| Posted: 04 April 2009 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | 11
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Joakim, a friend of mine was trying to get me to smoke pot for years and I kept resisting and finally I had to ask him what benefits there were.
He said it would make me more relaxed, if I were any more relaxed I'd be dead.
He said it would make jokes funnier, if I laughed any harder I'd die.
He said it would make me more creative, if my brain had any more ideas it would split my skull and I'd die.
So basically he took drugs so he could pretend to be like me. Pretend, because while it might make you feel all of those things, I don't believe it contributes to those things. It doesn't make you more creative (though with some it might loosen them up to possibilities they've been repressing), and if a joke is only funny when you're high, is it actually funny? And the relaxation thing is odd, because I wonder if it has the effect of making it so you can only feel relaxed when you're high. If you're not high can you ever feel relaxed?
The funny thing was he rattled off that list in a way that made me believe he thought I was deficient in all of those things. And being a writer and an artist I had never heard anyone say I wasn't creative before. Especially not coming from a salesman who had no creative interests.
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