Dope Makes You Act Intoxicated

Reduces your performance in every way, is incapable of enhancing performance, and other lies.

This is one of the biggest lies of all about dope, and it needs to be challenged head on.

Most, if not all, non-users believe that all drugs make the user obviously intoxicated and reduce performance in all areas. I've tried to explain to them that drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine are stimulants, and hence don't make you "fucked up."

Instead, in the short term, they improve mental and physical performance. If you take a test on meth or coke, you will probably do better. The jury is still out on physical performance, but for at least some things, you will do better on coke or speed.

In the Valley here, farm workers are using meth to help them do their jobs. They're able to work harder, pick more crops faster and work longer before they get tired on meth.

I've never driven a car on meth, but I have driven a car on amphetamine tablets. Works great. You can drive just fine on cocaine too. I don't see why it's illegal to drive under the influence of these drugs. Might as well make it illegal to drive under the influence of coffee.

Non-users only experience with drugs is with alcohol. Alcohol makes you obviously intoxicated as a general rule. But the other drugs don't necessarily. Non-users find this clear fact almost impossible to comprehend.

I decided to ask Doperman about this:


Hi Bob, Doperman here. Thanks for letting me post here. Every time I took psychedelics (LSD, LSA, psilocybin, peyote), I assure you I knew completely what was going on.

I even drove a car once for 15 hours on a nice straight highway on a head full of acid. Another time I drove to Mexico with my brother, went to Tecate, cruised around a bit, and went back to the US and stayed at Cuyamaca State Park.

On the 15-hour trip, I don't think I was normal, because I drove by the Owens River, and there were all these guys fly-fishing there, and they all looked up at me driving by like "What the fuck is with you man???!!!"

I went into stores a few times and bought stuff, and at the end of the voyage, and stopped and got a motel room near the Nevada border at 1 AM. All flying on a head full of LSD.

I can act totally normal on any of those drugs.

Problem is you get these huge saucer eyeballs and it's verging on a bust right there to be walking around in public. But people on acid don't necessarily act all that different. You can't even really tell that they're on a drug if you see them. They're not obviously intoxicated.

I once threw a party and at least 200 people showed up. At least among those who showed up at the beginning, a lot of them were on LSD. At the start, there was a house full of people high on acid. It wasn't really obvious, and no one acted really weird or did anything crazy or stupid. Only a relative few LSD users act stupid or crazy or have to be hauled off by the cops. Most of them make it through the trip acting fairly normally.

Coke is the same way. The coke user is not obviously intoxicated either. You can't even usually tell if someone is high on coke, because people don't act all that much different when they are on it.

I don't think people act all that different on speed either. I've seen a lot of people on that stuff and they typically don't appear intoxicated.

It's often the case that you cannot tell when someone is high on marijuana.

In my mid-20's, I was living at home and getting a teaching credential. I was stoned out of my mind every night. I lived in the basement and had a separate entrance and a separate phone. My living at home included unwritten contracts stating that I could smoke pot and drink all I wanted to, and have visitors over until all hours of the night.

The folks were sleeping two floors up, so we had to turn down the music late at night. I didn't have the right to fuck women at home, but I fought hard for that one. My Mom wouldn't budge on that one. I used to violate it anyway. I had a separate entrance, and could sneak women in no problem.

My Mom even heard about the women I sneaked in and fucked, and if they were knock-dead gorgeous (some of them were) she was quite proud of her son in a perverse way. I'll never be able to match Sexmaniacman (Who can?) but I did my best.

But my Mom could always tell when I was stoned, and she hated it. So if you're around it a lot, maybe you can tell.

I'm an experienced pot smoker for 35 years off and on, and I typically don't have the faintest idea if someone is stoned or not. How can you tell anyway?