The stench is the trigger sending the scent of smoke slithering up my nostril like a sea snake; anger was the antidote.
I saw her standing on the porch in a dirty pink nightshirt and rabbit slippers, a joint glued to hand and mouth, mobile phone glued to hand and ear.
Then came the rolling thunder of the internal narrative.
“Look at that skank!”
In my vanilla world, marijuana is a drug, and my beliefs around drugs, drilled into me by my parents and the media, is to ignore them like the...
The stench is the trigger sending the scent of smoke slithering up my nostril like a sea snake; anger was the antidote.
I saw her standing on the porch in a dirty pink nightshirt and rabbit slippers, a joint glued to hand and mouth, mobile phone glued to hand and ear.
Then came the rolling thunder of the internal narrative.
“Look at that skank!”
In my vanilla world, marijuana is a drug, and my beliefs around drugs, drilled into me by my parents and the media, is to ignore them like the plague.
We don’t want drug takers in our tribe.
They will fuck you up.
This internal narrative acts as a shield against any invader trying to poke holes in my belief system. I don't want to be a skank. And so if anyone ever offers me a spliff, my automatic response will be of disgust, and if you stick that between your motorcycle handlebars, and look at it as you drive to work each morning, it won't take long before it holds like a top of the range fake eyeball.
Let me ask you a question.
How do you feel about alcohol?
If you want to learn more about my thoughts on this subject, then you're in luck because I cover it during my recent podcast episode.
The Truth About Alcohol
We Are Not Alcoholics, And We Refuse to be Anonymous
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