Yeah, and it didn't work in the end anyway. Magnussen saw through it.

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

So...Sherlock was taking drugs. He argues it was for the case? What do you think? Was there a legitimate reason for him to be in that drug den? Because...in the end, it didn't actually have anything to do with Magnussen, did it? I feel like he just used that as an excuse...I don't know. I can't think of any actual connection between the drug den and Magnussen. Unless I'm just not remembering something from the episode.

the scene in the drug den and the wife going to John saying about Isaac on the drugs is actually an interpreted part of another canon story, 'The Man With The Twisted Lip'.  Watson goes to the opium den to find the guy and finds Sherlock there undercover, just like in the episode.

As I said elsewhere, I believed Sherlock when he said it was for a case.  Thanks, asylum69, for reminding me about The Case of the Twisted Lip; that's one of the stories in the canon I've actually read. 

But after reading some other comments, maybe Sherlock was indeed taking drugs and getting a high off it, but I don't think he did it as a reaction to something in his personal life.  When he was in the hospital at one point, he ups the dose of morphine but then almost immediately he lowers it.  That to me indicates that Sherlock feels he can control his ingestion of whatever he was taking in the drug den and that he isn't addicted in the same way he might have been at an earlier time in his life.

I am finding it hard to understand how they did not see each other for a month? I mean I understand Sherlock avoided John on purpose because of the case, but wouldn't John get suspicious and at least try to drop by Baker Street, knowing him?

Yes, I rather liked that nod ;)

Sherli Bakerst wrote:

As I said elsewhere, I believed Sherlock when he said it was for a case.  Thanks, asylum69, for reminding me about The Case of the Twisted Lip; that's one of the stories in the canon I've actually read. 

But after reading some other comments, maybe Sherlock was indeed taking drugs and getting a high off it, but I don't think he did it as a reaction to something in his personal life.  When he was in the hospital at one point, he ups the dose of morphine but then almost immediately he lowers it.  That to me indicates that Sherlock feels he can control his ingestion of whatever he was taking in the drug den and that he isn't addicted in the same way he might have been at an earlier time in his life.

 
You will find that the canon Holmes did indeed use drugs wholly & solely for the purpose of sharpening his mind. This is a natural phenomenon of the substance. Unfortunately in today's world, people associate drug taking with 'a need to get high'. Like so many other things nowadays, nothing is worth doing unless it's in excess it seems.
But going back to its original use, it can be very addictive to most people, however those with the mindset needed to resist addiction as Holmes (canon) has, even Sherlock (BBC) has (which many refuse to see) were quite able to use it when needed and leave it as well.
There have been no actual references to Sherlock being a drug addict, the references that you are all screaming at me as you read this have NOT been shown to be related to a drug addiction, just an addiction. And as these fora pages show, addictions can come in many shapes & sizes.

Yes, certainly the morphine adjustment that Sherlock made was a obvious attempt to show the viewers that he CAN control himself, again however this will be overlooked by many who do not know the canon well and hence the assumptions come thick & fast that he's a junkie or a recovering one.

So his excuse for being there (to gain CAM's attention) was in fact true, he gained it in a different way than he thought he would, but the result was satisfactory for his needs.

Yes, I got that, too. 

Well she said she was going to, but I wonder if she does?
Maybe Sherlock will rent the place from her!

Last edited by besleybean (January 13, 2014 5:11 pm)

Well, has she gone?!
I don't want her back at all.
But I certainly don't fear her like I did Irene.