Do soft drugs enhance the SL experience?

Are you talking about Gummi Bears?

Well those Gummi Bears can be mind altering and do cause paranoia, shakes and seizures for some people when the sugar spikes too high. It is really bad too when they melt all the keyboard and mouse. LOL
I don't do gummi bears and creating its bad enough with ashes from tabacco all inside my keys.

Depending on the amount you eat.........OMG the suger!

Knocked over the beer or the lady?
Either way...impressive.

Oh, no, I wasn't offended by that at all, Bradley. I agree to a large extent. Just because I sometimes smoke weed (a lot more than sometimes in my younger years) does not mean it's right for me or anyone else. However, in my own family I have seen very devastating effects of alcohol. Just recently had an uncle pass away at a relatively young age. He drank copious amounts of alcohol and smoke an occasional joint. The doctor's said his death was a direct result of years of alcohol abuse. My uncle himself was concerned about the marijuana usage when he found out his life would be shortened by the booze. The pot, however, wasn't the problem. The alcohol was.

I agree that sometimes lives can be devastated by it, but I know far too many successful people who occasionally indulge to always buy into the "pot makes you lazy and stupid" commercials that I see. But I do think the key word is occasional. Might be a different story if they were getting high every day, all day. That would probably have huge repercussions.

ahaha *whew* that made me lol

Ditto. I don't even work well sober..er I can work well, I just have trouble paying attention

Sorry, if I think and feel that my experience is being 'enhanced' by something...then it isn't 'illusion.' The very word enhanced ties directly to an individuals own feelings...and more technically, pot (and other drugs) 'change' chemical makeups in your body, which trigger psychological changes...this is fact, not 'illusion' as you state. If I think these changes are a 'positive' enhancement...that's my call. It's all subjective...the very word 'enhance' is subjective.

Well duh...thanks Dr. O.

No need for sarcasm. You seemed like you could hardly believe that some people DO have jobs that require drug screening. Like it was an aberration or something... for me, your type of job is exactly that... seems strange to NOT have a drug screen. To each his own. *shrug*

I have to agree with Mike, People who are adults should be able to decide what things they can function on and when.


Why is smoking pot any different from drinking?

Alcohol has ruined more lives than any other drug in the entire world ... If only because its the most institutionalized.

Either ban them all, or else regulate them all like cigarettes and alcohol.

If something is an outright toxin of course that is different.

Personally I don't smoke, I don't smoke pot, I don't really hardly ever drink. But its not my place to tell other people they cant.

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The big question is, when you are drunk or stoned how can you tell when SL is laggy?

Yeah its so hard to consume one Gummi Bear or piece of Chocolate fudge, it leads to the need to consume more and more.
I find that way about Prim Consumption too.
But good news is I am clean and sober, or perhaps I have just traded for legal consumption of high sugar foods(which is dangerous for Diabetics) but I have cut back on my over-spending addiction to Prims and Virtual land. I decided a healthy balance diet and having money to buy salads was more important then Prims, Cigarettes, Coffee and Chocolate.
I have been clean and sober for many years but I must confess their are times I miss weed and booze I just don't consume it.

I take Percocet for a bad knee, and I can tell ya.....SL is SOOO much more fun with 10mg of THAT coursing through your system. Its like disneyland!

lol - Oxycodone and...damn...can't remember - industrial strength muscle relaxant for chronic back spasms and arthritis in my lower spine. I don't take them often - maybe once or twice a year, but hooo boy! When I do, I'm a mess. I've only been on SL once while I was on them. I remember a long conversation with someone about back pain, and not much else. Might have been a dream.

I'll stick to a few IPAs or a couple shots of a really nice bourbon on the rocks.

I remember that night... that was when you asked if you could be MY secretary.

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OY! There's a ton of them around me!

Wanna work at Walmart as a stockboy? Pee in this cup.
Wanna work at a Law Firm in Pittsburgh? Pee in this cup.
Wanna work at some Mom & Pop place? Pee in this cup.
Etc, etc, etc.

Contradicting statements!!

Unless this beer your refer to is of the ginger variety and has not been put through a fermentation process.

personally I like those "endorphins" if I can catch them before they pack their bags and head out the door.

Strange thing because of my rl illness I qualify for medical marijuana if I wanted it and could show proof of my medical condition, pay for licensing fee and find the drugs but I decided against it because I am too ill to find a drug dealer and I am bit fed up with entire medical and medicine. Often the cure for pain,etc has consequences I don't want to pay but I put up with the serious tobacco cough cause I am a addicted. Strange how some things work. I found myself building sucking on new filter and almost lit before I realized I hadn't used the filter for hand made cigarette. LOL And this is me, without any mind altering substances. I haven't used anything legal or whatever in years and I am in serious chronic pain I often can only sleep in 2 to 4 hour shifts because of the pain.

Nevermind the fact that a majority of people in the world are addicted to caffeine.

Guess almost everyone is a total loser then.

Count me into the addict camp. I didn't realize what a caffiene junky I was until I tried to quit. In all seriousness, I thought I was having an aneurysm. The pain was unbearable. I mean seriously unbearable. I couldn't even think. I gave up and haven't tried to quit since. I worry about what it does to my health, but I guess it's better than excessive booze, cigarettes or other drugs that could be doing me serious harm. Caffiene addicition is not a joke.

Yep in rl I ended up in the emergency room thinking I was having a heart attack this last year my heart was acting all strange,etc.
After hours in the emergency room I realized it was because I had over did it with Coffee.
I limit my caffeine now. It was really scary.

A question for you avowed Pot Smokers.

A friend of mine who uses it, told me that smoking pot can make you paranoid.
Is this true.?

Do you ever get the impression that people are ganging up on you for no reason.?
Whispering behind your back.?
When people disagree with you.......do you feel got at.?

Or is this dependent on your own individual make-up.?

My drug of choice is fine Malt-Whisky.
When I am feeling very daring.............I put ice with it.

I just wanted to comment on one aspect of this that sometimes gets ignored.

I smoked pot in college, and I worked a job at the school library. When I had smoked over the weekend, the work I did on Monday and sometimes Tuesday was riddled with mistakes. I was often surprised when I would run across it on Wednesday or later. This might just be the way it affected me; I don't know. But this was a job that didn't have too many serious impacts on anyone else, so I didn't worry about it too much.

Alcohol never affected me that way. I could (and sometimes still do) get totally blitzed, and after I sober up, I'm back to my old same self very quickly (once the hangover is gone). I've never seen any lingering effect on my mental faculties.

I now work in a job designing things that nearly all of your lives depend on when you travel. It isn't too hard to figure out if you look at my location and what my name means. But I don't think any of you would want there to be any question about my impairment on the job now.

So I don't actually even think pot should be illegal, but I don't disagree with companies that choose to prohibit its use, and screen employees for it. I wouldn't touch it or any illegal drug anymore, regardless of whether I was allowed to or not.

As for whether soft drugs enhance the SL experience: I would say: hell yes! I feel that I have the Stolichnaya company to thank for some of my favorite and most successful builds!

Last time I used which was over 5 years ago I had really bad trip, I got very paranoid.
It really added to my feelings of powerlessness and insecurities.
I think for some drugs can enhance one's own inner negativity. It can also heighten
awareness. In the last situation I had I was dealing with live in caregiver who was
not very trustworthy and when I got "high" I really saw it but because of the state of mind I was in I wrote it off as "paranoia" or bad flash back from years of experimenting with LSD.
Even without the drug induced paranoia I should have listen to that inner part that said something was wrong because the person end up ripping me off and getting hold of personal information and ordering a cell phone, thus leaving me a thousand dollar phone bill.
Thing with drugs when I have been around those who do it,etc majority of time their is always someone I felt extremely paranoid about usually for good reason.
Illegal Drugs often lead to people doing illegal activities, theft, being Con Artist to support their addictions. Not everyone who does drugs does other crimes but often it leads to people who do. For most legal or not it leads to doing stupid things or inaccurate judgments.