My Thoughts on Drugs & Alcohol:
(Sorry if this is slightly incoherent, I am extremely sleepy.)
Although I've done both, I no longer partake in either. When speaking of drugs I've done, I mean only marijuana. (And all the psych ones prescribed to me! Ha!)
Personally, I don't like how drugs and alcohol make me feel. I do enjoy the feeling of being slightly buzzed, but I have never seemed to have been able to know my limits when it comes to alcohol. Perhaps it's the bipolar disorder, but when I drink I cannot stop at just being buzzed, so I stay away from it entirely. I've also had a very bad experience while drunk in which I was basically date raped, so that's another reason I don't partake anymore. It's been so long since I've drank that I can't even stand the taste of alcohol anymore, which I suppose is a good thing.
As for weed, I just plain cannot stand how it makes me feel. I know everyone says it's supposed to calm you down and all that, but instead it makes me intensely paranoid and I just feel awful. It's a hard feeling to explain, almost like I'm scared. My heart races and I can't concentrate and I start to think that everyone is making fun of me or that I look really stupid or something dumb like that. When I first started smoking in my early 20s I didn't have that problem. I enjoyed it like everyone else, but then suddenly it changed and now I don't even want to try anymore. Perhaps it's got something to do with my medications, I'm not sure, but I can't bear it.
Also, after I smoke or drink I always feel intensely guilty, like I've done something extremely wrong. Sure, this could be from society's ideals of what's good and bad, but really I believe it's because I know I've done something outside of my morals.
I don't really like to be around people who are under the influence. Stoners I don't mind so much (most people I know and love smoke) but I really do not enjoy being around drunks. I don't think it's fun to babysit someone who is super intoxicated and I think it's really sad when folks can't seem to have a good time without the influence.
My views on drugs and alcohol in society is essentially that I don't think any substance should be illegal. Number one, because I feel our basic human right is to be able to choose what we want to do in our lives and if people want to use drugs and alcohol that should be their prerogative. Also, I think that by keeping drugs illegal it keeps them dangerous. If the government were able to regulate where and how people got their substances and distributed them from safe places, like clinics, there wouldn't be so many problems with dirty needles, drugs cut with toxic additives, and it could also help prevent overdoses because the dispersal rate could be monitored. I think people are going to take drugs and alcohol regardless, so why not make them safely accessible?
I do think however, that there should be strict punishments for people who are reckless while partaking. Meaning drunk driving, driving while intoxicated, giving them to minors, and perhaps even making/taking drugs outside of the clinics where they are provided, simply because they have the potential to harm members of society who choose not to do them. It should be your choice whether you want to harm yourself with drugs and alcohol, but not whether you can make that choice for others.
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