The Addicts' Lounge V - What time is it? Time to get high! - General

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It's time to sploke a toke a phat spliffy bowl doodz...

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Gonna do acid for the first time at a furcon in a few weeks, should be an experience

Newpunch is confusing while high

are you dropping then going to the convention? i wouldn't want to be anywhere near furries but being at furcon when the acid peaks would be a pretty fucking weird.

Pretty much, a friend of mine is bringing it with them since they're local to the con, they go fursuiting on acid semi-regularly so I'm pretty sure I can trust them. We're staying in the hotel the con is in so if I'm not doing good I can go back to the room and get away from the crowds easy.

Drugs are for winners

Not a regular, but I tried ketamine and dmt for the first time today, never done psychedelics before. I've been in a pretty bad place lately with death in my family and my 7 year relationship ending, so I meditated beforehand to ground myself. Wasn't sure of the doses my friend gave me but he said the amount of ketamine was average for him, and I took 4 puffs of dmt, but didn't hold them for very long at all. The best way to explain it was, it was very eye opening, but not in the way I was expecting. I didn't experience any hallucinations, but I started meditating again right before they kicked in. When they did, I felt something amazing wash over me, and I started hearing a voice that felt like it had been sitting and waiting there my whole life, watching me. It wasn't stern or condescending, it didn't judge me, but it was very assertive and empathetic. It told me to let go of all my anger and frustration that I had been feeling, that none of what happened was my fault, that what I'm doing now is just hurting not only my self but the people involved. It gave me incredibly genuine, sound advice. It was intense. My friend was kind enough to give me his spare vape pen with some dmt left in it to use while meditating, and he's going to send me a free bottle with more to refill it. It would be nice to have a hallucinogenic experience, but even that alone was amazing. Goddamn.

It's time for me to stop smoking on weekdays. I've been ignoring the obvious detrimental effects on my life for too long. My schoolwork and even hobbies fall by the wayside and I just waste hours getting high and watching YouTube. I'm way happier when I'm sober and it's time to act accordingly.

Can you elaborate on how you feel when high, compared to being sober? What is it that makes sobriety happier for you? Because for me being high is being more "emotionally responsive", I just enjoy stuff more. Obviously I don't want to do everything while under influence, for example, watching films just doesn't do it for me when my brain is sloppy; but music, browsing the web, jacking off (it's surprising how quickly "420 and tunes" turned into "furious masturbation") and even work (I work from home) is more enjoyable.

The high itself is enjoyable, the problem isn't with weed itself, rather my response to it. When I have weed, it becomes the 'default activity'. Watching a movie? Might as well smoke to make it more interesting. About to eat dinner? Might as well smoke, it'll make the food taste better. Bored? Might as well smoke. And while that's all good in moderation, over time it adds up to a lot of time spent veg'd out and high, watching YouTube. I just don't have enough motivation or energy while high to spend it studying or doing homework and sometimes even other hobbies. I just feel better when I get stuff done in life, getting high is fun in the moment but in the long run I think I'll be happier if I resist the temptation. During periods where I don't smoke or smoke infrequently, I feel noticeably more mentally sharp, focused, and even witty. Making it into a rarer sort of treat/reward may solve this problem and make the act of getting high more fun. I don't know. Life has been shitting on me recently and I feel like I have to pull myself together and make a real effort to improve myself. I feel I'm at a point in life where weed can only hold me back, at least if I keep having the same mindset towards it.

How much are you planning to do?

I share this feeling exactly. I will always love smoking and will continue to do so regularly, but I am trying to have more sober days to actually feel productive. It almost feels like being high is the norm, with sobriety being almost a rarity.

Whenever I smoke with my friends they seem to take it fine but I'm never really comfortable unless I'm high at home, shit normal or is it just me? Like I can get by fine when I'm out and about but I only really vibe when I'm here.

Weed never really did anything for me, even the good quality shit. First time smoking was a watercooler bucky in my friends garage. I vegged the fuck out but I didn't really enjoy it. Every other time I've smoked weed, it's relaxing but I don't do shit while high. Not my kind of state.

Ya gonna' feel proper smarked when garry pulls the plug on them.

Oh man, I should've probably specified, smoking weed doesn't do shit, but the first time I had an edible at a festival, FUCK me it felt good. I was gone but it was really enjoyable, had a nice warmth all around and everything felt great. I was stuck in the tent during though, literally couldn't get up. If I have an edible again I'll have a smaller dose or something, does great for my anxiety.

My roommate made brownies last night, using 5 grams of hash in the butter. We haven't tested it yet but I'll let you know when we have.

I keep complaining about anxiety and they keep prescribing me Clonazepam that I'm afraid to take because those pills are some real shit ™. In other news I stopped binge drinking and am sober fora year and a half now. And nicotine is crazy addictive, I smoked one cigarette back in highschool and now I still get cravings and want to smoke again.

O yeah. I've been on mood stabilizers for a long time and recently a/d pills. They're not much to worry about. Otherwise tho I'm also on Vyvanse for ADHD from bipolar disorder.

Not really been keeping up on all the goings on about Newpunch. Are we still getting custom forums so we can have all the great DD threads back, or is it staying like it is now? Just had a really intense conference call about accepting a new position at work immediately after getting really baked. It was the most heart-pounding anxious conversation I've had in ages. Think I blagged it ok, but man it was hard work. I'm still shaking

Worst case ontario we still have the discord

It's all water under the fridge

Antidepressants can work but there's a 3 way split of how it could go for every person. It might pull you out of the shit and give you the energy and hope to get on with your life, it could just numb you to enjoyment and not fix anything. Or it could be that it completely destroys your ability for empathy or reason, turns you into a compulsive liar and makes you cheat on your partner. Don't ask me how I know the last one. CBT or meditation is a much better first-line. Most people give up because it takes effort, but it's an important tool in getting over your anxieties and issues by actually facing them head on and realising they don't have power over you unless you give them power.

i'm usually paranoid when i'm smoking up in my garage, but yesterday was super on edge cos some cops showed up next door (two girls next door also smoke up in their garage). turns out they didn't go to the house i thought they did and the house they did go to no one was home until much later that night. but even when the pizza guy showed up i was shitting my pants. not a good environment to do illegal drugs.

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i remember the days of onion orders taking upwards to a month to arrive, now people got this shit to amazon 2 day delivery level

I have an chocolate bar edible, but the guy making them does two sizes - 180mg bars and 20 mg sample bars. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm this could be interesting

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