> "Mike Petro" > wrote in message
Tea wrote: ...
> >
> >
> > Dear Shyne,
> >
> > My recommendation to you is to find your nearest Narcotics Anonymous
> > group and get involved! They can teach you how to live a drug free
> > HAPPY life IF you let them. The first thing you will learn is that the
> > problem is YOU, not everyone and everything around you. Sugar,
> > caffeine, and other mild mood altering substances are only a problem
> > if your use of them makes your life unmanageable. If you find it
> > annoying that you have to read the labels to ensure that you don't
> > ingest what amounts to poison to you, then either get over it or get
> > back on the drugs. The world is not going to conform to your
> > weaknesses, and just because you cant handle something doesn't mean
> > that other people cant. All of that hogwash about legalization of
> > drugs is just rearmaments of your drug addicted past. The problem that
> > you are dealing with right now is that you have lost your best friend
> > (drugs) and you haven't figured out how to live at peace with yourself
> > with out them. Excuse me for not being very sympathetic, but I know
> > from experience that you can either be miserable, or you can live at
> > peace with yourself, and the choice is yours not anybody else's.
> > Seriously, go find a NA meeting, it will absolutely be the best
> > possible move you can make! There will be many people there who have
> > been EXACTLY where you are right now.
> >
> > Been there, done that, came out the other side.....
> > Clean and sober for 16 years.
> >
> > Mike P.
>
> Thanks. Mike. I couldn't have said it better myself. I come from a family
> of drug users- alcoholics. During a very bad period of my life I dated
> several dry drunks in a row. Both groups thought drugs were the Devil; the
> only thing on which they disagreed was whether alcohol was healthy. quite
> frankly I found the dry drunks more annoying- because they couldn't drink or
> be near alcohol, nobody could use it. One of them didn't even want me to use
> rum in a cake, even though the alcohol would have evaporated during the
> cooking process.
>
> Cannabis is not healthy. It's a drug. Caffeine is a drug too. The healthy
> opium poppy enslaved much of China, and the drug at that time wasn't nearly
> as pure and dangerous as it is now. Cannabis is purer than ever- and I know
> plenty of hop heads whose brains are fried. Of course, they think they're
> fine- but they don't move as quickly or accurately as others who aren't
> habitual users.

Everything is relative. Cannabis is definitely not the killer
that tobacco is. Chocolate is nowhere near as stimulating as
un-decaffinated coffee. The opium the Chinese smoked for relief of
their miserable lives wasn't as dangerous as the acetominophen sold
over the counter in drug stores today. I acquired a salicylate
sensitivity and a mouthwash with salicylates in can wipe me out with
severe leg pains. Salicylates are the class of chemicals to which
aspirin(aceto-salicylic acid) belongs.

Cannabis is maxing out at about 4.5% THC which is about 1.5% more
than was
commonly available in the 1960s. If fools try to smoke it like the 1%
dirt weed
that they bought then they may have a problem. Sensible people adapt
when using
stronger chemicals or herbs by paying attention to what is happening to
themselves.


> Caffeine can be a horrible drug if one is suffering from withdrawal- but
> most people aren't using that much of it if they are tea drinkers. It's a
> big deal nowadays if I have two cups in a row. There are plenty of people
> like me who don't suffer from java jitters or anything else.
> In every society, mild psychotropics can be found. Even in the wild,
> animals such as apes and elephants gravitate towards fermented fruit and
> plants that make them 'feel good'. While there are numerous unfortunate
> cases of people who suffer from addiction most people and animals don't

I went thru caffiene withdrawal several times in the 1970s before
I gave up un-decaffienated coffee. Using caffiene to treat migraines
is problematic because it may cause migraines. It did for me.