There is a guy in India - don't ask me for the chapter and verse because I can't be bothered looking it up - who is in his late 70s. He claims that his last meal was 65 years ago. No one has ever seen him eat. He survives on sunlight, food and water - according to him. When asked why this is, or how he is able to survive in this way he merely says "I live as do the plants." OK - he's maybe a "fakir" or maybe he's a "faker" but I mention this to challenge your assertion that the intake of certain substances is privileged because of a claim of a necessary relationship we have with them.
You say you are addicted to the "Green Bitch" but I still hold that it is your choice to be so. I have been inhaling the stuff fairly regularly for at least the past 35 years. All the current studies indicate that cannabis is about as addictive as coffee. A woman in New Zealand recently died because she consumed on average half a swimming-pool of Coca Cola every day. You may argue that her "addiction" to Coke is what killed her, but I would say it was the lack of diversity in her diet that killed her. You cannot "suicide" by smoking too much cannabis. Even if you got a wheelbarrow full of the finest heads and proceeded to smoke all of it, you would eventually die - not from the THC intake, but through asphyxiation from inhaling such a ridiculous amount of smoke. I advocate intelligent and moderate use. My rule of thumb is - I buy a quarter of an ounce which I usually cannot afford anyway, so I treasure it. I am able to make that last for approximately 10 to twelve days. I then don't smoke for twice that amount of time - a fortnight or more. This is important because, the more you smoke Mary Jane, the less she works for you because the body builds up a tolerance for her. You surely have noticed this effect? To continue your intake of a substance after that substance has stopped working is the height of ignorance or stupidity. Intelligent and moderate use of a substance always invokes the need for a FORMAL and RITUALISED behaviour which becomes a life rhythm, a regime that supports your best side. When you use, your mind accepts the THC and you gain the marvellous insights and creative ideas that are the hallmark of cannabis and its effect on the mind. You also arm your body against cancer. One thing you and I will certainly NOT die of Quentin (and Bruno) is cancer. You must see this period of time as a privilege, a gift or a learning experience. You then leave the ecological classroom for a time and you take the wisdom and insights you developed under the influence back into the baseline normative state of consciousness that we must adhere to to live in a world where we have to do things like drive cars and operate dangerous heavy machinery for which a cannabis delirium would spell danger or death. I did not call this thread "The Plant Teachers" for nothing. The other thing is marijuana's effect on the memory. Often you smoke, you have powerful insights and ideas, but you forget them as your mind races ahead to its next perception.I have trained myself over the years to have a notepad and pen with me whenever stoned so I do not lose track of the pearls of wisdom as they come through. Cannbis is not a lifestyle; it is a TOOL. You must be clear to yourself WHY you are using it when you are using it and not just giving into a bad habit. But the ability to do that is a function of education - it requires restraint and the ability to see the value of living in these two parallel universes and skipping between the two. There is a necessary period of transition from one to the other. By now I can say that the experience of being straight is a wonderful experience because I know that it won't last forever because at a certain point I will allow myself to enter my "Second Life" and will become an avatar in another world. Both universes are on an equal footing. Being straight is not better than being stoned and being stoned is not better than being straight. There is symmetry in the experience of moving between different instantiations of the self. In the future, it will be the job of education to instruct people how to use their drugs responsibly and to gain value from their use. I mean this quite seriously. In a way, education should be doing this now. Teachers and students should go on trips together and notes should be compared and then a period of abstinence should be enforced to ensure that the subject gets the hang of the symmetry of which I speak. Smoking marijuana every day is not only a waste of money - it's a waste of marijuana, which is even worse. Kim Jones On 22/02/2013, at 7:24 PM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: > These are necessity, they do not entertain compusilve behavior. > > I've been addicted to marijuana for more than fifteen years, I know what > addict behavior entails. > > Usage repetition in drugs usage is an addictive behavior, the "I stop when I > want" is just BS. > > I'm not saying it is not possible to have a recreational non-addictive usage, > I'm just saying if you are using everyday, it is no more recreational > whatever lie you told yourself. > > Quentin > > 2013/2/22 Kim Jones <[email protected]> > Do you eat dinner every day? Do you drink coffee every day? Do you drink > water or milk every day? Do you watch the TV news every day? > > > Kim > > On 21/02/2013, at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> All classical psychedelics exhibit anti-addictive properties. Sure, people >> can't do mescaline or LSD regularly enough, i.e. every few days to every day, >> >> How is using every day (or every few days) not an addictive behavior ? 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