by Greebo » Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:58 pm
Alcohol: I'm usually a fairly friendly and gregarious drunk though can be quite destructive in a manic and good natured sort of way. Very occasionally I can be brooding and cranky. In either event I'm less harsh than I am sober. I should also mention that the men in my family tend to have bad reactions to beer and get quite violent. Consequently we're all big spirit drinkers. My uncle Hans can tuck away a couple of large bottles of cognac and still hold a cheery and polite conversation with his in laws but after a few pints he's apoplectic with rage and trying to hit people with the furnishings. In all honesty I've never really got drunk on a lot of beer so I've no idea what effect that has. I'm usually a fan of scotch, Brandy and liqueurs. Also cocktails, the more offensively effeminate the better.
Weed: Probably the best for me as it dampens down the background hum of aggression which I experience most of the time and makes me less sharp. It comes with a serious downside in the form of the reduction in physiological sensation, a bit like having your senses wrapped in cotton wool. Sex on weed for example, is a waste of everyone's time and energy. I smoked a lot during my late teens early twenties and only ever got a mildly euphoric floaty sensation, no paranoia.
Coke: I usually avoid it as it's a bit of a weird one for me, generally it just makes me feel sharper. I'm pretty certain I could successfully operate under its influence. The downside is that it removes the brakes, so that the mile wide streak of sadism that runs through my personality and is normally nailed well down gets to run around naked in the rain making rude gestures at passers by. I'm can be gleefully cruel on coke and will take any opportunity to get nasty.
Opiates: Not recreational but I've had tramadol, morphine, fentanyl and diamorphine in fairly high doses. They just make me spaced out. I was given an overdose a couple of times which had me visually hallucinating before passing out, no delusions though, I knew full well I was seeing things.
Drugs alway strike me as fundamentally social things, or for a specific type of socialising which involves clubs, house parties and the like. Chucking myself down the side of a mountain, round a track,out of a plane or just generally roaming around the back of beyond is more how I like to get my jollies. With a few exceptions it's cheaper and healthier.