buzzkid24
Outsider 101
buzzkid24
I just thought it was funny... Except I'm lying, because smoking is bad. talk2hand
Pfft, I'm more than aware of your position on it.
talk2hand
Ha, nah, I kid. You're entitled to your opinion. Hell, two years ago I was one of the most militant anti-drugs folks you could ever meet, so been there, done that.
I got better.
I suppose I realised that my prejudices against smoking marijuana and indeed against many other drugs, were based more on popular myth and fabrications than facts. So I studied a little, did a shitload of research, talked to some new people. I started to understand that there were a lot of assumptions I were making that were incorrect.
Around about the same time, I was getting interested in philosophy, and I'd started to formulate my own spiritual beliefs, being a pantheist and all. I guess I noticed a lot of similarities between the experiences of cannabis and psychedelics that seemed to suggest on some level that I was thinking along the right lines.
After a few months or so of starting to research all this, I went from believing that all drugs are stupid and highly dangerous to believing that though many drugs aren't exactly conducive to good health, there are many others with relatively few hazards which can inspire creativity, lateral thinking and induce religious experiences if used sparingly, responsibly, and with respect.
And personally, though I've only actually been smoking cannabis a few months now, my experiences with it seem to corroborate that few to a fair extent. Ever since I began, I've noticed I've become much better at visualising my ideas.
Course, that won't be enough to convince a lot of people. But I think if certain drugs are used respectfully in a responsible manner, it can only benefit the user.
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It was also Hitler's birthday yesterday.
