Blog number 5

Hughes Chapter 12

This chapter reallt interested me in the fact it talks about every kind of mainstream drug and what the drug's classificaton is. The first part that interested me was when Hughes talks about opium and how highly addictive it is, the surprise from that section was apparently alot of people in the 1950's used this drug as an everyday relaxation method. I did understand the fact when Hughes says it takes more and more opium for the person to get a high so every so often the person must up the dosage. I know in my life when i first was injured playing baseball i was on 1-2 vicodin a day for pain, now im popping 5-6 a day to keep the pain under control. The next section was about hash i want to say just a few words on it because most of us know enough about it for me not to state the obvious. The one interesting fact i did want to mention is I had no idea alot of singers used it to get more inspiration for writing songs. When i think of hash i think artists and poets, yet im not sure why i just know i would never touch it. Heroin was another interstng topic in this chapter for the mere fact i had no idea it was the strongest pain killer even more so than straight morphine. Although you have to inject Heroin that just turns my stomach i cant see people injecting themselves with a needle just to get a high.
Now i want to move to the last topic Cocaine and amphetamines, when i was in high school we had a very important baseball game and we had to win to get into districts. Before the game some of the guys were popping speed so i took two and i tell you what i was more focused on that game than any other game i had ever played. When your on speed its like you invincible and nothing will get in your way of getting whatever it is you want. It reminds me of how people on steriods act.


Santa and Mushrooms

I tried to have an open mind when reding this paper but this was redicilious, First of all the idea of Santa Clause was an idea from Germany not from a mushroom. That being said i believe the author did a ver nice job in comming up with similarities to make the reader believe that Santa was derived from this mushroom. The main point i wanted to draw from this reading was the color techniques that the author used to support his thesis. Color shemes have been used for years in commercials to seel products all the author is doinf her is trying to sell his idea with bogus color schemes. look at car companies making knock offs of other cars which will then start rivalries, its all about money im not sure if this author even believes what he is writing. This man is trying to sell his idea for example Ford Explorer vs. Chevy Blazer. Bottom line is the author is a whack job just out there trying to make some money so all in al i respect the man but do not believe him.