I sure do like smoking weed

[JeepNGeorge]

Originally posted by greenian
but since picking up weed I have also become more interested in things I love doing, hiking and hacky-sack. I've picked up the electric bass (I could never play an instrument before) and I'm going to school. It may be a waste when done all the time, but I restrict myself.

I restricted myself. Then I had to totally ban it when I realized I hadn't drew a sober breath in 7 years. Like most I started smoking dope to expand my mind. Everything just looks cool high, I could be myself, blah, blah, blah. Weed wasn't enough and why looky here some meth. One thing leads to another and I 'woke' up in a Las Vegas Hotel 50 pounds lighter, thousands of dollars broker, and somehow wiser to the fact that instead of expanding I was mearly trying to escape my mind. I wouldn't recommend seeing Vegas on a coke,speed,mushrooms,weed cocktail, but once you seen it you can't get it outta your head. (Hunter S. Thompson wrote a good narrative if your too afraid to try it for yourself though) I opened the door to perception Alex wrote about and sometimes wonder if that was a bad thing. Of course if I hadn't started weed, I'd be a computer programmer stuck in some cubicle trying to chew the blueing of my .44 magnum, so I guess somethings are just meant to happen.

Weed, like all things, when taken in moderation isn't bad. But I think maybe GnR was right in the song Mr. Brownstone. 'I used to do a little but a little would do it. A little got more and more.'

I do think it should be legal, although I wouldn't smoke a joint now if I had too. I found that I can be paranoid and eat a whole bag of doritos without any chemicals. I think since we do live in the land of the free we don't need da gubment telling me what I can and can't do.

I also think any pothead worth his salt should read Naked Lunch and Junky by William S. Burroughs. I never totally understood those books until I started on my personal drug trek.