[Helm]

I am very anti-drug myself, though I have become somewhat more accepting in recent years of what OTHER people do, it is still not for me and that will NEVER change. Never been drunk once in my life, never touched a cigarette or any kind of mind-altering substance. And if that forever dooms me to "not being cool", so be it.

I cannot respect a person that uses drugs, even if it's a casual thing.

I was a pretty heavy drinker up to my 16th year. It seems silly, but it's absurdly easy to get beer when you're 15 here, and I didn't know any better. I thought it was 'cool' and everything. I think I was addicted, and I finally got the hint when I started waking up in puddles of vomit in the park after nightly drinking sessions.

As to not being cool, heh, I've been called a square so many times by all sorts of shitfaced losers, I've began to take it as a compliment.

There are all kinds of things you can achieve in a sober mental state, if you just start approaching things from a different perspective and thinking about them differently.

I think if I can achieve the same kind of affect WITHOUT drugs, then I am exercising my mind all the more.

To take this a step further, if you discover a truth that you cannot put to words while high, then what good is it? How can you benefit from it?

All insight gained in altered states of consciousness is pretty much forfeit if it cannot be analysed and dissasembled in a logical manner.