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As someone who has used all of them in my days in the rave scene, they’re very similar but not the same — in particular, adderall doesn’t give the same sense of
by empath75 8y ago
As someone who has used all of them in my days in the rave scene, they’re very similar but not the same — in particular, adderall doesn’t give the same sense of euphoria. If you’re trying to be productive, sure they’re all about equally good. If you want to party adderall is strictly inferior.
Also as someone who dabbled with them and who had lots of friends who were like really into it, I saw the negative consequences first hand, but they’re subtle and take quite a bit of time to manifest. By the time it becomes obvious to you that there’s a problem, most of your non drug using friends have known for a while. But of course you don’t really hang out with your drug using friends any more.
It’s not the immediate horror show you’d expect from the movies or from watching Cops. You only see the worst of the worst. For every drug casualty you’ve met, there are probably dozens of people who do the casually for a few years, maintain jobs and relationships, get bored and then quit. That was at least the case for most of the people i went to raves with back in the day. Almost all of them settled down with families and careers and very few of them had trouble quitting.
I don’t recommend doing any of those things, I just think that people have a skewed idea of what it’s like.
- bfuller 8y agoYou may have rose tinted glasses on. Meth was introduced to the rave scene much like crack was introduced into black communities in the 80s, to the same catastrophic effect.
- empath75 8y agoI was there. It sucked all the joy out of the scene eventually. But it wasn’t like immediate. It was a slow gradual thing.