11-22-2016, 04:43 AM
My experience with drug users is about the opposite. All my friends to the last one who fit that category are constantly keeping their loved ones in a state of worry about their actions. A lot of them are very smart and interesting people but they always fuck themselves over with bad decisions. one broke his brain permanently on psychedelics and flew to Morocco like he was a beat poet or some shit. Our only way to make sure he was alive for a full month was checking his facebook for schizophrenic posts. he's under therapy right now. And my little sister smoked who knows what once thinking it was weed. Dad had a superhero rescue mission that night. Those shaped my attitude but it's nice knowing people can do it right.
I don't think the "you can't be 100% straight edge" argument works because it's pretty easy to draw a distinction between chocolate and lsd based on how hard they hit you and how little we know of the mechanisms behind them. The bigger question is what value can be found in intentinally blowing up your consciousness for a while? Even if it felt nice, it would feel awfully dishonest and artificial to me. Plus the risks scare me like a little piggy.
I don't think the "you can't be 100% straight edge" argument works because it's pretty easy to draw a distinction between chocolate and lsd based on how hard they hit you and how little we know of the mechanisms behind them. The bigger question is what value can be found in intentinally blowing up your consciousness for a while? Even if it felt nice, it would feel awfully dishonest and artificial to me. Plus the risks scare me like a little piggy.