Hippies Who Never Smoked Pot Or Cigs

[EarthEden]

Anyone here who never had a desire to try and start smoking..neither pot nor cigs? Just curious.

[Guerrilla_Minds]

No, do you not have these human desires? :)

[CowboyHippy]

that would be me
probably only me

rumor has it that i smoked a cigarette when I was blasted drunk about 5 years ago, that's it.

I really have no need to. no desire to

[EarthEden]

My story is I was born in 1969. My 3 siblings were all way older than me and were teens in the 60's hippie days. They all did it..drugs..weed, lots of drinking..you name it..while they past down their love of classic rock to me..also saw the damage that smoking took on them as well as alcohol abuse..as such..I was lucky that I never desired to try any of these things..Just ended up being a tree hugger. :hippie:

[Guerrilla_Minds]

I smoke stoags and buds(not lately :( ) but I wish I didn't start smoking but its not a big deal for me. Humans need drugs, mind altering drugs.

[EarthEden]

Why is it that humans always feel the need to 'alter' their minds?

[CowboyHippy]

Why is it that humans always feel the need to 'alter' their minds?


thats an interesting bit. sometimes my mind is racing and i need peace, sometimes i need to break my focus, sometimes i need to get in a different frame of mind.

my question would be

why do humans always feel they need drugs to alter their minds?

[EarthEden]

"why do humans always feel they need drugs to alter their minds>"?

A Very good question. Is it escapism? That people don't want to face certain things? But if you drink or get high to escape your problems..as soon as you come back down the probelm returns. Isn't better just to face the problem and resolve it? I noticed whenever people get drunk... They extremely happy but then extremely depressed when they come down. It's like they are never just mellow and regular in the middle...instead everything is extremes..highs..then extrems lows.

[CowboyHippy]

escapism. extreme highs and lows, other than the naturally occuring ones like being flat broke with 6 days till payday or shooting some whitewater i am at a lack of experience, either way both were accomplished without an *

[EarthEden]

Speaking of which..I am getting very good at learning the art of living pay check to pay check. :p

[CowboyHippy]

Speaking of which..I am getting very good at learning the art of living pay check to pay check. :p

hopefully you get paid every week. when i worked at wal mart it was every two weeks, and i did have one other job a while back that was the 15th and the 30th, that blew(even though hourly it paid more than wally world)

[EarthEden]

Well, I work for myself but what's happened lately..is that I have nearly all my people in one week..and then the next I only have 2..so I've been having to stretch it. :snail:

[Kookie_Baron]

I am a smoker, ciggies and bud, and I have the morning cough to prove it. lol. I wish I had never started smoking cigs though. I have anxiety issues and have used cigs as an escape for a long time, I think that mental association makes it a lot more difficult for me to quit.

I will never stop smoking bud though. I mentioned the anxiety, and thats part of a larger problem that bud helps with a lot. My docter even encouraged me to keep smoking, but I think my case is a bit rare. After a lot of brain scans and other tests done this year, they figured out what has been happening with me. My brain functions at a higher than normal speed. This is tons of fun if lets say I am having a political debate, not as much fun any other time.

Since the brain function is at such a high speed, it over stimulates various parts of my brain. This causes irratating behaviours, which change depending on which area is being over stimulated. Some days its really bad OCD, some days its ADD and other days its just panic attacks and anxiety.

My docter says that my smoking is probably what kept me from losing my sanity. It actually slows my brain function down to a more normal level, allowing me to feel level and halting many of my symptoms.

Sorry, guess this turned into a long ramble. lol. Anyways, legalize it!