Drugs are bad - Because they feel really good

[rel=alternate]

Anyone telling you that drugs (legal or not) are bad for you has a very good point. I just feel that the message is most often spread by people who don't actually get it, and it makes it weak, looses some of it's power. I would not or would never had listened to someone just talking out of their ass about something they don't understand.

Drugs feel amazing. Depending on what gets you off, you'll get into upper or downers and most likely mix both down the line to sleep or stay awake. But that's besides the point.

The truth is nobody does drug for no reason. It feels amazing, and that's the feeling you get addicted to to begin with, not the drug. This comes after. And, it will destroy your life.

You don't get addicted to feelings you don't know, and it's ok to live without knowing. It's so much better actually. Drugs will take you places you would have never been otherwise. But places you won't ever really come back from.

If you want to be a good parent, don't raise ignorant kids by trying to scare them straight and tell them they will get physically addicted or mentally damaged at the first hit. You will only loose credibility.

Instead, tell your kids that drugs are a quick way to paradise, both figuratively and realistically. People get addicted to them because they feel good on them, until they don't. And there is only rare exception and difficult escape once you engage.

You won't ever miss what you don't know. Don't put a finger in it, it's the best way to loose it. I wish I never did, and if anyone can learn from my mistakes, I would be happy I helped.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Prohibition is worse.

fite me

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Mmmkay.

 

[rel=alternate]

Prohibition is worse.

fite me

I am against prohibition, for what it's worth. Feeding gangs instead of the state makes no sense.

This, however, does not change anything about how I feel about drugs, and how people should be educated in that regard.

 

[Breadbassket]

Chasing the dragon is a good way to get burnt.

 

[AMHOLIO]

It's hard to express to young people that overcharging your pleasure centers and pushing your body to the brink is basically trading your long term overall happiness and your lifeforce for it. It's even harder if the person is in a bad place or just doesn't value their life and thinks they'll be dead or better off dead. Drugs suck, too much power in one thing.

 

[rel=alternate]

It's hard to express to young people that overcharging your pleasure centers and pushing your body to the brink is basically trading your long term overall happiness and your lifeforce for it. It's even harder if the person is in a bad place or just doesn't value their life and thinks they'll be dead or better off dead. Drugs suck, too much power in one thing.

I cannot agree more, especially considering that I am currently crushing coke after more than a year of sobriety (in that regard specifically).

It just feels to me that if people I trusted had been honest with me to begin with, I might have chosen different paths than the ones I did. Instead, they lied to scare me, and when I realized that everyone was doing just fine, I just discarded anything they had to say about it.

Not that I am blaming anyone else for my own shortcomings. But I sincerely believe that my own education somehow danced around the fact that drugs feel great. They focus on the negatives and never really bring up how toxic the upsides can be, because drugs can't be good. Which is so delusional. You don't get addicted to something that does not feel good, and there is nothing wrong with admitting that it does. It's what makes it so dangerous.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I read this while boofing datura up my nostrils.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

But there's a lot of your problem.

If you want to be a good parent, don't raise ignorant kids by trying to scare them straight and tell them they will get physically addicted or mentally damaged at the first hit. You will only loose credibility.

Instead, tell your kids that drugs are a quick way to paradise, both figuratively and realistically. People get addicted to them because they feel good on them, until they don't. And there is only rare exception and difficult escape once you engage.

That's the only weapon available, is talking at people.

There is no logical, oversocialized way to tackle substance abuse, because it comes down to a primitive value equation.

If you want to be a good parent whose kids don't get into drugs, then you have to embody and be able to present a life (and attitude towards it) that's able to compete with being a junkie (or a fatass, or coomer, or w/e) and that's a lot more difficult.

Sounds like maybe you didn't learn enough from dealing with substance abuse if you think there's anything you could say to someone that would change things. I'd like to think you can do things and set an example that might, but words are nothing.

It just feels to me that if people I trusted had be honest with me to begin with, I might have chosen different paths than the ones I did. Instead, they lied to scare me, and when I realized that everyone was doing just fine, I just discarded anything they had to say about it.

More addict talk, friend. No, it wouldn't have changed anything, the coke (and booze?) is making you think silly shit.

If you're going to get high then get high, but the worst thing you can do is lie to yourself. Honesty and humility disarms the addict mindset.

But I sincerely believe that my own education somehow danced around the fact that drugs feel great.

Maybe, depends on the person how they perceive it. But the fact they sometimes feel nice isn't what causes them to get their hooks in, or keep them in. That's a more complex equation.

 

[Mothra1988]

It's hard to express to young people that overcharging your pleasure centers and pushing your body to the brink is basically trading your long term overall happiness and your lifeforce for it. It's even harder if the person is in a bad place or just doesn't value their life and thinks they'll be dead or better off dead. Drugs suck, too much power in one thing.

I bet if you looked at statistics, drug use is way down overall apart from weed. These stupid kids don't take chances in general. I don't think they're all out there doing hard drugs. I also notice KF getting a cranky boomer mentality where everyone just complains about the youth like everything is the worst ever. Like I'm pretty sure drug use was a bigger problem in the 80's instead of now unless you are talking about fentanyl in specific.

 

[rel=alternate]

ut there's a lot of your problem.
That's the only weapon available, is talking at people.

There is no logical, oversocialized way to tackle substance abuse, because it comes down to a primitive value equation.

If you want to be a good parent whose kids don't get into drugs, then you have to embody and be able to present a life (and attitude towards it) that's able to compete with being a junkie (or a fatass, or coomer, or w/e) and that's a lot more difficult.

Sounds like maybe you didn't learn enough from dealing with substance abuse if you think there's anything you could say to someone that would change things. I'd like to think you can do things and set an example that might, but words are nothing.

Of course there is. I am not blaming anyone for who I am. I just think things could have been slightly better if handled differently. Maybe it only applies to me.

I have siblings who have a relatively great life compared to mine. A lot less money, but kids, long term partners and stability. A real life with projects and goals that go beyond mine in substance. And we were educated the same. We were just different in personality.

I can only speak for myself when I say that I trusted what my parents told me about drugs ; you're gonna go skizo, immediate addiction, misery etc.. And I saw it happen all around me, but not matching this description. And overtime, I just figured that they were just talking about something they barely knew. So I stopped trusting anything they had to say about it.

From then on, it's a classic addict stories, but high functioning. Up to a point, like it always ends.

I don't even have a single conviction to my name. It's not worth getting into details, but the best way I can describe it is a slow progression where things that are perceived as harmless in themselves progressively become daily crutches you suddenly can't get rid off.

Maybe, depends on the person how they perceive it. But the fact they sometimes feel nice isn't what causes them to get their hooks in, or keep them in. That's a more complex equation.

Name another factor. People do drugs because they like the way they feel when they do. There is not much more to it.

 

[Named User]

Cocaine makes me really feel like a junkie. It doesn’t feel good.

I like weed, but I get sick of it. It makes me “creative,” but I can feel my brain slows.

My biggest addiction is making love. It’s rough out here for a loverboy. Yes, baby. Just like that. A little slower…

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

This post was so retarded I took a vape hit to bleach my brain and now im high so thanks

 

[Troonos]

I'm fine with drugs being legalized as long as we have national policy to not resuscitate recreational users in overdose.

 

[TingoFranDingo]

For me, just like trannies and their surgeries, I would like druggies to have unrestricted access to whatever they want to put in themselves. Not because I particularly agree with the lifestyle, but because I want to fast track the consequences of their actions.

 

[timewave0]

Apologies in advance for using this phrase, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction when it comes to weed. It may not be a botanical manifestation of Satan, but it does promote laziness, slow down your cognition, and, above all, waste your time. It’s also not some magical cure all. This is probably the best anti weed PSA ever produced in the US because it conveys this point very well — smoking weed is a waste of youth. Plus, whatever negative effects weed might have are surely amplified if you start smoking before ~25.

 

[Fatboi Gus]

Apologies in advance for using this phrase, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction when it comes to weed. It may not be a botanical manifestation of Satan, but it does promote laziness, slow down your cognition, and, above all, waste your time. It’s also not some magical cure all. This is probably the best anti weed PSA ever produced in the US because it conveys this point very well — smoking weed is a waste of youth. Plus, whatever negative effects weed might have are surely amplified if you start smoking before ~25.

Weed can also act as an epigenetic trigger for schizophrenia, and God knows there's enough mental illness generators in clown world already

 

[AMHOLIO]

I bet if you looked at statistics, drug use is way down overall apart from weed. These stupid kids don't take chances in general. I don't think they're all out there doing hard drugs. I also notice KF getting a cranky boomer mentality where everyone just complains about the youth like everything is the worst ever. Like I'm pretty sure drug use was a bigger problem in the 80's instead of now unless you are talking about fentanyl in specific.

This page talks about drug use over the past decade in America: seems like youth is going down while older people are going up. NIH has year by year data since 1975 if you want to go deeper.

The good thing is that it seems like most of the kids are alright. Even with shifts in politics, most teens I've interacted with seem normal and on their way to becoming regular people with normal problems and opinions. It's online teens and those who make it into the news who are fucking obnoxious, and even then at least half of them grow out of it.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Drugs are a waste of money. Aside from giving chicks coke or thizzles. Then it's fun.

 

[RybenZ999]

apart from weed.

Mary Jane is bad too