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maddad
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scary realization
#19376810 - 01/06/14 11:08 AM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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Just did the math, and I spent over $10,000 on cannabis alone. And tack on another five grand for other substances. Wonder where I would be if I had all that money saved up...
I think I need to reexamine my priorities and clean up my act... I am a sucker for altered states of consciousness, but I need to take a break. Integrate the past year of experiences, from a completely sober mindset. Spend more time writing and formulating coherent thoughts and ideas out of the scrambled fragments swirling through my head.
-------------------- I live in an aura of hope because I live in a twilight world of my own self-generated, cannabinated fantasy, and I forget that not everyone is so fortunate. - Terence McKenna
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Malcolm_Xtasy
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Re: scary realization [Re: maddad]
#19376868 - 01/06/14 11:20 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Damn 10k? That's a lot money. How much do you smoke per week? How long have you been smoking?
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Re: scary realization [Re: maddad]
#19376883 - 01/06/14 11:23 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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10 grand?
im sure that most of the people on here have spent WAY more on substances than that. I know i have.
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memes
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yeah. but what would you have done with that instead?
andits not like you would just get $15K if you didnt do drugs. thats $30/wk over the course of a decade. would you save that money instead? probably not. odds are, if you didnt do drugs, you'd just have gone to a lot mroe happy hours, concerts, movies, etc.
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MilkdudTitties
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Re: scary realization [Re: memes]
#19376909 - 01/06/14 11:28 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Quote:
memes said: yeah. but what would you have done with that instead?
andits not like you would just get $15K if you didnt do drugs. thats $30/wk over the course of a decade. would you save that money instead? probably not. odds are, if you didnt do drugs, you'd just have gone to a lot mroe happy hours, concerts, movies, etc.
Exactly. If i wasn't spending money on that, i would have just spent it on something else
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Re: scary realization [Re: memes]
#19376915 - 01/06/14 11:29 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Why does it matter? If you don't make money to spend it on good times what's the point? If you like drugs, buy drugs.
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just dont think about how much money uve spent on drugs cuz its in the past and you cant do anything about
ive probly spent a solid 15-20 thousand on drugs. probly more. oh well
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theonlysun81
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The way I look at it, I invested in an education of some sorts. I went out met a ton of people from all different types of background with only one thing in common. Get to see some perspective. And to be honest it seems like its paying off.
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Re: scary realization [Re: maddad]
#19376957 - 01/06/14 11:39 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Goddamn! Thats way too many drugs boi!
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Chuckfinely
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Re: scary realization [Re: maddad]
#19376971 - 01/06/14 11:42 AM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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I find it best not to dwell on such things.
I used to have a nasty 80$ per day opiate habbit. For a year, with lighter use before that. Ofc the only way to manage a habbit like that is to be in that world, in all of its facilities, so without the habbit i wouldnt have been doing what i was doing in order to make that much in the first place..if you know what i mean.
If i hadnt been using but was still doing everything else, that would have been about 30000$ in my pocket. In just this past year
Add in about 500 per month(averaged) on pot for the entire time ive been smoking, so 6 years. Take into account that i started growing so i got 3 months per year for 3 years of smoking my own, nearly free, product.
Lets just call it 60 months for easy math. 30000$. I could easily buy a decent house around here for that.
This doesnt count the 2 years where my ex wife was taking about 25 bars per day, and me about 10. Thats 70$ per day my cost, 105$ if i were to have sold them. This also doesnt account for off and on hydrocodone use since 6 years ago, climaxing at about 15 per day for 2 years with my ex wife. 45$ per day my cost, 60$ if sold.
Lets add in 30k for court and probation fees that were a direct result of my possession of drugs. Not to mention the future income lost because of my criminal record.
All of this adds up to easily over $130k over the past 5 years. Thats a paid off house and car, and bills and food covered for 3 or 5 years, all off of what has gone into my body.
Then again, if i wasnt using drugs, then i would not have been involved in the activities associated with those drugs that provided me the income to buy and use them. Maybe if i hadnt been using drugs i would have gotten a decent job and brought in the same if not more money, legally so that i would actually have some thing to show for it...besides a record and half fried brain.
If i could go back in time i would go back to that night i got frustrated enough to try that first joint, and beat the shit out of myself until my younger self was too injured to use
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the way i see it, drugs have changed the way i think, made me make/meet certain friends, gave me awesome life experieces that i wouldnt have experienced otherwise. im gonna look back at my life in 30 years and know that i lived my life to the fullest when i had the chance
the only bad thing about it is that i wish i had that money back for more practical things, but i dont regret doing one drug
without drugs i never woulda got into a music/festival scene. and i love that life
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maddad
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Re: scary realization [Re: Bassfreak]
#19378370 - 01/06/14 05:53 PM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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That $10,000 was only in 2013 not my entire life, as well as the $5,000 on other substances. I smoke probably half an ounce or more a week. I have been trying to cut back recently. I don't even want to start to think of how much that has been since I started doing drugs. I could probably have bought a house by now if I had saved it all and been straight edge. Haha
-------------------- I live in an aura of hope because I live in a twilight world of my own self-generated, cannabinated fantasy, and I forget that not everyone is so fortunate. - Terence McKenna
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Icyus
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Re: scary realization [Re: maddad]
#19378380 - 01/06/14 05:55 PM (10 years, 24 days ago) |
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Dont worry, be happy.
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