any I i'm I you know I may be the the
I may have in that last segment disclosed more to call
it in my audience that too much information Tom it or not what we don't
want to know how much pot you smoke when you work at
%uh or not I don't know. II you know I but I'd
I do have a strong opinion about this in and and
and the reason why is because I've you know
I'm familiar with this and I'm also familiar with alcohol abuse
and the abusive other hard drugs both your personal experience and friends of
mine
and i cant i at that you know there's some really nasty stuff out there
there's some stuff that'll really braque your brain a out there
and you know I think that to achieve
I understand doing everything you can to keep things like that summer these
designer drugs and whatnot
um out above the public sphere but on the other hand I think that anything
you can grow in your backyard should be legal just that simple
arm and and a you know right across the board
so any that's that's my take on it and
and I think that alcohol is one of the most destructive %uh for drugs and you
know there was a big
a really really strong case that was made successfully
that alcohol was a destructive drug in the nineteen
late 1920s early nineteen thirty's and it led to the prohibition of alcohol in
the United States
and that didn't work out real well because people
are to it's just the nature I love other animals
21 alter their consciousness we've got a new kitten
and who actually we've got a fat old cat
bang who all E
II gotta chair it's an office chairs just like the one in seven right now
it's it's one of those
or there's a fancy name for the bed you know it's a
their food is very comfortable office chairs with the kind of a
the netting underneath and on the back and
their their very popular in offices and
you can spin it around right and this cat
in our on the boat with cattle a couch
and then there's the chair and it's my old office chair in its unlocked
those the salon those living room of the boat which is
you know also kinda the dining room and kitchen bit but you get it
and and and in from the TV
and so if we're watching TV
Louise gets up she likes to sit in a chair all ball and the couch or some
cash
she gets up and like you know goes to get a glass water something you can
immediately jumps on the chair because then I'll reach over with my football
star spin in the chair around
and this catches loves for me to spin the chair around to the point where he's
just like
totally stunned and then he'll jump off the chair and how to stagger around for
like you know three or four minutes as he's getting his balance back
and once he gets his balance back he'll jump up on the chair against the spirit
again
but elephants seek out fermented fruit
birds seek out fermented fruit it is
you know I there there's of bad primates take
psychedelic plants and then get high I mean there all this is very well
documented
their is built into all of us
AV
a need
I would say to alter our consciousness and some of us fill that need by doing
things like bungee jumping and skydiving
and having done the the latter in fact I broke my back the third eye
I was skydiving I can tell you it alters your consciousness some of us alter our
consciousness by other kinds risk-taking behavior
as some people alter their consciousness I you know by
a well everybody ice by spose does most people do
with with sax is away a faltering consciousness altered states
shall we say on I mean there's all these things that we do that just kinda
pappas outta the average humdrum
day-to-day darnell state and into something else
reinfection
reading novels going to the movies watching TV we do all these things to
modify
our baseline state I am convinced that the this is it just a basic need and
that
and that there's a buzz a certain percentage of the population and I'm
guess it's actually
you know i i wasnt 3 percent will be chronic abusers I think it's probably
closer to one or two percent of people who are just going to you know no matter
what it is they're
the region they just cant stop they're gonna they're gonna go nuts
but I think that probably more like
60 70 80 percent of us
maybe even nineteen ninety-five percent us on a regular basis
all tribunal try to alter our consciousness in in smaller ways
not you know being perpetually stoned that's that one or two or three are
baby 45 percent you know but i think is probably more like one percent because
it would render you unable to work and you look at unemployment statistics and
what not but who knows I I don't know I don't know the percentages
I love drama at X in our population are other percent alcohol expert
whatever that percentage is bats
that's going to be with you know what no matter what it's not going to go away
just cuz you ban the substance people are just gonna go to something else
when alcohol was banned people were drinkin methanol they're going blind
they were they were they were Stephano you know gasoline
and they were and they were becoming mentally-retarded I mean literally
getting brain damage from it
so if we're going to if we if we all have those
you know mcguire did need to occasionally alter our consciousness
and some percentage of us whether it's thirty percent or 70 percent
are gonna do that with a substance been a glass wire told
why not make it the least destructive drug we can come up with
and it seems like hot meet secretary
and so that's my argument for decriminalization
and regulation I I sure police
concern I don't want ten-year-old smoke I think this should be an adult
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