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I hear you but unfortunaltely nobody has been able to clean up the world (or america) and never will.Since the history of mankind stimulants are used in some form.I ve settled for a good cold beer. And it sure feels good:-) piece and love hippies L.a > > > > Only drug users defend using drugs. All drugs are a > cop-out. It may take one > years > to figure it out, but I have never watched a drug > user who continues to use > drugs do > anything with his/her life. I have only watched > countless, and I mean > countless, > musicians who spent (and still spend) all of their > energy buying kine bud, > getting > high morning, noon, and night, forget gig dates, > forget phonenumbers, forget > key > changes, forget their ass, hook the outputs out of > the inputs, forget how to > route a > VST wrapper, play their basses drenched in reverb > and delays thinking it > sounds > cool, stop after setting up a TON of equipment to go > get stoned and come > back > and 'noid out in front of their gear, choke when > speaking to the > audience...the list > goes on. All of my former band members use(d) pot in > excess and will defend > it > more loquaciously than anything I have read here are > still only successes in > their > own personal hall of fame. As a matter of fact, my > former drummer has a > horrendous > smokers hack and he aint smokin' cigarettes. All pot > users will voice their > opinions > in favor of pot exactly like the denizens of the > Isle of the Lotos Eaters. > It's the same > predictable, self-serving, stoner bullshit that I > have heard for years. I'm > through > writing about pot. It's a trap. Give it up if you > use it and rejoin your > human mind. > The psychedelic thing is really something else. > Psylocibin fungus on your > neurons. > Big deal. So you join the fungus phylum for a while > and realize "wow, this > is a planet." Yep. It's a planet. Okay, now what? > Cocaine? Pure craziness and a capitalists wet dream. > Heroin. More madness. > LSD? Okay, so maybe--maybe--if you're lucky, you get > some real LSD and pitch > a no-hitter. So what. It isn't you. It is you on the > drug. Once is cool, but > like anything, > you get hooked and can't perform without it and you > are a great big fake. > > Musicians who can only perform high: > Any repeated behavior results ina refined > performance. So if you are a > musician > who repeats behaviors while stoned, then you will > learn and only be able to > reliably > replicate these behaviors while stoned. It is a trap > that the body has > created for > itself. The only way out is to quit and relearn. > That's it. Disagree all you > want, but it's all in order to vehemently defend a > crutch. > Recreational drug use is for cheaters. > Now, I highly doubt anyone reading this is a shaman > or some other bonafide > mystic, > otherwise you'd not be bothering with internets and > mailing lists and > musical > equipment, but rather be preparing a medicine bag > with animal bones or > divining water > with a stick or whatever a true shaman does. I > believe that the sacred > substances > of this planet belong to them and to them alone. All > these kids driving > around in > Mustangs, smoking pot, going to class and staring > vacant eyed at me (yes, > I'm a > teacher and I see firsthand just how fucked up > people are who use drugs, how > self-deluded and seduced by their peer structure and > support system and the > whole > hunter/gathering routine) are plugging up the > psychic ether for the rest of > earnest > people who would rather meditate and get to know the > wonders of the universe > without a barrage of confusion and sloppy intention. > They can't retain and > can't learn. > I have not had one kid who supported pot do better > than ones who do not. > Period. The pot users always give themselves away, > at least in my classes. > It is so easy to manipulate a discussion in order to > discover who favors > pot. It's hilarious. And the ones who obviously have > never seen it or are > still so innocent that they haven't tried simply do > naturally better at > everything: their memory works, they are present, on > time, alert, etc. > I'm through. I can't convince anyone to stop. All I > can say is there is no > valid rationalization an active drug user can offer > in defense of his or her > self- > destructive, mind-altering blackhole of a habit. > None. John Lilly, Terrence > McKenna, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Poe, Hunter > S., that freak Crowley, > or the countelss > musicians who have used drugs could have done so > much more without. The body > degenerates all by itself. A few doors opened by > drug use is fine. Sustained > and > persistent use is a trap. I am telling you, read > Isle... > > Now those who have bothered to read this entire > message will hopefully > discern a > distinction between active, defensive drug users and > those who have dived > deep > === message truncated === ===== www.labalou.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com