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Sobriety

PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 5:18 pm
by Tex
Any of you old guys experimenting with sobriety yet?

Does cannabis with zero THC count as sobriety?

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:33 pm
by smithgrind
Not really experimenting per se. Sometimes I simply forget to drink, vape, or pop or I don’t have time.
Kinda like vitamins or brushing your teeth.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:21 am
by bluesilver
I really should drink less for sure

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:41 am
by Betty
I don't drink much nowadays. I dabble. Never giving up the ganja, that's my medication.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:11 pm
by Howly Wolf
Zzzz

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:30 pm
by Tex
Atta boy Howly....some days I do miss a nice cold brew....but not enough to risk going back in full on drinking like I used to. Sometimes sobriety feels pretty damn boring. I occassionally wonder how much more invitations I might get to kick it if I was still drinking. Never get invited to parties any more which kind of sucks cause I still like to hang out and have a good time. I just dont need booze to do it.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:31 am
by Betty
Clean and sober 10 months now. It made me fat so quit sugar and cigs 2 months ago.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:11 pm
by Tex
That is solid Betty....I remember my sugar intake blew up after I quit boozing. I was almost doing a pint of Ben and Jerries a night. Sugar is my last remaining ingestible addiction but I have been studying mushrooms, never done those before, have to admit I am curios.

Cant wait...if I make it to 75 I am going straight back to Newports.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 6:08 pm
by Major Lazer
Every year I do a dry or sometimes sober October as well as a 3 week stretch around July. October is my birthday month and also surf is usually good, so its a combo of tuning for fall surf and just doing it for that last month of my birth year. It's been nice to have a little window of clarity and man that 1st beer tastes so good at the end of the month, which is on my birthday. The July deal is usually just prepping my "bikini body" for an annual trip to see my fam in coastal New England, which is entirely spent in the water and on beaches bronzing. 8)

I'm mostly a weekend drinker and puffer and don't do either very often Mon-Thurs. Try to keep it to 3 or 4 beers when I do, but sometimes it's just 1 and others it might be 6, which is pretty rare. Also a fan of a good pinot with a meal. I will also sip on a little whiskey this time of year. Took some shrooms for the 1st time in a long while this summer deep in the Cascadian back county, which was pretty fun but noting I am amping to do again soon. That's about it, no coke, heroin, or pills for me but cant say I haven't been there tried that. Just was never really my thing, so never stuck fortunately.

Have seen friends and family go though the ringer with drugs and alcohol and have even lost some of them because of it, so I understand addiction and maybe that has kept me in check. Living in PDX would be a hard place for me go sober and I would have to stay very busy with physical activities, but at this point I don't see any real reason to do so and just try to live by my Nana's long time sage advice "everything in moderation".

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:17 pm
by Tex
Everything in moderation....so true, if you can walk the line.....I am all in or all out. My wife can moderate really well. 3-4 smokes a week, couple glasses of wine a week, it is a blessing. If I had one smoke today, I would be buying a full effing carton tomorrow.

Curious about the shroom trip, was it pretty heavy? I would be hopeful of some type of spiritual insight/enlightenment/vision...but I know there are zero guarantees with any psychedelics.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:30 pm
by Major Lazer
For sure for some its all or nothing and never one and done.

I'm no spring chicken when it comes to psychedelics, but stopped many many many years ago. I think my last acid trip was at a New Years Phish show at the Worcester Ice Center in Mass in 92? And maybe continued doing shrooms occasionally there after until late 90s? Now I am hearing all this about the kids micro dosing and going to work and shooms being used for treating depression, mental health, and psychological issues. Apparently Colorado is close to legalizing and there were folks getting signatures all over town to get something on the ballet measure here.

Anyways buddy hooked up the perfect dose, just enough to peak out for a bit, but never lost control. Best thing about it was I was able to just stay in the moment and enjoy the ride and knew I was in the perfect head space prior to making the journey. Was also key being out in nature 7 to 10 miles from the nearest road in a beautiful wilderness area nestled just below a large Cascadian volcano.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:19 am
by Tex
Sounds pretty epic....well done. I am gonna have to try it one of these days.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:42 am
by INTERN
My partner and I do sober January. I already don't really drink (2 beers and I'm ready to sleep), but I do love my pot. Combined with her wanting to do personal training sessions for the month, I'll be listening to a lot of Minor Threat and will come out looking like Rollins.

About due for some psychs. Last time, I was going to do the acid I had on a solo backpacking trip in Big Sur, changed my mind and did it at home when I returned. Lucked out because this was not tabs but just thick paper dipped in liquid and dosage was verrrry hard to control.

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:01 pm
by Howly Wolf
Zzz

Re: Sobriety

PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:01 pm
by BOX
don't be surprised if you end up looking more like Ian MacKaye


Ian MacKaye doesn't do rounded rails. He prefers straight edge... or something...

I used to drink a lot in my younger years. Nowadays I'll have the occasional beer, but rarely drink more than a couple in a row and honestly can't remember the last time I was drunk (and no, not because I blacked out...)

I did a fair amount of psychadelics back in my college days, but it's been over 20 years now. I might consider doing shrooms again if I was backpacking or alone in the middle of nature, but I had some heavy times back in the day and as a friend of mine told me once you forget about what it's like to be tripping until you take another dose and realize, "oh, $h1t!, this is what it's like to be tripping again." So while I'm curious about its use in treating depression and mental health issues, I worry that for me it might stir things up and make them worse. The last thing I need is to give that little voice in my head a megaphone.

I make my own cannacaps and swear by them. My surfing still sucks, but I feel better about it afterwards, so that's a plus I guess.