when the herb kicked in and your rig sounds perfect

Archdeth--  Sorry to hear of your experiences.  But I can tell you, I have a completely addictive personality.  Thus cannot drink.  PERIOD.  Cannot gamble PERIOD.  And no hard drugs.    Weed?  It has no addictive effect that I can tell.  I can smoke daily for weeks, stop for whatever reason, and hardly miss it at all.  (This is not possible w/ any other drug/activity I know of.). If weed could 'lead' anywhere, I would have been there long long ago!

As for listening.  Sure, the gear sounds great.  But being high also makes me aware of certain of the details my friends here are always trying to eliminate (stray echoes, harsh highs ... well, you know what I mean).  Still, yes absolutely:  what sounds good straight, will sound better wasted.

If you need some psychoactive substance to enjoy your hobby to the fullest, you might have chosen the wrong hobby.

If you can get so riled up about burning some non-nutritious plant, how much is all else that you are saying worth paying attention to?

jdane,

I have a friend who says he can stop smoking any time he likes. He tried it many times and found out he could do it for a month, two, however long he decided to check at the time, without missing it at all. Years later, he still smokes. It is not addictive, he can stop.

Either light up or leave me alone.

"I know more old stoners and old drunks than old Doctors...."

The company you keep...

By the way, there must be more drunks and plant-worshipers in the world than doctors. Of course, it is easier to run across them. Sometimes, while they are laying on the street.

There sure are a lot of sanctimonious bores around here.