Ask Elvis and Hendrix and Joplin and etc.

Sorry that would be a no from me. Besides that set back my hiring schedule back a bit.

I'm down one uncle thanks to drugs. Pass...

Drugs are actually a substitute for emotional satisfaction, not a method of achieving it. They are a vague approximation of the genuine experience. There's no denying that they can have a pleasant physical/temporal affect but they are not a pathway to a genuine emotional experience of any kind. Of course if the experience that you seek is the mind freeing feeling of being high, then smoke 'em if you got 'em. But know that there are limitiations and extreme pitfalls associated with the experience. If we learned anything from Timothy Leary and Ken Kessey it was that the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was a failed experiment in achieving actual enlightenment.

Thats what they do, give you an emotional, mostly high/euphoric feeling. Course long term use takes its toll.

I grew up barely knowing what Marijuana was. I heard all the "Say no" campaigns, and basically being obedient and good, I didn't go near the stuff of anyone who I thought did. At the age of 31, I met Billy, who became my best friend. I found out he was a drug addict. Being naive to that whole world, I eventually let him move in with me and thought I could help. 3 years later, I was broke and he was dead. I have scars that will never go away. I never want to go through another night where, at midnight, I have to call a father and a grandmother and tell them their only son and grandson is dead. NOT EVER. There is NOTHING emotionally satisfying about that. Giving a eulogy at a funeral, instead of giving the toast at a wedding. That being said, there was still some help I wound up bringing. A family that needed hope. His father told me, "Had you not gotten involved, this would have happened years ago." I saw him learn to love some good things and laugh. We had many sober moments that I will treasure forever. And, I know you atheists will laugh, but I watched God work in his heart and mine. Showing me His version of hope. And giving me the assurance, that he is now safe with him. Where the addiction cannot hold him anymore. If anyone tells you that drugs are okay, DON'T BELIEVE IT. I learned first-hand.

Something like this is not satisying an "emotion" at all--rather a completely preventable mental/physical craving.

Well, there's probably a reason why people get addicted to them. But, even if it makes them feel good for a moment, it seems like a lot of addictions get to the point where it's not about feeling "good" any more, but just feeling "normal".

I was always too chicken to get into this because I was saw the older kids get messed up with drugs, and growing up I heard about many rock stars who overdosed. Yes, I'm sure it could be very exciting, but I was never tempted to experiment with drugs;it just seemed like a one-way trip to disaster.

Yeah, drugs actually do make you feel very pleasurable, that's why some people take them. But that pleasure comes at a cost of your life. Anyone who gets pleasure from drugs is an idiot who has a death wish. Drugs is not the way to escape from pain or reality. If you want fulfilment in your life, give your life to Jesus, not that you should do it for that reason.

Am not this sick.