As an ex-drinker, I just find it highly ironic that such casualness exists in our society surrounding the use of one of the most addictive drugs on the planet.
Hopefully all of you who think this ease of access is well and good will carry the same understanding (casualness) towards >other< people's drug use and the similar enjoyment they recieve from using the drug of THEIR choice when the various legalization (marijuana) measures come before you at the polls in the upcoming election/decade.
be safe out there, whether yer tippin a 64, snortin a line, smoking a bowl, or shootin some junk....
it's all the same switch yer flippin in yer head...whatever drug you choose to use.
Actually, most people who drink aren't addicted to it, so it's not true to say that alcohol is one of the most addictive drugs. If you wanted to make a point about alcohol and wanted to be accurate you could say "Alcohol has caused more problems than any other drug on the planet". But that's true because the total number of users is so large and has been for thousands of years, not because most users are addicted and cause problems -- they're not and they don't.
I, too, am an ex-drinker, and I chose to stop because, unlike my friends who all drink, I really was addicted to it. I also chose to not replace it with some other drug, because -- as you say -- it's all the same to some part of my brain. And because I want to see things clearly and think clearly all the time....I love the high desert, but I don't want to love the desert high...not any more, anyway.
But I don't have the right to tell my friends that they also have to be "awake" all the time...just when they're driving, etc.
Oregon is one of those states with a vote coming up...I suppose the logically-consistent vote for me would be "Yes".
