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"Marijuana was my secret weapon. I had the strong feeling that I had an advantage over those around me who are locked inside the cages of their scientific egos. It seemed that everyone else was playing silly language-games"

"So I rejected the possibility that the intoxicated subject merely creates realities otherwise absent. I was convinced that smoking marijuana was a means to uncover phenomena that were always present in sober reality, only hidden."

"I have an inclination to see marijuana as a tyrant who tries to dictate the direction of my soul. After marijuana has instilled a narcissism in me, I am increasingly tempted to turn back to the drug that gives me my greatness."

"However, one could also make the argument that the real tyrant is my imagination itself. Perhaps marijuana is only my imagination’s vehicle to separate itself from me, leaving me as its slave."

"Marijuana creates the illusion that you are being guided by an independent source of truth — one that will show you the correct way to proceed with your life. And this “truth” is a powerful one because it seems to have always been there, hiding in the margins"

"The intoxicated subject does not understand that his world is a work of art that he created. Instead, he walks away thinking that the overwhelming truth he now sees has always been in the world, just covered up."

"One of the primary negative consequences of my marijuana habit was that it imbued me with a false passion. I embarked on missions to carry through my high ideas. But the problem is that any idea I encounter during an intoxication is amazingly beautiful"

"No matter how much he works to clearly articulate his revelations to the public, he will never be understood to his satisfaction — the content of his intoxicated ideas, by its very nature, is intelligible only from his perspective."