It's a sure thing; that's the point of getting high. Make sure that you have obtained a genuine product. If you are an experienced user you know where to find it, and how to spot a bogus product. If you are not an experienced user, keep it up and you will be one, if you don't end up killing yourself or in the alternative, discover that getting high serves no purpose for you personally.

Once you have your drug of choice, you can count on it. Your drug of choice will deliver what is expected of it reliably. It can and will bring a concrete change in your state of being. There is nothing else that money can buy that will change the way you think, feel, and perceive reality in the way that drugs can.

Drugs are not a monolithic entity; they are chemicals with distinctive properties, effects, and "personalities." The drug that any given individual chooses is therefore a matter of chemistry and personality too.

Be careful what you choose. Some drugs reach a point of diminishing returns rapidly if consumed on a daily basis. Others can be used for a lifetime in controlled dosages and still be effective.

Some drugs can kill you even when used as directed in a culturally acceptable manner. Tobacco, alcohol, and food are the most well known examples.

Can we accept that nothing is a sure thing, and that life is terminal? Very few of us can. So we reach for whatever works. The drug users I know feel that sex is overrated, success is a short-lived high, power is a bum trip, and that the withdrawal symptoms of romantic love are just too painful.

We will do anything for distraction. Activity in general seems overrated too. Money in my pocket or in the bank will not improve my mood. The things it can buy above and beyond necessities of hold little interest, but some things seem to have entertainment value. If it moves, makes noises, tastes good, or gets me high, it might be worth looking into; otherwise I'm not buying.

Drugs work, and the more effective they are, the higher they can be found on the DEA's schedule of controlled substances. The two most effective painkillers, heroin and marijuana, the latter of which is also the most powerful anti-nausea agent known to medicine, are still at this time Schedule I controlled substances believed to have no legitimate medical uses, although the medical marijuana enjoys a quasi-legal status in some states.

Psychiatry, in spite of all its historical blunders and abuses, remains perhaps the least fraudulent branch of the Mental Health Industry, as its primary function is lawful drug-dealing. Medications, if you're lucky enough to get the right ones, might actually make you feel better, while "talk therapy" provides little if anything that an intelligent friend cannot.

The point of getting high is not feeling what we are feeling, or thinking something different, seeing things in a different light, and being anywhere other than where we are.In that sense it's about the same as everything else we do. It is not the same in that sometimes it can be dangerous. Getting high may pose major health risks, the worst of which is incarceration.

Drugs can take you to a lot of different places. Most of them are not places you really need to go. Before considering such a journey, consider that in the end you will wind up exactly where you started from anyway, which is inside yourself.

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