Why do you do drugs?

Evil.

No - not really

It's all about seeing what is the issue here. Why do people do anything beyond taking care of their survival needs?

Two reasons I'd say. First is the fact that drug use has a long history in a magical/spiritual context. Shamans and so on have been using psychoactive substances for millenia to achieve altered states of consciousness, a fact that has been gradually rediscovered since about the start of the 1960's. These things give a new and unique perspective on reality. That is a large part of the reason for the 'war on drugs' - the powers that be seek to keep people in a state of mind-control through media, popular religion etc, and anything that threatens to empower people to see how things really are for themselves is a threat.

Second, as someone already said, they can be fun.(strange how many people are suspicious of others having fun) It is natural to seek pleasure and enjoyment from life. If one can derive positive experiences from taking certain drugs without harming oneself or others, I can't really see the objection.
Many who berate drug use sanction alcohol - the 'legal drug' - and yet the ratioale for its use is exactly the same, and also it is addictive, causes violent behaviour, social problems, has major health implications etc.
In Britain, I can go out and buy enough whiskey to literally drink myself to death, but I can't leagally purchase enough cannabis for one spliff. This is insanity pure and simple.

 

I like being high. I like how drugs open doors in my mind and I can start asking more questions about life. Though I'm confused, I understand. I like the experience of doing drugs with my friends in new places, exploring new things. I feel more in touch with myself and with nature when I'm on drugs. I just realllly like them.

 

My teacher asked me this same question I wrote "beacause its fun, duh" I wonder what kind of grade Im going to get for that one.

 

cuz it's dope.

 

Bacause

 

For me it's fairly simple (in regards to LSD/Shrooms - I lack any great desire to try anything else):

It appears to give me access to more of my thoughts and umm feelings is the correct wording I suppose. Granting more access to perception is a very appealing thing.

The feel good from it, which I've only felt good from it, is more of a bonus but is not my reason for the use of it. Laughing fits are a good thing though.

Lastly, it's fun.

 

Very true. I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

do you ever get the impression that people think that drug users have something psychologically wrong with them. like a deep underlying problem stemmed from childhood. i always get that type of shit from some people. i always say you wont understand til uv experienced it.

i use to broaden my reality, get high and socialise(rubbing friends).

 

yeah, having a fucked up hard troblesome family where your dad beats you, can kinda be that stem

i just have an emotional missing feeling where life is just shit and tedious, and i guess use it as an escape. but the trouble is it only makes everything worse, and worsens and makes you focus on why your runin. but then thats only on bad days... maybe thats just a depressd way of looking at things, maybe i take drugs for other reasons, sad but true, because i often dont like myself, think down on my self, feel uselss and miserable, or use drugs to try to be more normal and socially fit in. well thats just me. rather depressing view, though i feel open and miserable and sedated... so i dont mind
its often hard to get in touch and understand why's the real reason you do drugs. my hole family is screwd up in the head, so perhaps is genetic or family based.
thogh honeslt i see alto of it, people who use drugs are troubled somhow, for some reason. the perfect daughter who's happy and talks to her mum and dad and has a close relationship doesnt take drugs, cause there's no "bullshit" that makes them want to ruin or alter the happyness they allready have. they dont need anymore...or anything like that
Know what i mean?
ofcourse not all of you will agree, i guess im only seeing it out of my perspective.

 

i dont mean to judge by saying this but ive always thought that using drugs if your in a situation like yours was not wrong but somewhat dangerous?? x

 

LSD and shrooms of course are the best ones. i use them to understand the world and make myself and world aroudn me a better one. marijuana is good also , but in smoking form it hurts and may damage u really badly. even tho my first drug was marijuana and it helped me realized many things and i think and i am sure it made me a smarter person.

 

oh i have no doubt about that^

 

lmao, yea seriously this kid's an absolute genius from whatever he's been doing.

 

i don't really do drugs anymore so i'll answer why i ever chose to do them and why i chose to quit.
i chose to use drugs well.. when i was younger because i was bored and trying to rebel against everything but once i got older i did drugs because i liked to experience different things and i enjoyed certain highs.
i chose to quit using drugs because i was losing alot of weight and not eating or going to work while using cocaine and i was turning into a real asshole. besides, i think at a certain age you kind of need to grow up and get your life in order.
but thats just my opinion.

 

Except for an <i>expost facto</i> rationalization of &ldquo;scientific curiosity,&rdquo; to which a friend gave the succinct assessment of &ldquo;Bullshit!&rdquo; I can say that it was in a way necessary that I do drugs&mdash;and that I eventually stop&mdash;out of rebellion against the prudish Republican mentality. I have always been a liberal and have always seen conservatism as a backward and ignorant philosophy, many decades before GWB came along and proved it for all to see. The leftist environment of 60's drug &ldquo;ab&rdquo;use turned me into a radical. I have since become a liberal during good times, but during Reagan and Bush scams, my werewolf tendencies take over and I once again begin ranting against the parasitic capitalist pigs who are fascist traitors to my country.

 

differnt reasons depending on the drug.
i smoke cigarettes b/c it feels good...but i don't smoke alot
i smoke weed because it puts me in a possision on observing and it's interesting to see what you don't really see. plus it's super fun

 

because its fun. and i like feeling like i'm in some alternate world where everything is surreal.

 

I do drugs because they offer a unique view on life and opened up my mind in many ways. I'd also say that I prefer natural substances over chemical drugs.

 

To find my center, to enhance my creativity, to see through the veil, to get a step over the establishment, to get high...

 

i only smoke pot...very rarely...i was just curious...wanted new impressions