It makes you look inwards into your mind rather than outward into the social sphere. Thus you are prone to sitting there like a zombie staring into space.
Being stoned forces you to think thoughts that are so complex, our normally sadly limited conversational range is not attuned well enough to digest it and spit it out the way its meant to be. Thus you sound ridiculous when speaking. So when you DO break out of your reverie, you talk like an idiot.
And then, as if that weren’t enough, being stoned makes you so fascinated with simple things like good music, and the way the news announcers voice rises and falls with a certain stiff rhythm, and how people walk the way they do, and how good words form images in your mind and how orange juice tastes in a pumpernickel cheese and ice cream sandwich, and what the coffee table looks like with a few ashes dusted on its surface like a sacrificial altar in an ancient ruined temple.
You appreciate the most complex things in the most simple thoughts and objects and because they are so simple, people can’t understand the pleasure you derive from them, and what they can bring into your everyday life even when not stoned.
Since all of these outward behaviours clash with our social acculturation processes, such as small talk, “mannered” behaviour in private and public, decorum, etc. we get very very anxious about our conscious vision of how far beyond the social norms we are acting. This breeds momentary fear, which builds upon itself and leads to constant paranoia.
Those who can truly appreciate a good THC high are free of this crippling social phobia and you can see them floating around effortlessly, laughing a lot, and genuinely enjoying themselves to a perhaps unusual extent when measured against everyday sobriety – but they simply have learned not care and appreciate the place the weed puts them.
To extend this even a bit further, it can be said that many more “upfront” (more powerful) drugs like the opiates, MDMA, cocaine, amphetamines, and GHB all give a very physical buzz in contrast to the “mental” buzz of weed. They put you in a place of pleasure beyond, sometimes FAR beyond your normal range of pleasurable feelings, but they can’t endlessly reinvent themselves like your human mind can under the influence of weed. Maybe that’s a reason why many people who do lots drugs eventually slow down, but keep tokin’.
The pleasure you derive out of your favourite drugs likely reflects the aspect of your humanity you are most at home expressing – what types of thoughts and what types of feelings
Can you tell I wrote this high as a feckin’ kite?
Oh, and to you anti-pothead, pro-opiate peeps – have I helped convince you to give the 'erb a chance to get to know it - and it, you?
- Citrus
Being stoned forces you to think thoughts that are so complex, our normally sadly limited conversational range is not attuned well enough to digest it and spit it out the way its meant to be. Thus you sound ridiculous when speaking. So when you DO break out of your reverie, you talk like an idiot.
And then, as if that weren’t enough, being stoned makes you so fascinated with simple things like good music, and the way the news announcers voice rises and falls with a certain stiff rhythm, and how people walk the way they do, and how good words form images in your mind and how orange juice tastes in a pumpernickel cheese and ice cream sandwich, and what the coffee table looks like with a few ashes dusted on its surface like a sacrificial altar in an ancient ruined temple.
You appreciate the most complex things in the most simple thoughts and objects and because they are so simple, people can’t understand the pleasure you derive from them, and what they can bring into your everyday life even when not stoned.
Since all of these outward behaviours clash with our social acculturation processes, such as small talk, “mannered” behaviour in private and public, decorum, etc. we get very very anxious about our conscious vision of how far beyond the social norms we are acting. This breeds momentary fear, which builds upon itself and leads to constant paranoia.
Those who can truly appreciate a good THC high are free of this crippling social phobia and you can see them floating around effortlessly, laughing a lot, and genuinely enjoying themselves to a perhaps unusual extent when measured against everyday sobriety – but they simply have learned not care and appreciate the place the weed puts them.
To extend this even a bit further, it can be said that many more “upfront” (more powerful) drugs like the opiates, MDMA, cocaine, amphetamines, and GHB all give a very physical buzz in contrast to the “mental” buzz of weed. They put you in a place of pleasure beyond, sometimes FAR beyond your normal range of pleasurable feelings, but they can’t endlessly reinvent themselves like your human mind can under the influence of weed. Maybe that’s a reason why many people who do lots drugs eventually slow down, but keep tokin’.
The pleasure you derive out of your favourite drugs likely reflects the aspect of your humanity you are most at home expressing – what types of thoughts and what types of feelings
Can you tell I wrote this high as a feckin’ kite?
Oh, and to you anti-pothead, pro-opiate peeps – have I helped convince you to give the 'erb a chance to get to know it - and it, you?
- Citrus
