I look at it this way. At the time in my life that other girls were doing disco, I was fed on another, even more bizarre culture. What a rotten thing to do to a kid.
But it happens to the best of us. That's the amazing thing. If you wander around these forums for awhile and get to know the regulars, we're a pretty random, diverse crowd. Not particularly dumb or smart, rich or poor, either gender, gay or straight, wild partiers or tee totalers, religious and athiests. But even those who consistently resisted had some expert tweaking done on our young internal switches.
And the mechanizms used on us were not alien technology or Dr. Moreau scifi. It's more like a perversion of normal, healthy social reflexes. If you understand how it works, you can see it coming a mile away.
Maybe 3 years after I got out, I fell for one of those job listings some pyramid marketing companies use to lure in desperate prospects. Soon as I got there I realized I was being kept waiting for my "appointment" which I would evidently be sharing w/ at least a dozen other applicants. Then came the rah rah meeting.
Then I knew it wasn't a job, but I just had to ride awhile to see where it went. That was a real eye opener! It was, down to the last detail, the same mindfuck. At the end of the day, my trainer told me he'd be in some kind of trouble if he brought me back to my car before he met his quota. That was after he told me he'd mortgaged the house and sold the family business in order to ensure success in his new enterprise, selling knock off perfume up and down the beach.
I shit you not, that was one of the more educational and entertaining days of my life.
Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.
http://www.masscann.org/quotes.htm' target='_new'>Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young, DOJ/DEA
