How have drugs changed your personality?

Have you noticed a change of your personality since you started using drugs? Not while on them of course cuz that will change anyone. But in your sober times. It's not necessarily a negative change either.

Just a thought I wanted to know peoples opinions on...

I certainly have had drugs change in at 15 I was into pills, meth, coke, and an alcoholic after a rough road to sobriety I realized how reckless drugs made me and that a lot of what I went through was due to the drugs now I only smoke ganj that changes me in a different way I'm calmer more collected after all the reflection I have done about the times I was strung out I never want to go back won't even take my pain pills now I feel it changed me for the better as since I dropped them my life is wonderful and I am a reputable member of my community now much better feeling

The super intense experiences (resulting from the drugs) made me way more down to earth. Little stuff doesn't phase me anymore and I'm always positive that things will work out for the best... eventually... I also know what the show: "I Love Lucy" is really about.

Wow yes. I'm on the same page as both of you.

Before I made it out of my dark times with drugs I was a terrible person he'll bent on getting destroyed. In the mean time I ruined so many relationships. But in a way I find that a good thing. It weeded out the people that are true. And they stayed. Making our relationships so much stronger. Once I made it out of the dark days i realized there are more ways to cope with things and happiness will eventually come. I still use drugs. Somewhat regularly but I use them responsibly now. And not to escape. But to relax or expand and grow. I know what you mean when you say more down to earth. The little shot just doesn't seem to matter. After this post I still feel like I'm not really expressing what I really mean.

I think a lot of people love this site because a lot if not all of us have gone through some shit. And been to rock bottom and back. And we can all bod on that. And through different users posts you can see everyone is in a different phase of the cycle we all wnt through. A lot of the younger ones are hell bent on getting fucked up. The ones a little older are calm and are in te midst of reconstructing their lives a lot of the time. And the older ones are the retired vets who have a lot of wisdom to share.

This post doesn't do justice to what I'm trying to get across


Please keep them coming

Nope. Not me. I'm not angry or schitzo...and I'll kill the first person who says I am......
Hey do ya wanna have cones? Huh? Do ya?
Huh? What was that? You having a go at me mate? Ya wanna go hey ? Come on then......
Oh fuck it, lets just have some cones instead.....LOL.

Seriously, I don't think I've ever met a violent or abusive pot smoker.

I'm not just talking about weed.

Lol I was peaking on some meph at the time of those posts. But I mean every word of it.

acid certainly changed me. I have taken acid like 5 times now and i notice when im sober im alot more chill, i dont talk as much. Not that im mean or not talking to be rude i just sit back and let the world do its thing now.

I have mellowed out considerably since my drinking days ended between '98 and '06. I like to make people laugh and being high makes me less inhibited. I am a bit salty though, when everyone around me is doing Jell-o shots and I have to risk getting pegged for sneaking a tole on a one-hitter. Gr1m. I also get a little more observant, like instead of being in the middle of things I'm a couple of rows back watching the show.

I wouldn't say so much it changed my personality, but rather my views on life in general. My personality being how others may perceive me or how I go about my own personal life vs. how I see the world and society around me. I started smoking pot when I was 19, and my refusal for doing so before then was that everyone I ever knew that smoked pot was a true, genuine idiot. No lie. But after trying it once, I felt as if the "government had lied!" all of these years. Lol. I've become far more socially liberal after that point as well.

I also started to overlap some certain philosophies of mine and started weeding through them. Whether it be from economics to social to biology and evolution, and so on. As a result I consider myself an existentialist today.

I am not sure whether I can say every "conclusion" regarding life and myself that I've come to has been a result of weed.

Hmm hard to say. I dont want to seem like im copying what others have said, but pretty much, thats what i do. I prefer to sit back and watch than get in the middle of things.

I tend to be the one calming people down, and trying to de-fuse situations and tell people, that theres more important things to worry about than what they are worrying or argueing about.

I feel like i have been 'free'd', I feel more knowledgable as well. As when im baked, i do deep thinking, like how organisms operate, and how its weird hat we appeared from nothing and how jus generally the world operates. And have you ever realised how big this world is?


Another side note, iv not very smart on the whole scientific side of things, but i believe we are actually part of something alot bigger, in the end we are just organisms, Shit, i cant even explain how my way of thinking is! Ill get back to you after this Hit.

Peace x

ive noticed a reoccuring theme: the fasct that people become more laid back (no matter what drug is it the were hooked on) amd have learned to observe the world as a whole from an outsiders perspective. i knw the previous statement couldnt be closer to the truth from me. although people now judge and seem to think youre an "odd" kid. but fuck it? whats the big deal ya know? its also a catch 22 for me because in the begining of this "transermation" i was so irritbe and angry. but now it seem people get mad cuz i DONT get mad. i guess ive learned to accept that whatever mouse is turning that wheel inside that crazy bums mind is doing it for his or her own reasons. why fight it? more importantly, why care?

i noticed im alot lazier and down to earth. before, i always needed something to do. now i never get bored and when im sober, i just count down the hours until i can smoke! i also think about getting high every second that im sober.

you dont see more to life that getting high? being high is the iceing on the cake! it creams its way into all the nooks and crannys of the world (the cake) giving us perseptions and flavours (ideas) weve never though imaginable!!!

I have less patience for stupid questions such as how tall will this plant get, or whats the highest yield plant known to man....silly shit like that.

lol i understand where your coming from but really. theyre just people wantng to learn, albeit take the easy way out, they still want to learm.

why do you think i take hiatuses from here. i get embarrssed by asking dumb thng while under the influence and hope by the time i come back all will be forgetten

we all started in the same place and probably had the same questions..
but some are just common sense.

just wondering, would it be ok to make hash with leaves/buds that had fungus on them?

^^ that floored me.

I've been sober for 1 year and I've noticed that I'm less talkative now and that I want to smoke weed everyday

Honestly I feel slower mentaly after smoking pot for 20 yrs.
Maybe its cause im getting old. but my gut tells me otherwise.

Short term memory loss, loss of all extra money,anger when i can t hook up , lazyness ect.

Drugs are a road to know where kids. Stay in school make your life easy.

I feel like a fuckn terrible rolemodel. Mainly cause i smoke an grow weed.
An the leagal trouble an hell i could cause my family if i get busted.

But compared to my drunk buddies, practicing the leagal alternative, Im doing great!

But the worst side effect of marijuana is jail.

I'm not really sure if daily smoking has changed me for better or worse, or even if marijuana has changed me or if I would have changed regardless. Side by side comparison is impossible. I do feel that psychs have changed my whole perception of reality though. Tripping turns reality into something else, which taught me that reality is completely based on perception. Also, bonding with people on psychs is very powerful. Haven't quite figured that one out yet... well, I haven't had my "OHHHHHHHHH!" moment on why at least