@ Kelli – Your vote was recorded. Thanks. Nags Head – you’re funny. Would you really want me to move that far from your lovely face? I haven’t met many people who haven’t toked at least once so GOOD FOR YOU. Part of me (the old druggie party Christa) wants to encourage you to give a try, at least once but the new improved (so I like to think) woo-woo version of me wants to do the Nancy Reagan thing and tell you to “Just Say No”. Only you can decide. I hope you have green/blue kinda day.

@ Svasti – I can handle it. As I said to our buddy Jay, I’m much better today. Granted, thugs generally don’t start shoot-outs in the pouring rain so the weather is keeping me safe today.

Pot smoking and a host of other adult consensual behaviors are fine by me as long no one gets hurt. I agree with you. I won’t go out and buy a new bong, wear tie-dye shirts or douse myself in Patchouli but I will keep saying the word “dude”. Duuuuuude. *laughing*

No drug will solve my problem. And really, is it a problem? I’m not dead and no one I know was killed in the latest incident. Am I less safe? Less safe than what?

Perhaps my beef with violence and guns is that it forces me to look at my need for control. I cannot control other people and I cannot stop the gun violence on my own.

I can find the light in dark situations. I can keep smiling. I choose joy, clown noses, bubbles, silliness, love, frolicking and booty shaking. Naysayers, fear mongers and violence makers can kiss my ass. *laughing*

It sounds kinda new-agey but I’ve often been told (and believe it to be true): we are never given more than we can handle.

Things might be scary and/or stressful, but without a doubt you can handle it.

And however you choose to handle life’s circumstances, its no one else’s business as long as you’re not hurting others.

Dope has never really been my thing, even when I was right into the party drugs scene. But I have used alcohol that way.

As long as you’re doing it conciously, aware that its just a band-aid and not solving your ‘stuff’, then do whatever works for you. xo
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Back in the old stoner days (which would encompass most of my adult life), I used to now and then encounter some really irritating self-righteous “ex-pot smokers” turned anti-pot crusaders who’d say things like “you don’t need to smoke pot; I smoked enough for everybody.” (I put “ex-pot smokers” in quotation marks because I always doubted their stoner credentials; I suspect, if pressed for details, they’d probably let loose with revelations like “I was so outta control I got high TWICE in ONE WEEK!!”) The obvious rejoinder to such people, of course, would be “so shut yer mouth while I catch up….”
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