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

[Bekah]

Isn't there a kind of residual buildup from pot?   I mean if you're  
smoking between 2 or 3 and 5 joints a day over a period of 2 or 3 (or  
5+)  years,  what's going on at the end of that time?   You're stoned  
from the first hit,  if I remember correctly,  and you're almost in a  
state of high maintenance (pun intended).

Don't know for sure - I didn't smoke that much but I watched many,  
many others.   I did a handful of pot, a few trips of LSD,  a couple  
attempts with some other minor things (no needles!)  but that was it.   
I headed for the vino.

Bekah

On Aug 11, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Carvill John wrote:

>
> Well, yeah, sure. By the way I said 'mental fug', not 'fog'. BUt you  
> know what I mean. Speaking for myself, I sometimes had trouble  
> concentrating on very simple matters whilst even a bit stoned. I  
> know some people can 'maintain' better than others, it's just I  
> can't think of *too* many instances in IV where Doc's ability to  
> operate is significantly compromised in a way which can really only  
> be ascribed to weed. A lot of stuff, like not being able to remember  
> whether he had eaten in Las Vegas, or who paid the bill, is not  
> particularly THC-specific is it? In fact memory loss, altered  
> perception of reality, inability to ascertain whetehr you;ve been  
> thinking or speaking, could arguably be regarded as more likely to  
> result from other substances, eg. LSD, and by ewxtension, might not  
> really be drug-related at all.
>
>
> Again, I;m just speculating. I mean, I wrote a review of IV in which  
> I mentioned Doc's 'discombobulation' and 'heroic weed intake' but  
> the pile-up of review after review stating Doc is 'stoned all teh  
> time' made me start questioning that view. And it would be a  
> typically Pynchonian trick, n'est pas?
>
>
>
>
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>> From: dougmillison at comcast.net
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re:  
>> finished IV…
>> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:47:56 -0700
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Carvill
>>> John wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 ...
>>
>>
>> Gotta agree with Dave here. Most everybody I know stumbles around in
>> a mental fog after waking up in the morning and some of them stay  
>> that
>> way no matter what substances they ingest or not. I know one wake- 
>> and-
>> baker who never gets anything done, and another who manages multiple
>> billions of dollars in an investment portfolio 5 days/week and  
>> returns
>> profits all day long. Go figure.
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