Well, since you asked:  I don’t do drugs.  If I did drugs, I would not have the technical prowess and writing ability which together have earned me 427 merit (and counting) within 18 days of active posting—numbers which currently put me as #5 on this list, whilst still at Member rank with 98 activity.

N.b., I am here discussing drugs which are strongly mind-altering (“get you high”).  Contra much propaganda on the subject, there is a reason why certain things technically categorized as “drugs” are separated from others.  I can sum up the matter succinctly, by example:  In NASA’s Mission Control room during the Apollo missions, there was always a forest of half-empty coffee cups and overflowing (tobacco cigarette) ashtrays.  After a long shift in one of the world’s highest-pressure intellectual jobs, I’d guess that some of those guys probably went for beers after work, too.  But I guarantee you that not one of them ever “did drugs” in the sense people mean that—and moreover that if they had, then man never would have set foot on the moon.

To be clear, I’m also not what I contemptuously call a “Drug Warrior”.  There is a commonplace false dichotomy which pushes people to either condone drug use, or support idiotic régimes of laws which start by trying to stop people from willfully destroying themselves, and end by trying to ban strong crypto because (oh no!) drug dealers might use the tool of cryptography just as they use cars, postal scales, etc., etc.  Meanwhile, drug laws in the form they exist today do little except help make drugs “cool”.  There’s nothing beneficial about them.

Thus, speaking here only as to personal decisions and social mores:

If you say about drugs, “Never tried them”, then I say, good for you.  I’ve also never tried stabbing my own eye with a fork; it’s an experience I can do without.  My opinion on this matter is quite strong.  I’ve written about this before; I will here quote only a brief excerpt, but I encourage you to read the whole thing:


That’s my “advice/feedback”.  You’re bright.  You’re pretty.  You know how to have plenty of fun without drugs, to rather understate the matter (and as you may have noticed—so do I).  You have a knack for Bitcoin.  And consistently with your interest in Bitcoin, you evidently desire a self-directed life.  You have so much going for you.  Please make the right decisions, and don’t mess it all up like an irrevocable spend of your whole wallet to a burn address.

Drugs are 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 for your hopes and dreams and plans for the future.

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(Note:  I wish I’d seen this earlier.  I’m watching your posts, as I said I would; but I just glance over the top of the list from time to time, and a short one sometimes gets missed between others.)