Poloniousmonk@Uair@autistics.life
In case anyone would benefit from this information, I've done all the drugs and can report back from the front lines. I do them long enough to learn what they have to teach me, then walk away. The only one I ever needed help quitting was nicotine. If you're struggling with that, Chantix worked for me.
Meth: Meth took one dose. Fuck that noise. I have enough trouble sleeping. The last thing I need is a drug that's gonna make me spend the next 24 hours using my cock as a fidget widget.
Coke: I lived with a crack dealer for a week and smoked all I wanted until I could see from the inside why nobody I ever met beat coke. It will bring you down eventually. My buddy put it well--every time you do cocaine, you feel a piece of your soul die.
Narcotics: These are more subtle. I took an Oxy 40 a day for about two months one summer, until I felt it actually changing my body. Narcotics do that, y'know. They literally reconfigure your spine to want dope. fuck that. I walked away. I've had hangovers worse than that withdraw.
LSD: There's a lot of upside to LSD, but it's never used in a therapeutic manner. You just get chucked in the deep end of the pool to sink or swim. Ten years of therapy in ten hours. It can be pretty brutal, but there's a reason acid heads are so supercilious and snotty. We've been places you can't imagine, and lived through it. It's also anti-addictive. Your tolerance spikes after doing it, and it's impossible to do acid two days in a row. People online say every two weeks is the baseline, but I was a wholesaler and had infinite supply. We did it once a week, and took juggernaut doses. But even with an infinite supply, once a week is the best you're gonna get. Vice magazine, which used to be supercool, has the best advice on acid: once you get the message, hang up the phone. This applies to mushrooms as well. They're basically the same drug. Chaos math was discovered on acid, and a pitcher pulled off a perfect game in the 70s on it. Ride it right and you can do amazing things. I've seen what passes for Olympic level breakdancing these days, and every one of the 500 spectators could break that well in the parking lot of a pager-era rave. The five performers being watched were an order of magnitude better.
Extacy: You haven't even been able to get real extacy for decades. Molly is a poor substitute. X was 1.5 parts MDA to 1 part MDMA. The MDMA provided the happy while the MDA provided the energy, and prolonged it another couple hours. It was truth in advertising. Pure happiness in a pill. This is the only hard drug my old ass would reasonably consider doing, but I'd need someone to screw. I'm alone now.
Weed: I'm cool with weed. I think it's actually important for angry young people. It makes you doubt yourself. It provides a head check between thought and action, and that can be the difference between a yelling match and a murder and twenty years in prison. I'm glad it's mostly legalized.
Alcohol: Fuck yeast shit. It's a poison, not a drug. Although it is performance-enhancing in the writing world. I can't really explain that. Full disclosure: I'm a drunk. I'm just poor and do what I can get.
Nicotine: If any young 'uns are reading--DO NOT SMOKE CIGARETTES. It's just an addiction for the sake of an addiction. It doesn't even get you high. Waste of time, money, social status, and life expectancy. It's also the most difficult drug to quit. Experts say heroin is on the same level, but I've met a lot of people who gave up the needle and still smoked cigs. I've never met anyone who gave up the cigs and still played around with dope. Don't smoke blunts, either, even though they're awesome. A blunt wrap is tobacco. Chemically manipulated tobacco. It's, like, five cigarettes at once.
NO2: I'm basically positive toward nitrous. Don't use a mask. You can die that way. But there's nothing wrong with filling a garbage bag with it and blissing out a while. It goes very, very well with hallucinogens.
Wet: Wet is PCP with something called "skin toner" that comes from fucking funeral parlors. It's not formaldehyde, but it's pretty close. Don't go there unless you're broke and desperate. Not healthy.
Codeine: I never managed to get a high from it. Don't bother.
Nutmeg--nutmeg is the reason we have corporations. Old timey kings realized they were creating a /serious/ alternative to their power, but it was the only way to get it from Indonesia to Europe. The British and Dutch East India companies were formed to sling drugs. It was worth more than gold at the time. It's not a bad high. You want the McCormic with the yellow cap. Not the red cap. They know which trees were bred for drug content. Go very, very slowly. It takes hours for the high to build. Most people overindulge their first time and freak the fuck out. Seriously. It's got, like, a 3-hour come-on.
If I missed anything to which you have access, feel free to ask. I probably did it.