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[LuPac]

Hello everyone,
My name is Lucas and I am 22 years old. I am here obviously b/c I have a problem. I just kinda want to introduce myself, tell a little bit about my problem, and hopefully get some good advice. Well here goes nothing:

I started smoking weed when I graduated high school. My mom worked for the school district so the only thing I could do in HS was drink. So when I graduated and got to college I started to experiment. I only smoked weed until I got to college. My roomate was against it so I hung out with the kid across the hall. We would smoke, go to classs, come back and smoke, go to class, and smoke. Well one day he attempted to get me to try acid. I said no, but he was persistent and eventually I tried it. That was the turning point. From there I went on to doing muscle relaxers and ritalin. I then started attending raves and from there went on to doing x, special k, coke, shrooms, acid, everything but heroin, crack, and nothing with needles. I did this for about 2 years and my life went down the tubes. I am now in MAJOR debt, I live with my parents and I have no self confidence whatsoever. I feel I am in deep depression because I like to just be by myself. I do this b/c I feel I crack under peer pressure and if I am around drugs I will do them. I still smoke weed daily but I have not touched coke, x, acid, nothing since I moved home of August of '02. So now that you know my story my question is this: How would I go about making sure I am clean. I want to stop smoking weed b/c I feel once I do this I will be clean but I don't know how to go about doing this. I feel like I can't talk to my parents and most of my friends smoke so they would just give me crap about quitting. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Trooth]

Do your best to stay away from the acid, special k, shrooms, and especially x. Those drugs are bad because they can cause a lot of depression and apathy. X is especially bad. I have a friend who has done a lot of x. I never tried it because of him. He seems brain dead to me, he is depressed all of the time. Evidently X releases a lot of endorphines, dopamine, etc. To give you the good feeling. The problem is that it depletes your normal levels, and it must take a long time for them to come back. That makes you feel bad all the time. The more you use, the worse you feel.

The LSD, and shrooms seem to cause "dead head" syndrome. I have heard it been said that after 75 uses you lose half of your personality. I think that that can come back if you stay away from it. I probably did about 15 doses, which was 15 too many. I never did special k and have no friends that ever did it.

One of my friends abuses muscle relaxors, but I think that is because he has something wrong that puts him in a lot of pain. I never got into the pills that much. They are dangerous needless to say. You will find out a lot about pills from other members on this forum.

Coke is dangerous, it will break you, mentally, physically, and financially. It feels good, sometimes great. But it leaves you depressed and broke.

With all of that said, you are on the right track. Make your decision now, you will be thankful you did. I have found that avoiding the places, and the people where the drugs were is the only way that I could get away from the drugs. I know that in that "scene" it is all about the highs. It is hard to separate at times, especially when you have made friendships like that.

Take the time now to make some plans about your future. Try to get a budget for yourself. If you are in debt try to make a plan to get out of debt first. Look at ways to increase your income. These are life tools, and I have found that it has brought much hope for me. You can get some books on budgeting from the library.

I personally came clean with my parents. They were happy to help me, and their reaction was opposite of what I expected. Quitting the weed will help you feel much, much better. When I quit I found that I had much more energy. Your true friends will understand.

[Erik G]

what up LuPac!!!!

Bro, I've done Acid and shrooms, never anything else crazy, but I have smoked weed pretty much for the past 7 years or so, everyday, allday.

all I can say is it is all in your head. Really, it can be depressing, So I would suggest talking to your doctor if you have one, he can prescribe antidepressents, cause you are gonna get depressed. If you are broke, and dont have a doctor, try St.Johns Wart, it really has worked for me.

keep coming back, it works if you stick to your guns. Your real friends will support you, if they dont support you, they aint your real friends. I know, I've been clean like 42 days after 7 years of allday everyday pot use, I have allready lost a bunch of "friends" thats ok, cause once your mind is clear, you wont want to hang with them anyway.

Bro, 40 something days ago I was exactly where you are, wondering how the hell am I gonna quit. I just jumped in with both feet, and it was much easier than I thought, allthough the first week or so was absolute hell. I got through it though, and so can you. If I can do it, so can you


LAYDA!!!!!