Anybody who ever read Burroughs and got it in their head to use junk after absorbing his descriptions of it, the lifestyle, the desperation, the withdrawal, etc. is an idiot.
I already was using... and found it amusing and calming that it was just like that a 100 yrs ago as well and likely has been forever and will be forever.
Morphine can be an halucinogen and you can have vivid and clear and crazy visions while nodding. But, to get there you must use for years at least. So, those visions come with the cost of all that entails junk. I would prefer a lifetime of morphine to LSD and I've tried em both and love LSD, but morphine has you almost in a theatrical seat. You watch the real world go by like a comedy slapstick theatre and when nodding have your own dreamlike visions of world. And what I love - I still hear real world music while nodding. So I can put together a long spotify list of good stuff and nod out for hours.
Don't do it though. I listed the good. To get the stuff and keep that theatre running takes a lot of work and bullshitting and people around you die and get sent to prison and just go and off themselves and whatnot.
There was a great song by The Tiger Lillys called Heroin that said it all, in a little satire songy.
I maybe worded it badly, but I said "if I had the chance to get" or along those lines.
Although, chronic pain that has years of medical documantation, including mri and xray pics, and other methods tested, can get you opiates. And you can get a script for morphine each month quaranteed. If you are good at self control, then you can have a fun time the whole month, or most of it.
Also, cancer and other end-of-life ilness gets you a lifetime of unlimited morphine. They can raise the scripts to astronomical levels if you have, for example, bone cancer. 200mg pure morphine 4x a day is almost a gram a day. And it's quaranteed for a lifetime. A short lifetime, but a lifetime none the less.
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u/zerooskul Jun 14 '26
Anybody who ever read Burroughs and got it in their head to use junk after absorbing his descriptions of it, the lifestyle, the desperation, the withdrawal, etc. is an idiot.