“His knowledge of what was ‘safe’ and what wasn’t didn’t stop his drug usage from turning into a huge problem for him. I am certain that he was better off than someone thoughtlessly snorting coke, but he was also certainly worse off than he would have been had he never been near any sort of substance. If nothing else, it damaged some of his relationships, and removed support beams that he needed when other things inevitably went wrong. It turns out, damaging your reputation actually can be bad for you.”
I have a friend similar to your buddy here. He was vastly vastly experienced with drugs and “should have known better” but at age 40, with a great-paying programming career, he started taking meth occasionally. Stupidest thing I have ever heard of someone doing. The story ends with him trying to “buy” a 13 year old girl and showing up and the FBI vans were there for a sting op, and now he’s sitting in prison. Because meth can seriously skew your perspective on reality after a surprisingly short while.
The weirdest part to me is he would have been the first person to say meth is the worst drug and can skew your perspective into something beyond your worst nightmares. But it didn’t help him. Maybe his knowledge made him overconfident. Who knows? I cannot ask him until he’s out of the federal pen.
“His knowledge of what was ‘safe’ and what wasn’t didn’t stop his drug usage from turning into a huge problem for him. I am certain that he was better off than someone thoughtlessly snorting coke, but he was also certainly worse off than he would have been had he never been near any sort of substance. If nothing else, it damaged some of his relationships, and removed support beams that he needed when other things inevitably went wrong. It turns out, damaging your reputation actually can be bad for you.”
I have a friend similar to your buddy here. He was vastly vastly experienced with drugs and “should have known better” but at age 40, with a great-paying programming career, he started taking meth occasionally. Stupidest thing I have ever heard of someone doing. The story ends with him trying to “buy” a 13 year old girl and showing up and the FBI vans were there for a sting op, and now he’s sitting in prison. Because meth can seriously skew your perspective on reality after a surprisingly short while.
The weirdest part to me is he would have been the first person to say meth is the worst drug and can skew your perspective into something beyond your worst nightmares. But it didn’t help him. Maybe his knowledge made him overconfident. Who knows? I cannot ask him until he’s out of the federal pen.