[mushroomsatsuji]

Originally Posted by WiseOne

What we would end up, I believe, is a world full of people just performing menial tasks.

"It started with the weed, then the pills (Ecstasy) and acid, making cocktails of all sorts of drugs, even overdosing to make the rushes last longer. I took copious amounts of these chemicals every day for as long as two years until I had a bad trip one night and went into toxic psychosis. I prayed and cried for this feeling to go away, I had voices in my head, had the shakes and couldn't leave home for 6 months. I became very withdrawn and thought everyone was watching me. I couldn't walk in public places. Man! I couldn't even drive.

I ended up homeless and on the streets, living and sleeping in a cardboard box, begging and struggling to find ways to get my next meal.

I asked myself if this is rock bottom and I believe that it was. While observing these homeless people, I decided that I had had enough. Yes, I wanted drugs but I realized that I could want life more."

— B.K.
www.drugfreeworld.org/real-life/index.html

I just think the altered state of awareness that's attained under the influence of drugs like Marijuana is escapist. Why not live in the real world instead of escaping from the reality of your problems by masking or ignoring them with drugs.

This guy is abviously a moron. He cant even control himself. Note that marijuana had nothing to do with it. He had psychosis after he started experimenting with harder drugs. How many do you think move to harder drugs? Not as many as you think. Its true that most that use hard drugs start out with weed, but the majority who use weed, dont go to harder drugs. They have a thing called 'self control'. I have a hard time even believeing that those 'real-life' stories are even real. If they are, Ive lost all hope in humanity if people are really that stupid. Would you like to know what marijuana really does? Find a user here under the name Rasta_Man. This man is more intellegent than your average stoner but it shows that marijuana does not make you retared. If anything makes you retarted, its the media and Scientology. I can tell that your name, 'wiseone', doesnt fit you.