Irish and Booger,
What you have to understand is that even though some people have one drink and that means they need to then have another, there are some people, like Aqua, who have one glass at a nice dinner and sip on it all night. While that is not necessarily your experience you should not presume it not to be someone else's.

Lilith---While I'm a recovering Alcoholic,I,personally,was never a
person that HAD to have another.I had another because,I liked it & wanted to.I just said that I learned thru studying that if you have one,you are considered by the law,to be under the influence.I don't necessarily,agree with it but that's the way that the law,looks at it.I,personally,have nothing against drinking alcohol.I just know that I shouldn't.I won't even have one,
because I like it TOO much & it will just start the cycle over. Irish

And I applaud you for every sober day ((hugs))!

I've smoked marijuana a few times in college, and a few times since. The most recent time was about three or four years ago (the dorito incident). I definately smoked with the intent of feeling it, and I did. By the time we had finished the bag, the novelty had worn off and we pretty much figured we had our fun.

As for beer, wine or sangria. If I have a six-pack in the fridge, it'll last all summer. Scotch, on the other hand, goes well with a movie on Friday night. Do I know it's a drug? Yes. Do I need it? No, there's plenty of times when I'll say "Damn...what a day! I need a scotch!" and go home & drink tea. A few times a year we get looped and stumble upstairs to screw (or try), and usually end up regretting it the next morning. No, ya big sillies...not the screwing!

WI---Believe it or not,I still have a baggie,with 1/2 of a 1/4 oz of pot in it.It must have been in the drawer for 15yrs.Where I worked,the secretary/bookkeeper was a dealer.I used to get 1/4lb,from her for $100/120.I would clean it & bag it,& I have my own scales.My buddy,worked(?)at the Ports. Navy Yard.I would
give him 2 baggies.He would sell them at the Yard for $30/40 apiece(1/4 oz bags)That was $60/80.We each took a bag apiece,
for ourselves.That came out to about $20 a 1/4 oz,for ourselves!
Not a bad price for GOOD stuff! Irish
P.S.I'm one of those people that if it's there,I won't touch it.If it's
all gone,I get nervous!Stupid,but after ALL these yrs,I know me.

I've smoked pot and hash since I was in my late teens, the only thing negative is that its made me have the munchies and therefore gain weight, my memory is fine, I am able to do a full days work the day after smoking up the night before, it doesn't make me sick like alcohol does. I don't drink alcohol at all, I don't like the way I become or feel after drinking and discovered early on that it just wasn't for me.

Pot mellows me out, relaxes me and I only smoke it in the evening when all my work is done, because after I've puffed the only thing I want to do is have sex.

Lilith I never ment to imply in any way that Aqua haveing a glass of wine with dinner ment he had a problem. Was just stating the fact that one glass dose have an effect (one glass of wine, beer or shot of Liquer ) will raise your blood alcohol level to .02% depending on weight and a few other things. weather he feels this or not it dose effect him.

True enough! :)

I just want people,that I care about,not to make the same mistakes,that I did.Like my wife once said,when discussing,many
of the same things."They won't believe you!People will only learn when they go thru the same things themselves." Irish
P.S.just my $.02.

I'm probably one of the very few people "from the 60s" who has never tried any kind of drugs, including pot. I have weird reactions to a lot of legal medications and figured it would be just my luck to have some bizarre reaction to illegal ones, too. I don't smoke cigarettes either. I like the taste of some alcoholic beverages but have never liked the way even just a sip or two makes me feel, so I've never really drunk alcohol either. Only once did I ever drink enough to get drunk, but I did it on purpose. I was in so much emotional pain that I decided it was better to put myself out of my misery by drinking a bottle of wine than to do something more serious w/lasting consequences.

I checked "NO" but that's a slight fib. I had medications with codeine which is a morphine derivative that is found in opium, but, it's true I've never any illegal drugs.

My drug of choice is alcohol. Wine, mostly, and I do love fruity rum drinks, Funerals, Deaths, Hurricanes, and even sometimes Irish coffee.
I also have a passion for brandy, alone, warm.
In nursing school I did tentatively try marijuana, with hysterically funny results.
I am not very inhibited to begin with and those few occasions were a bit of a social scandal.

I have no interest in anyway way in trying anything else.

Wanda

My two cents
 

I've used marijuana fairly regularly for years, and I've never really had a problem with it. Sure, it's not advisable to smoke up if you're intending to get anything productive done, but as one other poster put it, at the end of a day to relax? I don't see a problem. And it's never been addictive to me...I've gone long gaps in time without it if I can't justify the expense to myself, and it doesn't really bother me much at all.

I've also had some shrooms on a number of occasions, and that was a fun, positive experience, but it's been years. I wouldn't completely object to it again, given the right circumstances. In both cases, you're talking about substances of nature as far as I'm concerned...it's the artificial chemicals like LSD and ecstasy and whatnot that I have a major aversion to. Simply put, you don't know what you're getting, and that's a freaky prospect.

As far as drinking goes though, I'd give up many things before I'd give up the joy of supping a pint with good friends on a patio in the summertime. You can't beat it!

Ok....well I have experimented with EVERYTHING.....I started smoking pot at parties when I was about 15, when I was 17 I started smoking daily and did until I was 21. I've done coke a handful of times and the same with extasy. I used to follow Phish (the band) around the country when I was younger....at that time I did a lot of experimenting with acid and mushrooms. I loved all of it and I had a GREAT time. Luckily for me I do NOT have an addictive personality. I watched many of my friends screw up with addictions and almost kill themselves. So I stopped messing around with it. I countinued smoking pot for a while.
I'm 22 now and in the last year I've smoked pot maybe 4 times. Which is REALLY good considering I did smoke all day everyday!
And for a while I ate Loratabs everyday. Once you start eating them everyday...you can't sleep with out them so it's hard to stop.
But I did.

Now, I drink occaisionally with friends and have a beer or a glass of wine from time to time with dinner. And if I'm with old friends (from my party days) I might smoke a little pot....but my tolerence for pot is gone and I'm a complete dork after I smoke it..so I try to resist.:D

If holding onto a bag of weed for the rest of your life keeps you from ever smoking then who's to argue with that kind of success?