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Madtowntripper
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How much damage have drugs done to your body?
#5420446 - 03/19/06 09:24 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think everyone here acknowledges that drugs, in excess or even in moderation can do some physical damage to the body. I think thats what seperates us from the anti-drug zealots, is that we admit that there are both sides of the coin, positive and negative, and weigh our options accordingly. This in contrast with the anti-drug types, who preach only the negative and deny the positive aspects of drug use.
That said, how much damage do you think you've done to your body over the years? I love to smoke dope, but I realize that lighting a plant on fire and inhaling the smoke into your lungs is not good for you, no matter how good the feeling. A vaporizer can cut this damage down quite a bit, but its still there. Other drugs can mess up your body in other ways....Alcohol is hell on the liver, snorthing chems is probably not good for the mucus membranes, et.
I'm quite sure I've messed mine up quite a bit. I smoke pot daily, and have for almost 10 years. I was very strung out on crystal for 2-3 years and put alot of very nasty things up my nose and into my lungs. I've snorted cocaine frequently, and shot it into my veins occasionally.
That said, I think all the positives far outweigh the negatives. I've done everythign I have with a mind that there are trade-offs between health and recreation. I dont want to seem anti-drug at all, 'cause i'm not. Just curious if anyone else thinks they've hurt their body a bit, and how they feel about it?
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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DNKYD
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5420485 - 03/19/06 09:33 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well the PCP laced bud I smoked last year killed a section of my brain that had to be removed. It also made me hack off my left foot. I also like to smoke straight resin as often as possible, so my lungs are blacker than coal. All the coke I snort has etched the lining of my nasal passages so bad you could fly a jetliner up there. And I've done so much LSD that some mornings I wake in my bed thinking I'm a Thanksgiving turkey in the oven, and if I leave my oven(bed) I'll be doomed to a life in some landfill.
Other than that I'm as fit as a whistle.
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Madtowntripper
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: DNKYD]
#5420498 - 03/19/06 09:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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wow. j00 are super hardc0re.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5420507 - 03/19/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well, you know what they say.
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5420509 - 03/19/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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How much damage has been done to me? A lot I would say.
I have smoked weed virtually every day for 8 years now, and I know it will kill me if I dont stop.
A lady came into the shelter where my wife works... shes 30 and has lung cancer... of course she smoked pot every day...
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Madtowntripper
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: DieCommie]
#5420524 - 03/19/06 09:43 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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If it was legal and had was sold filtered, it'd be alot less harmful, I'd imagine...
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: DNKYD]
#5420541 - 03/19/06 09:45 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
DNKYD said: Well the PCP laced bud I smoked last year killed a section of my brain that had to be removed. It also made me hack off my left foot. I also like to smoke straight resin as often as possible, so my lungs are blacker than coal. All the coke I snort has etched the lining of my nasal passages so bad you could fly a jetliner up there. And I've done so much LSD that some mornings I wake in my bed thinking I'm a Thanksgiving turkey in the oven, and if I leave my oven(bed) I'll be doomed to a life in some landfill.
Other than that I'm as fit as a whistle.
-------------------- \m/ Spanksta \m/ "do you have the freedom to do with your nervous system what you want?" "MolokoMilkPlus said: I'll respect you if you let me give you a blow job" "tactik said: respect the can."
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5420543 - 03/19/06 09:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i dunno about that, filters filter out THC too. its all about the Tar/THC ratio. Vapes are way better if you're talking optimally healthy cannabis inhalation.
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Noviseer]
#5420624 - 03/19/06 10:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i always feel like im being bit by bugs
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DNKYD
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Noxide]
#5420626 - 03/19/06 10:11 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thats what crabs'll do to ya. Try the shampoo, then shave it bare. Usually works. My friend told me..... honest....
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Noxide]
#5420635 - 03/19/06 10:15 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I am definitely not as sharp mentally as I should be, sometimes feeling as if Im "not really there". I figgure it's from years of hardcore drinking and a nasty five year crack habit that I finally managed to kick. Also a certain amount of liver damage from all the shit I pumped into my body and lung damage from smoking various things. Can't cry about it now though, I just try to live healthier and take my lumps
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5420639 - 03/19/06 10:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I havent felt as sharp as i use to be since my DXM period. Im a huge burn out lots off ohhh's and ummm's in my vocabulary only drugs i regret doing DXM and Amphetamines
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: buckwheat]
#5420643 - 03/19/06 10:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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DXM is dirty. Dirty I tell you!
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: DNKYD]
#5420646 - 03/19/06 10:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: buckwheat]
#5420656 - 03/19/06 10:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Fuck it. Everyone thinks they aren't sharp enough, even if they've never done a drug in thier life. Have I done damage?....probably....but what have I gained in the process? Enlightenment that the "non-users" will never understand, thats what.
I don't expect anyone to understand why I feel the way I do about my drug use. I don't even want them to try. I just know what I know and I am a better person for it. Period.
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: ToTheSummit]
#5420706 - 03/19/06 10:42 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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ToTheSummit said: Fuck it. Everyone thinks they aren't sharp enough, even if they've never done a drug in thier life. Have I done damage?....probably....but what have I gained in the process? Enlightenment that the "non-users" will never understand, thats what.
I don't expect anyone to understand why I feel the way I do about my drug use. I don't even want them to try. I just know what I know and I am a better person for it. Period.
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Re: How much damage have drugs done to your body? [Re: eligal]
#5420757 - 03/19/06 10:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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lol
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