Question and Answer Time!
1) Do most people in your friend circle smoke weed? (YES / NO)
2) Are there people you know that do not smoke cannabis at all? (YES / NO)
3) How often do you hang out with these people, compare to those who smoke? (NOT AS OFTEN / OFTEN)
4) Do you have more in common with those that smoke compared to those who do not? (YES / NO)
IF YOU ANSWERED YES – YES – NOT AS OFTEN to the first three questions, then it’s definitely you that will understand what I’m talking about, for all weed smokers know! that’s why I compare it to the Freemasonry – a private underworld, with private underworldy dealings!! Don’t worry we’ll get to the forth question shortly, lets elaborate on what you’ve just owned up to!
WEED SMOKERS UNITED
Sounds like a football team, doesn’t it? Strangely however it isn’t far from it…. i.e.the fanzine aspect. If you were a huge Aston Villa FC fan and you travelled the world and met another individual equally as passionate for your football club as you, while talking about your team you’d immediately bond and build rapport around these foundations. (I’m a massive football fan so I’m compelled to use this analogy but it’s still true for any club, or supported follower fanbased organisation) The same is true for weed smokers, i.e. all people that smoke cannabis really have a mutual appreciation of a certain lifestyle that they’d had to have lived. I’m hesitating from saying all weed smokers get along, cos this clearly not true!! I’m shying away from making blanket statements, but generally however it is true most weed smokers, given a fair unbiased platform, will generally get on quite seamlessly, based on the premise that they have SHHMOKING WEED in common!
I vaguely touched on this topic yesterday when talked about “the speech” being delivered internally within your peers and local smokers. The point I’m really trying to drill home is something that I’ve really felt and now feel that I truly understand for the first time.
PERSONAL DISCLAIMER: In the event that somebody I know personally feels I’m referring to them – I swear with all my heart I have no derogatory intention towards you – the views expressed here are purely my observations.
Smoking weed UNITES among those who smoke while quitting weed equivalently DIVIDES
Isaac Newton’s 3rd law states ‘that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction’
Equilibrium and balance is fundamental law to our universe, where there is one there is another, where there is matter there is dark matter, where there is negative there is positive, and so on etc. This law also applies very much so to smoking and the quitting of weed! i.e. in precisely the same way that smoking weed can unite groups of all diversities and backgrounds, quitting has the equal and opposite effect. It’s now been 33 days, and I regretfully say that since I went off the smoking grid I no longer am on their grid. Those individuals whom once I’d see more frequently than my own family members that I’d be living with now no trace…with some cases phone calls just not being returned for weeks, and still counting!! I mean how many unreturned miss calls does it take with good friends till it starts getting awkward? I don’t take it personally for I know who (or what) is at blame here – the cannabis.
So I open my eyes for the first time and openly admit that people that didn’t smoke, I didn’t hang out with them. My social group revolved around weed smokers for it made life easier. Question 4: Do you have more in common with those that smoke compared to those who do not? Depends how you look at it really.. if you consider just smoking as something in common then yes, otherwise who knows??? maybe This question almost has no relevance to a habitual weed smoker for their levels of perpetual denial prevent them from truly seeing what is really going on. It works both ways, when I consulted my doctor regarding my addiction to cannabis he advised me to stop being in the associations to smoking weed i.e. Don’t hang out with those guys, for the obvious reasons etc , however… the irony in my situation is that they don’t want to hang out with me?!? 🙁 now that the weed haze is slowly vanishing, i gotta say.. THESE DRUGS ARE FUCKING WITH OUR HEADS MAN!!