Poll: What drugs have you used?

#1

Post by EgeBamyasi » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

This article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364425 argues that more "intelligent" persons tend to take more drugs than "less intelligent" persons.

"People – scientists and civilians alike – often associate intelligence with positive life outcomes. The fact that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume alcohol, tobacco, and psychoactive drugs tampers this universally positive view of intelligence and intelligent individuals. Intelligent people don’t always do the right thing, only the evolutionarily novel thing."

I´m going to make a generalization and categorize you all as "intelligent people" and ask you to vote for the drugs that you have taken as I am curious about what drugs "intelligent people" tend to take.

Also, if you guys would write a line or two about why you use/used drugs or why not that would be swell.

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#2

Post by bartonfink » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

I used for a time period after college when I worked as a landscaper before I got my act together and dealt with some emotional problems I had been ignoring for way too long. Drugs were a kind of release valve for pressures I had no outlet for. It wasn't about pleasure, it was about feeling something different. A stupider version of myself might have resorted to body harm and gotten the same effect.

I have little interest in using again because I no longer feel those pressures, but I wouldn't tell anyone else to make the same decision I have.

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#3

Post by cullenking » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC

Where's the option for "all at the same time!" ?

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#4

Post by keiferski » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC

No caffeine?

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#5

Post by peterhi » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC

This was all a long time ago, I got bored with them real fast. I am practically tea total these days.

Chocolate however is another issue :)

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Post by peterhi » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #4

No caffeine?

True, that has taken me years to shake off. Down to one cup a day now and I am no longer getting the headaches.

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#7

Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

Where's the option for "None" - I've never used any of those you cite, but equally, I'm not going to condemn them (or their users) out-of-hand.

ADDED IN EDIT: Wow - a drive-by down-vote. Can anyone suggest why I got a downvote for my comment? (Even though it's now been countered by a balancing up-vote - thx)

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#8

Post by jsn » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

I use drugs because, umm, why not? I did worse things under internally produced adrenalin, serotonin or something than I ever did under alcohol or cannabis or something.

Being madly in love beats cocaine by high margin every time, but you can't be madly in love whenever you want. Also, cocaine is probably safer.

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#9

Post by br41n » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:54 PM UTC

N20? lol :) (pun intended) Anyway, would've been interesting to add nootropics to the list also ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic )

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#10

Post by arnorhs » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:54 PM UTC

> I´m going to make a generalization and categorize you all as "intelligent people" and ask you to vote for the drugs that you have taken as I am curious about what drugs "intelligent people" likes.

But you asked which drugs the people here have used - not which ones they liked..