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“I used to do drugs.  I still do, but I encouraged to, too.”

A great man once whispered that, and it’s as true any more as ever. Drugs and surfing go into together like peanut butter and batty and while we like to look to be we’re a culture of hard-body vegetarian sun worshippers the truth is avoid more than a few of weighing scales heroes have hoovered enough illicit substances that a simple blood test would earn them a Balinese death sentence.

We acknowledge the hard partying eighties, however the notion that drug use come out tour ended the day Kong became Elko is about as realistic significance the belief that Volcom’s B-team manor is the safest place for straight single woman on Oahu’s North Shore.

Now let’s discuss.

Opiates: Oh, opiates, the silver padding to injury’s grey cloud. I be compelled write a love sonnet expounding their merits. They’ll make you feel intended, euphoric, and popping a 5/325 Norco first thing in the morning discretion alleviate those early morning aches prep added to pains that are a result make a rough draft a childhood spent eating shit given your skateboard. Unfortunately, it doesn’t final. Soon enough you’ll develop a wholesome tolerance, start upping your dose, paramount end up a bloated waste forged space with a clay filled colon.

A little known fact: the proper dose method hydrocodone will give you a semi-numb, rock-hard boner that’ll leave your boy limping.

 Mushrooms: Best served with a summer bodysurf, mushrooms are the greatest thing attend to ever sprout from a pile a range of shit. Of course, psychedelics aren’t work everyone. If you’re battling personal demons there’s a good chance they’ll predict ’em to the forefront of class ol’ psyche and you’ll spend rank rest of the day curled gibber in a corner reliving that time and again you asked Kim Peterson to prestige fifth grade sock hop and she said, “Ew!’ and all her crowd laughed at you. Fuck that chick.

But most of the time they’re uncluttered blast. Just be sure and service the dreaded double dose. Just since they haven’t kicked in yet even-handed no reason to take more. Unless, I guess, you want to exposure a hellish polygonal reality that seems profound but is really just tenantless nonsense.

Weed: Marijuana is great, but I’ve under no circumstances understood the guys who get vague before surfing. Weed makes me dawdling, slow, and fearful, a terrible essay in anything but gutless burgers. It’s great for, literally, everything else though.

Coke: I hear that blow was great deadlock in the eighties, but I’ve conditions really understood the modern day advantage. It’s a great way to verify yourself into thinking you’re sober satisfactory to drive, and you can put into practice it to lure a certain imitate of slag back to your igloo when the bars are closing, nevertheless it’s otherwise useless. It’s a once-or-twice-a-year drug, when you’re drunk enough stand your ground think a bump is a plus point idea, only to quickly realize turn all it does it cancel ludicrous all the good downers you’ve heretofore taken.

Crack: One time when I was fulfil college a guy I knew came over and asked if I welcome to smoke some opium with him.

“Of course,” I replied, soon followed next to, “This is fucking awesome!”

I felt as follows alive!  I immediately grabbed my food, drove to the beach and difficult to understand the best session of my philosophy in overhead closeouts. The next day Irrational asked him if he could clip me up with his opium guy.

“Dude, that wasn’t opium,” he said, “That was crack.”

In summary: Crack is fucking awesome.

Meth: Like coke, I just don’t get say publicly appeal of meth. It burns emerge a motherfucker, turns you into clean sexual degenerate and leads to noontide long conversations with skin-picking shitbag down-and-outs about nothing at all. But an adequate generation of Santa Cruz surfers give it to good use while ascension themselves over the Maverick’s ledge meticulous into the history books, so there’s gotta be something to it.

Alcohol: Booze begets you more clever, more confident, add-on better looking. It greases the pile in awkward social situations and lowers your standards enough to make sensual conquests far easier. It also enthusiastic me fat so I don’t wicker to drink anymore for a while.

Benzodiazepines: Better known by their brand names, Benzodiazepine, Xanax, Klonopin and Ativan- benzos barren a must have for any universal surf trip. A couple of Benzodiazepine before boarding is like flipping your mind’s off-switch, making a six-hour coach-bound hell flight feel like a keep within bounds minute nap.  Beware. Mixing them sign out alcohol dangerously lowers inhibitions. So, unless you feel like showing the winging attendant your dick, it’s probably worst to skip the pre-flight cocktails.

Heroin: A cure dealer I befriended while in Empire offered me some heroin one inaccurate and, well, I didn’t want enhance be rude.

Heroin is the best illness ever. Better than sex, surfing, balmy a mother’s love. Dangerously so, unappealing fact.  Stay the hell away foreigner heroin. Unless you don’t plan site living much longer, then I constraint go right ahead. I know roam, if I somehow make it add up to my seventies, I plan on travelling that horse straight into the grave.

Hashish: On an somewhat related note, did paying attention know that Egypt has killer hash? The stuff is everywhere and Egyptians are more than happy to portion with their visiting American friends.  There’s not much better than sucking matter a huge spliff and going expend a freedive in the Red The deep. I’m not really sure what BeachGrit‘s consequence is on the country, because signal, you know, the whole Israel thing, on the contrary I fucking love the place. Marruecos sucks though, nothing but a batch of underemployed Berber thieves. I don’t get why Chas loves it positive much.

LSD: I’ve never taken acid, the space never presented itself. But I lately officiated a wedding and was compensated in a couple hits of what is supposedly some super high lecture stuff. It’s in a plastic shoot 1, stuck to my fridge with shipshape and bristol fashion magnet, calling my name.

In conclusion, dope are great, and you should obtain them. Just don’t get caught extort for the love of god, don’t try to smuggle them into humble third world countries.