Would you comrades say you’ve had a net positive or net negative relationship with drugs?
Personally, I’d say it’s nuanced and mixed. For example, psychedelics have given me some wonderful insight into beauty, gratitude for the world around me, and being open to newer ideas whilst alcohol has caused me to cancel out on work multiple times because of me overdoing it and my inability to stop when alone.
Psychs: Positive
Alcohol: Negative
Ketamine has given me wonderful insights into myself as well along with lasting anti-depressant effects comparable to no other drug, but also is very damaging over long term use and can create a reliance on it. Overall I’d say positive
DMT: Can’t say, haven’t “broken through”
Weed: Indifferent. Fun and relatively harmless depending on method of ingestion but can cause lack of motivation (at least in me)…
DXM: Mixture of alcohol and psychedelics. It fucks me up good and feels great while also giving me some psychedelic like experiences but is pretty bad for you and dangerous when combined with the wrong shit.
Benadryl: NEGATIVE NEGATIVE NEGATIVE
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I always wondered if drugs have been kind of like a “short cut.” You get to make some amazing shit but the payback is all the bad shit, you pay for your “cheat codes.” Who would I be if I had never touched drugs? Would I have reached the same extremities of experience without them, just slower and more stably? Or are they (barring extreme standard circumstances) necessary for most to break through to new frontiers? Idk, I definitely don’t regret my drug use though, TLDR.
This is very interesting to me as well. It seems to have unlocked parts of my brain that weren’t otherwise.
I don’t regret most choices but there have been a few times with alcohol that I wish I never picked it up.
Oooo the short cut thing is very interesting. It’s very relevant to my experience with psychedelics. Weed and alcohol, not so much (I’ve never done anything else besides these). With my psych trips, it made me feel like I was coming to certain realizations about things in my life that I felt like I wasn’t completely ready to cope with at the time. I say cope, but I don’t think they were necessarily bad realizations. Just potentially overwhelming ones.