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I'm not sure if I'm glorifying drugs. I'm just saying that it is possible for people to use them sensibly and without much of a negative impact, just as people do with alcohol. We weren't partying every weekend. It sounds like your crew were. And we weren't doing it nearly every fortnight for 10 years. I should have made more effort to be precise. It would probably more like once every 4-6 weeks for about 3 years (aged 20-23), then with steadily decreasing frequency - once every couple of months (aged 24-25), then once every 3-4 months (25-26), then twice a year (27-30). Some people had problems in their lives, but none of it was connected to drugs. I don't have any bad memories or bad associations with drugs (other than alcohol, obviously, where I've seen and experienced serious violence, car crashes, etc). We were a pretty tight crew, who all looked after each other. We never really over-indulged. We would go out all night on a Saturday night, but Sundays were a couple of hours sleep then beers and movies on the couch. The most it affected our lives was a bit of a tendency to have more sickies on a Monday than was normal, but nothing out of hand.
You must have a really small mind if you cannot imagine a situation just because you haven't experienced it. Get this into your head: a massive proportion of the population take drugs without letting it disrupt their life. Question for you, genius: how many people do you know who drink alcohol without it negatively impacting their life? Why are you unable to conceive of the possibility that some illegal drugs could be similarly relatively benign? Do you have any idea how many corporates take coke on the weekend and still function perfectly? Get a clue outside of the tiny little box you live in.
Here's a list of what happened to my closest friends after they got into party drugs: one ended up establishing, as Director, a multi-million dollar web design business (got married, has 3 kids). One became extremely high up the corporate ladder for KPMG, and owns multiple properties (never married, career bachelor). One became very senior at a major telco, earning > 200k/year (got married and divorced - nothing to do with drugs). One studied photography, got a corporate job, married, kid. Another one moved to WA and became a bit of a hippie, living his dream working on a winery (happily married, 2 kids). One completed a PhD and works as an academic (married, no kids). One became a real estate agent (married, 2 kids). One became a senior graphic designer, big salary (married, 2 kids). One became a high school teacher (married). You're right - I am glorying drugs. They are ****ing awesome if you have your shit together!
You seem like a good poster who cracks me up regu, and I'm putting you at late 30's/early 40's?I started taking pills in the 1990's, if I've still got my full faculties as you suggest then drugs clearly aren't as bad as you're making them out to be
Thanks for the fair reply.
Your friends are the best, gee I wish I could have hung out with you guys.
Fair enough. I'm not back-peddling. Drugs clearly had negative effects on your friends. They didn't have negative effects on my friends. I wouldn't (and didn't) say drugs never can be harmful. I'm saying they can be not harmful, which was the case with my friends.
If you wanted to hang out with people who took drugs you should have just hung at at Windy Hill.
Yup, haven't cracked the 40's milestone... but it's very very close!
I would say my Personal experience is very similar to this. A lot of friends and acquaintances dabbled in party drugs through their 20's. Most are now successful, married, kids etc You absolutely can use drugs just like alcohol with minimal to no long term effects. I'm talking about Coke and Molly here. I'm yet to here a story about someone who wrecked their relationship or lost their career etc because they couldn't give up ecstasy.
Ben King or Bailey Smith would of been tempting, Even Connor Rozee. I dont think its a big stuff up as you think. Because neither Ben King, Bailey Smith or Connor Rozee are WA boys. King and Smith are Vic kids, Rozee is from SA. Also had we got Ben King, he would of ended up Like Michael Apeness: a Promising KPF ruckman but only plays 10-20 games in 4-6 years due to muliple injuries.
Yeah Like Paddy McCartin worked out well with your number 1 pick in 2014.
Glad you dont care about freo, so fair enough.
I wont deny either. I am surpised none of your eagles mates are sinking the boots in Harley bennell.
Do you take pingers to get through the day to day or is it more to enhance a night out?Wrong. Since analyses began in 2003 both MDMA and cocaine are both at their highest purity ever recorded:
Use of higher purity ecstasy on the rise among young Australians
Young Australian drug users are shifting towards higher purity ecstasy, and cocaine use is at its highest level ever recorded, a new report shows.www.smh.com.au
If you aren't taking it regularly, cocaine doesn't actually have much of a comedown. That's why it's so popular with people who have money and decent jobs.
I don't feel too sketchy from the pingers these days either. A bit tired, super toey, and I can eat an entire supermarket, but otherwise, I feel pretty good thanks!
I feel worse after a night on the darts and tinnies tbh.
Well said
