second laughing dream this year

a female friend of 20 years ago and self were in a room

we were both completely stoned

she had the fridge door open and was drinking from a jar

she was a heavy-duty coffee-drinker but on this occasion wanted a dark

fizzy drink

as i looked at her she was poised with a jar in her and looking

perplexed

could see she was struggling with something or other and said as i

pointed to the dark fizzy on the table next to where i sat "it's over here"

she looked at the fizzy drink next to me and then at the jar and

realized she hadn't been drinking, what she thought was dark fizzy

drink that had gone flat but beetroot juice (i used to use beetroot juice

to splash on chips)

over a three second period, with a grim resignation tinged with disgust

she said "oh, jesus christ"

she had told me the worst possible thing a living being could have in

their body was beetroot

she hated it with a passion

if you'd known the woman and knew that she was as mild-mannered

as they come and didn't hate anything it would be acceptable to have

a good laugh that something as simple as beetroot juice could cause

such an emotional reaction

if you've been "out of it", i mean really shit-faced stoned, you'll know

that this is the sort of thing you do

if this had been a real-life incident it would still be making me smile

today

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first thing... you'll find mentioned elsewhere at this web site what

the lover's thinks about weed... he's against it

it adversely affects the mental processes

what has caused the writer to defy the lover on this is the fact that

being stoned on marijuana gives a person pause for thought when it

comes to doing things that are wrong and particularly violent acts

in the early 1980's and the writer and another person were laying the

groundwork for committing a very serious crime

when i was "straight" the thought of doing what was being planned

didn't twinge my conscience at all but when smoking bud it did

in fact while smoking a joint just thinking about it gave me a feeling of

fear as the seriousness of the crime became clear

it is thought the reason the lover is against my use of it is because a

for a person who has made the transition in thinking    the effect

and affects of the thc in cannabis are more disruptive than it is to those

who haven't

the mind/brain is so much more of a creation than is the creation of

the universe

it's as, or more, finely balanced than the critical density of the universe

which is known to be balanced to an accuracy of at least 1 ^60 of a

degree

the universe has to be at critical density in order for straight line action

to occur

the workings of the brain have to take on continually complicated

configurations throughout universal time to attain those changes which

will make the heavenly state accessible

the lover, of course, knows precisely what the consequences are

the long and the short of it... cannabis lessens the quantity and or the

quality of life in the near and/or long term