Angry Hippo wrote:
Please tell me you are kidding, please.
That is one of the oldest urban legends out there. Complete nonsense.
LSD (along with all other psychedelics) has the potential to express previously latent mental illness (most commonly schizophrenia). It isn't completely safe in that regard and those with a known family history of mental illness shouldn't do it. Generally, though, 99.9% of the time you will be fine and you more than likely would have gone crazy anyways. 5 years later? 10? 20? who knows, but you had it coming.
Hung out with a lot of people who've been doing LSD for 20+ years have you? They're all "off". Noticably off. Of course that could just be from the pot they've been smoking for typically the same amount of time. Hard to say...
Oh. And you do know that you have to
pay the public defender, right? You'll be getting a bill in the mail soon. I *really* recommend paying it promptly.
And for the record, addiction has nothing to do with how much you have on you, one way or the other. The typical crack addict never has more then $10 worth of drugs on him at any time. Addiction has a lot more to do with compulsive need to use a substance in the face of negative consequences. The reason people refer to you as an addict AH, isn't because of the amounts you use, but the fact that most people, having experienced the problems legally and otherwise you've encountered, would have gotten the hint and stopped using (or at least gotten a hell of a lot smarter about it. WTF are you thinking dropping acid and wandering around town?). You seem to be progressively becoming more and more self destructive with your habits.
But hey. You've got a job. You're going to school. Keep up with that. If you can manage to do that, then more power to you. But eventually, all this stuff will catch up with you. You may not think it's a big deal now, but when you're in your 30s and can't get a job that doesn't require the use of manual labor due to your rap sheet, you'll wish you'd been just a bit smarter earlier on.