RE: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV…

Carvill John johncarvill at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 11 03:13:33 CDT 2009



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>> I liked your description of Doc as a likely 'wake and bake' type. I know exactly the type you mean, but those guys tend to stumble around in a mental fug....
>
> I have a friend of this sort, up @ the crack of noon daily. I'm
> pretty sure I've only dealt with him straight once, having woken him
> up early under dire circumstances. Single most effective human being I
> know ...


I know exactly the type, believe me. All except the effectiveness bit. Some of the things we see Doc do - eg. not knowing if you've said something out loud or just thought it, paranoia, etc. - are associated with dope smoking (although they could be caused by stringer stuff such as LSD). BUt some of the phenomena we associate with weed are not as prevalent, in my memory, as we might expect of a habitual toker: I'm thinking more of low-intensity stuff like lethargy, fuzziness of mind, inability to enter a shop and purchase a paper, etc. DOc still seems reasonably sharp, 'specially compared to his friends such as Denis.

Maybe I would see all this more clearly if I skinned up? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

 
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