redneck;221094 wrote:
mdma will fuck you up big time if you keep caning it for years like me and my lot did in the early 90’s.
a few of my mates got so burnt out by it that they either ended up in mental hospitals or commiting suicide.
mdma can feel like the best thing in the world but like the man said, messing with your mental health on a regular basis is asking for trouble.
same goes for ketamine imo
exactly.
All of us >30 years old who have survived the party scene have seen this happen to people we know. Those who aren’t brown bread or sectioned often still remain angry bitter people.
What does also frighten me is the sheer quantities of drugs younger people can now obtain and consume.
In the 90s our intake was more limited by market forces (it was more expensive) and availability (cops also busted dealers for party drugs as well as crack/smack).
Not too long ago whilst round a friends house I saw a lad who wasn’t much older than 16 do a half gram line of MD, (having already consumed acid and K) – and this was on Sunday afternoon!
By the end of it he wasn’t even particularly enjoying himself and I dread to think how he must have felt at school by Wednesday.
Mood swings are also a part of growing up. I remember at age 16 losing it in the middle of a physics lesson and slinging a chair across the classroom. I didn’t even touch drugs regularly then. It was so out of character for me and the teacher was that shocked I didn’t even get told off or detention (she carried on as if it hadn’t happened). This was simply because it was coming up to exam time and the stresses involved.
That said I’ve been no saint with regard to drugs myself, but from my personal experience it does make sense to calm down before your mind/body is rinsed.
However most heavy users are unlikely to die or go totally mad (brain and body can be very resillient) but they will often fuck up something good in life like a relationship, a career, friendship or family ties or get in trouble with the law before they realise how bad things are – often it changes their views on drug use etc totally, sometimes to the point they support prohibition.
self regulation now could be the difference between still wanting to party in your 20s or 30s and/or having a positive / tolerant outlook on life as well as a decent lifestyle
Alternatively you could burn out and end up as a Conservative voting bitter “young fogey” whose had their fun and burned out (and wants to stop others due to their own lack of self-control) [1] or a 30-something who is merely existing rather than living, and perhaps battling other addictions and worries.
[1] A fair few of the current Shadow Cabinet grew up during the acid house area, around the time when acid house parties were run on a “thatcherite entrepreneurial” tip (to the point the young tories even had a pro-commercial rave movement called “Freedom to Party!”
