I honestly believe that if marijuana were legal, it would help many people break the addiction to harder drugs like crack and meth. Although I’ve never smoked crack or did meth, I used to deal and snort a shitload of coke, and I drank a lot of alcohol. I was always staying out getting into trouble, etc… but one day a “more responsible” friend of mine told me that if I would quit doing stupid shit and just stay home for 3 months that they would provide my weed during that time. It helped. I haven’t looked back since. I was able to break my other habits during that time frame and get my life back on track.

These days, I’m fairly successful with a FANTASTIC job, and my only habits are weed and cigarettes.

I think I was given a good form of rehab, and I believe that if it were offered to other addicts, marijuana could work for them also. Maybe it’s beneficial because good marijuana helps most people to relax, and for me personally, it helps me focus. I think I may have ruined my attention span by doing the various drugs I’ve done over the years, and weed certainly helps me focus and pay attention better.

If you haven’t seen the movie The Boys & Girls Guide To Getting Down, well, you should. Or perhaps you shouldn’t. I guess it depends on your past and whether or not you can relate to the movie. For me, it brings back a lot of crazy memories. The movie is shot in a comical, yet demented kind of way, but for the most part is dead-on accurate in how it portrays the lifestyles of it’s characters, although it is a bit exaggerated. This is NOT a marijuana movie, it is a drug movie. However, pot leafs make an appearance within the first five minutes of the film, and an entire segment is dedicated to weed called “The Merits of Marijuana” and the narrator says it is essential to maintaining sanity. I agree, marijuana saved my life. If it weren’t for weed, I’d probably still be out running wild, dealing drugs, doing drugs, and not thinking about the future.

Anyway, the movie starts with “All over the world, boys & girls are getting down. This is a guide for you to also.” The movie covers the essential tools to “getting down” such as vodka and drugs, and the pitfalls associated with “getting down” such as puking and the police.

So much of the movie I can relate to my past real-life. I agree 100% there are (as the movie says) “Sketchy drugs” and “Fun drugs.” Another fun topic is dealer time vs. real time, and fiends constantly calling the dealer to see how long before he get there.

Oh, and what about when you get in the car with a crazy person behind the wheel? Yeah I know, obviously a stupid move to get inside ANY car when the person is on drugs, but it happens. I remember being on some hardcore acid one night at a friends house party, and a chick named Windy that I worked with came over to score something and she was going to another party on Collins Rd, so a few of us decided to ride over to where she was going. Wow, cram 5 or 6 kids on acid into one car for a trip down US17, and you’re just asking for disaster. Fortunately we made it safely to our destination and continued to party. 

Ok, back to the movie, here is the description from Netflix:

A satirical homage to high school educational films of the 1970s, this indie comedy is a how-to guide for Los Angeles hipsters looking to party, get smashed and hook up. Need to know how to rid yourself of your one-night stand? Or how to tell time in “drug-dealer time”? Then this is the movie for you. Directed by Paul Sapiano, this uproarious low-budget comedy stars Benny Ciaramello, Kat Turner, Cricket Leigh, Steve Monroe and Natalie Taylor.

I wrote this at a really dark point in my life where I was living a bit too hard and it started to take a toll on me. This was probably written somewhere around 1999-2003. Life was a blur at the time.

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I ain’t the first dude to claim
I’ve walked some long, dark roads
I’ve traveled some wild and crazy paths
I’ve driven too many hard, rough highways in life
I’ve made it harder than it coulda been
I’ve let life be more difficult than it shoulda been
Oh how it woulda been

The choices I made
I coulda been like the rest
I coulda been like everyone else
If I woulda only followed the pack
The right pack, not the wrong pack
If I woulda only followed orders
And always did whatever I was told
If I woulda followed all the damn rules
I shouldn’t have broken alotta them rules
I coulda conformed and I coulda had a normal life
For all practical purposes

How do I feel about me?
How do I feel about myself?
What do I think about me?
What do I think about myself?

All lyrics © copyright WeedWisdom.com

Was it just a speck on the wall?
Did it really happen at all?
That part of my life
Could’ve been my downfall
It cost me many things
It cost me friends and love
It caused me pain
It caused me grief
But somehow I rose above
All that shit
And all that drama
Managed to make me even stronger

All lyrics © copyright WeedWisdom.com

It’s the general consensus
Even if it goes unmentioned
If you’re one of the few out of the loop
You need to stand at attention
Clear your head, think straight, and damn sure be listenin’