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   >>>>>>> available, order, pay online and delivered to the front door (in my   
   >>>>>>> case from Melbourne, 4000km away) in 2 days.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Give it a belt pal.  You won't regret it.  If that is, you have   
   >>>>>>> insomnia or something similar and you've seen a quack about it.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> My script is for 1 gram per day.  30g per month.  That's a lot of   
   >>>>>>> high   
   >>>>>>> quality shit.  Costing around $280 AUD per 30g.  No more dealers   
   >>>>>>> for   
   >>>>>>> us.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Cheers, have a great New Year.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ### - i hear you :) and have seen the adverts for these various   
   >>>>>> companies   
   >>>>>> online, the whole thing being a ruse to gradually sneak weed usage   
   >>>>>> into   
   >>>>>> society by the backdoor until it's eventually legalised en-mass,   
   >>>>>> what   
   >>>>>> they're scared of being a kind of hippy-rebirth, weed/smoke use   
   >>>>>> giving   
   >>>>>> rise to yet another alternate philosophy that, just like lucid   
   >>>>>> dreaming,   
   >>>>>> doesn't quite jibe with the way society's currently organised... it   
   >>>>>> is,   
   >>>>>> however, a promising new industry with the potential to earn   
   >>>>>> billions!   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> they want/need the money! so all we really gots to do is to live   
   >>>>>> long   
   >>>>>> enough to see it legalised for recreational use, it's just annoying   
   >>>>>> that   
   >>>>>> everything takes so long, have been waiting 30+ years haha ;)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Look I'm not a kid anymore.  I barely remember my youth.  I'm happy   
   >>>>> to   
   >>>>> have a pipe, and not much more than a puff or two, at night.  I   
   >>>>> couldn't imagine being stoned on grass all the time, nothing would be   
   >>>>> worse now at my age.  Also, too much water under the bridge which   
   >>>>> doesn't lead to a real carefree existence all the time, some of the   
   >>>>> time yes, but not all the time.  Stoned on weed is good when the   
   >>>>> mental burden is light, not when it's heavy.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> So, to me there isn't any difference now between legal recreational   
   >>>>> weed and medical weed - it's the same weed, imported from all over   
   >>>>> the   
   >>>>> world, not much grown here in Australia, high THC if you want it, not   
   >>>>> much on the expenditure side either.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I've slowed down a lot as I got old(er).  Still sharp but far more   
   >>>>> serious about things.  No longer the 1973 hippy with the mushroom   
   >>>>> jeans on tripping on acid and smoking a lot of pot.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ### - 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 ;)   
   >>>   
   >>> Smoking pot is so mundane now for me that I need a reason, not just   
   >>> get stoned, but something along the lines of better sleep, or   
   >>> elucidation of rational thinking, deeper enjoyment of music, better   
   >>> enjoyment and appreciation of nature - colour, form, evolution etc;   
   >>> pondering beginnings, endings, time, space, metaphysics...and so on.   
   >>>   
   >>> Or, very very occasionally, just get drunk and stoned and fuck myself   
   >>> up (within the bounds of a 70 year old body) with music until I totter   
   >>> off to bed.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's just...mundane.  The thrill of illegality is gone, partly due to   
   >>> age partly due to ease of legal acquisition.  The effect is well   
   >>> known, nothing new there experientially.  So, it's just a herb with   
   >>> interesting effects.   
   >>>   
   >>> There is no way on this planet I would adopt it now, or even 50 years   
   >>> ago, as a "total lifestyle".  That's for some people as you say but   
   >>> not for me.  But as a permanent part of MY lifestyle, it's there to   
   >>> stay.   
   >>>   
   >>> In a nutshell, I find it enjoyable and I've been smoking it since I   
   >>> was 16.  It's still mundane though.   
   >>   
   >> ### - think of people like Howard Marks (Mr Nice) whose whole life   
   >> revolved around it, the uk's most notorious dealer, who ended-up having   
   >> a   
      
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