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Then, after about a year or two, I started experimenting with other drugs. Now I know some people will look at
this and say, “SEE, cannabis is a Gateway drug!” However, I’d respond with…I drank alcohol before I smoked weed…so
if anything is to blame for the progression of drug use…it’s de nitely alcohol.
The fact of the matter, is that unlike the gateway theory suggests…I wasn’t looking for a “better high”, I was rather
curious about the di erent a ect drugs could have on me. If weed makes me feel like this, what would MDMA feel like?
What about cocaine? What about LSD?
You see, for me it wasn’t about getting ‘higher’ because the ‘weed high’ wasn’t enough. It was more about the curiosity
of exploring my options and understanding that ‘weed was nothing like the PSA claimed it would be”, so perhaps they
were lying about the rest.

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How Cannabis Helps Smart People Get
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I’m going to tell you the story of how Reginald Reefer got into the entire drug game. When I was thirteen, I smoked
my rst joint. I liked it from the get go.
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Making a long story a bit shorter, eventually I had done a bu et of drugs and was getting high every week.
Sometimes I’d go on month long benders, making cocktails of drugs from Peyote to Coke, mixing it with acid and
whatever else I could nd.
This stint lasted for about ve years. After my father died, I realized that my current use of drugs was not the
‘healthiest’ thing I could be doing.
I entered into a short religious phase where I cut out all my drug use except the sanctioned alcohol.
When I realized Drugs were cognitive tools

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It was after my religious stint that I re-introduced cannabis into my life. This time around, cannabis wasn’t a
novelty action I used to ‘have fun’ but rather a tool for alternative cognition practices. I understood that drugs in general
are just that…tools.
Eventually I re-introduced psychedelics into my life, yet with cannabis as my teacher, I now knew how to use it in
moderation. No longer was I a weekend thrill seeker, but understood that if used correctly, I could vastly improve
my cognitive functions.
You see, when you’re younger…you are in a constant state of self-realization. You explore options and do things in
excess…testing your limitations.
However, with time you begin to learn what you can and cannot do. You learn the limitations of yourself and learn to
regulate your consumption of other substances.
Everything can be “bad for you” when used in excess. Even weed can be ‘bad’ if you let it control you. However weed +
age can equate to wisdom.
Cannabis helped me realize that I could use substances to empower my thought processes. I use things like LSD
when I need to break paradigms or explore options from a di erent perceptive stance. Cannabis is my constant. I don’t
smoke all day, in fact, I smoke a lot less than I used too when I was 15.

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I don’t need to smoke that much anymore. I like to play around with my state of mind to achieve di erent things.
Thus, cannabis actually did the opposite for my drug use. I hardly drink alcohol anymore, I do psychedelics maybe
once or twice a year, I smoke way less than a gram of cannabis per day. (I dab)
Not only has alcohol curbed my drug use in general, it has given me the perspective to utilize drugs in the right way.
Cannabis helping with Addiction
Now, straying away from the personal perception of how cannabis helped me, let’s stroll down the paths of history for a
minute.
During alcohol prohibition, cannabis ‘clubs” were erected to help people wean o alcohol addiction. Many people use
cannabis to break stronger addictions and even today we can see how cannabis legalization has a ected
prescription pain killer overdoses (https://cannabis.net/blog/news/is-taking-cannabis-for-pain-the-solution-to-
oxycontin-addiction-and-our-painkiller-epidemic).
This indicates that cannabis is indeed an exit drug or at least can be. We have to understand that drug use has a lot
to do with your personality as opposed to your physical response to any drug. The idea that cannabis leads to harder
drugs have been disproved a long time ago, in fact, the opposite might be true.
I was a crazed youth, seeking drug lled adventures for many years, however with time and understanding I discovered
that there was a better way. My teacher; Cannabis, has helped me come to the right conclusions over the years.

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responsible drug user? I’d love to hear about it so leave your comments below.
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