Pot in stories?

[michaeldgorman]

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[PoppingTom]

Drugs are a story killer for me. Definitely.

Weed is the absolute border. Anything goes further, makes the protagonist loses his humanity, in my eyes.

 

[MzDeviancy]

I'm wondering how people feel about characters in stories smoking pot, or using other drugs. I started writing some stories based on my college days a couple months back, got busy, and am now getting started back up. My college days involved a lot of weed, and occasional experimentation with other psychadelic drugs, so that factors in to some stories. I'm just not sure if, for those who aren't in to that kind of thing, that's a story killer. It would never be the focus of a story, just something mentioned in passing or a minor plot device.
Thanks.

Weed is like alcohol to me. No biggie. I've also talked to a lot of people who found weed made them horny.

Harder drugs...it's weird cuz when I was younger I experimented with harder stuff, and yet I still feel uncomfortable when I see it in an erotic story. I was moseying along through one story when there was a casual mention of doing coke: instant backclick. It's not that it offends me or anything, but it just immediately turned me off.

Pot is so vanilla though. I think most people wouldn't mind a character who smoked occasionally or had in the past.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I write pot into some of my stories. In fact, i had finished something, and reading it over I realised that my main character should have been smoking all the way through-- so I went back and added a joint into his hand about a half-dozen places. It made him a little bit more believable...

 

[JackLuis]

Pot's organic, meth should only be used to set a horrible example.
JMO

 

[TxRad]

One of my stories was set back in the late 60's early 70's. Leaving pot out just wouldn't fit the times. One reader complained about drink, smoking pot, and driving. Today, I'd agree with that but back then no one even thought about it, especially on the back roads late at night.

Harder drugs I've always left alone because I figured I'd like them too much so they are not in my stories.

 

[glynndah]

Pot figures fairly prominently in at least one of my stories.

 

[lance gt]

I have no problem writing Pot into my stories. Normal people smoke it and normal people have sex, so it made sense to keep things in perspective.

It would depend on the story and setting whether to add it or not.

 

[Guest]

I'm wondering how people feel about characters in stories smoking pot, or using other drugs. I started writing some stories based on my college days a couple months back, got busy, and am now getting started back up. My college days involved a lot of weed, and occasional experimentation with other psychadelic drugs, so that factors in to some stories. I'm just not sure if, for those who aren't in to that kind of thing, that's a story killer. It would never be the focus of a story, just something mentioned in passing or a minor plot device.
Thanks.

I say write what you want. If the use of a psychotropic figures into your story, then go for it. Some of the things that people write here are story killers for others. I personally have no problem with drugs in a story. Even so far as crack, or crystal. But incest makes me close the book. Use the drugs ( lilerarily) as a plot device and you'll be fine. Some people will scoff, but others won't. It will all be fine in the end.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm wondering how people feel about characters in stories smoking pot, or using other drugs. I started writing some stories based on my college days a couple months back, got busy, and am now getting started back up. My college days involved a lot of weed, and occasional experimentation with other psychadelic drugs, so that factors in to some stories. I'm just not sure if, for those who aren't in to that kind of thing, that's a story killer.

I've never included pot, because my characters are high on sex. I will rarely include alcohol, but never beyond the degree that it lowers inhibition. I consider the two to be equivalent to each other, except one is illegal.

 

[Weird Harold]

I'm just not sure if, for those who aren't in to that kind of thing, that's a story killer. It would never be the focus of a story, just something mentioned in passing or a minor plot device.

I think that how relevant to the story you're telling (or the development of the characters )the drug use is is the key issue. If the drug use is just gratuitous, then people will notice it and comment unfavorably or back-click. If it is integral and necessary to the story, then it doesn't stand out and people won't think twice about whether it should be in the story.

Don't worry about what the reader will think, worry about whether the story really needs a particular element.

There are even stories here that have too much explicit (gratuitious) sex in them because the author thinks a story on an erotic stories site has to have explicit sex in every chapter to succeed. To a certain extent, they're right about the need for an erotic element but the sex is written as "we will return the the story after this obligatory sex scene" instead of being a consistent part of the story. That approach destroys any interest I might have in the sex scenes and severely reduces the interest in the actual story.

If your drug references are of the "meanwhile back at the frat-house" kind of divergence from your story, they probably aren't a good idea.

 

[Loring2]

Amen Brother Weird

I think that how relevant to the story you're telling (or the development of the characters )the drug use is is the key issue. If the drug use is just gratuitous, then people will notice it and comment unfavorably or back-click. If it is integral and necessary to the story, then it doesn't stand out and people won't think twice about whether it should be in the story.

Don't worry about what the reader will think, worry about whether the story really needs a particular element.

There are even stories here that have too much explicit (gratuitious) sex in them because the author thinks a story on an erotic stories site has to have explicit sex in every chapter to succeed. To a certain extent, they're right about the need for an erotic element but the sex is written as "we will return the the story after this obligatory sex scene" instead of being a consistent part of the story. That approach destroys any interest I might have in the sex scenes and severely reduces the interest in the actual story.

Magnifique. There isn't much anyone can add to that statement to make it better.

 

[michaeldgorman]

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[mynameisben]

What's your take on performance enhancement drugs? I have a story idea about a musclebound guy who's into rubbing olive oil all over his body and smoking spinach in his corncob pipe.