Anyone else finding themselves in these times kinda wishing you had a bag of some serious drugs?

[mr_lebowski]

Not some lightweight stuff like pot or booze.

I mean something STRONG. Preferably multiple drugs so you could take your pick?

The kind where you might do something wacky and end up in jail, or maybe even die?

Shit, it's probably just me, isn't it?

[elleng]

1. Pot would do, for me.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Shoot, I could just yell over my back wall if that was going to do the trick ...

I wish I felt like it would

[applegrove]

2. Nope.

[2naSalit]

4. Not really...

there was a reason I didn't do that for long and I still am good with that because I'm still here. Green goodies are all I need and I don't have to wish which is even better. Sometimes it pays to be a lightweight.

[Solly Mack]

5. No

[sfstaxprep]

6. I'd Prefer Not Getting Addicted To Anything Other Than Pot

I guess some Shrooms would be nice though.

[mr_lebowski]

9. YEAH, that's what I'm talking about! Or a coupla clean doses ...

Maybe a bit of E ... oh, and some pharmaceuticals to take the edge off later ...

As you may've guessed, it's kinda too late on that whole addiction thing.

[Skittles]

7. maybe when I was younger

[lark]

24. Oh yeah, I'd have been all over that 40 years ago.

For mescaline 30, lol. Hallucinogens just didn't work out as well for me once I got older and crack was just too enticing, moved 3000 miles away to get away from our crack dealer and wouldn't go back to that. I'm a medical marijuana patient that's been smoking constantly for many decades before it was legal here, so at least now my chilling on the deck is legal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. No, but I've toyed with the idea of staying drunk for the next year or so.

[mr_lebowski]

11. I know, right? If I'd known this shit was 'bout to go down, I wouldn't have gotten

clean and sober 4 months ago.

Damnit.

Prior to that ... let's just say it was more like 3 years ...

[happybird]

10. It's not just you

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been thinking about it nearly every night around this time (past midnight till whenever I fall asleep). The urge is usually gone in the morning ... then it comes back again the next night. I’m ready for a big, ride-the-scary-edge, Belushi/Farley/Keith Fuckin’ Moon-sized throw down. It’s been a looong time.

[mr_lebowski]

12. MY MAN!!!

Or ... woman

Phew, I was starting to think I must be the only one ...

Hasn't been THAT long for me, the day of my dad's memorial late last year I went freakin' LARGE.

Then I got clean and sober a couple days later.

[pbmus]

13. 😝 LMAO...serious drugs

Just the thought of dying from suffocating in my own mucus or having blood clots the size of maraschino cherries traveling to my brain stem and choking off any oxygen makes me think serious drugs would only make things worse....

Nah, I prefer my one hitter with some really sweet sativa in mid afternoons and my bong hit of midnight express when lights out...and melatonin and gaba are my serious drugs...

[LeftInTX]

14. Antibiotics etc

Can't get them legally.

Antibiotics won't cure covid 19, but any whiff of it, and I would grab the nearest antibiotics because you will more than likely develop a secondary bacterial infection.

[MuseRider]

15. Ahhh the good old days

when I went to work teaching group piano lessons on mescaline. Really.

These days I doubt I could get out of bed after a dose of that but it sure was fun when I was younger.

[mr_lebowski]

16. Short of someone telling me they like flew an airplane or did brain surgery

while the walls were melting around them, there's not a whole lot that would surprise me in that regard.

And I bet you could still get outta bed, ol' timer. Probably even go trip around in the forest, find yourself a stick with a beetle on it, and walk around with it for a few hours, making fast friends with both the beetle and the stick.

Even if you couldn't, I definitely could ... and it sounds awesome

[2naSalit]

17. I still recall some

amazing adventures of my youth but right now, shit is so tweak and fucked up and surreal, I don't need anything to make it more so... though maybe it would help make sense of it all, I don't know.

Now the thought of drugs gives me a headache.

[mr_lebowski]

18. I really feel like going to Montana De Oro State Park in San Luis Obispo and dropping a hit

with some friends from my youth and tripping around all day ... the views and rock formations there are incredible, and there's a bunch of beaches, and cool tide pools with crabs and anemone ...

Dunno if it would help me make sense of it all ... but it'd be a hell of a fun day.

Need proof?

https://www.hikespeak.com/trails/montana-de-oro-bluff-trail/

[LeftInTX]

39. Beautiful!

My dad was stationed at Vandenberg for 2 years. (1967-69)
I loved it!!

[MuseRider]

23. Sadly,

I just read through this thread and felt a little off, ya know what I mean? Can't do anything anymore but a girl can dream.

At this age, considering what I do out here, I would be content to just sit with it. We do not have legalized weed, we cannot buy liquor in a grocery and on Sunday the liquor stores have rules and special hours. Considering back in the days I was talking about before we still made airlines take the booze away if you flew over Kansas so it is still better here.

BTW, just go to Tortola. One of the coolest places on earth. It is closer and there is great diving around there. There was and probably is again after the hurricane a sailing school so there is always a population of international richy riches there but they are easy to stay away from. Cool, very cool people live there (at least I hope they are still there).

[FirstLight]

19. Dude, I have been there since Nov 2016...

I wonder if there will ever be a study on the increase in use....of booze and pot especially cuz of the shitshow we are living in

Been definitely imbibing those two much more 😒🍷💚

[mr_lebowski]

20. Fukc it let's just blow this place and move to Fiji, I'm down with your plan ...

Or maybe Thailand, our dough will go a lot further there.

Anyways, let's sell our stuff, round up as much cash as we can, and just go live on the beach in the tropics and party.

Errr ... wait, you have kids, huh?

That could make it difficult.

[FirstLight]

26. Ha! They'll be fine...

17 & 18, they can fend for themselves...

I'm down, sell it all and just move to a little island and sell seashells, live in a hut...swiss family robinson style! (yea, but no kids!)

How we gonna get there? plane or boat? I could steal a plane...

[mr_lebowski]

27. Pretty sure snagging a boat would be far less challenging ...

Also I kinda grew up on sailboats, so ... while I'm certainly no America's Cup Captain, I could probably get us somewhere okay, as long as the weather cooperates and we have GPS ...

[FirstLight]

28. sweet!

so, we're gonna hit the water before typhoon season, then?
woot!

That gives me time to sell everything off...

Don't forget the Rum!

[mr_lebowski]

30. I'm only half-kidding here ... I have someone coming to make a cash offer on my house

on Wednesday. Dude's been calling me for months to look at it and tell me how much he'd give me for it.

If it's a high enough number, I'm seriously thinking about just blowing town and going somewhere tropical for 6 months ... saying fuck it all.

If my work will let me work remotely (which they already are) I'll keep my job though, and work from a freaking patio overlooking a beach. That way my vacation can last longer.

Probably won't go 'full pirate' on the journey though, fun as that sounds.

And friends are certainly welcome

[FirstLight]

35. I would if I were you!

I'm lucky enough to be in the high sierras, so I kinda got paradise right here...now If the rest of these Idgits would just STOP coming up here from the city...

Decided since we probably wont get much beach time this year, I'm turning my deck/yard into my sanctuary...got a new BBQ even!

On your way towards the Pacific, you are welcome to take a rest stop here (at a safe distance, I'll let you sleep on my cushy deck couch lol)

[mr_lebowski]

36. Honestly if I sell the house and move I'll probably end up in Groveland

the 'Gateway to Yosemite', just off CA HWY 120 in beautiful Tuolumne County

At the family vacation home, IOW.

[Tom Kitten]

21. Maybe the Rock and Roll Doctor could help

Is he still on the air?

[safeinOhio]

22. When you go chasing dragons, the best possible result is

you only get third degree burns.

What I learned from years of research.

[demmiblue]

25. No. n/t

[OriginalGeek]

29. I wouldn't turn down a hit of acid

but then I read the news and wonder if I already took it...

[mr_lebowski]

33. It's very logical to wonder that ... or if we're eventually all coming to an ...

'it was really all a dream!' kind of ending.

[csziggy]

31. I need a new drug

[mr_lebowski]

32. Sage words right there ... something like a mix of dilaudid and a small bit of hallucinogen

that ends clean after 6-8 hours, letting you fall right to sleep ... withOUT the worst comedown in history the next day ... would be pretty nice.

[Dworkin]

34. Tobacco pipe

Folks,

After 20 years clean I recently got out my old tobacco pipe. Filled her up with Peterson's 'Old Dublin' mixture and sat back. That hit of nicotine in the throat was nostalgic, harsh and deeply satisfying.

Might just smoke all the way to the terminus this time.

Guess we each do what we have to.

D.

[mopinko]

37. reeeeeally pissed that burning man events are cancelled.

had a ticket to one in mich. was really looking forward to the drugs.
have a couple magic mushrooms i havent had the nerve to try, but it's movin up my list.

[not_the_one]

38. I don't think it is a hard drug, but the one I never did, and would still like to,

is X, XTC, exstacy, ecstasy, whatever it is labelled.

I get the impression it is like a combo of quaaludes and cocaine. You have lots of energy, and are REALLY AFFECTIONATE....

Or maybe it is not like that at all. I'd like to find out.

[mr_lebowski]

40. Never did ludes, they were pretty much MIA by the time I started partying around 1982 ...

Never had a chance. My dad said they were fun as hell though.

Ecstasy is a blast. It makes you chatty like blow does and feels def. a bit similar. Lasts a lot longer though, you're not like at the mirror every 20 mins lol.

And it's definitely 'stronger' like you feel more fucked up than you do on blow. But you can totally maintain. And yeah, if you're around cool people that you like/love ... then you REALLY like/love them. And you want to tell them how awesome they are ... frequently. But it's not like those drunk people who do that. You come off very earnest as you're doing it, not like you're saying it cause you're wasted. You feel like you have seriously considered what you are saying, and concluded that yes, these ARE in fact some of the coolest people EVER.

It also has some mild visual effects, your vision gets a little messed up ... I won't say hallucinations cause it's not like shrooms or acid, but there's this subtle 'nothing around me looks entirely real' thing that it does with your sight. It's not disturbing really, just ... don't drive.

Sex on it is fantastic ... as one might imagine. IF you can perform. Not a problem for a lady, but ... ya know.

Mostly it's a lot of smiling and thinking 'damn ... I feel REALLY GOOD!'. And you want everyone around you to feel as good as you do.

The only thing I don't like about it is it seems to sap your happiness chemicals pretty bad ... the next day you're usually fine, but then day 2-4 you end up feeling pretty down. And you REALLY don't want to overdo it. 1 hit of good stuff is perfect. Don't do that 'it's 3am and I still have a hit, I'll take another and keep rolling' thing. That makes even the next day suck too. And the 2nd hit never feels like the first. Not worth it.

One last thing ... the first 3-6 minutes when it hits you can be pretty disconcerting. Like all of a sudden you'll get dizzy and feel really f***ed up and go OH MAN WHAT DID I DO?!? CAN I HANDLE THIS SHIT!?! That is, if you've not experienced it before. It passes really fast like I said but if you don't know it's coming it can set you off with a negative vibe. Those first minutes are nothing what it actually ends up feeling like, thankfully.

[not_the_one]

45. Thanks!!!

I will jump at the opportunity (if it arises, which is HIGHLY unlikely), but at least I will know what is coming. . Thanks for all the info. But sadly, I no longer have access to people who have access...

Ludes were definitely a 70's thing. There was also something called sopors, that were a cheaper substitute. Rohrer (or Rorer) 714s were THE quaalude to do, though. I finally was relaxed enough to do two things...

In 1971 (at age 20) I had my first sort of gay experience. I knew that was what I wanted, but the other guy (who was straight), also on ludes, went along because he knew I wanted to. Ludes would allow someone that much flexibility...

Have my first (and only, in 1972) sex experience with a woman, because I felt I HAD to. How would I know I was gay if I didn't try it straight? I don't remember a lot, but it was embarrassing, and I KNOW it wasn't all that great for her.

But at least I was sure beyond a shadow of a doubt. But I didn't do anything about it until age 26, in 1977.

Talk about a great weight lifting from my shoulders. It was like finally being free.

[LuckyCharms]

41. Yes. A big bag of whatever the drug was that was in my IV

to kill my kideney stone pain.

[mr_lebowski]

42. Oh yeah, that'd work! (nt)

[LuckyCharms]

43. I told every last nurse in the ER how lovely they looked...

and how gracefully they moved.

[mr_lebowski]

44. I love opiates ... WAAAAAAY too much, in fact ...

Lets just say there was a time in my life where I took enough in a day to kill a small roomful of normal people ... and I did that EVERYDAY ... for like ... many, many days in a row.

Been a good long while since, thankfully.

But I can find myself ... wistful at times.