Comments on: love your friends. hate yourself.

By: julia

julia — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:25:40 +0000

yes research as in reading all of the studies that have been done on it

By: raymi

raymi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:48:03 +0000

Stoned Immaculate is a snappy doors reference.

By: Johnny Maudlin

Johnny Maudlin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:45:36 +0000

Stoned Immaculate Crankhead would make a very serviceable band name. I call dibs.

By: Johnny Maudlin

Johnny Maudlin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:43:50 +0000

S’aright!

By: raymi

raymi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:57:17 +0000

no more weed preaching. writing chat is fine but srsly drop the ganj shit i recognize everything you’ve said i have my own personal experience issues with it, i’m not being a fucking stoned immaculate crankhead.

By: Johnny Maudlin

Johnny Maudlin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:37:32 +0000

Raymi

I’m gonna ask you to trust me that it was not and isn’t my intention to promote a zero tolerance rantathon in your comments. But what the hell, no harm in discussing a bit, yeah? Julia, your statement is silly. Come on. Please. “Anyone who has done research….only positive effects…?”

Unless you and your friends are now doing “research” and hanging out in the lab, well…

No Raymi, I would not advise someone/anyone/you to return to the booze rather than smoke the ganja. You’ve written, with some eloquence, I think, about anxiety and depression, and I’m gonna risk something here (I have not organized a freaking intervention with yer ma…)and tell you what I think you already know: when you alter the mood, you are putting on a mask. No judgement. It’s math. Mood + ganja= altered mood. Mood+ an entire pizza= altered mood. And so on. No one is going to convince me that you can mood change for a prolonged period without some structural (read underlying…) consequences.

Buuuuuttttttt, what I really wanted to know was about writing: fiction vs non fiction, making ourselves the character (autobiography) as compared with creating characters that, of course, are attached to who we are. It’s the writing, Raymi, that has legs. By the way…no need to put this up on comments, right? I don’t want to stir up the shit, I just want to be a bone head keyboard cyber tapper killing the time, normal style, trying to relate.

By: julia

julia — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:19:46 +0000

here’s my (totally unnecessary but what is? it’s still valid) take on all this:
as anyone who’s ever done any research into the subject can tell you, pot only has positive effects, even the memory-loss thing has been reneged as they discovered that while it may decrease short-term memory loss it actually improves the long-term memory
i also know from personal experience that nothing is better fuel for a writer’s creativity
ALSO I am so glad you smoke pot now, it actually made me really happy to see you decrease drinking and increase smoking-as an outside observer of your life through this blog for like 5 years or something…i’ve long felt that you would greatly benefit from it

<3 J

By: Mesa

Mesa — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:14 +0000

dear johnny,
to each a life of their own volition. can ya dig it?

By: raymi

raymi — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:15 +0000

omg can you guys talk over email.

so inversely you’d prefer i go back to being a drunk. cool.

By: raymismom

raymismom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:02:01 +0000

I agree with what Maudlin quoted:

Here’s your trouble, then (to quote the Dixie Chicks)-the brain chemistry is very finely designed, very sensitive. Wacky tabaccee is quite a thick sludge and it tends to change the brain, over time, into chocolate ice cream

So to know this intellectually and understand the fact that you only have one life, one mind, one body,one spirit
you would think the best way to live is one honouring and respecting what you have
and not being destructive

Any kind of addiction only makes you feel worse afterwards
and again,
moreso if there are anxiety and depression problems thrown into the mix.