Author: Derailjr

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:28 am

The only thing that really ever bothered me about calling marijuana a narcotic and scheduling it as an S1 was that it seems that the laws in this country are quite biased toward the rx industry, and marijuana has paid a high price for that. A narcotic implies to me a physically AND mentally addictive substance from which the general population needs protection. I don’t believe weed in it’s "dirt weed" or "swag" forms is a true danger to anybody except an asthmatic or children. I know that me and my boys back in the day would try to smoke ourselves to death(not really) and never even got close. The same can not be said for alcohol, pain meds, meth, coke, heroine, and any other you would like to add to the list. The newer strains are much more potent, but the same still applies. You may eat up 5 lbs of junk food, zone out, and take a nap, but you won’t die in your sleep or feel like starting a fight or a crime spree as is much more likely on some of the narcotics and especially alcohol.

While true that in a percentage of the population, any form of intoxication poses a risk for those individuals as well as others around them, this is mostly true of the young ones or inexperienced ones. However, I would still rather deal with the typical first time stoner than deal with the first time binge drinker or first time strong rx opiate user. The first time drinker doesn’t need a hook up, a special rx or even any additional accessories to go way past the safe zone on their alcohol intake and endanger themselves and those around them.

The biggest thing to remember is that we all need to know our limits, and those of us with addictive tendencies have to be especially vigilant and aware of our own triggers and avoid them at all cost. My dad could never stop at any number of drinks, instead he drank from the time he got up until he went to bed. Unfortunately, for a lot of us addicts, that is the norm for any DOC. The only way for you to be safe with you, is to truly know yourself and try to avoid situations that make you vulnerable to your own addiction process. If you can have a drink or two or a toke or two and stop without ending up at your dealers house for a pill or a hit, consider yourself lucky and enjoy. If you can’t, then you just can’t. I have seen too many friends go from a good road to a bad road in a split second, never to return.

The number one thing to remember in all this is that there are no hard and fast rules in this game of life and addiction. Even though the institution I spent 9 months in at age 15 would have you believe differently, you can be ok without having to be 100% clean and sober all the time. We weren’t put on this earth to suffer, but to live a joyous life. Make memories with your families, love those in your lives as though you could lose them tomorrow and above all take care of yourself. We don’t have to beat ourselves up because we can’t conform to the ideal. That’s why it’s the ideal.

Didn’t mean to get up on the pulpit, another one of the side effects of the maryjane…~~~~~~D