Another hilarious thing about hanging out with people in their sixties is that they can go on and on about their weed-smoking experiences while I sit there like a total square with nothing to share.
I try not to look too scandalized, but they notice and laugh, “It’s OK, kid, we grew up in the sixties. That’s just how things were.”
I can top that!
Back in 8th grade or so, a drugs-are-eeeevil speaker visited a class I was in (one of a long series of such speakers, we average three or four per year).
“Who in this room has either tried marijuana or knows someone who has tried it?”
Every hand in the room shot up except mine. That’s what comes from being a loner (who was relatively happy about that status).
The funny thing is I’ve done less drugs than almost anyone I knew in the states but a whole long line of people assumed I was a regular user (a combination of having a wierd imagination and being much more laid back than the average bear).
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You might enjoy SI Hayakawa’s take on some of this:
http://psychedelic-library.org/etchayak.htm
“… why disorient your beautiful senses with drugs and poisons before you have half discovered what they can do for you?”
Keep in mind that SI Hayakawa was not only a US Senator, but also the author of an infamous book on general semantics, “Language in Thought and Action”. I suppose the phrase “the map is not the territory” probably originated with Hayakawa.
I’m also reminded of an interview with William Gibson in which he mentioned off-handedly that he could no longer imagine how he was ever satisfied with “just tweaking the input” …
I figure the problems that cannabis solves aren’t interesting problems.
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