>>24561087 (OP)
Is that a ball point pen?

>>24561088
More of a crystalline quill, I've always thought.

>>24561087 (OP)
The crystal comes from pressure, the crystals a stripper name, the crystals salvation, the crystals shine might be the closet thing to the divine light of gods creation, firing up my neurons with holy marker fluid, tightening my nerve system and bringing me closer to the beauty - God, I would love to be a crystal, so someone can cut me up and wear me on their finger.

>>24561087 (OP)
For me it's weed

>>24562653
coward

Nick Land approved.

>>24562653
>he writes while stoned
I don’t need to read your work to know it’s utterly repulsive.

>>24562653
Gay

>>24561087 (OP)

name one novel written on crack/meth "a million little pieces" doesn't count

>>24563421
Philip K. Dick wrote virtually all his best books while high on speed/uppers of various kinds.

>>24562653
>>24562665
>>24563371
Feels like weed's reputation has suffered in the last few years?

>>24563421
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
>All of Stephen King’s early novels and short stories
All written while high on cocaine among other drugs. Not meth, but an upper

>>24564010
Psychedelics and adjacent drugs are only good if used moderately and responsibly, like once every 1-2 months. Internet pushes retarded abusers, and abusing that shit for its own sake just fries ones brain

>>24561087 (OP)
It's true, some of my best and most helpful posts on /lit/ were written under its influence. However, don't tempt me, anon, I'm trying to stay away. Well, maybe just a few hits... no, no, no!

>>24564256
KA ME HA ME HA!!!

>>24564266
That's it, I'm going to some of my old haunts to try and cop ten worth. Join me?

man i told myself i was definitely going to smoke weed or at least eat some edibles yesterday but i never got around to it

do u think if i ax the guy from one of those weed delivery services if they have lsd he can get some? their website tries to pretend to be a legit dispensary but it's obviously shitty dealer weed but the point is they might have acid or at least shrooms.

drugs are bad

>>24564056
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
He wrote it pretty drug free (not exactly sober) because he wanted to see the Mint 400
You've got to understand that motorsports fans don't need meth to act like that

>>24564010
Weed is normalized among zoomers. Zoomers are surrounded by weed since high school. Kids with their Chinese weed vapes sucking on that shit at every opportunity. It's only natural that the weirdo zoomers who find their way to 4chan are contrarians, as each generation of posters before them were. Zoomer normies love weed so zoomer chuds hate it.

>>24564376
every generation was surrounded by weed in high school the difference now is weed is legal so it's less edgy

>>24561087 (OP)
I'm good with home brewed coffee for 25 cents, thanks

>>24564388
imagine if coffee were illegal and only edgy druggies could sip it

>>24564382
Not to this extent. Walk into a public high school and half the students will be high at any given moment.

>>24564391
i actually think trees can be good for medicating adhd brainrot it just slows u down so u can concentrate, obv u don't want to do ur computer science homework while blazed but for like creative shiz like music or art u can just zone into it and get intrusive thoughts that make u check the internet

I never wrote well on ketamine but the experiences I had really inspired me creatively. Might get back into it and see how it goes now I'm a better, more disciplined writer.

>>24564317
mmmkay

weed got worse/too strong or whatever the fuck after the government got their hands on it, shit makes me feel like a schizo now

>>24564477
>weed got too strong
lmao imagine saying this

>>24564486
nta but not everyone is looking to get mashed up on skunk 24/7

>>24564492
welllll u don't have to blaze ur brain into the stone age with a bong that fits an 8th into the bowl, get a little one hitter or something if u can't trust urself not to over do it

>>24564477
Checked. It's gotten way stronger since widespread legalization. Growers selectively breeding for the highest concentration of THC possible. It's a shame because you can't just smoke on some mids anymore. Everything's got to be lethal.

>>24564549
so smoke less? mix more tobacco into your blunt? it's like complaining that vodka is too strong or something, yeah, well don't drink a 12 ounce glass of it like it's a beer, duh. personally tho i love getting blazed to the moon on insanely dank bud.

i was just marveling about how cheap this dank shit is. people say legal weed is too expensive, but in the 90s an 8th of kind bud hydro shit was like $50-60 and now in 2025 u can get the same quality for the same price, but instead of having to know some white dude with dreads who lives in vermont four months out of the year, you can just walk over two blocks and cop it from a store.

>>24564559
Anon, people smoke different weed types and hybrids exist precisely because "smoke less" doesn't give you a THC free high when your hybrid has both
Some people only really want one, some people want the two, and yeah if you're the type of person who needs a vodka bottle on hand, being the type of person who only want one glass of one type of wine because everything makes them sick might seem strange, but the people who need the vodka bottle are not the majority of the market

>>24564056

I respect speed and uppers, but having done both, meth is very different.

>>24564391
>>24564376
I agree with everything you said but I'd add there's a bunch of us who hate it for how badly it fucked with us. I'm one of the older zoomers and I smoked it every day for years. Worst mistake of my life.

>>24565583
What happened?

I can only write anything worthwhile on Adderall. Sometimes needs sober technical editing, but crazy the difference in output and quality of ideas.

>>24565586
I was academically inclined since I was a little kid. I studied, I got good grades, but I needed to learn to work hard if I was going to be serious about post-secondary. I started smoking weed around 11th grade, right when I should've been putting my foot on the gas and developing better habits. I get into university but by then I'm smoking weed all day long and doing zero work. I drop out, 8 years later, I've smoked, snorted, and injected just about every drug you could think of and now I'm an apprentice electrician living in bumfuck nowhere. Next month I'll have 1 year completely sober and I feel better than I have in a long time, but it didn't have to be this way. Half my coworkers think I'm gay because they're a bunch of good ol' boys and I'm an introvert who never played high school sports. I make the best of it, I'm good at what I do and I'm well liked, but I could've been different.

>>24565746
>I'm an apprentice electrician living in bumfuck nowhere.
That sucks bro. Construction is the worst for /lit/ types.

>>24565746
>all my coworkers think i'm gay
that's the downside of a working class life, if u read or do anything creative ur just gonna seem a little queer. i had to go back to school and get an office job so i can read and whatever without feeling weird. on the other hand, if ur from a working class background, ur always gonna feel a little off with a bunch of middle class people. there's no winning.

>>24565762
i go to a very good university and i’ve always got along with those guys. i can get along with anyone when it comes to talking about football and i think all the best artists (shakespeare, homer, cervantes) could too.
if you know what i mean. if you get me. hope you killaz understand me.

>>24561090
Lol

It made Phillip Dick insane

>>24565746
Weed didnt really fuck with me to this extent but I agree that it is way more dangerous and harmful than people admit. Maybe not so much for adults, but definitely for a young devoloping brain.

>>24565753
Reminds me of one guy we had who would read Joyce in the lunch room. He wasn't your standard lit type though, actually fairly blue collar but anti-social in an extraverted, arrogant way. He constantly argued with the foremen over union regulations. Wound up getting canned.
>>24565762
I'm going to finish my apprenticeship at least, I can't keep starting and quitting things, but I hope to one day pivot away from the grittier shit.
>>24565773
Where I am it'd be hockey and unfortunately I missed the opportunity to give a shit about it. Good on you for not making that mistake though, sports really are the skeleton key of male friendship. It's not so much getting along with these guys that I struggle with anyway, I'm appreciated as an oddity, it's more so the frustration from being out of my element on a daily basis and the fact that I put myself here through mistakes I made.
>>24565857
Yeah I accept I'm probably a negative outlier, for instance I don't believe all the hard drugs I would do later were a product of my weed use, but I do believe that if I'd zigged instead of zagged where weed is concerned, many problems could've been avoided. I'm not preachy about it in my personal life but it makes me sad to think about all the people my age and younger who got blindsided by it.

>>24565878
>hockey
leaf? which province?

>>24565857
>>24565878
Having done my fair share of drugs, I have to say weed is the only one that ever drove me into psychosis. I live in a drug infested shithole where coke and booze are the main scourges, but I think weed is just as bad. It also just fucking stinks and lifestyle stoners are really the most insipid of all junkies. I've seen people who are struggling to make ends meet dump half a paycheck of their minimum wage job on their smelly habit.

>>24564510
Yeah I never got the "it's too strong now" complaints. Probably the most unhealthy thing about weed is that smoking stuff is bad for you, so if I can smoke less to get the same high it's a positive

DUDE

>>24563461
PKDs best books were written while he was psychotic

>>24564486
retard, weed is like ten times stronger than when it was cool in the 80s
imagine if a standard cup of coffee was boosted to have enough caffeine as 4 caffeine pills

>>24565878
A childhood friend of mine followed your trajectory and killed himself very early on. It was tough, maybe the most impactful event of my life. It's been a while now. I'm writing a short novel as if I were telling it to him right now, in an effort to make sense of the aftermath of his death on my development and enduring shortcomings. It's cathartic.
I'm glad you're mostly through and on your way up, good job man.

>>24565762
I'm reading books from french "class defectors" to feel less alone lmao. They can be insufferable in their own right when they make theirs the misconceptions of higher classes about the poor. But I can relate with their frustration inside families somewhat lacking in intellectual sophistication or even curiosity.
Worst is the more I read, the more I realize how boorish I still am myself, and I'm past the age of being a student. My brain plasticity is not what it was. I'll have to work hard.

hell ya i got woken up at 2:30am last night and couldn't get back to sleep despite putting on the most boring audiobooks with droning narrators imaginable so i got up and cut like 1/3 off a edible off and ate it and now i woke up feeling so relaxed man like i have no adhd today just a good night's sleep to heal the brainrot.

>>24565857
Depends on the brain and strain and a lot of other factors.
Cannabis is a godsend for some kids, because they're hallucinating and seizing because of epilepsy and similar conditions
There's also a social problem: a lot of psychosis is brief, especially outside the western world. A lot of religious and psychedelic experience can be framed as psychosis, and if you're in a society where visions are not as common as prayers, you're more likely to regard what is happening as medical rather than spiritual or philosophical or a weird aspect of god or nature or perception. Some of the weed fucked me up gang are ignoring other factors, just like a lot of kids who go to religious revival are ignoring a lot of other factors that went into their laying in the spirit.

>>24562653

>>24565981
>leaf
bingo
>province
Bumfuck nowhere.
>>24566756
You get exactly where I'm coming from, anytime I meet someone with neurotically self-conscious behavior, I immediately know they're a pothead and I'm invariably proven right. This current wave of weed normalization will hopefully give way to a more balanced approach where smoking every day seems just as bad as drinking every day.
>>24567421
Thanks anon, I really appreciate that. Sorry about your friend, that's cool of you to honor his memory that way.
>>24567830
The AI is trained on 2010s vice documentaries now.

>actually just turns your shit into a word salad of run on sentence overly filled with semicolons, em-dashes and quotation marks

>>24568470
>declining to name your province
i choose to believe you live in manitoba

>>24568470
chiming in as a fellow blue collar druggie, neurotically self concious describes me sadly very accuratly. I blazed a lot in my in my teenage years, but for some years i smoke mostly like once a week now. But its only getting worse not better. Have i fucked myself up permanently? And taking opiates like once or twice a week for 6 years now, becasue only on them im comfortable in my own skin and can leave the house without overthinking everything

>>24569428
Sorry to hear you're going through it anon. I won't lie to you, it's been almost a year and the overthinking hasn't gone away. It's still a massive barrier to my happiness on a daily basis, but it's not half as bad as it used to be. I have the mental clarity to read again, I bought a motorcycle, I'm saving money for the first time, I have a lucrative career ahead of me. In spite of how I feel sometimes, life is objectively better.
>Have i fucked myself up permanently?
I refuse to accept that about myself so I refuse to to accept it about you either. I feel like a cornball saying this but I owe a lot to narcotics anonymous, you might enjoy checking out a meeting in your area.

I think having sex enhances your prose the most like nothing else does

>>24561087 (OP)
Faustian.

>>24562653
To the people replying, yea, no one has EVER written anything world famous under the influence of anything.

>>24561088
Prostate stimulator, hands free orgasms open your pineal gland so you can put pen to paper with more eloquence.

>>24567057
Based PKD.

>>24564549
I thought it was stronger and more pure in the 70s than it is now? sure, lacing the shit wasn't as common but there was less of a chance of it being ditch weed. I guess you might be right considering the amount of growing dispensaries.

Methamphetamine is neurotoxic and literally destroys your brain matter. Suggesting it is evil.

I don't use any drugs or alcohol, am a Muslim. Consult this chart to understand why Muslims can stand being sober 24/7 365.

Why is it assumed that people need intoxicants to cope with reality? It says something about the spiritual state of an individual and the fallen state of society.

>>24571696
You cannot possibly be so idiotic to conflate non-suicide with happiness or contentment. Consider the obvious alternative variable. Quantitativefags are the bottom rung of the universal hierarchy. Your charts and graphs are juvenile and neurotoxic and an insult to god itself.

>>24571680
I think you are confusing it with cocaine, which was far, far purer in the 70s.

I can't find it anywhere; I guess I saw it in some documentary that I can't find
But Raymond Chandler was asked to write something, and he said "But that means I'll have to start drinking again"
Yada yada... he went back to writing and started drinking again, like a king