booze --- coffee --- weed

Booze is the only one I partake of with any regularity (also sadly the most damaging).

weed > coffee > booze

yea all are good tho, keep em in relative moderation

lately i have been looking forward to coffee in the morning much more than a drink in the evening

weed is not super frequent for me but i am way happier w/ it in my life than during the 5 year period i didn't smoke

Booze is the only one I partake of with any regularity (also sadly the most damaging).

Ditto.

i feel really lucky that i'm allergic to alcohol. can't drink red wine or hoppy beer without my throat & nose closing up, but i can have a corona or natty boh and enjoy it without wanting another. really hard to go a day without the other two

Faulkner would disown me but booze is a distant third; that said, I don't really know how to choose between weed (inspiration) and coffee (productivity)

I don't smoke weed anymore, whereas I am a functioning caffeine addict, but I'm not sure I could stop drinking coffee for four years and still rep for it as hard as I do weed

the last week ive partaken in all of these every day! yay. no more booze for a while. it's the winner for me tho.

coffee > booze > weed

I've generally avoided weed in my adult life, but come the westward migration, a little exploration will be called for

fresh air

much easier for me to give up booze than the other two.

booze > weed > coffee

coffee > booze > weed

Coffee is something I enjoy on a daily basis. Booze is more of a weekly thing for me, but even one drink will send me to sleep fairly quickly, so I can't enjoy it as much as I'd like. Weed hasn't been a part of my life for a very long time, but I do have a secret desire to see legalization in TX sometime in the not-too-far-off future.

booze definitely

i drink a lot of coffee but i don't love it or anything

weed's great when i'm home listening to music or something

tobacco should be in here

ugh tobacco is garbage to me but i can def see why it fits a poll like this

TS: w + b vs w + c

weed + coffee is the best but w/ a job and kids i don't really have many opportunities to enjoy that combination, i smoke at night after the boys are in bed so the weed + booze combination is more commmon for me. that said weed + booze has serious diminishing returns beyond the first drink or two, more than that and everything just spins and gets really gross feeling

weed (smoke a spliff p much every evening, would find it v hard to give up)
coffee (down to 1 cup in the morning, to crank me up)
booze (not teatotal but prob haven't had a drink in a month or more, and if I never drank again I wouldn't miss it in the slighest)

Booze [1] >> coffee >>>>>> weed [2]

[1] I put myself on the wagon a couple weeks ago, because my tolerance seemed to be increasing. In the interim it hasn't been very hard, but if I think about it too much I get rather frustrated and irritated.

[2] The few times I tried pot I never felt anything, and therefore have never pursued it.

coffee > booze >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> weed

I was torn on the booze and coffee ranking but Moodles set my right by noting that coffee is a daily enjoyment, whereas booze, while fabulous, is something I only partake in once a week or so.

Weed really isn't even on the chart because it jacks up my anxiety to a fever pitch and is not even remotely enjoyable. I tried again a couple of months ago even and only because I smoked the smallest amount, and because my smoking companion was handling everything well (I kept looking over at them and saying, "Well, okay, they're just smiling and enjoying themselves and not curled up in a ball clawing their face off so I'm probably okay, too..."), I was able to avoid losing my noodle completely but it still wasn't fun.

These are all fine substances. I would say "if used in moderation" but actually I believe in "moderation in all things - including moderation." Excess can be instructive and it sometimes leads to the palace of wisdom, like somebody said (Susan Sarandon, I think).

In my youth I drank coffee all day, every day. Now that I am fortymumble I can't have it past lunchtime or it really will keep me up late in an uncomfortable way. Booze is a constant companion and I love it so. I take a great deal of care to prevent it from ruining my life, but it's so bound up with modern life and the culture that I inhabit as to be like air. I can imagine a life without it but I don't want to go there.

Weed was pretty ubiquitous when I was in college. Now that I am a 'burb dad, with a tie-wearing job, and an apparently responsible citizen? Not so much. Frankly I miss it. Not so much for its own sake, but as a pleasant presence. It is like a cozy brain-sweater that nicely accompanies music, sex, drinking, food, nature, books, friendship, and conversation. When I happen to encounter some weed it is most welcome, but I don't have a reliable connection and don't want it enough to skirt dangerous legal territory.

Can't imagine life without all three of these but I'm trying to quit smoking and each one is a major trigger.

of these options I only do booze.

w>c>b

The older I get the less interesting booze is. Coffee is just a staple of my life now, I go through periods where i don't drink it, but if I have a pot of grounds then I am drinking a full 8 cup pot no matter what. As for the third substance I'm pretty sure wo it I would be on a string of anti-depression meds.

This question brought to you by workplace boredom: Has anyone ever damaged his or her life through coffee?

The nearest thing I can think of is people who have a several-times-a-day Starbucks habit, but in those cases the damage is financial, as opposed to legal or health-related.

probably some idiot somewhere has gone super overboard on the coffee and had some sort of health crisis from over stimulating their central nervous system.

not coffee but in college I drank a three liter of coke at a movie one night and spent the next 24 hours running around campus going crazy and I have only rarely had caffeine since, not really "damaged my life" but it was a bad few days

why would you do that?

that said, i used to drink 2L of diet coke a night on the reg but I guess I had quite a tolerance

I think this question is a little weird because one of these things is not like the other and coffee just seems out of place and not all that comparable to the other two. That said:

w > b > c

I love weed but I'm old and lazy and don't have any connections but admittedly I haven't tried very hard so it's been over a year since I've smoked. i should fix that.

I love booze but it often does not love me. Also, my mother is a drunk and I'm 90% certain I inherited whatever genetic component there is to make one predisposed to alcoholism so it's something I try to be at least a little careful about.

Coffee is good.

This thread makes me wonder if there are any straight-edge ilxors around.

w > b > c

same for me i think, but (like you) rn don't have good connections (mostly due to laziness)
until relatively recently, not much of a b person, but maybe current lack of access to w has me leaning on b in ways which may not be v healthy

xp
Raises hand.

I don't do any of these, have at least tried alcohol a couple of times when I was a teenager but never to the point of being drunk. Haven't tried coffee or weed.

coffee is a necessity, alcohol is a luxury and I can't stand weed

I think this question is a little weird because one of these things is not like the other and coffee just seems out of place and not all that comparable to the other two

haha yea this isn't much more than my own personal "commonly used substances" e.g. which is why tobacco isn't included even though it might make sense

that said i do feel like coffee is a fairly significant substance in my life at least since i started making a very potent cup in the morning lately that is very much part of my daily ritual and tbh has quite powerful effects even though it is not as intoxicating as weed or booze can be

for me

coffee = energy, creativity, and productivity
weed = insight, awareness, reflection, connection, meditation
booze = relaxation, fun

haven't smoked tobacco in v long time, but tbh for some periods in undergrad/ grad school it was u&k
someone should start thread specifically about relation of substances to writing

Alcohol is not good for writing w exception of whiskey, you can see why it was the drug of choice for so many authors

re chugging a 3L coke: lol college I guess? it was during one of that week's on-campus films, Passion Fish iirc? why did I do THAT to myself I wonder

Oh also the Lowry route probably fecund xp

I vote booze btw obv. Being more moderate these days but man I love beer and wine and mezcal and brandy and gin and rum

Coffee is nice but fucks me up, weed I am not into

I will say that the one noticeable drawback of coffee for me is that if I don't drink it, I get raging headaches

lol marcos don't we live in the same city? hook a sistah up! jk. mostly.

haven't smoked tobacco in v long time, but tbh for some periods in undergrad/ grad school it was u&k
someone should start thread specifically about relation of substances to writing

― drash, Friday, August 14, 2015 3:00 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I was a literature/creative writing major in college. I can't imagine having gone through that without either coffee or cigarettes tbh.

This coffee falls into your stomach, a sack whose velvety interior is lined with tapestries of suckers and papillae. The coffee finds nothing else in the sack, and so it attacks these delicate and voluptuous linings; it acts like a food and demands digestive juices; it wrings and twists the stomach for these juices, appealing as a pythoness appeals to her god; it brutalizes these beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master abuses ponies; the plexus becomes inflamed; sparks shoot all the way up to the brain. From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

In my old age, this is coffee all the way. I feel a little sad saying that.

I live in a place where it is easy and legal to purchase high quality versions of all of these which is pretty nice.

Overall, pleasure-wise, coffee is the least of these but the only one that I cannot live without on a daily basis. I can take or leave the other two for the most part. Weed is the one I like the most but go without the most often (like traveling to places where it isn't legal), and beer and wine are delicious but I really don't like to get drunk anymore so I rarely have more than two drinks per day.

all 3 in the same few hours is a great time!

coffee is the one i'm addicted to so i harbor resentment toward it (but mostly myself) even though it wakes me up and i can't function without it

booze is a strong contender. i feel 100x more sociable, but it's absence also makes me feel depressed when i realize i can't even figure out how to speak out loud during the afternoon without second-guessing everything word that comes out.

weed makes me feel happy and creative and insanely productive. it also makes me lift up my dog's earflap and whisper "boof." winner!

20 year old snoball was: booze >>> coffee >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> weed
Now I'm: chocolate > caffeine (25% coffee, 50% energy drinks, 25% tea)

xpost typo and grammar city police, red alert extreme, sorry

Today's sequence will like be
w - b - w - b - w - b - c - ?
Same as last week

coffee is the one i'm addicted to

I quit drinking 13 years ago, and for the past two/three months caffeine is the closest I've been to feeling "I need this shit" with a substance other than alcohol. Walking from work to the bus station this evening I chugged down a Red Bull and while doing so I realised that I was using the same kind of arguments I used in the past to justify drinking to justify consuming caffeine.

Basically "I need alcohol to feel as relaxed as other people" vs "I need caffeine to feel as energetic as other people".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

wwwellwhaddAWILLITBEEeeeemaaaaaaaaaan?

(your three poll options in order, for those keeping score)

I don't drink coffee, the other two tie.

coffee >> booze >>>>>>>> weed for me

I love weed.

SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY

^good thread^

love a good splidd now and again, but you get very little bang for your buck where i live. it's expensive, subject to drought and besides when i do get hold of some, i tend to smoke it daily. for better or worse that means i tend to go two-weeks on, three weeks off on average which is okay i guess, but i always have to consider it a treat.
i say 'for better or worse' because i find that while i'm a more creative, aesthetist person on weed, it can make me a bit lazy and less driven.

Booze on the other hand is always available. it's also fairly expensive. but i've never really managed to go a long time without it. i drink a lot less than i used to, but i still have alcohol at least once a week, often to the point of being drunk. i don't know what it's like to go out in the evening and not at least have a beer. i'm not a bad drunk either, and tend to be MORE reasonable, outgoing and accommodating than while sober. I think if I gave up drinking, it would make me a healthier person. I'd lose weight and be much more likely to give up cigarettes, since these days I rarely smoke unless I drink (but if I do drink, I chainsmoke). That said, I worry I'd have trouble socialising and that social anxiety would consume me if I went out and stayed sober - I'd be less likely to initiate conversation etc, which i'm quite good at when under the influence.

Coffee is a means to an end - I have a cup in the morning, every morning, but since making it a daily habit I've noticed my teeth getting worse and worse. I'd happily give it up, but it just tastes nice and wakes me up a bit.

i've never really counted coffee as an intoxicant so much as just a nice drink though. the only time i notice the effects is if i make the mistake of drinking it later in the day and can't sleep at night.

sitting at my work desk drinking coffee reading this thread, would be so much more awesome if i had a cold beer and a joint instead

loolll in my first temp job a bunch of us shared a joint in my friend's car at lunch. i was sitting facing my boss and that was the looooooooongest afternoon of my life.

yea i have smoked before going to work at various jobs and it is pretty much never a good idea

i mean even when i worked at record store it was not very much fun to smoke before going in. i don't like having responsibilities when i'm high unless it means cleaning my apartment

lol xpost!

getting stoned while working in a record shop - no problem
getting stoned while working in an office - gives me the fear

weed >>> booze >>> coffee

Years of drinking too much unremarkable coffee all day long at work (simply because it's available and I'm bored, and basically addicted) has really dimmed my enthusiasm toward the stuff - I don't even keep it in the house anymore. Still appreciate the head rush but the truly memorable cup of coffee grows more elusive.

yea i think my whole attitude towards coffee shifted when i started buying decent coffee and making it at home

the "coffee" i envisioned when i made this poll is powerful, aromatic, delicous, complex and thus is on par w/ good weed and good booze, the shit that's available at the office all day i don't even really think of as coffee really, it's just like a coffee flavored beverage

Coffee is not only a net positive in itself, it is also helpful for those who enjoy alcohol:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/coffee-may-protect-the-liver/?_r=0

lol marcos don't we live in the same city? hook a sistah up! jk. mostly.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, August 14, 2015 3:31 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i would enbb! except i don't even have a hookup.... my friend got some for me from a dealer he knows (but wouldn't share her name, i could always ask i guess) and then he moved to san diego so i am just kind of hanging on to this little jar i bought from him a while ago. after that i will just have to hold on until legal weed is available here in MA (will be on the ballot in 2016!!!)

i think about getting a medical card but it seems like too much work

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I've never liked any of these things, which is kind of funny since I've been travelling through Vancouver/Seattle/Portland, and was wondering, how much am I actually missing out by not caring about beer, weed, and coffee?

A lot!

edb we need to get you interested in lyfe

i am planning out my work conferences this year and have to choose between a conference in charleston, SC and vancouver and i think i have to go with vancouver for the above reasons. charleston is dope though i went there last year.

though what is the legal status of weed in vancouver? it seems ambiguous. how easy is it for a visitor to obtain some?

i think about getting a medical card but it seems like too much work

― marcos, Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I spent an afternoon last week at work looking up how to get one and I still don't really know? It does seem like a lot of work and the places that claim to issue them seem kinda shady? Maybe I'll look again but it was v confusing.

The holy trinity