When Strike first started it years ago, I saw the announcement on the usenet forum that I used the most at the time - alt.drugs.chemistry. I thought to myself "Holy cow, this is going to be the biggest flop since the quadraphonic hifi albums", and I'm glad that I was wrong.

I made some great friends there (different name) and still visit occasionally. After one of the more significant people got popped for something unrelated to the BBS I stopped hanging there as much. I was also on their IRC all the time talking to several of the higher-profile posters (and it was one of them that got popped - please no names or nicknames if you know them, let's pay respects where they are due and keep names out of it).

potatoboy99 you know, I have thought about that for the past couple years, but until just now I hadn't really realized the truth in it, but for the most part "My recreational drug days are behind me".

Mine really more or less are too, at least in the magnitude discussed on Hive (did you see the photo one particular IP (Important Person) took of the mirror that had MDMA spelled out on it in pure MDMA powder? They did that in a hotel room when two of the members first met and became friends). That kind of recreational use is out of the question, I'm too old.

Interesting that this thread would make me realize it, but I haven't broken any real drug laws (except herb) in years (and the occasional OP, if that is illegal, I guess it isn't but it is defidently gray market because of sketchy public opinion, which is a shame but its another thread in itself).

I used to eat acid by the sheet (and yes, I have "been like this" since before doing lots of psychedelics, so it isn't the drugs that screwed me up it was my DNA and my environmental conditioning, same as everyone who tries to make an excuse for their current life) and now I have no interest in a single tab. I mean that too - I used to do multi-milligram doses of high power acid and lay on the floor for hours with Syncro-Energizer type glasses on listening to binaural beats, etc (I am sure a few of you know what I'm talking about when I say syncro-energizer - those flashing light goggles/headphones that almost hyponotize you, or at least induce Theta state).

If you have taken acid and within two hours you are still able to walk and/or pronounce any words at all except "I gooma ba nadee! hahahahah!" than you are not tripping, as far as we were concerned.

Then potatoboy99 has to get me thinking and makes me realize that this was years ago, and I'll never do it again. Thanks PB99, as silly as it sounds, you have just made me realize something really significant about myself - I'm getting old and slightly more serious about life (39 last month). No more mouthfulls of ecclectic designer drugs, just an occasional benzo when the stress hits and a Paxil every day and the nightly bowl or two and I'm set.

Reading on Hive about the specific current 3 most popular methods of producing meth scares the chit outta me. When I was a lot younger, I might as well have not taken the speed syringe out of my arm, but nowdays it would be mostly unreacted eph pills, and that scares me.

And that fear reminds me of my age too.

Anyway enough of this total digression, thanks for the good memories fellas, and thanks for the realization that I am an adult, potatoboy99 - you made me realize what I hadn't noticed for the past two decades, without even trying.

Now if you will excuse me, Power Rangers is coming on, and I think its going to be a good one.