Caffeine is my current drug of choice. Without it kapha loves to go high
and I feel like sleeping all day. Unfortunately my espresso machine
broke and it is a bear to fix if I can at all. The company seems to
think that I should just buy a new one. What a "throwaway" society we
are. And it was not one of my "Starbucks" days. :-D
On 11/07/2014 03:47 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Aldous Huxley quote (1931):
"So far as I can see, the only possible new pleasure would be one
derived from the invention of a new drug — of a more efficient and
less harmful substitute for alcohol and cocaine. If I were a
millionaire, I should endow a band of research workers to look for the
ideal intoxicant. If we could sniff or swallow something that would,
for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals,
atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and
make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely
beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring
drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a
clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all
our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a
novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
Sounds great - but I suspect that humans are so constituted that
changing our brains with chemicals is always going to have unwanted
side-effects.
---In [email protected], <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
I used to buy Ritalin over the counter, in Macau, and did a fair
amount - Yuck. Couldn't get weed, but any big pharma drug was there
for the taking. Bad situation.
---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Re "Cocaine DEFINITELY sucks":
Amen to that. Like you I only tried it a few times and the
after-effects were a warning I heeded. Ditto speed.
God knows what I'd have felt like after a methamphetamine binge (the
drug of choice today) - pretty sure I'd be suicidal.
