Two Thoughts on Taking Drugs

Thought one:

Artists during the centuries have been taking drugs to get to know another forms of consciousness and call inspiration upon themselves, or for example to shake off all the pressure they are under; perhaps it´s one of the reasons why so many of the artists end up in asylums or commit suicide in the end?

Thought two:

One of the signs Western society outran the Eastern one in progress is teenagers at schools in Western countries no longer start to just smoke at very early age to look cool - to get on the top ten of popularity is nowadays needed to take drugs or at least pretend to do so - which makes me grateful for relative poorness of my country which makes this kind of progress in the short or long term impossible.

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