11 quotes
My high is always reflective, peaceable, intellectually exciting, and sociable, unlike most alcohol highs, and there is never a hangover.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
R is very large for LSD (which I've never taken) and reasonably short for cannabis.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
I had become friendly with a group of people who occasionally smoked cannabis, irregularly, but with evident pleasure.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
I say "Listen closely, you sonofabitch of the morning! This stuff is real!"
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
I can remember the night that I suddenly realized what it was like to be crazy, or nights when my feelings and perceptions were of a religious nature.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into social issues, an area of creative scholarship very different from the one I am generally known for.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
Many but not all my cannabis trips have somewhere in them a symbolism significant to me which I won't attempt to describe here, a kind of mandala embossed on the high.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
There's a part of me making, creating the perceptions which in everyday life would be bizarre; there's another part of me which is a kind of observer. About half of the pleasure comes from the observer-part appreciating the work of the creator-part.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word "crazy" to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)
I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs.
Essay as "Mr. X (1969)