Dope 2

 

Marijuana use leads directly to heroin use!

This was the watchword of the 60's and 70's. And this had to be true because you could read it in the newspaper every week in Ann Landers agony aunt column. Over and over the suburban parents of North America were bombarded with this wisdom doled out by a woman who had probably never seen the bad weed nor the dreaded white powder. She knew it was true, probably because someone had told her so. But this great soothsayer probably had no idea exactly how difficult it was to actually score wacky tobacky in most suburban areas.

You had to know someone who knew someone that could give you all the code words and precise locations and timing for a seconds long clandestine meeting to pass the grass. In those days it could take you hours to track down a dime bag. Also at that time rolling your own cigarettes was something frowned upon, reserved for the poor, so if some young, healthy buck wheeled into the corner store and wanted to buy cigarette papers that kid was immediately suspect. It was a tough job to get a little high then. And if it was so hard just to score a little pot it is no stretch of the imagination to know that heroin would be impossible to get. Heroin was looked upon as a 'foreign' high. You would definitely have to go to another country to get it. But why would that be considered? Pot was the perfect high.

Time has passed and marijuana is still almost as hard to find now as it was then. But on every street corner there are a variety of designer drugs openly available on every street corner.

With the passage of time just about everyone has met a junkie. Heroin is everywhere and it is much cheaper than it ever was. Now having known many junkies, living next door to the Golden Triangle assured this, and asked and made many observations this has been discovered: heroin users do not smoke pot. The simple reason for this is that the drugs operate on different brain functions. There are no sensations in the brain that overlap from the use of these disparate drugs.

Heroin and all other opiates cause direct stimulation of the endorphins in a person's brain. The multitude of sensuous rewards are instantaneous for the user. There is just no way to feel that damned good without chemical help.

There is another drug that stimulates endorphins in a similar, but not exact, manner. Nicotine, the main drug in tobacco, seems to give the user an endorphin high. And this is a an addictive high that most tobacco users will go to great lengths to get.

Heroin users, for the main, do not smoke pot (well a very small percentage do) but every junky smokes cigarettes, incessantly, obsessively. So the only conclusion that can be drawn from this information is that: cigarette use leads directly to heroin use. (See: Dope 1)

Wake up and smell the hemp!