Drug Culture Puns

please take this post in humor & not seriously.

everything is laced with fentanyl, people have figured out how to put cocaine in nasal spray bottles and make it taste like green apple, research chemicals are widely available and fucking legal somehow, people are snorting horse tranquilizer and sticking meth up their ass, abusing benadryl to see shadow people, what the FUCK is kratom???? lean???? people are mixing codine with sprite and jolly ranchers… WHY???? i would pay money to go back to the 70’s and tell Richard Nixon what jenkem is. once you step back a bit from the light and see the bigger picture of this entire world, you really see just how bizarre it’s managed to come. people do weird shit to get fucked up.

edit: once again this was a joke i know ketamine is not horse tranquilizer. stop taking it seriously lol. also i am not bashing kratom, the question is what the fuck is kratom? the name kinda sounds like it would mind fuck you ngl.

edit 2: i also already know what kratom is, and once again do not take this seriously or anything i say at face value as something i actually believe in! you people really like to argue for absolutely no reason. calm down it’s not serious.

edit 3: Jesus fucking christ. i’d like to say i’m kind of disappointed. the first line of the fucking post literally says “please take this in humor and not seriously”. please before you comment USE YOUR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS!!!

I've seen a lot of posts on Reddit in general lately talking about how drugs are the worst things in the world and that they do nothing but ruin people's lives, but I just don't agree.

The blanket statement "drugs are bad" is a pretty crude generalization and also wrong on a lot of fronts.

A lot of drugs have a harder balance between therapeutic value and likelihood of physical/psychological dependence (meth, cocaine, crack, heroin, most cathinones), but so many scheduled substances can be used therapeutically and with a high degree of safety. Many are also non-addictive.

For example - tryptamines (psilocybin), lysergamides (LSD) and phenethylamines (mescaline) can all be effectively used to combat depression, ease end of life anxiety, and foster creativity. They're also non-addictive. Many of those compounds are also useful for things like headache disorders, which is why I use them. Another good use case is MDMA for psychotherapy. Many therapists are of the opinion that a single MDMA therapy session with a patient is as effective and life-changing as YEARS of conventional therapy. 3-MMC has also been reported as useful in couple's therapy which is notable.

Psychedelics have been extremely therapeutic in my personal experience as well. 12 years ago, I was diagnosed with a debilitating headache disorder (cluster headaches), and I suffered with crappy prescription medications until two and a half years ago when I nearly committed suicide twice from the headaches' severity (This headache disorder is also known as "suicide headaches" because sufferers kill themselves way more often than the average person). Since then, I've found actual relief using psilocybin analogs as a preventative medication, and it's been very effective. I don't even get little headaches anymore.

I know a lot of people's experiences with drugs haven't been good, and I'm sorry for that. But those experiences were created by people, not chemicals. Responsible use, proper harm reduction education, and cultural acceptance are all crucial to make bad drug outcomes disappear, and to allow the therapeutic uses of scheduled drugs to be better explored to help people. And we can get there! Legalization of drugs could lead to quality regulation and taxation, which would ensure people's safety by enabling funding to go into harm reduction education and rehabilitation services. From there, a positive shift in cultural affect toward drugs can happen, and it is no longer taboo to use them,

Hi.

Forgive me for making comparisons to Western films that I've seen, It's not always productive to compare different cultures from opposite sides of the world but I'd be interested to see if anyone had any recommendations.

I like a lot of different types of films, but in this particular post I'm looking for Asian films (Central, South, East, and South East) that talk about teens and young adults, partying, drugs, and other gritty issues that generally affect young people...as well as the underworld (though this could be another post in itself)

To use some Western (and some non-Western examples), I mean stuff that's similar to Trainspotting, the TV shows Skins and Euphoria or even Top Boy, Human Traffic, 24 Hour Party People, City of God (Brazil), A Prophet (French), Udta Punjab (a Bollywood film), Dev D (an indie flick from India), maybe Gandu as well.

Interested in films that'll show the fun side and the horrific sides to all these issues. I've done some searching around and so far have only found a few recommendations, but these seem to fall more into 'the category of 'drug films' rather than films about youth culture. One particular recommendation is Drug War by Johnnie To.

Thank you <3

I predict Bill sitting on a podcast a couple million dollars richer a decade from now say "we didn't know"

thoughts?

I work as a producer on a podcast about drugs, and we're trying to think of celebrities we could invite. For the sake of crowd sourcing knowledge, who are celebrities in any arena that you associate with drug culture or weed? Bonus points if they're POC since, as a white guy, white celebrities are most of the ones I'm coming up with on my own.

I'm writing the paper for my history of rock and roll class and I need another 530 words to have a complete paper.

I am curious to know how many of you who regularly do Ayahuasca , Mushrooms, DMT, & Acid, work to use meditative practices in your daily life to integrate any growth you have received while tripping.

To my personal observation of this culture gaining more momentum over the last 10 years, I have met many whom seemed to use their substance induced experiences as their sole method of spiritual practice/higher mindstate development. While I consider myself a blending of many different practices to obtain my overall mental mindstate and perceptions, I try not to lean too heavily on anything outside of myself for true spiritual guidance "too heavily". Tools are great, but I do not place majority of my faith in anything outside of myself.

Curious to know how your experiences have been and what other methods you incorporate in your daily life other than mind altering substances.

I’m taking GHP in person with Robson and Drugs, Culture, and Society hybrid with Lopez. I’ve heard both are easy As but what’s the workload like?

There was a post I saw on here earlier where someone was talking about how they got MDMA capsules that were overdoses and ended up in the Med tent. Basically warning people make sure to weigh your doses and be careful, which is great advice and part of proper harm reduction. So many people in the comments though were saying things along the lines of “y’all are just pussies if you can’t handle .15” and “you can’t call yourself a rave crew if you got messed up by a little over a point” and this is just ridiculous.

Firstly if you double dose two caps thinking they’re .1 and end up taking over .3 that is a lot for someone w no tolerance and/or little experience. Secondly, advocating for people to take far more MDMA than the amount at which it begins to become neurotoxic is dangerous and careless. MDMA begins to become neurotoxic around 200mg, and trying to flex how you take 500mg+ and upwards of a gram in a night is not cool.

A good friend of mine took about a gram and a half over the course of a night once because of this culture and he genuinely might’ve permanently fucked his brain. It’s been almost a year and he still has awful migraines, slurred speech, and is just slightly slower in general. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!! Don’t encourage people to take dangerous doses of substances because you think they’re pussies if they don’t. The pussies are the ones who decide to forget harm reduction and the health of their bodies because of what others think.

This is definitely part of the reason the mainstream looks down on users, and people on this forum should be encouraging proper and safe drug usage as much as they can, especially if they’re in favor of decriminalization or legalization. Please be careful, I love you all ❤️

preface: not claiming im a saint at all just an observation:

i’m a dishwasher so it’s not as bad for us as it is for the other people in the restaurant, but my coworkers are ALWAYS on something or want something or are talking about something. my 18 year old dishwasher brings lean to work at least once a week. half the line guys are always on some prescription they weren’t prescribed. nicotine break is more common than lunch break. EVERYONE is addicted to something. my area isn’t outstandingly druggy either. anyone else?

edit: since you guys love asking, yes, this is my first restaurant

Do young people do drugs regularly? If so what is popular? Are all drugs frowned upon? Are young people more tolerant than old?

In the movie he is an agent that tracks down people not taking this medication and those that hold cultural or art items. At the start, the agents raid an apartment complex and get into a gun fight with people going against the order. Midway through the movie he stops taking the medication and is able to take in the importance of what he's been fighting. He ends up getting involved with the resistance.

Tried googling a lot, but did not find it.

Especially if they are seeking help.

Society needs to start to rejecting drug culture... both high drug culture (hypocritical Psychiatrists who prescribe excessive amounts of meth related medicine to children for being simply children) and low drug culture (people who run around pounding meth and then heroin)... what where once lovely countries fall into Narco-states and these places in turn send out their violent mafias and organized crime into more peaceful countries... creating gun violence and assassinations. Amsterdam/Netherlands is a good example of what once was a quiet and peaceful city/country getting wracked with gang violence and assassinations. And Yes, all of these issues ultimately sprang from the stupid marijuana stoner culture.

If someone is doing drugs and or is an addict this does not open their mind or make them more spiritual... There are extremely spiritual people who meditate and never touch drugs...Buddhism has nothing to do with Marijuana and forbids it in the five fold path (with all other drugs but only in extreme situations like surgery or as medication). If anything you would be more like a Native American shaman or Aboriginal but even then, that crowd didn't abuse drugs 24/7... much of it was ritualistic and used during certain rites and ceremonies.

You are not a hypocrite if you judge these things as bad even if you overweight or you use aspirin or occasionally drink... (heavy drinkers are in the same boat somewhat). None of those pastimes fuel vast legions of schitzophrenic homeless encampments nor vicious Cartel battles (Unlike the Meth and Heroin epidemic to vast cities in the USA and abroad). Yes just because everyone might be addicted to something it doesn't mean the addictions are all the same. I don't wee overweight people robbing people for hamburgers for example.... The Heroin/Meth crowd has non stop robbery and theft and assualt in public 24/7 with violent gangs that fuel them. spare me the sophistry.

I only feel bad for people with serious drug addiction and I believe they need rehabilitation if they seek it out. This is not the same thing as hedonists who seek it out because of boredom or looking for chemsex... I dont feel sorry for that crowd when they get themselves into trouble...especially when they go looking for trouble and try to associate with gangs and drug dealers to swindle drugs from them.

Even if drugs were as bad as people say they are, when you just take a step back and look at it critically and with common sense, drug prohibition would still be a blatant violation of human rights.

Making drugs illegal doesn't just mean "let's not do drugs", it means "let's go as far as incarcerate people who do drugs we don't like even if they didn't hurt anyone, and are otherwise innocent."

It is simply none of the state's business what food, chemical compound, dick, or plant compound somebody puts in their mouth (or nostrils, or lungs, or veins, etc), especially when the sole use of that thing is to peacefully modify one's own consciousness. What should possibly be more sanctioned by our wish for liberty than modifying one's own consciousness without impacting others?

For an alcoholic, alcohol is obviously extremely bad, and that doesn't make it okay to literally incarcerate them for drinking, that makes no sense. I'm not talking about a DUI or public intoxication or such, because these are actually situations where alcohol-related behavior endangers others or disturbs public peace. The exact same logic should apply to illicit drugs.

And yet, when someone uses a drug we don't like for some reason, like MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, cocaine, or cannabis (which is happily recently legal in some places) it's somehow okay to incarcerate an innocent person because "drugs are bad", whatever that even means?

The majority of users of even the most stigmatized drugs, like heroin, methamphetamine or PCP, do not have a problematic relationship with the drug; they are not addicted, they are not dependent on it, and they don't have adverse consequences in their lives because of their usage.

Ironically, drug prohibition - which is justified by the assumption that it will reduce the harms that may come from drug use - actually creates an environment which in many ways is highly conducive to those harms:

- An unregulated market ran by criminals creates unreliable products that often contain dangerous contaminants. (this one is far more significant than it sounds)
- Addicts sometimes feel they cannot reach out for help for fear of social and legal consequences.

- Similar to conservative sex "education", fear is used in place of preventative education, creating dangerous ignorance.

What drugs are popular in Thailand?

1. Methamphetamine in powder form caffeine-containing tablets, and Amphetamine. People here burn pills with foil and smoke them with ampoules

2. Promethazine Mixed Tramadol and Spire Soft Drink

3. Drinking hut People here boil the kratom with water for about 30-40 minutes, strain the kratom leaves and mix the syrup medicine. dextromethorphan Followed by cold cola and ice.

4. Ketamine is popular in urban areas, pubs and bars

5. The most popular benzodiazepine, Clonazepam alprazolam

( I use Google Translate to share the drug culture in my country Sorry if there is an error )

boof it bitch

Please don’t downvote me to oblivion. This comes from a place of curiosity and genuine interest.

1. Prescription drugs

Basically the only time this happens in the UK is the odd person taking a Xanax to come down from coke. Americans can’t get enough of this shit.

2. Dosing

Neither Interest in, nor discussion of this, EVER happen in the UK. People tend to take as much as they want without any thought about mixing drugs, dosages etc. I think this is because we don’t really misuse prescription drugs. See 3.

3. Type of drug

As far as I can see from this sub, the drugs of choice in America are prescription opiates and meth. In the UK it’s coke, mdma, and ketamin (if you’re young). Clearly both countries have issues with crack and heroin.

4. Where and when

This seems to be pretty even across countries. People in the UK take drugs at home too, but it seems there’s far more of a rave culture in the UK where people only take drugs in a club with music where everyone has taken drugs.

As I said this is coming from a place of curiosity. Be excellent to each other.

I've seen a lot of posts on Reddit in general lately talking about how drugs are the worst things in the world and that they do nothing but ruin people's lives, but I just don't agree.

The blanket statement "drugs are bad" is a pretty crude generalization and also wrong on a lot of fronts.

A lot of drugs have less therapeutic value and more easily lead to addiction (meth, cocaine, crack, heroin, most cathinones), but so many scheduled substances can be used therapeutically and with low risk of dependence. Many are also non-addictive.

For example - tryptamines (psilocybin), lysergamides (LSD) and phenethylamines (mescaline) can all be effectively used to combat depression, ease end of life anxiety, and foster creativity. They're also non-addictive. Many of those compounds are also useful for things like headache disorders, which is why I use them. Another good use case is MDMA for psychotherapy. Many therapists are of the opinion that a single MDMA therapy session with a patient is as effective and life-changing as YEARS of conventional therapy. 3-MMC has also been reported as useful in couple's therapy which is notable.

Psychedelics have been extremely therapeutic in my personal experience as well. 12 years ago, I was diagnosed with a debilitating headache disorder (cluster headaches), and I suffered with crappy prescription medications until two and a half years ago. Since then, I've found actual relief using psilocybin analogs as a preventative medication, and it's been very effective. I don't even get little headaches anymore.

I know a lot of people's experiences with drugs haven't been good, and I'm sorry for that. But those experiences were created by people, not chemicals. Responsible use, proper harm reduction education, and cultural acceptance are all crucial to make bad drug outcomes disappear, and to allow the therapeutic uses of scheduled drugs to be better explored to help people. And we can get there! Legalization of drugs could lead to quality regulation and taxation, which would ensure people's safety by enabling funding to go into harm reduction education and rehabilitation services. From there, a positive shift in cultural affect toward drugs can happen, and it is no longer taboo to use them, making rehabilitation more approachable for those who are scared of judgement.

TL;DR - Blame cultural taboo, unregulated markets, fear of persecution and a lack of harm reduction education/rehab for your negative experiences with drugs. N

Hi.

Forgive me for making comparisons to Western films that I've seen, I know it's not always productive to compare different cultures from opposite sides of the world but I'd be interested to see if anyone had any recommendations.

I like a lot of different type of films, but in this particular post I'm looking for Asian films (Central, South, East, and South East) that talk about teens and young adults, partying, drugs, and other gritty issues that generally affect young people.

To use some Western (and some non-Western examples), I mean stuff that's similar to Trainspotting, the TV shows Skins and Euphoria or even Top Boy, Human Traffic, 24 Hour Party People, City of God (Brazil), A Prophet (French), Udta Punjab (a Bollywood film), Dev D (an indie flick from India), maybe Gandu as well.

Interested in films that'll show the fun side and the horrific sides to all these issues. I've done some searching around and so far have only found a few recommendations, but these seem to fall more into 'drug films' rather than films about youth culture. One particular recommendation is Drug War by Johnnie To.

Thank you <3

I've seen a lot of posts on Reddit in general lately talking about how drugs are the worst things in the world and that they do nothing but ruin people's lives, but I just don't agree.

The blanket statement "drugs are bad" is a pretty crude generalization and also wrong on a lot of fronts.

A lot of drugs really don't have any therapeutic value and often lead to hopeless addiction (meth, cocaine, crack, heroin, most cathinones), but so many scheduled substances can be used therapeutically. Many are also non-addictive.

For example - tryptamines (psilocybin), lysergamides (LSD) and phenethylamines (mescaline) can all be effectively used to combat depression, ease end of life anxiety, and foster creativity. They're also non-addictive. Many of those compounds are also useful for things like headache disorders, which is why I use them. Another good use case is MDMA for psychotherapy. Many therapists are of the opinion that a single MDMA therapy session with a patient is as effective and life-changing as YEARS of conventional therapy. 3-MMC has also been reported as useful in couple's therapy which is notable.

Psychedelics have been extremely therapeutic in my personal experience as well. 12 years ago, I was diagnosed with a debilitating headache disorder (cluster headaches), and I suffered with crappy prescription medications until two and a half years ago when I nearly committed suicide twice from the headaches' severity (This headache disorder is also known as "suicide headaches" because sufferers kill themselves way more often than the average person). Since then, I've found actual relief using psilocybin analogs as a preventative medication, and it's been very effective. I don't even get little headaches anymore.

I know a lot of people's experiences with drugs haven't been good, and I'm sorry for that. But those experiences were created by people, not chemicals. Responsible use, proper harm reduction education, and cultural acceptance are all crucial to make bad drug outcomes disappear, and to allow the therapeutic uses of scheduled drugs to be better explored to help people. And we can get there! Legalization of drugs could lead to quality regulation and taxation, which would ensure people's safety by enabling funding to go into harm reduction education and rehabilitation services. From there, a positive shift in cultural affect toward drugs can happen, and it is no longer taboo to use them, making rehabilitation more approachable for those who ar