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   ### - was only being kinda sarcastic re waiting until it's legalised etc,   
   they've been talking about that nearly forever here in the uk, ever since   
   it was banned in fact back in 1947 or thereabouts, the uk being one of the   
   last to make it illegal and only under protest at the time seeing as   
   they'd virtually raised a whole empire off the profits of   
   importing/exporting dope worldwide (cough-cough, sorry i meant 'spices',   
   riiight...) ;)   
      
   otherwise you and i are very different then in that respect, because for   
   someone you accused of knowing nada about it altogether i've actually   
   smoked it near enough every single day since age 17 or thereabouts after   
   being introduced to it at college heh (how that happened actually being a   
   great story just in itself, one perhaps for another day...) the only 3   
   items i genuinely took away from college being weed, lsd & my first real   
   girlfriend lol, a year after which i dropped-out altogether and which i   
   considered was plenty enough education for moi, the rest was rubbish ;)   
      
   and whereas you kinda look down on weed and from what you say above: don't   
   think that much of it etc, i'm completely the opposite and see it as   
   having been instrumental in shaping not only my whole outlook but also my   
   later education to a higher degree... kind of like a tv interview i saw   
   years ago about our controversial channel-4 sending one of their indian   
   reporters to the indian mela festival, something that takes place every   
   year in india and then you see all these holy men covered in grey ashes   
   traveling to it from right across india and beyond, every 33 years being   
   some kind of special super-mela event having some kind of astrological   
   significance to it, the same 33-year event the buddha is reputed to have   
   attended back in his day and apparently caused quite a stir...   
      
   so anyway, they packed this young naive uk-indian guy off to the mela to   
   go see/report what it's all about, 100's of 1000's of these holy men   
   descending/converging on the place like the muslims do at mecca only   
   bigger! and this young indian reporter dressed in a dark 3-piece suit lol   
   and his big channel-4 microphone, is going around asking all these holy   
   men questions about what it's all about and why it's happening + what it   
   all means etc etc etc... and at one point asks this typical looking dude   
   he was interviewing why he was smoking hashish so heavily (everyone in the   
   tent is literally chuffing-away on chillums and pipes and stuff like   
   there's no tomorrow lol) and doesn't all that drug-taking interfere   
   with/contradict all his holy man spiritual practices??   
      
   and this holy-man dude pauses mid-puff in a cloud of thick smoke, looks up   
   surprised at this reporter, a look of humorous scorn clearly crossing his   
   face for a moment and almost rolling his eyes, replies: my young man,   
   don't be so stupid, don't you 'realise' it was smoking hashish that turned   
   me INTO a holy man in the first place??? you should try it!   
      
   and then he went back to honking heavily on his chillum ahahaha... our   
   young reporter looking clearly dazed/shocked, not only from that guy's   
   rather surprising remarks but prolly also from all the thick fumes lol :)))   
      
   get it?   
      
   that for 'some' people it's a total lifestyle, one that may or may not   
   eventually turn ya's into some kinda holy man hehehe...   
      
   go figure ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)