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If neither you or your friends can have fun without alcohol, you probably need a new set of friends as well as a therapist to talk through that issue. If you'r

If neither you or your friends can have fun without alcohol, you probably need a new set of friends as well as a therapist to talk through that issue. If you're instead asking what other illicit substance you can substitute alcohol for while your friends are all drinking, that's different. My favorite for that is MDMA. It's an empathogen so it helps you open up in conversations and form deeper connections with people. It's also an amphetamine so you'll be able to stay awake and keep up with your friends as they do the drunk thing. MDMA should be a substitute for drinking. Not a supplement to it. It also comes with it's own set of risks and constraints that you should get intimately familiar with if you want to do it with any regularity.

smabie 5y ago
While MDMA is nice and can be used as alcohol substitute (Alexander Shulgin called it his no calorie martini) I don't feel like it is safe for regular consumption. I do it maybe a couple days a year for special occasions or if I really want to go hard at a club/event, but I would be very worried about it's neurotoxic profile if I did it regularly. Probably an unpopular opinion but cocaine is a lot safer for regular use, atleast when it comes to neurotoxicity. Addiction profile is definitely higher than MDMA though anecdotally speaking such a problem has not been an issue with me or any of my friends (really the only drugs I've seen people really seriously struggle with is opiates).