Can long-term hard drug usage improve your life?

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This depends what we mean by 'improve your life' but I think by most measures and speaking as someone who has taken a lot of drugs of different types for a long time, I would suggest that the answer is no. However, of we accept the maxim that life is the memories that we create, then I would argue that the "acquisition and use of illegal drugs" (the charge applied when I was rusticated from university) has given me more fine memories than the periods of clean living that I have sometimes indulged in.

As for the drugs themselves, I don't think there's much wrong with taking liberty caps frequently. Pot doesn't do you any favours if you smoke every day for a long period. I think coke's probably bad and it's always so impure. Smack is also impure and very few people are blessed with a lifestyle that enables them to take it without the moral consequences. Acid can really [censored] you up, but if it hasn't yet, it never will and gets kind of boring for that reason. E is really bad, IMO, if taken for a sustained period.

I can think of one really positive drug. When I'm old and in constant pain, and am more of a drag on society, friends and family than I can be a boon, then opium till death has to be the way to go.