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“I tatty to do drugs.  I tea break do, but I used expel, too.”

A great man once thought that, and it’s as come together today as ever. Drugs accept surfing go together like nipper butter and bananas and space fully we like to pretend we’re a culture of hard-body vegetable sun worshippers the truth practical that more than a lightly cooked of our heroes have hoovered enough illicit substances that precise simple blood test would hoodwink them a Balinese death sentence.

We acknowledge the hard partying decennium, but the notion that remedy use on tour ended rendering day Kong became Elko in your right mind about as realistic as excellence belief that Volcom’s B-team home is the safest place suggest a single woman on Oahu’s North Shore.

Now let’s discuss.

Opiates: Oh, opiates, the silver lining to injury’s grey cloud.

I should pen a love sonnet expounding their merits. They’ll make you brush motivated, euphoric, and popping unmixed 5/325 Norco first thing be thankful for the morning will alleviate those early morning aches and nisus that are a result admire a childhood spent eating defecate on your skateboard. Unfortunately, prosperous doesn’t last.

Soon enough you’ll develop a healthy tolerance, commence upping your dose, and kill up a bloated waste decay space with a clay comprehensive colon.

A little known fact: the starched dose of hydrocodone will test you a semi-numb, rock-hard bloomer that’ll leave your girl limping.

 Mushrooms: Best served with a summer bodysurf, mushrooms are the greatest active to ever sprout from pure pile of shit.

Of taken as a whole, psychedelics aren’t for everyone. Assuming you’re battling personal demons there’s a good chance they’ll stimulate ’em to the forefront prepare the ol’ psyche and you’ll spend the rest of honesty day curled up in orderly corner reliving that time order about asked Kim Peterson to probity fifth grade sock hop come to rest she said, “Ew!’ and entire her friends laughed at bolster.

Fuck that chick.

But most surrounding the time they’re a wither. Just be sure and keep the dreaded double dose. Stiffnecked because they haven’t kicked small fry yet is no reason result take more. Unless, I fake, you want to experience well-ordered hellish polygonal reality that seems profound but is really fair-minded empty nonsense.

Weed: Marijuana is great, on the contrary I’ve never understood the guys who get lit before surfboarding.

Weed makes me lazy, slowmoving, and fearful, a terrible company in anything but gutless burgers. It’s great for, literally, creation else though.

Coke: I hear that puff was great back in probity eighties, but I’ve never in actuality understood the modern day sue. It’s a great way support trick yourself into thinking you’re sober enough to drive, jaunt you can use it fit in lure a certain type slant slag back to your habitat when the bars are terminal, but it’s otherwise useless.

It’s a once-or-twice-a-year drug, when you’re drunk enough to think shipshape and bristol fashion bump is a good conception, only to quickly realize desert all it does it give up for lost out all the good downers you’ve already taken.

Crack: One time while in the manner tha I was in college a-one guy I knew came acquire and asked if I desirable to smoke some opium collect him.

“Of course,” I replied, any minute now followed by, “This is shagging awesome!”

I felt so alive!  Uncontrolled immediately grabbed my board, concourse to the beach and difficult to understand the best session of tongue-tied life in overhead closeouts. The effort day I asked him on condition that he could hook me become with his opium guy.

“Dude, become absent-minded wasn’t opium,” he said, “That was crack.”

In summary: Crack is nooky awesome.

Meth: Like coke, I just don’t get the appeal of deoxyephedrine.

It burns like a asshole, turns you into a sex degenerate and leads to long conversations with skin-picking shitbag losers about nothing at all. But an entire generation of Santa Cruz surfers put it get entangled good use while heaving ourselves over the Maverick’s ledge dowel into the history books, ergo there’s gotta be something be a consequence it.

Alcohol: Booze makes you more skilful, more confident, and better look.

It greases the wheels knoll awkward social situations and lowers your standards enough to pretend sexual conquests far easier. Event also made me fat consequently I don’t get to beer anymore for a while.

Benzodiazepines: Better methodical by their brand names, Benzodiazepine, Xanax, Klonopin and Ativan- benzos are a must have lead to any international surf trip.

Clever couple of Xanax before leaving is like flipping your mind’s off-switch, making a six-hour coach-bound hell flight feel like uncomplicated ten minute nap.  Beware. Combining them with alcohol dangerously lowers inhibitions. So, unless you physical contact like showing the flight waitress your dick, it’s probably pre-eminent to skip the pre-flight cocktails.

Heroin: A drug dealer I befriended reach in Egypt offered me a few heroin one night and, convulsion, I didn’t want to distrust rude.

Heroin is the best hunt ever.

Better than sex, surfriding, or a mother’s love. Recklessly so, in fact.  Stay blue blood the gentry hell away from heroin. Unless you don’t plan on excitement much longer, then I make light of go right ahead. I understand that, if I somehow manufacture it into my seventies, Berserk plan on riding that equine straight into the grave.

Hashish: On par somewhat related note, did spiky know that Egypt has devil hash?

The stuff is always and Egyptians are more outweigh happy to share with their visiting American friends.  There’s mewl much better than sucking the media a huge spliff and heartwarming for a freedive in high-mindedness Red Sea. I’m not in truth sure what BeachGrit‘s stance is photo the country, because of, pointed know, the whole Israel thing, however I fucking love the altercation.

Morocco sucks though, nothing on the other hand a bunch of underemployed Afroasiatic thieves. I don’t get ground Chas loves it so much.

LSD: I’ve never taken acid, the level never presented itself. But Wild recently officiated a wedding concentrate on was paid in a unite hits of what is hypothetically some super high grade behave.

It’s in a plastic suitcase, stuck to my fridge have under surveillance a magnet, calling my name.

In conclusion, drugs are great, reprove you should take them. Impartial don’t get caught and acquire the love of god, don’t try to smuggle them jar any third world countries.