I was at the Avon Free Festival once
My pal Alex had a sheet of 100 (or thereabouts) 'Moon-phases' - basically LSD blotters showing the different phases of the moon from tiny crescent to full moon and back the other side.

We started with two each, but kind of lost track of time when they started to kick in, so after about two hours I had eaten eight of them.

Then this manky old traveller chap came over to our fire, babbling complete gibberish, foaming slightly at the mouth and eventually rolling into the fire, shouting. We pulled him out and managed to calm him down, but in doing so we managed to ascertain that he'd taken the same acid that we had. Worriedly we enquired as to his dose, which turned out to be.....a half.

For a time we were terrified, but luckily all was well - the chap was just a colossal lightweight, despite looking like a medieval brigand.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:21, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Excellent yarn
Not horrific, though
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Yeh', think is though, as you think that bloke was a compete phsyco, with the amount you take, you probably got a hell of a lot more people thinking that about you.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:32, Reply)

I did not at any time
speak in a made-up language or roll in any fires, though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Yeh', you're totally copus mentus all the time when you're on drugs.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:38, Reply)

A very great deal more so than the drunk people
that fill Britain's pubs every night, believe me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:41, Reply)

People who think crips packets are tenners or that they are a basketball on a viking ship
are more rational than people who pull mingers or think kebabs are a good idea?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:44, Reply)

No, I am talking about me.
Not other people. It's not something I am proud of and it's somewhat expensive, but I have a herculean capacity for substances that means I have never and will never do that kind of stupid shit - and without doubt I'll never desecrate a war memorial or beat my spouse into a bloody pulp, either.

EDIT I think most people should not go near drugs - particularly alcohol. No offence to Lampito but if a substance made me physically violent or sick I'd never touch it again.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:47, Reply)

Sorry, I'm being biased
I've witnessed worse violence/delusion/general insanity from people on drugs than from people drunk.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:51, Reply)

Never been to A&E on a Saturday night?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:52, Reply)

One's socially acceptable
and the other isn't.

I've got more reason than most to be leery of drug use, but I'm mostly of a live and let live mentality. Still wouldn't like it if one of my kids or my missus started using, but that's probably social conditioning speaking.
( Kroney, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:54, Reply)

Yes
I just talking about my life, people I know or have known. This isn't a tit-for-tat argument. But the fella who throttled his mother, the man who repeatedly stamped on his wife's head, the lad who jumped off his mother's roof, the girl who put her hand through a glass door and tried to rub her wrist on the jagged glass, the lad who punched his mum in the face then tried to cut his own teeth out with a razor blade, the girl who became convinced I was possessed by the devil and who baptised her friend by throwing a basin of water over her, leading to another sectioning - they were all well on teh druhgz and not the ale.
I do also know a man who used to get drunk on whisky and slap his wife in the face and call her terrible names, a man who steals to afford more lager, and several women who will have sex with anyone when drunk. But from my point of view I happen to have seen worse from drugs than booze.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Fair enough.
It happens to be the other way round in my life.

*gentlemanly handshake*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)

It's over endulgence
plus interaction with other substances.

Sadly the "other substance" is something I need to live vaguely normally, hence I only really drink to excess once a fortnight. I also do not throw up every time I drink.
I've made an executive decision never to do several things again, but booze isn't one. Though I can see myself quitting drinking for a while.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:58, Reply)