experience the night before .

He had been smoking dope whilst writing his essay (probably on one of Shakespeare's plays I think ) and having read through it , decided it was the most erudite critique he had ever written , went to bed high as a kite (literally )and with great pride in his work.

Woke up the next morning, read his essay....and realised it was 'total gibberish' . Of course we all laughed, but it did highlight just how far from being 'normal' you are when under the influence.

Rose that is very true
fags only kill you... the rest make you laugh whilst you kill yourself

Nothing never saw the need to.

I hate people who take drugs

Like the police and customs officers, lol

Seriously though, I've had my fair share

i once when i was young and daft had a drag of a joint
but didn't like it

and i was given half an E once in a nightclub
i put it in the ashtray
stray took it out and smashed it up on the floor
so maybe the mice got high that night

to be honest i am against drugs and illegal behaviour

KNEW A FEW WHO DID

SOME HAVE GRAVE STONES TO PROVE IT