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I think Ludes were kind of hard to get addicted to as a maintian drug since they were so powerful and sloshy. I never took enough for a period of time to see if tolerance was possible....I assume like most drugs, it was.

We did Ludes to party...and fairly infrequently. Even though I enjoyed them I'd prefer not to see my own children behave as I did.

Acid is another drug nobody ever got addicted to...lol...for obvious reasons but I have seen some folks take enormous amounts. I knew an old hippie from Kali who was an original Brotherhood of Eternal Love member. He would take an toothpick and dip it into liquid LSD25 and then chew the pick....and repeat that all night and hardly look fazed. That much would have put me in a straight jacket.

I saw a movie recently about a kid at Harvard who does too much Sidney and the movie displays very accurately I thought the pitfalls and effects of such...supposedly about 10K micograms. I think it is called Harvard Man....it gave me the willies. I consantly warn my girls about LSD.

Oh, I had forgotten about the acid... : ) What can I say, I went to UMichigan, where you could get bumper stickers that said, "Ann Arbor, Dope Capital of the Midwest."

But you're right, I wouldn't want my son to do what I did. Thankfully, I guess stupidity skips a generation, because he's a straight arrow FReeper.

When he went to Michigan (mid 90s), they had introduced 'substance free' dorm rooms - no drinking, drugs, or smoking - because of the large numbers of kids coming in who were in AA (already!)and needed to be away from the college drinkers.

As it turns out, a lot of kids really liked the idea and opted to be in the rooms even tho they didn't have a substance problem. They just didn't want to deal w/a roommate coming home wasted every Friday and Saturday.

I can laugh about some of the things I did in college, but my son and I were very close to someone w/significant drug problems which cost him his life. We're all free to choose, but to say drug use (maybe the better term here is 'drug addiction') is victimless is just wrong.