EVE General Discussion

that stuff is more like a long absinthe drink than a buy--buy-the-pint (or jug) beer/ale/cider

only its sweet tastes makes you think its not that strong, then you wake up with a hangover no isk, no ships and no clones.

I don't always drink while playing internet spaceships, but when I do, I puke on my keyboard.

Stay thirsty my friends.

Hell, I do that *sober.*

Drunk, I just taunt nul-sec alliances in ships rather more expensive than is strictly prudent.

nah.. I'm just aware that grey often goes one way or another. A long slow side into serious addiction is easier than losing all dependency on the stuff whatsoever though I think. So I'm pretty sure most casual users end up being more than that eventually, especially as they often believe they are immune to addiction.

Fully functional is also a matter of perspective though, and I think that window is very small indeed if it actually is there. I've never been fully functional on anything drug or alcohol related. Not in my opinion.

As for weed and irregular heartbeats, its effects very person to person and it is possible one person may experience that effect where another would not or would not notice it. The thing is though, you never really know what's in the stuff, (unless you grew it yourself I suppose), and you have no idea what you are actually taking while calling it weed.

Actually that's kind of interesting, and I admit I was tempted for the reasons you mentioned, aside from the social ones as I didn't actually know anybody that smoked or did and would be tempted to try that at the time. Still don't actually, and I'm so far from Tobacco being social now that I think it would be an inversion of my way of thinking.

I actually avoid smoking in the house, (whether or not it's a condition of being there), and when I'm working, so my cigarette is actually something I have on the porch/deck, when I'm driving to and from with the window down, or on break. I don't like people seeing me smoke either, and especially not kids or teenagers, whom I try to avoid smoking in sight of if at all possible.

Really, it's just serving an addiction now, and contrary to an earlier post, I don't think I'd recognize a 'high' from it, except for that thing that almost never happens where you get a headrush that makes you basically blind for a sec and upsets your equilibrium. Best way I can describe it, and I think the last time that happened was when I went out in the morning for a cigarette over a year ago.

It's not a regular occurrence by any means. Once a year is unlikely I think. What I do get from it is the drop of anxiety and irritation that I feel when I go to long without one, or just a general destress and relax period that's more about sitting and looking at the world around, (currently green trees and some mountains, and haze from pollution unfortunately), than what someone might think is getting high.

I don't know how to make the association there. Is sometimes calm a high? I don't think so, but I suppose I'm not really being super technical about the effects of nicotine and all the other toxins on the Human mind when you are smoking. It's really not much different from how I usually feel except that I'm sitting outside instead of being in front of a PC, or just letting my back rest while feeling the comfortable pain of a board edge cutting into my muscles from the pressure of leaning against it.

Feed the addiction, stay sane, try to just keep doing the things you are doing like work, and maintain your equilibrium as best you can. Accept that it's not good and there is really something that you should do, but you have not the time or the place, or the means to do so. Work another day, smoke another day, and hope that one day you will have enough money, time, and resolve to take that time off that you need to actually quit the habit.

Of course, that means sitting on a beach in Borneo or someplace else, talking to strangers and shopping in strange places, and finding all sorts of other things to fill your day so you don't think of it.

Okay, maybe it just means having very tolerant people around you who you aren't going to be ashamed to see again after the experience of quitting or attempting to quit. Lock me up, put me in a rubber room, and let me suffer.

okay, maybe not that bad.

But bad enough I don't want to risk my livelihood or family relationships and friendships over it.

Just quick scan your post but i gues i get what you are saying.

. It has something to do with the general play style of eve. Just hang around and chill. Its not rly imagnable that some ppl prefer some kind of substance to enhance the fleeling. A game like battlefield or cod isnt as good when your on substances. Its fun for like 1 or 2 hours but than your just burning out of fun on long term. In eve that isnt always the case.

Uh... what?

The chances of your weed being tampered with is practically nil. And I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence. Weed is pretty distinctive... unless you're a complete idiot or you have no experience at all you're never going to be handed a bag of some random plant and think it's weed when it isn't.

(Or you're buying extremely low quality weed, in which case I don't feel sorry for you getting ripped off)

I'm not sure where you live, but around here the chance is somewhere between 80-100% Most likely 100% because it's produced that way. How do you think they come up with so many 'flavors'?

edit: speaking of handed some random plant and thinking it was weed; I had that happen at a border crossing, where the guard took it out of the trunk of my car and presented it to me with a question. I was detained for nearly 2 hours while they examined it, and I was pretty convinced I might see jail time and lose my car and everything in it. Turns out it was grass clippings.

About a week earlier, my girlfriend had lent my landlord the car to transport a lawn mower. Given she often used it when I was at work, and I knew she had lent it out on a few occasions, I really had no idea. Anything could have been transported in that car, and it sure looked like it might be weed.