Offhand, do you think you have any long term damage from your past drug use? I am a hypochondriac so naturally I think I do from taking two hits of E. Meanwhile I work at a club and in a night some people take 10. These are all great drugs if you respect them. I'll say one thing: the last time I smoked dope I freaked out. I couldn't believe how stupid I was.
My dilemma: If time slows down when you are smoking pot but it feels like your heart is beating twice as fast, does this mean that your heart is beating twice as fast or half as fast as usual?
Answer: Since one minutes feels like two, if your heart beats what appears to be twice as many beats in one minute, it is actually beating four times as fast in "normal time", since one minute = 30 seconds. I literally got lost in this thought. In my mind I saw the screen when beating Windows Solitaire when the decks go crazy. Somebody said this is something you may experience taking shrooms. I was literally trapped in a thought and this was while smoking pot. I couldn't add 1+1, I was so stupid off pot. This coming from a guy who can do differential calculus as drunk as a skunk. It was then that I swore off mind altering drugs altogether (not steroids 
). People say they "tweak out" for a drug - when I'm out of my sober state of mind I "tweak out" for sobriety! To me, being sober is like being high. Drugs are not for me and I should consider myself very grateful for being so lucky as to have no desire for them.
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yes you are very lucky not to have an adidiction. I don't know about the heart rate thing. As far as long term effects, none that I know of. but who knows down the road? My addiction has cost me severly in my personal life, however. For instance, my fiance lost her brother to a drug overdose last october. Until then, she tolerated my prescriptiion drug use, but understandably she could not bear to lose another loved one in the same fashion. I tried to quit and failed and she and I are now rocky at best. As far as E goes, I do it occasionally and usually take between 8 to 12 tabs in a night, but they are almost always home made and you never know what you are getting. I have never like pot, but I don't see any long term efects other than being a slacker in some instances. I do know that drugs in my area are an epidemic, too much expendable cash plus too much free time leads to too much drugs imo. I hope you can get though to your younger friend, before he gets too carried into the drug culture.
