Waiting to hear on my inclusion
I spoke with Caroline about three weeks back now; I hope to have the opportunity to attend, but the date approaches and i've had no official OK.
Following the phone interview, which was pretty extensive and i was really open, she seemed to draw an odd distinction between those who just use psychostimulants while out partying, and those who (which I am in a current stage of - jeez, i'd like to see a record of how many different stages of what my fave drug and how i was using it at the time since joining bl
) use the same drugs to work, or in my current case study and attempt to keep up with the 14-month old i care for (now if you could bottle their nerotransmitters and sell it ! $$
; although their moodswings r pretty intense) with my new fiance :D
and go out partying when i can find a sitter.
That's a confusing paragraph with a lot jammed into it, but the short-story is Caroline conveyed the impression of wanting those using, as she states in her opening request
party-drug and recreational drug users as opposed to someone using the same drugs for another purpose, even if some of the time that was, indeed,
to party , and certainly has been the primary purpose for my use of them at different stages in the past. And, as i discussed with her on the phone, i think the whole term recreational drug users is confusing and potentially misleading anyway. If I use them two or three times a week - but on weekdays - is this any less fun (or recreational), or more dependent, than someone using them Friday-Saturday-Sunday?
I would have thought my CV - Ravesafe is 10 yrs old this month, as an interesting aside :D - would have earnt me a place on such a panel.
But if not, que sera. I have no doubt that JB and the Cowboy will do us proud. It would be nice but.
The last such forum i participated in was for 60 Minutes, where i was invited along with several other VIVAIDS staff, made to wait for hours, did get the opportunity to speak, along with a couple of other anti-prohibitionists, but was left, along with all similar comments on the cutting room floor. I'm sure we can expect better from Insight.