Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: What creates community? / NO to drugs

[Barbara Saunders (saunders]

> 
> Pot culture (with it's intersection with Grateful Dead culture and 
> general lefto counter culture) was an important part of my youth, was an 
> important rallying point. At a certain point, pot stopped feeling very 
> good in my body, so I stopped smoking it. I kept buying it and sharing 
> it. I pretended to inhale it, like our esteemed president. 
> 
> Eventually I stopped doing even that, and my connections to those people 
> that I loved, dimmed considerably. So much of the activity consisted of 
> buying, finding, sharing, and commiserating on how hard it was to find, 
> buy, share, that I suddenly realized that I was rather bored with the 
> whole thing.

Hmmm...agreed about the progression of 'the experience' from exciting to
boring.  Disagreed about the bonds:  I feel a similar, intangible but
strong, bond with people I've done *certain drugs with as with people
I've been lovers with.

Barbara