Everybody's Doing It; Nobody Wants to Talk About It

"Who will ever relate the whole history of narcotica? It is almost the history of 'culture,' of our so-called higher culture." Thus spoke Friedrich Nietzsche, everyone's favorite writer/theorist to misread and abuse. With the last of my required reading slowly disappearing before the fall of graduation, I find myself back where I started: Nietzsche.

Is it funny that my adolescent dabblings into philosophy and the cold, hard world of academia parallel my meandering into the world of illicit substances? Like that stodgy old German running to every doctor in the Western hemisphere, begging for hashish to protect him from the elusive monsters of hypochondria - headaches, nausea - at age 13 I was introduced to marijuana. I discovered the ganja and the superman at the same time.

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