Drug inspired prose & lyric #1 - "Pleasure substances" & german bourgeoisie

[CavernsoftheMind]

As someone interested in the german drug policy debate, one often encounters the term 'Genussmittel'. Roughly translated to pleasure substance. By now, I perceive it as a trigger word that immediately marks the person using it as ideologically blinded.

What the German bourgeoisie considers pleasure says a lot. In the context of drugs, it is almost always associated with gastrointestinal processes. A beer is only a Genussmittel if it is cold and drunk slowly from a stein. Consumption for intoxication is not pleasurable. Swallowing a capsule would never be considered a pleasure. But what does the typical CDU-voting beer garden bourgeois know about pleasure? How laughably mundane is the taste of a bitter, alcoholic liquid compared to making out on LSD? Compared to cognitive, ecstatic explosions from inhaling a nitrous oxide balloon whose effect has been intensified with ketamine and MDMA?

When I think of pleasure, I think of the tingling in my extremities from the pharmacologically induced increase in serotonin molecules in my synaptic clefts. How thrillingly intense the sense of touch feels when exploring the body of a new lover for the first time.

What are you trying to explain to me about pleasure, Mr. Health Minister?
When was the last time you experienced ecstasy, Mrs. Drug Commissioner?


Added context:
I love to write texts. Often inspired by drugs or drug effects. Maybe someone will get something out of this.

This particular one was written in german & translated with the help of AI. I hope the translation is good enough.

 

[paltatomate]

i guess the line between genussmittel (something that can be enjoyed) and rauschmittel (stuff that makes you high) is closely linked to the law.

welcome to bluelight, btw

 

[CavernsoftheMind]

Text #2, inspired by a recent ketamine session with low dose MDMA & pretty heavy N2O use with a new love interest of mine.
Every time I inhaled a N2O balloon, it opened up a new world of interesting thoughts.
I call this text 'beauty against suicide'.
It was written in german & translated with AI. I don't know how well the poetry translates.


Fine-grained perception. Subtle thoughts. Exquisite associations. Pleasurable sinking into cognitive whirlpools.

What a gift intelligence is! The ability to interpret stimuli, to connect these interpretations into new immaterial creations.

Is there a greater satisfaction than that of a novel insight? Many individual points connected by lines to form the structure of a crystal-clear gem. A crystalline thought construct that illuminates the inner walls of the brain when the light of conscious observation falls upon it.
Just as the shell produces the pearl, so too does the human brain, at times, incubate treasures of deep, compelling beauty.
And when that happens, all the pain, the profound suffering that conscious life brings with it, suddenly seems justified.

How often do I curse my parents for the burden of existence in this flawed, merciless world?
Which sensitive person has not, in dark moments, doubted the meaning of biological survival?
When the soul's anguish becomes great enough, the leap into the void seems so much more attractive than holding on to the status quo.

And yet, simply knowing the creative power that resides within my consciousness organ makes me step back a little from the edge. The means of production of such beauty deserves special protection.

In the future, in the moment of giving birth to a new crystal, a new sparkling pearl, I will be grateful to myself for choosing to continue, gritting my teeth and waiting in the darkness for the next sunrise.

 

[deficiT]

As someone interested in the german drug policy debate, one often encounters the term 'Genussmittel'. Roughly translated to pleasure substance.

All substances are pleasure substances, if you get pleasured, while you're on them.

 

[deficiT]

What are you trying to explain to me about pleasure, Mr. Health Minister?
When was the last time you experienced ecstasy, Mrs. Drug Commissioner?


Added context:
I love to write texts. Often inspired by drugs or drug effects. Maybe someone will get something out of this.

This particular one was written in german & translated with the help of AI. I hope the translation is good enough.

I appreciated it, thanks for sharing it with us.

What you're saying makes sense. Seems like it's just some dissonance with the terms translating. Is alcohol the only thing called genussmittel?

Alcohol just has a differently privileged position in most cultures. It's normalized to the point of complete absurdity, honestly. Cigarettes can't even be marketed, while alcohol advertisements are pumped in to every living room.

 

[Nas47]

welcome to bluelight mein freund.....it missed me germans....@December Flower was shiny and bright

 

[CavernsoftheMind]

I appreciated it, thanks for sharing it with us.

What you're saying makes sense. Seems like it's just some dissonance with the terms translating. Is alcohol the only thing called genussmittel?

Alcohol just has a differently privileged position in most cultures. It's normalized to the point of complete absurdity, honestly. Cigarettes can't even be marketed, while alcohol advertisements are pumped in to every living room.

Apart from alcohol, coffee & sometimes even tobacco are called Genussmittel, too.
Sometimes even gourmet food.
That's the weird thing, only things with an interesting taste seem to be called Genussmittel.
It's like the only pleasure some people can imagine is tasting something.

Some conservatives even argue that weed can't be a Genussmittel because people consume it to get high, contrary to alcohol, which can be consumed for the taste.

 

[deficiT]

Apart from alcohol, coffee & sometimes even tobacco are called Genussmittel, too.
Sometimes even gourmet food.
That's the weird thing, only things with an interesting taste seem to be called Genussmittel.
It's like the only pleasure some people can imagine is tasting something.

Some conservatives even argue that weed can't be a Genussmittel because people consume it to get high, contrary to alcohol, which can be consumed for the taste.

Interesting.

I tried to tell the doctor that I wasn't a cocaine addict, I just enjoyed the way that it tastes. She didn't believe me.