MoodAltar
Greenlighter
Well hello Bluelighters - I live on the west coast of Canada, and have used a wide variety of drugs (psychs to stims to opioids, both illicit & pharmed) for about half my life (approx a quarter century of serious drug use). I practiced harm reduction long before 'twas a thing - as I'm sure most of us did - my goal being mood-alteration as an enhancement to life, rather than mood-annihilation by cooking puddle-water in a spoon (no judgement of course - draconian laws have forced me into many dangerous corners over the years).
It has taken me a good many years to fully realize something that I think I always felt deep down - namely, that there is nothing inherently wrong in wanting to get high or indeed, in actually getting high. OK, maybe a bit of a truism for many of you, but social morals are SO arbitrary (ie: it's fine to get high on a [moderately expensive] 'Cab-Sav', but utterly depraved to do so on heroin), and so unquestioned, that it took me many years to realize that the fact that I hate the feeling of drunkenness but love the feeling of a perfect heroin high does not mean there is anything wrong with me, or anything inherently* wrong with doing heroin; rather, the problem is with our laws, our social mores, and indeed with the whole notion of imposing morality on what should be just a simple pleasure.
So I'm pretty excited to be among some like-minded people - or at least, a bunch of other drug-users (internet be praised!), in an open forum where we can discuss lofty ideas like 'the morality of drug use', and 'what's the best way to smoke meth off foil?' (a technique I just mastered thanks to this site! - and DAMN, my clumsy ol' dragon-chasing method was NOT cuttin it with the meth, and mos definitely causing me some aluminum-fume laden HARM!)
Yass!
It has taken me a good many years to fully realize something that I think I always felt deep down - namely, that there is nothing inherently wrong in wanting to get high or indeed, in actually getting high. OK, maybe a bit of a truism for many of you, but social morals are SO arbitrary (ie: it's fine to get high on a [moderately expensive] 'Cab-Sav', but utterly depraved to do so on heroin), and so unquestioned, that it took me many years to realize that the fact that I hate the feeling of drunkenness but love the feeling of a perfect heroin high does not mean there is anything wrong with me, or anything inherently* wrong with doing heroin; rather, the problem is with our laws, our social mores, and indeed with the whole notion of imposing morality on what should be just a simple pleasure.
So I'm pretty excited to be among some like-minded people - or at least, a bunch of other drug-users (internet be praised!), in an open forum where we can discuss lofty ideas like 'the morality of drug use', and 'what's the best way to smoke meth off foil?' (a technique I just mastered thanks to this site! - and DAMN, my clumsy ol' dragon-chasing method was NOT cuttin it with the meth, and mos definitely causing me some aluminum-fume laden HARM!)
Yass!
