WP by Matisyahu
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Ever since about Junior year of High School, people have assumed I smoked pot, or did some other drugs. I think it’s largely because of my laid-back attitude, and my more non-standard goals. And the fact that I listen to a lot of jambands doesn’t help me any. I’ve had people ask me on many, many occasions if I smoke, but more often people just assume it. When they get to know me better, and find out that I don’t smoke, drink, or do any drugs at all, they’re surprised. Its weird.
I’m not magic. I don’t do drugs in secret and my brain doesn’t naturally produce THC. There are a bunch of other reasons people come up with to figure out why I am the way I am. A lot of people suggest that I get a contact high at shows I go to. I’m pretty sure I haven’t, but if I have, it is incredibly overrated, and inferior to many of the highs I get everyday in life. There is nothing uniquely different about me that makes me the way I am, except for my worldview.
I think a lot of people make up those excuses for me because if they were true, then there is something magic about me that is completely unattainable for everyone else. I’m not magic, and anyone can see the world the way I do, if they try. I know people who don’t do drugs who think similarly to me. It isn’t unattainable, and I don’t want to be an excuse for people to use drugs anymore. I’m not going to stop anyone, but I’m not going to let them bullshit themselves either.