<p>@chase, the point is to get high/drunk…I don’t think that’s a very hard concept to grasp.</p>
<p>^lolol. I think people who don’t must have it pretty good. The rest of us gotta escape somehow…</p>
<p>It’s sad that you want to escape your life, but it’s none of my business how or why.</p>
<p>I didn’t in high school…drank like once or twice. It changes in college for both alcohol and pot. </p>
<p>Went through a huge drinking phase but got bored of it after sophomore year. I’ve been drunk like three times this year? (school year + last summer)</p>
<p>the ganj?? that’s gonna be harder to quit.</p>
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<p>Who said I want to escape it? I want to enjoy it more.</p>
<p>Yeah I definitely wouldn’t describe it as an escape from life. It’s just fun being temporarily in an altered state of mind. You view the world differently, and for a short while, you don’t have a care in the world. I like being sober just as much as I like being drunk/high, because I love my life. I still get drunk/high occasionally because it is a fun, temporary excursion into a different side of your own psyche.</p>
<p>Smoking weed does keep you operating at suboptimal level of intelligence, 24/7…if you’re a regular smoker. </p>
<p>It’s my excuse.</p>
<p>@dfree124, @saman42: I wasn’t speaking broadly, but specifically to amandaaaaaaa. </p>
<p>Whether, what, how, and why you smoke is none of my business. I would find it sad if someone took up crocket to escape his or her life-- the need to escape, divorced from the means, is the tragedy. </p>
<p>The only things in this topic which I can have any moral stake in are the maintenance and expansion of freedoms to escape with, or to enjoy, any substance or any practice not directly harming others.</p>