Quote from: TDoS on Jun 03, 2026, 02:37 PMFloor hands and booze I get, smoking, sure, but the big type drugs among those generally considered intelligent?
This sentence implies you think people who do "big time" drugs are generally stupid. I presume BT Drugs besides Coke include Opiates and Amphetamines, not sure if you include Hallucinogenics and Barbituates, Valium, Qualudes etc.
However, regardless of which classes of drugs you perceive to be BT, whether you do them or not has little to do with how smart or stupid you are. All drugs taken recreationally (as in not taken to remdy an illness) have in common that they are mood altering. Whether you enjoy altering your moods utilizing pharmaceuticals and how a particular type of drug alters them isn't a function of your intelligence, it's a function of your personality type. Perhaps you're generally inhibited or "uptight" and the drug loosens you up. Perhaps your lethargic and it makes you more active. Perhaps you are a conventional thinker and you get different insights. whatever the drug does, if you enjoy the experience, you'll continue using the drug.
All drugs you take recreationaly carry the risk of at least a psychological dependency developing, even if they are not physically addicting, but in general the number of people who become dependent on any recreational drug is much smaller than the number who use them without it significantly affecting their lives. Alcohol for instance, far more people drink socially than there are alcoholics. Most of the traders at Drexel who sniffed coke were within reasonable bounds, though a few lost control and ended up in rehab. Much fewer than the number doing coke though, maybe 1 in 20 as a WAG.
Anyhow, smart people like drugs pretty much the same way and for the same reasons stupid people do. The biggest difference is smart people who are also rich can afford to do a lot more of them, so that probably puts them at greater risk of developing a dependency. Most though are smart enough not to go down that road.
RE