I started smoking grass back in the 60s.  I wonder how much different my life would be if I hadnt.  I dont think I ever had a more enjoyable hobby than growing my own pot.

I quit smoking it after awakening, but every once in a while I get some and smoke it for a while.  I do like it, but it makes me part of the furniture.

Also it is a hullucinagen, not a downer as most people think.  I would rather have schrooms of mescaline any day of the week, or even acid except that one comes with some discomfort. 

I had a great kensho experience on acid one day back in the 70s.  A friend asked, *Are you one with the universe, Don ?*  I answered, *Man, I am the universe !*  It was like I could feel everything all around me, as me.

Quote: "What a sweet thing is life. And a big whack of gnosis."
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Maybe drugs are just a form of  hip-gnosis.

When I was in High School, my parents asked me why I was doing drugs.  I said, *Your brain is like a radio.  Why listen to the same station all the time? Drugs change the station on my radio, and each one is like a different station.*

At first, when I got into metaphysics, I think drugs helped in the beginning, to see things differently, to break away from the norm.

Later, after awakening, they seemed to get in the way.  So I stopped doing them.  When I moved out west in 1993, I didnt have a dealer out here, and I havent looked for one.  Ive got some seeds around somewhere, and I could get a medical marijuana certificate, but I just dont want to get back into drugs.  I dont need them, and I dont want them.

Of course, every once in a whie I may indulge, but not as a habit.