Due to my recent bad cough I have had three days for the contemplation of our current social situation, my life, the universe in general, the role of Jesus as model of the revolutionary magician, and a number of other weighty topics. If I sometimes act too "serious" it is because I am attempting to get you to rethink your habitual assumptions. You've had a lot of nonsense about the world drilled into your head since your were born, and that nonsense forms a filter that distorts everything you perceive. The Matrix is a very accurate depiction of the fate of anyone who uses psychedelics on a serious basis. (though I haven't yet perfected my cool ninja powers) Using these substances for purely "recreational" reasons is inviting psychological harm, if not outright physical damage. I'm not saying that having fun isn't a welcome thing, but you can't take substances which powerfully affect memory, cognition, perception, etc., and expect that they're going to be "fun" in any conventional sense on a regular basis. Always perversely interesting, but not always "fun" unless you subscribe to very tortured and idiosyncratic definitions. DXM is not a substitute for marijuana, nor is marijuana a substitute for alcohol. Each of these substances has its own risks, its own rewards. Each of these has its own "signal," if you will. Intelligently used drugs offer the chance to explore the heights (and depths) of one's own mind. The contents are beautiful, ecstatic, horrible, comical, nauseating, boring, painful, trite, etc., You have in your hands the keys to the kingdom - not *just* a cool way to get fucked up on Saturday night. It has been advocated by some, and I have come to feel strongly, that we live in the golden age of psychedelia. Everyone remembers the hype surrounding the 60s, but the late 90s and the early years of the 21st century have been a far wilder time. Teenagers can order powerful botanical and synthetic psychedelics with money orders and have them delivered to their parent's homes in unassuming packages. Knowledge of recreational drugs is being more widely disseminated than ever before. When I was finishing high school in 1997, 1998, it was unimaginable to myself and most of my peers that the wealth of information in regard to drugs and other means of altering consciousness could actually exist. The Internet has brought more information (in all departments, not just pharmacology) to the eyes of a 6 year old than was available at any given time to humanity's best minds thirty years ago. There are an entire new generation of "heads," "freaks," or whatnot who have used DXM, 5-MeO-DMT, AMT, 5-MeO-DiPT, San Pedro cactus, Salvia Divinorum, etc., as their initiation into the world of psychedelia. I've talked to people who've never used acid, but can intelligently discuss different types of psychedelic experiences and the changes of state which they undergo. Over the last year I have very much realized my prejudice in favor of LSD - it was the psychedelic that, for the first time in my life, slapped me in the face and brought me to attention. I've had experiences just as rich on a number of other substances, but it wasn't until Sunday, during a dissociated romp through downtown San Francisco that these thoughts all started coming to a boil. But I rant. Suffice it to say that I believe this is a moment of unique possibility and promise, and that we should not waste it. The thing that makes the current situation with our quasi-(il)legal psychedelics infinitely amusing is that the government can't make any immediate moves to crack down without looking like idiots. For one thing, these are a set of drugs and drug users that they cannot, for all their broad logic, indict for aiding terrorism. Another issue is that this market has gone on for years, having only exploded in popularity in the pasty 4-5 years. Are we to believe that the government has been totally unaware of this activity for the past thirty years and that they've been caught by suprise? How competent does that make them look? {BEST YOKEL DICK COP VOICE} "Well, uh, you see, kids today use the computers a lot and we older people don't know so much about it so, yeah, it wasn't on our radar scree...I mean, we didn't see it coming." LOL. DXM is specifically exempted from scheduling except by express act of Congress (the story of DXM's legality is like a conspiracy theory). How are they going to explain that to Dr. Mom? The War on Drugs is over, and we won.
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Pax,
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