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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

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Weed for regular use. But mushrooms changed my life. Can't trip regularly though or I'm pretty sure I'd understand so much I couldn't even semi-function in the world anymore.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sugar.

Can't live with, can't live without. Should be regulated.

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 7 points 11 hours ago

Mushrooms of magic.

Nontoxic, non-addictive, mind-broadening easy to safely dose and for me and my fellow psilocybinauts, a very comforting, mother-earthy, wavy high.

I take them very rarely, as in less than once every couple of years, but they are my favorite altered experience by far.

[–] FrostyTrichs@piefed.budsocial.club 13 points 17 hours ago
[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago
[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 5 points 16 hours ago

Alcohol is the obly "proper" recreational drug I've tried so tjat has to be it. I'd like to try some others but them veing illegal makes it hsrdr. Me being very drunk while typing this might have something to do with somethkng

[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The difference between Advil and Aleve is experience.

[–] pwalshj@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Tell me more.

[–] Una@europe.pub 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

YOU BE WHAT? YOU BE PROFEN ALL NIGHT?

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As said on that one Dr. Dre song, smoke weed every day. Well, vape because my lungs aren't great, but same difference.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Small world, Dr. Dre is also my Primary Care Physician!

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In my 40s. I partake in alcohol here and there.

A CBD/THC gummy is not only good for relaxation, but I’ve found that it helps with runny nose issues when I’m sick and stops the mucus drainage because it dries me up.

In general though, weed is great in an edible form. I don’t smoke it.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Alcohol. It’s easy to get and I know how I behave and what my limits are. Usually comes in a tasty package too

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Thats fair. I always pick weed over booze because I consider all the calories in booze. But, then I smoke weed and eat 4 dinners anyway so its a wash.

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

At least the 4 dinners aren’t empty calories, so there’s that. They actually contain stuff that’s good for you. So not really a wash. Plus excess eating doesn’t damage your body to nearly the same degree as a similar number of calories in alcohol form, you can just exercise it away, or shift eating habits to account for it.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 21 hours ago

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/

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

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.)

[–] Acamon@feddit.uk 6 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Caffeine.

Edit: damn, I didn’t read the body before submitting. You got me OP, but I’m actually straight edge!

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Weed, it helps me relax my muscles and get my brain out of fight or flight work mode

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[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gen X here...MDMA late 80s, early 90s when the quality was good, and the party's still underground.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I came here to say MDMA too! I’m a Millennial but it was far my most favorite drug c. 2010.

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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Cannabis for sure. I mostly do edibles, but every now and then, I light up, breathe deep, and relax.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Definitely mushrooms.

The first time my friends and I tried them we took a LOT, and went walking through the woods by my house. It was a wild trip, and I'll never forget it.

I've only gotten my hands on them a few times since then, and never took as many, but even only taking 1-2g, everything just makes you feel happy and giggly like a kid who stayed up too late.

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Cuno likes that brain boost shit

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Weed, usually at least some at the end of every day to unwind, don't do it while working or for social situations (anymore) get too anxious lol

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I like the old classic eight ball of coke with a pair of hookers to share it with.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

2C-B and 2C-I are great psychedelics. I’ve always had the time of my life.

Good ol mushrooms are all i really do anymore though

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[–] watson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Definitely LSD, but I haven’t gotten in a really long time

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Creatine

Helps me do more reps.

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[–] kubok@fedia.io 3 points 22 hours ago

A good Scotch single malt, preferably from the Islay region.

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