parents here who are anti weed and psychedelics, how old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use both to help with my PTSD. I obviously don't go on a mushroom trip while I am caring for my children. I am 31 and my kids are elementary age and are at their Fathers house every weekend which allows me to explore it.

Most of the people I know (working professionals, fellow teachers, normal people around my age) do these. Most of us don't drink much at all. This board freaked out when I mentioned weed once, so I want to know, how old are you guys?

48 and don’t touch the stuff - not one iota. Maybe I have 3 glasses of wine a year (maybe). Why poison myself. If I have a problem, I see a doctor - that’s how I would deal with PTSD. If the doctor thought I needed to micro dose LSD (some of them do), the I’d get a prescription.

[Anonymous]

I'm not anti weed, but the drugs and alcohol just harder as you get older. Once you have kids you have to alert more. 50.

[Anonymous]

DH and I adamantly against weed. Want it totally outlawed. Even "medical" weed. 40 and 51.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

It’s more that no one your age is on DCUM. Why are you here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

Part of the age thing is that by this time (45) I've seen my weed smoking friends suffer consequences. They become more paranoid, and more anxious, and then need more weed to relieve them from that. It's easy to see from the outside and hard to see from the inside.

[Anonymous]

I'm against the weed today not the weed of 40 years ago. It's a different product

[Anonymous]

OP I do know lots of people your age who do drugs like you do. They are all high-flying “work hard play hard” types with very very successful careers. They work 60+ hours a week, went to excellent schools, make high six figures by their early 30s, sleep 6 hours a night and make it their goal to optimize every minute of free time and prove to themselves and others that they are cool. I gather they move onto coke in their 40s but not being that ambitious or successful or into drugs, I wouldn’t really know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

Psilocybin is not physically addictive, you mean. You can addicted to all kinds of things that aren't physically addictive. Confusing those two things is dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use both to help with my PTSD. I obviously don't go on a mushroom trip while I am caring for my children. I am 31 and my kids are elementary age and are at their Fathers house every weekend which allows me to explore it.

Most of the people I know (working professionals, fellow teachers, normal people around my age) do these. Most of us don't drink much at all. This board freaked out when I mentioned weed once, so I want to know, how old are you guys?

I'm 37 and a teacher. I don't drink or do drugs ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I do know lots of people your age who do drugs like you do. They are all high-flying “work hard play hard” types with very very successful careers. They work 60+ hours a week, went to excellent schools, make high six figures by their early 30s, sleep 6 hours a night and make it their goal to optimize every minute of free time and prove to themselves and others that they are cool. I gather they move onto coke in their 40s but not being that ambitious or successful or into drugs, I wouldn’t really know.

And then they wonder why their lives are falling apart in their 50s.

[Anonymous]

I'm 48. I drink wine, and very rarely a cocktail. I have smoked pot and tried mushrooms, but I don't use them. I avoid legal narcotics completely, and typically refuse prescriptions when offered. My primary mood-altering drug is caffeine.

I don't have anything against marijuana or psychedelics...but for professional and personal reasons I avoid doing things that are illegal. And I don't care enough about this to invest energy in advocating for legalization, even though I think it makes sense for certain drugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.

I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.

It’s more that no one your age is on DCUM. Why are you here?

I think that’s sort of it. It looks like OP had two kids before she was 26 (maybe a lot before 26)—that’s pretty unusual for the dcum demographic.

But I have nieces and nephews who are in their thirties and almost none of them are going weed and shrooms, especially not the ones with real jobs and kids. Well, there’s one that owns a bar and does sales and is a little bit of an addict so he might.

It sounds like OP doesn’t do it when she has the kids which is good but it’s not really a sign your life is on the right track. I hope she’s seeing a medical professional that can help with her issues so she can wean off these options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I adamantly against weed. Want it totally outlawed. Even "medical" weed. 40 and 51.

Totally agree! Age 47. Unpopular opinion I guess. I did try it as a teenager and it gave me panic attacks. Also I saw a lot of friends and classmates use it and a lot of them didn't really accomplish anything in life/ still using in adulthood. It stinks, it's gross.

[Anonymous]

I'm a 40F. I used low-dose ketamine when I went through a severe depression about 3 years ago. I was pretty shocked at how unregulated it was, and how the company was more interested in keeping me as a paying customer than actually helping me get better. Even after I stopped because I was getting better, they kept sending me marketing emails urging me to get back on it.

That's what I tend to see when cannabis and psychedelics used for mental health. The goal should be to get off of them entirely, but that seems to rarely happen. If someone needed to drink regularly to deal with their mental health problems, we'd recognize it as a problem. But for some reason we turn a blind eye to these drugs. Likely because they aren't really prescribed by a doctor trying to help you get better; they're pushed by for-profit companies.

There was a viral social media post I saw recently about a man who did psychedelics and had the revelation that his girlfriend is an actual person with her own feelings and pain, not just an extension of him. That's been my experience with men who use weed/psychedelics, they have these revelations that are actually very common sense. Nothing particularly deep or meaningful about it.

Also, my xH abused both cannabis and psychedelics (which funny enough is what led to my depression and me turning to ketamine). I couldn't leave our infant alone with him because he would use while watching DC, and while driving, and he eventually tried to sneak off with another woman to spend a week doing psychedelics together & screwing each other, claiming it was a "work trip".

I do believe some people genuinely need it for mental health, but it's been my experience most people just want to get high. If it's for mental health, it should be prescribed and under the supervision of a licensed medical professional, same as any other mental health medication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I adamantly against weed. Want it totally outlawed. Even "medical" weed. 40 and 51.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but the "even medical weed" makes you seem heartless at best and an idiot at worst. Yes, some people stretch the definition of medical to the breaking point, but you would really deprive cancer patients of a proven way to combat nausea? Or other patients of a way to combat chronic pain or seizure disorders?