In you're opinion, which of these drugs causes the most brain damage?

LSD wont mess anybody up for life. It can trigger mental illnesses a person already had, however it wont cause mental illness. 1/1000 people (who do LSD) have mental illness triggered from a LSD trip however no study has been able to show that a person who has done LSD is more likely to develop mental illness in there lifetime. I would assume LSD helps as many before they get mental illness than it actually makes it worse but I have no facts to back that up.

On the contrary, people who have smoked marijuana are 8-12% more likely to develop mental illness (probably because some people smoke to much weed and become shut ins and stop socializing with the outside world) and people who have drank Alcohol are over 50% more likely to develop mental illness.

I can say with strong confidence that Alcohol is much worse for your brain than LSD.

 

the only one up there that HANDS DOWN kills brain cells is nitrous and other inhalants. Meth fucks up your body for sure, and lots of drugs up there can be harmful. But the act of doing an inhalant actually replaces/deprives your brain of oxygen, killing brain cells.

 

alcohol wins by far

 

Four people voted.....weed.

lol

 

short-term, inhalants. overall, alcohol.

 

pcp?

 

no it doesnt.. by adding coke and heroin you are adding drugs that are more expensive than the original drug... its bullshit.. that and coke counteracts the effects of ecstasy by temporarlly blocking the recepters that the MDMA acts on... thats why when you do a line of coke when ur rolling balls you start being able to think again! lol. i know this from personal experience... also.

im REALLY sick of that myth... the only things they ever really cut pills with (unless they are retarded) is Meth b/c it prolongs your roll segnifigantly.. anyone that has done molly knows what im talking about.. pure mdma is like a 4 hour high MAYBE! but bombs can last you anywhere from 4 to 8 hours depending on how much meth there is in the bomb. \

i have had pills cut with ketamine... that is prolly where the heroin myth got started...

and about the cocaine thing again, have you ever snorted a bomb and had it go numb? b/c i havent.

 

m so glad someone said something.. i was doing bomb every weekend... at least 2 of them... more like 4 and sometimes twice a week for nearly a year and a half... some people might say thats not that much but i forgot how to do algebra... among many other things.. i could LITERALLY tell that my brain was NOT functioning as well... as far as PURE MDMA im sure it is much less damaging but there is something about skittles that fuck your shit up.. I really believe that the hang over is a direct result of damage to your body and brain.. not just with MDMA but also with alcohol and co2...

you guys can say that "ecstasy" isnt damaging all you want but it doesnt change my experiance with it.. i think you all just wanna believe that its not bad for you so you can keep doing it all the time and not feel guilty... here you take 4 skittles and dance ur ass off all night and tell me how you feel the next day..

also, i believe the damage caused by ecstasy has a LOT to do with it heating you up... when your temp is too high for too long it is PROVEN to cause brain damage.. it also causes damage to your organs... even if its only a degree or 2, sustained rise in temp with undoubtedly lead to some tissue damage.

 

the biggest problem with this question is that "brain damage" is not a good measurement for how hard a drug is on you... you should take into accout bodily damage and psychological damage as well... when you account for all of it the truth really comes out as to what is not good for you and what will kill you. lol.
In order from most damaging to least damaging.


alcohol: has way too good a reputation... Its bad for you in every way AND Its legal... yes alcohol every now and then in small amounts is some what beneficial but the line between use and abuse is very fine. the majority of people that drink do it excessively... i know when i drink i usually do it excessively... Alcohol abuse leads to brain damage as in damaged or destroyed cells, and if you are a seriously excessive user you can develop water on the brain... basically all the alcohol pickles your brain, my mother's boss has a son that is 45-ish and has developed the condition... they think hes got maybe 5 more years to live if he keeps drinking. as far as physically there is liver damage... people know all about that, also some kidney damage... and psychologically it makes you stupid, it messes with your response impulses, it turns calm friendly people into raging assholes. and its more addictive than most other drugs as well... all and all it pisses me off that this shit is legal when its one of the most highly toxic of the recrational drugs. I voted alcohol b/c its legal and ruins WAY more lives than heroin, crack, and meth combined.

meth/coke etc.: I am in no way supporting the use of any of these drugs but i do think they have a little more hype than they deserve. Meth ruins families, homes, people, teeth... as far as brain damage goes Fried receptors are never good but no one mentioned that excessive use can lead to a loss of ability to feel physical pleasure and chronic depression. physically it depletes your body of EVERY MAJOR NUTRIENT that it needs... it eats you alive causing muscle problems, skin problems, loss of hair speed bumps, and TMJ... not to mention serious heart issues and overdose leads to heart attacks and strokes. pretty much if your an excessive meth user you probably look like a strung out anorexic... which is pretty much what you are. and psychologically, this is where it gets really bad.. have you ever met a REALLY strung out tweaker? b/c i have known a few.. amphetamine psychosis is not pretty... i had a run in with it briefly about 2 years ago at a party i thru... i was on a 5 day meth binge with a lot of ecstasy in between... by the end of the 5 days i was delirious... i kept hallucinating that there were cops following me on the road and that there were creepy crawlies everywhere... and everytime i tried to eat i got super sick. thats shit is fucked up in everyway i can think of...
Cocaine I think has a really bad rep and it people should lay off it a little. its bad for you in excessive amounts like everything else but if you use it occasionally and maybe mixed with something and only used as an accent drug then its really not all that bad... i would just tell you about coke and crack but i would rather just redirect you to this site... http://www.cocaine.org/
Crack causes some pretty serious psychosis but NOTHING like a really bad tweaker.

inhalants: I dont need to go into detail.. you guys pretty much covered it... dont suffocate ur brain cells.. its just not nice.

Ecstasy: as in skittles... not pure mdma or mda... i dont care what you all say.. it may not put holes in ur brain but it sure does make you fucking stupid. i have mostly shared my views on ecstasy already but i'll run over it again i suppose. as far as brain damage goes i know they havent pin pointed what makes you stupid but something most deffiantly does. fried seritonin receptors obviously, and issues producing seritonin. physically it can really take its tole, i mean im sure most of you have been cracked out before... not to mention TMJ which i developed because of popping skittles. damaged teeth, and organ damage due to your incressed temp, and mild kidney damage. psychologically it obviously can cause depression, and is highly emotionally addictive... i have known many people that years later are still taking ecstasy everyweekend and buying 100 or 200 pills at a time for personal use. i know there cheep but damn. Molly on the other hand has less that a quarter of the negative effects. you dont get cracked out, you dont grind, you dont feel as over heated. i dont know what it is about skittles but there bad news.

heroin: And or opiates and opioids... heroin may not be heavily brain damaging but thats not what makes it bad... the physical effects for example. It Detriorates your body, muscle wasting, vitamin depletion, rotting teeth, brittle bones, and if its taken introveniously it can wear on your circulatory system and lead to heart problems.. its causes kidney and liver damage as well. and psychologically it totally changes who you are... addiction takes hold and that becomes all that matters. heroin may not cause much brain damage but the extent to which it ruins everything else is unforgivable...

dxm: you can all fuck off.. there is no evidence that Dex actually causes you any harm when taken by it self... specially if ur not stupid and you actually extract it like we did... i never had ANY adverse effects from doing dex... the only effects i had was my first taste of chemically induced enlightenment. Dex can be an AMAZING tool if used properly, people just cant seem to get past its stigma of being a drug for 12 yearolds that cant find real drugs... get over it. its just like any other dissociative... you can just buy it at walmart for 2.94$ a dose.

LSD:... I have NO idea why hallucinogens have such a bad rep... is it the government or something? b/c as far as i know LSD has absolutely no measurable adverse physical brain damage. as for physical effects there are none besides an odd body high and slight fatigue the next day and psychologically, Yes... it has been linked the the triggering of latent psychosis, however if it does trigger psychosis you were prolly gonna get it eventually anyway... from my personal experience the use of LSD has done nothing but make Me, my fiance, my sister, my parents, my room mate my best friends I--, c---, a----, f---, j-, r----, j------- (names removed for obvious reasons, i must have been hella stoned when i wrote this) and many more nothing but better people i have never met anyone that went crazy from lsd... for me its turned me into a VERY stable person.. To all of you who have said LSD can fuck you up forever... have you ever even done it? i mean really? b/c i found that all the damage ecstasy did to my brain was more or less repaired by the acid... i can do algebra again and remember words better and generally am just a much better person... and i learn everything much faster. wanna go over some LSD myths? the only one i have found to be true is that LSD damages your chromosomes. apparently in ridiculously high doses it can cause some genetic abnormalities that have lead to mutations in lab animals that were given LSD-50 (not LSD-25) other than that, it doesnt store in your spine from more than 72 hours tops... it doesnt cause your brain to bleed, and if you freak out you will most likely come back from it... the odds of you "getting fucked up" by LSD are about the same as you getting fucked up from vitamin c.. if not less likely than vitamin c.

weed: haha... sometimes when i smoke my lungs swell a little and make it a little harder to breathe... and i cant remember shit.. haha... oh well, stoners rule anyway.

 

why is marijuana even on this list?

 

With all due respect, heroin/coke based pills is just a myth. Check out pillreports.com or ecstacy data, or erowid.

 

meth meth meth meth the worst shit ever discovered it destroys your precios small shiny brain cells and they go grey and say adios 4ever!

 

nitrous, or any inhalant for obvious reasons. It may not be near as addictive as meth, but hit for hit it does FAR more damage, because it's keeping oxygen out of the brain, thus deadening sections of it.

 

Inhalants (not n20) are the only things on this list that will do major shit to your brain the first time you use them, so therefore they should be deemed most hazardous.

 

True, but you can't get addicted to inhalants but you can become addicted to meth and when you are addicted to it you will smoke every day so in the long run, meth would cause the most brain damage.

 

Backyard, we know at least one person who did inhalants for i dunno about 3 weeks, maybe less, and was already feeling noticeably stupider. I know it's only one case, but inhalants can do more damage in a shorter amount of time than any of the other drugs. Bad shit, cept the N. Oh heavenly, lovely N!

 

Yeah, im my opinion nitrous doesnt do anywhere nearr the damage the other ones do (gasoline, glue, duster) though they all are fun.

 

My best friend and one of the most beautiful girls in the world got hooked on meth, within 6 months i couldn't even recognize her.

Meth, Hands down

 

I think the primary reason meth is doing so well on this list is that "Faces of Meth" video. Most people receive their knowledge (or "knowledge") from television/video, and the style of that video is very effective.

Not that meth shouldn't be near the top of this list. As vague as "inhalants" is, I have to vote for it. Nitrous oxide isn't particularly bad, but breathing in, for example, cyanide gas, can't be good for the old grey matter.

Seriously though, Inhalants, then alcohol, meth and crack.

It's silly that weed and heroin are options. It goes to show the power of suggestion/propaganda. "Heroin" is a dirty word in the public eye, so a poll like this comes along and many people immediately click the naughtiest word.

As for fact vs. opinion, the data available (from sensationalist videos of goofy-looking meth-heads to serious university, government and private studies) is very often conflicting. There is almost always a definite bias held by the data-collectors and/or - more to the point - their employers. Opinion must, necessarily, enter into any given response to this poll.

Peacelove,
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mdma can mess up yer mind, cant imagine crack bein too good for it. But there`s not a noticeable crack problem where i come from, so i dunno.
I clicked heroin coz its a filthy thing that destroys people.

LSD like anything cant be good too often but if you take it too often you kind of deserve brain damage. For me LSD and shrooms have been the most positive thing in my life next to my kids. In fact i was bad with bi polar affective disorder till 2006 when I had a year of psychedelic enlightenments. Now I understand God and the self and the universe, and I kid you not I have shrugged bi polar off completly.