Gorgie Porgie. Get out you bitch!

[whatinthehell]

Last night at work it was a little slow, so in between calls I had some time to knock out a few pages of the book I'm reading- Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater. Now aside from alcohol, I've never really tried any drugs. Part of the reason for that was lack of interest, and part was from seeing what happened to certain friends who used far

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[typos_in_key_e]

I don't know if I'd say I've become more "easily influenced" with age, but I've definitely become more "fuck it/whatever" toward previously unappealing things as I've gotten older. I will give these words of advice though: all the things that I previously eschewed, but broke down and tried for the sake of "living" or "experimenting", I've regretted later. I advise sticking to your guns and staying the fuck away from that stuff. Not worth it.

[cpf]

Sounds like somamoons has some regret issues to work through.

Personally I would seek out advice from others who had tried it but don't have a law enforcement/book selling agenda behind their advice. That, and get some hard facts - erowid.org is a good place for that. Never taken E myself, but it's more a case of it not being readily available and me being too lazy to seek it out. In my teens I would not smoke weed based on the friends I had smoking themselves retarded every day, but once I had someone with experience explain reasonable use to me I went for it. No regrets.

[typos_in_key_e]

Hah, not really. The personal experiences I was referring to weren't drugs (which I've never touched), they were just decisions to try something new and off the beaten path - very minor stuff in the major scheme of my life. My point was, when my gut told me not to and I didn't listen - I realized later I should have listened. The experiences are nothing I lose sleep over, but stuff I look back on and think "yea that was dumb. I could have lived without that experience in my life." I give the same advice to Sarah, especially when it comes to man made drugs. Those things are bad news.

[ex_enprise723]

I think in part it's a realization that you can control your appetites for things that are very tempting. If you can say no thank you to a slice of marble cheesecake with whipped cream and chocolate sauce nine times out of ten and indulge in it when you are conscious of the consequences both good and bad, you can adopt much the same attitude to less pernicious drugs like ecstasy and marijuana. In other words, if you know you have self-control, you don't need to be afraid of the dark side. Young teens don't know this about themselves, and they don't generally yet quite get the idea that they, too, can die.

[littlebrave1]

I was just like you in that I never did drugs while in my teens. I never saw the appeal in that. All it did was make you stupid and lose control of yourself and that didn't seem worth it. However, when I got to college, I did experiment a bit with drugs and only because I had a genuine curiousity about what it was like. I never did any hard stuff like cocaine, heroin, et al. But I did try ecstasy and shrooms. Ecstasy is fun the first time but after that is redundant. And it's going to be different things to different people. I did fine while I was on ecstasy but I know a guy who completely wigged out when he was on it, chasing people with a knife and that sort of thing. I say if you are genuinely curious, try it, but only around people you trust and presumably not high on anything.

[whatinthehell]

If I do decide to try anything, I probably won't do it until a few years in the future, when I am not working at a job that does hair sample drug testing.