If you wanna be cute I guess you can say caffeine. But, I’m really looking for what the average boomer would consider a drug. For me, its psilocybin mushrooms a few times a year. Weed here and there too
Weed.
I have this spot on a low mountain that overlooks the valley I live in. A big boulder sits wedged into the mountainside with a lone scraggly pine giving it some shade. I just like to sit there sometimes, smoke and think. Relaxes me from all the stress I feel.
In my 40s. I partake in alcohol here and there.
A CBD/THC gummy is not only good for relaxation, but I’ve found that it helps with runny nose issues when I’m sick and stops the mucus drainage because it dries me up.
In general though, weed is great in an edible form. I don’t smoke it.
If I could choose only one? Alcohol, it’s great for relaxing and having fun, it comes in delicious flavours and is easy and convinent.
Fondest memories? Ecstasy - dancing to great music with in a crowd can be amazing, but for me sober, or even just with booze, it’s hard to bother with. But with some mdma I’ve had some truly amazing peak experiences. Although, I’ve found the aowish dose of psychocybin has a pretty similar effect without all the comedown nonsense.
But tbh, they’re all pretty fun in the right time and place.
At my age, ibuprofen.
Naproxen sodium
The difference between Advil and Aleve is experience.
YOU BE WHAT? YOU BE PROFEN ALL NIGHT?
Alright, relax lmao
As said on that one Dr. Dre song, smoke weed every day. Well, vape because my lungs aren’t great, but same difference.
Caffeine.
Edit: damn, I didn’t read the body before submitting. You got me OP, but I’m actually straight edge!
Teeeheeeee
Alcohol. It’s easy to get and I know how I behave and what my limits are. Usually comes in a tasty package too
Thats fair. I always pick weed over booze because I consider all the calories in booze. But, then I smoke weed and eat 4 dinners anyway so its a wash.
At least the 4 dinners aren’t empty calories, so there’s that. They actually contain stuff that’s good for you. So not really a wash. Plus excess eating doesn’t damage your body to nearly the same degree as a similar number of calories in alcohol form, you can just exercise it away, or shift eating habits to account for it.
Weed, it helps me relax my muscles and get my brain out of fight or flight work mode
Fair
Weed, usually at least some at the end of every day to unwind, don’t do it while working or for social situations (anymore) get too anxious lol
The social situations one is such a delicate balance for me. Too little and I feel anxious, too much and I cant communicate well at all.
Mushrooms a few times a year are great. LSD is also beautiful but you really need to plan a full weekend for the experience (start early on Saturday and recover Sunday) to get the most out of it.
Don’t want me to say “caffeine”, huh?
Well then, sugar. I’m medically addicted to the stuff, and kicking the habit before my prediabetes turns to diabetes is showing itself to be a struggle.
Caffeine was the hardest addiction for me to kick, and we are wired for sugar addiction. Sugar triggers an insulin spike, which is the fat storing hormone. In the late summer and fall, when fruit ripens, our genes caused our ancestors to gorge on fruit and store fat for the long, hard winter ahead. Now that we live in abundance, with a surplus of calories available everywhere we turn, this storage of fat for the winter is unnecessary. Worse, food companies recognize that we are wired to want sugar, so they add sugar to virtually everything to make it more addictive. This is why I minimize the highly processed foods I consume and when I consider any food with a nutrition label I look and see if there are added sugars (which there almost always are.)
I did LSD for a few months when I lived with a few friends, I loved that stuff.
LSA is pretty cool too and you can make it yourself without any risk of poisoning. Not sure about the rules so I won’t explain how unless someone says it’s cool lol
I assume it’s allowed info because a basic web search gives lots of results, and there’s even a subreddit dedicated to it
https://www.reddit.com/r/LSA/comments/mp45p4/lsa_beginners_guide/
Only tried it once and I wasnt a fan of how long it lasted.
For a few months… straight?
Every time I’ve tripped, I’ve had zero interest in taking it again for like several years.
Also, doesn’t tolerance build immediately, and you need to like double the dose each time you do it again?
Lol a few days straight, but then just sporadically over a few months. I didn’t notice much as far as tolerance buildup over those few days
I tried LSA and it just made me sleepy. Maybe my does was too low?
It’s either LSA or LSH, it’s been almost 20 years since I made it so I forget which is which, but basically the process involves extracting one of those and turning it into the more potent other.
For me it was like a much weaker LSD, but you still felt it quite a bit.
Cuno likes that brain boost shit
