I actually considered putting this in the health section but then figured 'Polls' was the place to be.
So, just out of curiosity: what substances do you use and how often?

I decided to go for Alcohol, Smoking, Softdrugs and Harddrugs.
I understand some folk might consider smoking a softdrug on its own, but I went for the Dutch a-b-c way on this one.

Personally I smoke often (daily), drink occasionally and every now and then take a hit from a joint (rarely). I haven't used harddrugs for over a year so I went with 'none' on that one.

I'm very boring

I have possibly two or three alcoholic drinks about once month and none of anything else.

My substance abuse, if you can call it that, is all food, particularly chocolate! I'm not bulimic or anything but I do enjoy my nosh and I love trying unusual or unfamiliar dishes.

I have but one vice. I voted, but I'm not mentioning it here!!

I removed Hard Drugs from the poll.  I do not feel it would be appropriate to admit to using illegal drugs (of any kind) at Susans.

If you have a question about this please talk with either Nero or Susan.

Sarah L.

I am a smoker and I do like a drink once in a while.  At one time I fell in to a bottle and had a time of it climbing back out.

I have a cocktail just about every evening, Rum, it is so inexpensive here. Rum and tonic with lime.

Also I grow and use cannabis for relaxation and relief from MS symptoms, legalize it.

In my youth I did a lot of psychedelics, no regrets.

Does morphine, Vicodin, or Dilaudid qualify as hard drugs? Because in the last 3 weeks I had a lot of all of those! lol (under doctor's orders of course). But generally I drink rarely, don't smoke anything ever, and don't do any drugs other than my hormones, vitamins, and the occasional ibuprofen.

I smoke cigarettes and take too much ibuprofen and naproxin every single day.... I'll also take a vicodin from time to time...
The first is bad for me, I know... and I really don't care anymore. The other three are prescription, I prefer to avoid the vicodin because it makes me feel all foggy and interferes with my sleep, or causes me to be almost narcoleptic. That seems to be up to a flip of the coin.

I've pretty much given up drinking and I beat the hard drugs a long time ago. I say beat because the craving is totally gone and I don't remember the exact amount of time its been since my last bit.

I don't smoke and I rarely drink.  I only drink when I'm with my parents, and I only see them once every 6 months or so.  I just don't like to drink alone, it makes me feel depressed.  I take Prozac daily, but because it's prescribed--granted I don't think I ever want to go off it because it makes me want to cry if I don't take it.

I haven't smoked since middle school and I haven't really drank more than a glass or two of alcoholic a year since then either (yes, a year, I just don't like it much).

What I am strangely addicted to, is grapefruit juice. I can't stand the taste, but it is like I can't get enough. I think Ocean Spray puts crack or something in their supposedly 100% grapefruit juice! I even feel bad if I don't get enough, and feel great when I have had it.

This addiction if you can call it that, is bad enough to where if I had to choose between 3 things, the first being tea & coffee the second being chocolate and cheesecake and the third being grapefruit juice I'd pick the third even though I know it doesn't taste great. It is really the strangest thing.

Hhaha that is weird! I smoke a pack a day, drink maybe a few times a month and smoke pot every once in a while. I used to be a pothead, but I find it pointless now.

I like many a drink when I can afford one - however in the spending priority it is quite low on the list. If I were rich I'd probably be quite a heavy drinker so it may be a good thing I am not.

Marijuana is LEGAL in many parts of the country, including Cali and the whole 'medical marijuana' (my medical need for a marijuana permit is that going to jail would be hazardous to my health).  It looks pretty much like Cali is going to outright legalize it this November on the ballot.

Quote from: tekla on July 14, 2010, 02:23:28 PM
Marijuana is LEGAL in many parts of the country, including Cali and the whole 'medical marijuana' (my medical need for a marijuana permit is that going to jail would be hazardous to my health).  It looks pretty much like Cali is going to outright legalize it this November on the ballot.

Yet another reason to move there!! 

Once Cali does it and gets away with it (the tax money that is) at least 10 other states¹ will follow suit.  Greed is good as Gordon Gekko once said.

As it is it's de facto legal for everyone.  You almost have to walk up to a cop and blow in in his/her face, and even then...

Myself, I enjoy our fine local micro brews, Hopmonk Tavern, Russian River Brewery, Lagunitas all make wonderful IPAs, and the RRB has a brew called Pliny the Elder that is just the nectar of the gods.



1. Arizona, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, Maine, Rhode Island all pretty much for sure.

To paraphrase Maurice Chevalier, 'Thank heaven for little microbreweries'

Quote from: Sarah Louise on July 14, 2010, 08:27:48 AM
I removed Hard Drugs from the poll.  I do not feel it would be appropriate to admit to using illegal drugs (of any kind) at Susans.

If you have a question about this please talk with either Nero or Susan.

Sarah L.

And softdrugs that are not illegal in the entire wide world...
Fair enough, each their own feelings.

Well hops grows very well where good wine grapes grow, so long before Sonoma County was famous for wine, we had hops farms and hop kilns all over.  So the beer deal here is pretty good.  And I failed to mention the Bear Republic Brewery in Healdsburg, home of the awesome Racer 5. 

But of course, anyone who is living in Sonoma or Napa and doesn't like wine is pretty much paying to much to live in the wrong place.  So me and my GF go off once a month or so and do some wineries.  And I can pick up stuff that they sell for $8-15 a bottle on the East Coast or Midwest for like $3-6 a bottle, and you can get a case discount of 15% if you buy 12 (any 12, it does not have to be 12 of the same), on top of the sale winery price, it's pretty good.

Of course, oddly enough (or not) it's also pretty good for growing the green bud too, though the areas north of here in Mendocino and Humboldt are not too shabby either.

I smoke 1 or 2 cloves a day. I can't drink though, I'm allergic to alcohol.

Occasionally drink at get-togethers, which only happens once every few months. I dislike tobacco smoking, but I rather enjoy indulging in a little pot now and then.