1 ‘standard drink’ can get me buzzing for a good 30 minutes. Not always, but sometimes.
Sometime it takes 6 ‘standard drinks’. Usually I get more talkative, more sociable, braver (jumping off second story balconies in a night club), beer goggles (finding people more attractive than I usually would), happier just generally improved mood.
SOMETIMES it takes 20 ‘standard drinks’. I almost found the more I drank the more I needed to drink to get to the same level.
I say ‘standard drinks’ because on occasion I have drank entire bottles of spirits (Canadian Club which I purchased from a bottle-o in Brisbane) with almost no effect. It was almost as if it was non alcoholic. One time I drank half a bottle of Canadian Club with a mate (purchased from a bottle-o in CQ) and felt like someone had slipped me a mickey/roofie. It was horrible and I missed the whole night because all I could do was lay in bed without the energy to move.
Doing things I regret. Sleeping with someone I wouldn’t normally be attracted to. Vomiting into a garden. Getting lippy to security staff. Fights. Blacking out. Hangovers. Oh man the hangovers. I’ve even got a couple convictions recorded in Australia from shit I can’t remember doing.
If the laws in Queensland weren’t so stupid I would have probable been able to use in moderation. But being who I am I often crave to change my consciousness. If I could have gotten some weed or shrooms I probably would have been able to moderate by drinking alot better.
So I guess my advice would be (and from what I can tell this goes for most drugs): a good amount, of some good stuff, at a good time, in a good setting can be a good thing.
