I have a question...

whats the difference between me smoking a joint and taking paxil or effexor or any of the other drugs that are dealt out by the legal pushers? I mean when I was stoned at least I was happy smoking mother nature...and people would tell me dont put chemicals in your body but here I am putting chemicals into my body...I dont get it...explain please someone...anyone...

One tries to work "with" your body chemistry and the other only screws with your head, can cause additional problems without really helping anything. One tries to fix the problems, the other only masks. You may feel better and function with paxil, not gonna happen with a joint.

Good posting Perna. Pefect explanation.

Mystry…
I make a habit out of reading between the lines. Here is my take on your post.

Your p###ed off, there is nothing you love more than altering your perceptions of naked reality. And for some reason or another, that has gotten more difficult for you.

I will bet money that when you had a bag of primo reefer in a cigar box under your bed, or wherever you kept it, you thought about when you could spark one up all the time. You thought about it every waking hour of every day. You imagined how sweet the buzz was going to be. And at the very first available moment, you pinched one up.

Obsession.

Now something has changed and your mechanism for coping is no longer available. And you don’t like it. And you want someone…anyone to tell you that this world is screwed up, the people running your life don’t know what they are doing, you have been done wrong.

This world is screwed up, and maybe the people running your life really don’t know what they are doing, and for all I know, you have been done wrong.

But none of that changes the fact that you want that buzz above all things. And as long as we place access to our drug of choice above our sobriety, that obsession will never change.

This world doesn’t change Mystry, we do.

Richard

I have the same question constantly in the back of my head. I would rather smoke a joint, than pop a pill. I never found the answer....but I hope you do Mystry!
-Megan-

Damajdancer - See Perna's post above. There's the answer.