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- From: David Honig@ics.uci.edu
- Subject: Re: "ex" smokers of MJ
- Message-ID: <2B06965A.1838@ics.uci.edu>
- Reply-To: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig)
- Organization: UC Disneyland, in the Kingdom of Bren
- References: <1992Nov14.114618.29569@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov15.121845.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:26:34 GMT
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- jmolinari@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
- >> I know several people who used to smoke large amounts of marijuana
- >> but no longer touch it because it "freaks them out too much" or they "cant
- >> handle it". When quizzed as to why they don't smoke anymore, they are often
- >> reluctant to even talk about it and shrug it off. This puzzles me.
- >> Are there others out there who used to use grass, but no longer do for
- >> these or similar reasons??
- >
- > Similar. I believe that what your friends were experiencing was some
- >sort of drug-induced paranoia, which I'm rather familiar with on a first-hand
- >basis. I used to smoke pot on a sporadic basis, and enjoyed it tremendously
- >every time. However, for some reason, when I started to mix it with LSD I
- >would become incredibly uncomfortable in just about any setting, with just
- >about any company.
- > Anyway, I can't explain why, but now I can't do either of the two
- >drugs, in any combination, without freaking out completely. It's possible
- >that I'll never do them again for this reason; the effects they have on me have
- >become predictably disturbing.
- >
- > There's too much about the mind we don't know, in my opinion.
- >
- > Hope that helps.
- >
-
-
- You'll all note that this is exactly the kind of responsible self-regulation
- that the hysterics would like us to believe does not occur. I'm sure
- that this phenomenon occurs for behaviors from ethanol to sex to nitrous.
-
- --
- David Honig
- "To get to the new paradigm, you don't just think about what it would be
- like. You put down stakes and try to start living in it." Marc Weiser,
- head of Comp Sci Lab, Xerox PARC, as reported in Advanced Imaging Aug 92
-