coke?

Heineken Helen

South of Seattle wrote:

In the US the poor people use Meth, which is a Major problem. Unless you want to look like this: http://www.independencesheriff.org/images/DARE_images/FacesofMethTheresa.jpg

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

elmer

Heineken Helen wrote:

It's still pretty expensive... 100euro for a few lines but this is the celtic tiger generation :rolleyes: more money than sense.

that is fuckin expensive. by a few lines y'mean a gram probably, it's £40approx over here. Like most will need some serious pecuniary resources to deal with an addiction at those prices.
I never paid anything when tried it, if offered I would decline nowadays.

Heineken Helen

elmer wrote:

that is fuckin expensive. by a few lines y'mean a gram probably, it's £40approx over here. Like most will need some serious pecuniary resources to deal with an addiction at those prices.
I never paid anything when tried it, if offered I would decline nowadays.

Maybe a gram measurements mean absolutely nothing to me under any circumstances... pint's are the only kinda measurements I understand.

I've been offered every kinda drug at some stage of my life and I've never been tempted. I get carried away with everything else I try so I'm glad I've never gone down that route. Ah I've smoked the very very very odd time but that's as far as it went. I smoked heroin once without knowing... never ever again.

patrickredeyes

Coke is available alot around Milwaukee and I'm sure just a phone call away. I've never asked for it. I agree its a different type of crowd that does it. But I was at a wedding 5 or 6 yrs ago and tried it. It was a interesting experience to do once. I would never do it again so I just stay with smoking.

NY PJ1

thats the devil's drug bad news

Heineken Helen

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1254875,00.html

anyone interested in heroin should read about that girl... she's one of the few lucky ones.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Bricklayers down the pub on a Friday night + coke = fucking mayhem.

pineapplesandwaves

Heineken Helen wrote:

I can tell from nights out that I'm in the MINORITY in my age group... it's amazing how many people take it and can get their hands on it. I would guess that it's more common than cannabis now... and that's saying a LOT considering most of the people I know smoke.

None of my friends do coke. Most of my friends smoke pot. In the past, I've had some friends who have done coke (none of my close friends), but they were definitely in the minority and rarely did it in our company. They went through a hard partying phase straight out of high school, doing everything that was put in front of them. They're back to beer and pot like the majority of the population.

If you live in the city, just about any drug is a phone call away.

Heineken Helen

I'll Ride The Wave wrote:

None of my friends do coke. Most of my friends smoke pot. In the past, I've had some friends who have done coke (none of my close friends), but they were definitely in the minority and rarely did it in our company. They went through a hard partying phase straight out of high school, doing everything that was put in front of them. They're back to beer and pot like the majority of the population.

If you live in the city, just about any drug is a phone call away.

well I don't mean the friends I'm talking about are addicts or even daily users... I mean they'd get their hands on some maybe once a month 'as a treat' or something. I'm generally not talking about the people who have a serious problem... but the people who don't have a problem YET but seem to think it's fun and cool

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Heineken Helen wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1254875,00.html

anyone interested in heroin should read about that girl... she's one of the few lucky ones.

holy crap @ the picture of that sore/wound on her arm from injecting.

When you screw excessively with the dopamine receptors in your brain you are asking for serious long term consequences. It literally kills the person you used to be. Happiness can become a struggle, and depressive moods commonplace.

Even pot or alcohol isn't so great to consume a lot of. I find the better shape I'm in physically the more of a high I get being straight. Cocaine is really bad news. Great for the first while, but when the gloss fades it's a very ugly reality.

Coke and meth can literally make you insane. It's bad. That is the destination with these drugs; brain damage (psychological) that takes several years to heal from if/once you can kick the habit.

I've seen some pretty sad cases.

Then there's this vid. Can you imagine what's going on inside to actually show that bad on the outside? (frightening)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/109486/faces_of_meth/

josevolution

Heineken Helen wrote:

Anyone take? If so, why? Don't you realise you turn into an unbearable prick with absolutely nothing interesting to say whatsoever? Hope the high is worth losing friends over!

It's not that it pisses me off... but I have certain friends who, when I go out, take it with other friends. I don't mind people doing whatever they want but when they talk pure and annoying shite for hours on end there's only so much I can put up with.

I've never tried it so I don't know. It's hitting the headlines at the moment cos there's an Irish model who admitted a couple of weeks ago to having taken it and she spoke out against it and how it ruins lives. At the weekend she collapsed with a heart attack at a friends party and is in a coma at the moment... I don't know if the two are related but it's strange for an otherwise healthy 24 year old to have a heart attack

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/model-katy-still-fighting-for-her-life-1236234.html?start=2

whooa i haven't heard anyone talk about coke for yrs last time i snorted any was probably 1986, i agree that is the most irritating thing ever to try to talk to someone on coke the conversation could be about a match and they would talk for hrs on end ....once i decided to quit snorting it back then i lost just about all my friends i just couldn't hang anymore with any one doing it ....

pineapplesandwaves

Heineken Helen wrote:

well I don't mean the friends I'm talking about are addicts or even daily users... I mean they'd get their hands on some maybe once a month 'as a treat' or something. I'm generally not talking about the people who have a serious problem... but the people who don't have a problem YET but seem to think it's fun and cool

My few friends who have tried coke only did so occasionally. Like I said, they'd party with us and not do it. If they partied with another group, they would, as you said, for a treat. If you go to more up scale, trendy bars, I'm sure there would be more use, just as back in the '90s, if you went to a rave, there'd be rampant use of ecstasy. If you went to the local pub, no one would be on ecstasy or coke. Coke, like ecstasy, is used in certain circles, but overall, its use is low. Pot, on the other hand, has become common place in the last ten years, after years of decline following the hippie era.

Heineken Helen

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

holy crap @ the picture of that sore/wound on her arm from injecting.

When you screw excessively with the dopamine receptors in your brain you are asking for serious long term consequences. It literally kills the person you used to be. Happiness can become a struggle, and depressive moods commonplace.

Even pot or alcohol isn't so great to consume a lot of. I find the better shape I'm in physically the more of a high I get being straight. Cocaine is really bad news. Great for the first while, but when the gloss fades it's a very ugly reality.

Coke and meth can literally make you insane. It's bad. That is the destination with these drugs; brain damage (psychological) that takes several years to heal from if/once you can kick the habit.

I've seen some pretty sad cases.

Then there's this vid. Can you imagine what's going on inside to actually show that bad on the outside? (frightening)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/109486/faces_of_meth/

I'd agree about the pot and alcohol... I'm not sure if pot itself is actually addictive or if it's just that when you need to smoke it to become how you like to be, you convince yourself you're addicted... but I have seen people who seriously panic whenever there's a drought or stock up for months in advance. I think drugs in general are to be avoided. If you feel like you need something to make you how you want to be, well perhaps you have issues. If you DON'T feel you need something to make you how you want to be, well why take anything in the first place?

mammasan

I'm no angel when it comes to past drug use, but coke never attracted me. I would see some of my friends or aquantences all wound up on Coke and it just didn't look like fun to me. I preferred mushrooms and pot. I did some LSD but towards the end of the trip is was usually too speedy for me. I felt like I was wound so tight I would snap. Just seems like a really stupid drug to me.

Heineken Helen

I'll Ride The Wave wrote:

My few friends who have tried coke only did so occasionally. Like I said, they'd party with us and not do it. If they partied with another group, they would, as you said, for a treat. If you go to more up scale, trendy bars, I'm sure there would be more use, just as back in the '90s, if you went to a rave, there'd be rampant use of ecstasy. If you went to the local pub, no one would be on ecstasy or coke. Coke, like ecstasy, is used in certain circles, but overall, its use is low. Pot, on the other hand ...

Yeh it's the same with my friends... that if they're just out with me or out with me and other people who don't bother with it, they don't take it. But if I'm out with them and other friends of theirs who DO take it, well sometimes I could be surrounded by cokeheads and me the only one NOT. And well... I'm sure you can imagine what that's like

I don't hear much about ecstasy anymore... could be my age group, well it's definitely still there, just not very much amongst my friends... it was huge in the 90s though... and yep, even in the local pub. I'm guessing it's more of a Dublin thing than anywhere else judging by the replies in this thread though

http://www.irishhealth.com/index.html?level=4&id=5448

pineapplesandwaves

Heineken Helen wrote:

If you feel like you need something to make you how you want to be, well perhaps you have issues. If you DON'T feel you need something to make you how you want to be, well why take anything in the first place?

Many people have the same opinion about alcohol.

mammasan

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

holy crap @ the picture of that sore/wound on her arm from injecting.

When you screw excessively with the dopamine receptors in your brain you are asking for serious long term consequences. It literally kills the person you used to be. Happiness can become a struggle, and depressive moods commonplace.

Even pot or alcohol isn't so great to consume a lot of. I find the better shape I'm in physically the more of a high I get being straight. Cocaine is really bad news. Great for the first while, but when the gloss fades it's a very ugly reality.

Coke and meth can literally make you insane. It's bad. That is the destination with these drugs; brain damage (psychological) that takes several years to heal from if/once you can kick the habit.

I've seen some pretty sad cases.

Then there's this vid. Can you imagine what's going on inside to actually show that bad on the outside? (frightening)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/109486/faces_of_meth/

I have lost a few good friends to heroin and a few more are probably better off dead instead of the herion induced zombie state they live in. It's a fucked up drug and it puzzles me to death why people still attempt to dabble with it knowing how addictive and destructive it can be.

Heineken Helen

I'll Ride The Wave wrote:

Many people have the same opinion about alcohol.

well that's true too... although I like the taste of alcohol and it just makes a more extreme version of me but generally doesn't turn me into somebody I'm not.

pineapplesandwaves

Heineken Helen wrote:

Yeh it's the same with my friends... that if they're just out with me or out with me and other people who don't bother with it, they don't take it. But if I'm out with them and other friends of theirs who DO take it, well sometimes I could be surrounded by cokeheads and me the only one NOT. And well... I'm sure you can imagine what that's like

I don't hear much about ecstasy anymore... could be my age group, well it's definitely still there, just not very much amongst my friends... it was huge in the 90s though... and yep, even in the local pub. I'm guessing it's more of a Dublin thing than anywhere else judging by the replies in this thread though

http://www.irishhealth.com/index.html?level=4&id=5448

It doesn't sound like it's much fun to hang out with your friends with their friends (if they're all on coke). If I were the only person not doing coke and I didn't find it much fun to be around everyone else who was, I'd hang out with a different group of friends or find something else to do that night, but that's just me.

Not to say that people don't do drugs in other environments, as well. About 10 years, I went to a carnival with two of my friends who were on ecstasy. That was super fun. Or there was that time a couple of my friends did shrooms before we went to a bar to watch the hockey game. All night, my friends were paranoid about everyone looking and pointing at them. There was a t.v. above our table.

Heineken Helen

I'll Ride The Wave wrote:

It doesn't sound like it's much fun to hang out with your friends with their friends (if they're all on coke). If I were the only person not doing coke and I didn't find it much fun to be around everyone else who was, I'd hang out with a different group of friends or find something else to do that night, but that's just me.

Not to say that people don't do drugs in other environments, as well. About 10 years, I went to a carnival with two of my friends who were on ecstasy. That was super fun. Or there was that time a couple of my friends did shrooms before we went to a bar to watch the hockey game. All night, my friends were paranoid about everyone looking and pointing at them. There was a t.v. above our table.

No, I said I've stopped going out with them when they go out with certain friends. They know they turn into assholes but they think it's funny . I've learned my lesson although it took a while. Initially it would only be AFTER we've gone out they might say 'I might try and get some coke tonight' or something and then sometimes it's too late for me to go home... I don't like leaving pubs anyway . I usually get chatting to other people after a while so I don't have to listen to their shite. It's not even like when someone's stoned and it's funny at first, then it gets boring... with coke you just think 'what the fuck's wrong with him/her?' and then you remember