Comments by "Stevie" (@matthewhorizon6050) on "Jim Morrison of The Doors Predicted EDM?" video.
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Lost Coast Commodore
I'll tell you a story: I grew up in Upstate NY and in my 20s and early 30s lived in NYC for approximately 13yrs. Now, I am 44 and back in my hometown.
Like you, I used copious amounts of drugs when I was younger. Started w pot and booze, drifted towards LSD and shrooms (all these endeavors tool place in my late teens and early 20s), and then the darkness ensued: coke, crack and eventually heroin (intravenous).
At about 33 I stopped using the hard shit. Between jail and dealing with a regularly occurring "dope sick" problem, it grew old, so I went to rehab and quit.
Immediately after my release I enrolled in college, acquired four degrees (3 undergrad, 1 grad) and took on a career as a licensed psychotherapeutic clinician in NYS.
I took mushrooms last week for the first time in roughly a two decades. Leading up to the night when I took the shrooms, occasionally I would drink (10X per yr) and smoke herb even less (1-2X per yr, maybe).
Basically, my life of drugs and crime have been over for over a decade and life is much better. However, I had the best time ever on those shrooms! Forgot how fuckin great they can be! Furthermore, as a more mature and informed person, I feel it gave the experience a more lasting effect -- after coming down completley -- it changed me for the better.
My mood has improved and I'm much more licid. Perhaps, its psychosomatic, but I've read up on it and many older people have experienced a similar affect after a post trip on psychedelics. I won't take them all the time, but I WILL be taking them again.
One day, modern medicine will adopt the healing properties of hallucinogens as a way to treat various behavioral health problems. The research and trials have already begun. I believe they have the ability to cure mood disorders outright. Have a good one!
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