The Weed Cure: Academic Self-Righteouness Is A Detriment To Recovery

Right. Because they're taught not to replace it with anything, just be flat sober. I think that's wrong to do, and so do the numbers.

Not that any academic wants to admit it. Don't blame the counsil's myopia, blame the junkies, because fuck them, that's why, right?

Wrong.

Cannabis Rehab, 2 years minimum, intense psychotherapy--the same. They (therapists) have to wipe out the street ego and replace it with a square one for as much as that's possible. That sounds very dystopian but in the case of the street rat, it's the only thing that will work. Let them smoke weed. Cannabis is the only thing I have found that can dumb down the hideous yen, that incubus that splits from the addict and drags him to a shot even if against his will. Those who simply try to ego their way into becoming super straight sober will backslide. I've seen it a hundred times and don't need to do any research to know that's the truth. We're talking hardcore addicts, needles, okay, not "I roll a bubble once a day to work my 20 hour shift" addicts. Those sorts have a good chance to ego their way out of using that bubble with stoicism and learned hatred of all-things-drug, but hardcore junkies cannot do that. Maybe because too much dope changes the cellular structure and the genome and the old, pre-hook mentality (if the addiction has progressed to the point where biology is mutated) is never coming back. It has infected the deep structures. Those structures will NEVER be the same again. Arguments to the contrary tend to be inflated, Self-Righteous Bullshit, or at best Disney shit. I'm sorry, but they are. They don't fucking work. There's something like a 2% full-sobriety recovery rate among heroin addicts, most of the rest (the other 18% of recovering junkies) turn to booze, the worst goddamn drug there is in my view, excepting crack. A hardcore addict has to switch gears, they have to or they'll flip out. People can keep denying that for the sake of self-righteousness all they wish--as long as it keeps up, you'll have homeless junkies. I don't care how much housing you build. There are no "just potheads" on the street. I've been there so yes, I DO know.

Maybe this is a little unfair, big maybe. I think most academics, the good ones like doctors and counselors, know what I'm saying about the irreversible damage is true enough, but won't admit that cannabis might be of aid thanks to their career ethics. And that's okay...

But. And this is an opinion that can get you in trouble, the "twisted" part of the treatise:

Some doctors--especially on Fox News--are suddenly saying cannabis "causes" schizophrenia. Where's that research coming from, drug testing schizophrenics who self-medicate with cannabis instead of that hideous goddamn Haliperdol shit? What's that mean, it must be the weed? Oh shit, there's a drug in the system that isn't Big Pharma's--BLAME THAT, STAT! What the hell happened to cannabis is a recreational wonder drug? That's what the medical pro rhetoric said before weed was more or less legalized. That's fucking WHY it was legalized as an alternative to all the harmful legal and street shit, and even as an alternative to obesity-causing anti-depressants. So what changed? Big Pharm, Alcohol, and Tobacco losing business perhaps? 

I imagine a speech like this from some pharmaceutical company swine in search of a shill:

"FUCK! We're losing money, quick, pay for the smear! I want contrary rhetoric INJECTED into the psyche of the public post-haste! Recruit Fox, CNN, all of 'em, NOW! Pay whomever you have to! Goddammit, we have to get them drinking and smoking cigarettes again. They won't be depressed without neuro-toxic booze and the great poison nicotine fucking up all of their organs. Get them back on the Trintellex! Don't these people watch commercials? Fucking cannabis! We're going to go broke, and that can't happen!"

To the Fatbacks, the enemy is cannabis. Not blackout booze or the 7,000 chemicals in tobacco. And let's not forget the other shit they want addicts to take instead of heroin or meth, suboxone and adderal. All of those are equally addictive to meth and heroin. They will also make you sick as fuck. But they're okay, 'cos you know, Big Pharm owns Big Medical and Big Media and it's their thinking you will hear on the news. Christ, this sounds so nutjob but it's fucking true. Sadly, I think we all know it's true.

I can fucking quit H, Meth, but not these. Go figure.

Pharm's answer has been to switch the addiction from street to clinical. From the snap bag to the orange bottle. Does that help, or just guarantee Big Pharm is getting their end? It's the latter. You cannot defeat speed and opiate with more speed and opiate, I don't care if it's corporate sanctioned speed and opiate or street trash. They know that too, but they want you hooked. They get paid when you're hooked.

And that's part of why the problem stays real. It's why people stay addicted. Many addicts sell their strips and their little orange 20s (adderal) so they can buy real meth and real H. I used to do it in my hardcore junky days. 

This isn't an argument for the world to smoke weed. If you don't do anything, PLEASE don't start. Not weed, not cigarettes, not booze or H. But if you are kicking addiction, cannabis is a huge help when you need to say--

No. I DON'T want a shot. Two hits off a pipe every now and again will help that far better than suboxone or ye gods anti (but should be called pro) depressants.

Maybe one day the academics will worry less about righteousness and more about fixing things. In that day, we may see less fetty freaks and super J's and tweekers flying signs. No. I don't hate them. I already said I used to be one.