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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (21 children)

$26 to Freedom

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Although also I feel really, really bad for people who have never experienced it. You think John Belushi wanted to be alive today if all he had to do was live a nice healthy, boring life.

You ever get the feeling that things are never really this way or that but they exist in a sort of Schrodinger's cat duality or like a multi-... Ality? Bob died tragically at 27, he was a musician and he overdosed on drugs while running a train on a bunch of groupies.

Or -- Bob lived till he was 97, had 34 grandchildren, half of whom are considered legally retarded, and died quietly in his bed, remembering the woman who last fucked him decades ago.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

IFIFY:
Jason lived till he was 97, had 34 grandchildren that he never knew about from when he overdosed on drugs while running Burning Man orgies with bunches of hippies, some possibly retarded, and died quietly in his sleep (unlike his screaming passengers), remembering the mostly good women who last fucked him decades ago.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Jason died at 64, nobody found his body for weeks.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Jason died at 64, nobody found his body for weeks.

Yours sincerely wasting away
Give me your answer
Fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Only 13 more years! I've got a lot to wrap up. And a lot of bodies to hide.

Jason died at 64, nobody found his bodies for decades.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (15 children)

It's a losing proposition. There's no better living through chemistry. You can take all the feel good chemicals your body can muster and dump them all out at once into your brain, but you can't stay that way.

The House always wins.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (10 children)

Someone once said you can alternate between coke and heroin if you have discipline. It may have just been someone who enjoyed regularly without destructive addiction. Most people can do that, but there's still too many who can't for various reasons.

I thought it was mentioned in De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but as I look at this article I see no mention of cocaine so I may be remembering wrongly. I suspect they may have merely referenced that book, also on my shelf, and that's why it's been associated in my mind. I haven't read much about drugs since the mid or late 90s when I actually bought countless books.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

I shot up coke to quit meth, I am a big believer in addiction substitution.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Any good drugs you know make you fart or shit yourself? I'm wondering if Biden is on them.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Been shitting myself all morning, it's legal too: unpasteurized beer. God, I love Devil's Backbone, a Belgian Tripel, but I'm on my third pair of shorts already.

There is a game. We all play it. Is it a shit or is it a fart? Everyone who plays the game loses at some point.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Meth is the much better drug IMHO, but you have to purify it first. It's the impurities that create all those health problems. Or if you can get Desoxyn, all you have to do is extract it, because it's already very well purified, but that's very expensive.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I can't imagine a doctor who would prescribe Desoxyn lightly, they'd be risking their DEA number. I'll have to ask my pharmacy peeps if they've ever filled it.

you have to purify it first

Crystalization is a form of purification. Although, and I didn't watch the show but apparently on Breaking Bad they all love the blue meth. That comes from making it with dirty Walmart shit and those are crystals. It's not a good thing.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Breaking Bad

Great show.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It is a FORM OF purification, but it's not nearly good enough for pharma grade, as you undoubtedly know.

Yeah I wasn't talking about a doc actually prescribing it lightly, more like rich people can buy a pharmacist and get all the goodies. Then buy the DEA inspectors for good measure. Easier than hiring a chemist and having your own lab just for personal consumption, since well, they're already rich, why risk tangling with actual organized crime?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

why risk tangling with actual organized crime?

Speaking of that, I really love that the farm bill makes Delta 8 legal, which is essentially the same damn thing as Delta 9.

Kinda snuck through marijuana legalization. What's a cop going to do, send everyone's vape to a lab to check if it's delta 8 or delta 9.

So much nicer buying it from a legitimate business instead of sketchy drug dealers.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I've never used a needle. That's a big leap.

I like substance balancing too.
And blending, though it's important to know what blends are good and which are dangerous.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Indeed - and it takes a long, difficult commitment to reduce that dependency. But as that process develops, one finds that there are so many alternatives for one's additictions, some of which are healthy

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You're right, but I don't mean those initial stages people so often struggle with. Imagine drug use, not addiction, but use, as a biological imperative for certain people. Something they can't change any more than the color of their skin, or their gender. And addiction is just a byproduct of a natural urge.

Thompson called it the drug brotherhood.

[–]JasonCarswellMusic Fan 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I think of it as a vacation, well deserved or not, compulsory or not, blowing off steam or not. Whatever the reason - some people work better with a little R&D R&R on the regular.

Plus there's the kind of reboot - via psychedelics or electroshock or whatever. I prefer ketamine, a well documented anti-depressant that is worthless to Big Pharma. A little bit (not even a high) every 2 weeks and you're golden.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is new to me. I'll look for more information. I have a long past with various addictive substances, but have addressed them as part of my 'addictive personality'. Perhaps this is another version of a kind of OCD. I don't really know. But if we consider innate 'natural urges', without assessing addiction, we could appreciate this is potentially an extension of one's OCD or another urge of some sort.