Truth.

                           There is someone out there in the world right now, trying out a psychedelic drug for the first time in order to travel into another plain of consciousness where the reality around him warps and twists into a buffet of hallucinations and fictional delusions. He could have picked up a tab or two of acid from a local suburban teenager but, to play it safe, he decides to go down to the local Walgreen's and pick up a couple bottles of cough syrup, which contain enough DXM to send anyone on an six hour disassociation from reality. He finishes a few "trips" and thinks how great it is to escape the world around him and be able to travel to different places in his own mind and hopefully come back with a spiritual perception that wasn't already there. He is so tired of his parents and his school. He has tried religion and church but everyone in that circle just seems fak...

I walked into Walgreen's tonight to get some cold medicine. I am still very careful as I walk down the same aisle I once explored to find my tripping equipment. As I am reading the ingredients in the back of the box to make sure there is not any DXM in it (a distant but dull temptation still remains as I laugh it off)...right then--- I see in my periphery two young men approach and talk to to each other on which type of cough syrup they are supposed to use for "it." I didn't have to think twice.....I already knew. These guys are planning on tripping tonight.  I turned and faced them and looked into each of their eyes. I was looking into a dulled and cracked mirror of the person I used to be. All I could say at first to them was "Be careful.." They looked at me in a sort of shock that I knew what they were about to do. I explained to them how I did DXM for almost five years and wound up in the psych ward. I was brief and left with the final warning "Jus...