If you wanna be cute I guess you can say caffeine. But, I’m really looking for what the average boomer would consider a drug. For me, its psilocybin mushrooms a few times a year. Weed here and there too
Sugar.
Can’t live with, can’t live without. Should be regulated.
Sugar isn’t a drug lol
High Fructose Corn Syrup is pretty close to a drug. It blocks the receptors in your mind that signal to you “Okay, I’m full, that’s enough now.” Even sugar doesn’t do that.
I know it’s not by definition. However it’s effects are clearly measurably like drugs and it’s hellishly destructive.
Companies put it in almost everything to make things taste ‘better’, modifying our taste and needing more for the same effect.
There’s a lot of research, also the old sugar cartel and documentaries to look up on this and of course it’s also related to the obesity crisis. The focus has been moved from sugar to fat decades ago to get sugar out of the public spotlight.
Long story short, I would consider it a drug. We’re at the point with sugar we were with cigarettes in the 80s.
I mean, where is the line between what is and isn’t a drug?
Sugar affects how you feel and is habit forming. Seems on par with caffine
Weed.
I have this spot on a low mountain that overlooks the valley I live in. A big boulder sits wedged into the mountainside with a lone scraggly pine giving it some shade. I just like to sit there sometimes, smoke and think. Relaxes me from all the stress I feel.
I frequently use weed. It’s legal in Canada where I live. I’m a square and afraid to break the law. Plus, legal drugs are safer and less likely to be laced with shit you don’t want.
I enjoy being high because it changes my way of thinking and makes everything seem funnier.
Endorphins. Just yesterday I did 1 km @ VO2 Max running repeats, and about 800m in I started feeling real good. Even my heart rate was slowing. I ended up overshooting the distance a little, and doing an extra interval; it felt so good.
You’ll never see me say this, CSIS
Definitely LSD, but I haven’t gotten in a really long time
If I could choose only one? Alcohol, it’s great for relaxing and having fun, it comes in delicious flavours and is easy and convinent.
Fondest memories? Ecstasy - dancing to great music with in a crowd can be amazing, but for me sober, or even just with booze, it’s hard to bother with. But with some mdma I’ve had some truly amazing peak experiences. Although, I’ve found the aowish dose of psychocybin has a pretty similar effect without all the comedown nonsense.
But tbh, they’re all pretty fun in the right time and place.
Don’t want me to say “caffeine”, huh?
Well then, sugar. I’m medically addicted to the stuff, and kicking the habit before my prediabetes turns to diabetes is showing itself to be a struggle.
Caffeine was the hardest addiction for me to kick, and we are wired for sugar addiction. Sugar triggers an insulin spike, which is the fat storing hormone. In the late summer and fall, when fruit ripens, our genes caused our ancestors to gorge on fruit and store fat for the long, hard winter ahead. Now that we live in abundance, with a surplus of calories available everywhere we turn, this storage of fat for the winter is unnecessary. Worse, food companies recognize that we are wired to want sugar, so they add sugar to virtually everything to make it more addictive. This is why I minimize the highly processed foods I consume and when I consider any food with a nutrition label I look and see if there are added sugars (which there almost always are.)
Mushrooms a few times a year are great. LSD is also beautiful but you really need to plan a full weekend for the experience (start early on Saturday and recover Sunday) to get the most out of it.
Alcohol and, very occasionally, cocaine.
endurance exercise.
I did LSD for a few months when I lived with a few friends, I loved that stuff.
LSA is pretty cool too and you can make it yourself without any risk of poisoning. Not sure about the rules so I won’t explain how unless someone says it’s cool lol
I tried LSA and it just made me sleepy. Maybe my does was too low?
It’s either LSA or LSH, it’s been almost 20 years since I made it so I forget which is which, but basically the process involves extracting one of those and turning it into the more potent other.
For me it was like a much weaker LSD, but you still felt it quite a bit.
Only tried it once and I wasnt a fan of how long it lasted.
For a few months… straight?
Every time I’ve tripped, I’ve had zero interest in taking it again for like several years.
Also, doesn’t tolerance build immediately, and you need to like double the dose each time you do it again?
Lol a few days straight, but then just sporadically over a few months. I didn’t notice much as far as tolerance buildup over those few days
I assume it’s allowed info because a basic web search gives lots of results, and there’s even a subreddit dedicated to it
https://www.reddit.com/r/LSA/comments/mp45p4/lsa_beginners_guide/
Creatine
Helps me do more reps.
For me it’s the runners high.
I don’t have the knees for running. Sometimes, do circuit training to get my hr up for a while.
Cannabis for sure. I mostly do edibles, but every now and then, I light up, breathe deep, and relax.
