have not only done most drugs, but I
have sold them as well. In quantity.
The childish nature of drug use started coming to me when I was talking
to a biker friend about a mutual acquaintance who was really going off
the deep end. This friend used the expression "Drugs are fine to play
around with, but sooner or later you have to put the firetruck back up
on the shelf."
I was amused by her analogy of recreational drugs as a
toy that you play with. And I loved the image of having to eventually
grow up and having to put that toy up on a shelf. You can even extend
that to say you could look at the toy and even fool with it now and
then, but it just can't be the center of your life like when you were 6
years old.
I read that people get addicted to drugs when they
don't have a center in their life. So then you make drugs the center of
your life. Its perhaps the ultimate narcissism. You can see this if you
have ever been sober or straight and walked in on a party where all your
friends are wasted. There really is not that much going on, but each
person thinks they are important and having fun.
My alcoholic buddy
Terry used to joke "Let's get drunk and be somebody." Its a
nice bookend to my buddy Phil Blair's dad, who used to say, "Everybody
wants to be somebody, nobody wants to become somebody".
I
consider sugar, fat, and salt to be drugs, too, albeit softer than
alcohol and tobacco. Take your little kids through a supermarket and
point all all the sugar, fat, and salt delivery systems. Sugar and fat
might be softer drugs, and they take longer to kill you, but they are
the first drugs a child has to deal with. |
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