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spikydave

Six questions by way of blessedjess...

Jan 31, 2009 13:08

Ask me a question about each of the following:

1. Friends
2. Sex
3. Music
4. Drugs
5. Love
6. Livejournal or something random

No matter how confidential or far fetched I will answer the question honestly.
Then post this in your journal and see what questions you get asked!
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blessedjess February 1 2009, 22:29:44 UTC

1.Do you have a best friend and what made that person so?
2.Is there something you want to do sexually that you haven't?
3.What are your Top 3 bands, vocalists, etc?
4.Should illegal drugs by definition be allowed to be used in the medical field?
5.How does love make you feel?
6.What are some of your favorite activities to do around where you live?

The second half since I went longer than elgay would allow... spikydave February 2 2009, 17:12:30 UTC

4. My point of view on drugs gets rather complicated but in a nutshell, I don't think anything should be illegal or off limits when it comes to medical treatment. Addiction and the ill effects of criminalizing drug use has a much more harsh toll on society in my opinion than decriminalizing substances and making a stronger push in the way of education and recovery programs. I liken DARE from my childhood to today's abstinance education policy for sex ed. It doesn't work that great as a deterrant and people are going to try and get high off of all sorts of things...the fact that they do it should have no ties to what the medical community can do with a substance for legitimate medical use. That's about as short as I can keep that without launching into a full on rant about some banned substances that have shown a lot of promise in treatment of specific conditions (and I'm not talking about marijuana) but will never pass the ban on the substance because of the "risk of abuse." I'd point the obvious finger at the virtually limitless ( ... )

spikydave February 2 2009, 17:11:48 UTC

1. I do have a few very close friends who I consider family at this point, but 1 person in particular is definitely the closest person to me in this world (even closer than blood relatives) and I guess it's not too complicated how he came to be considered my best friend. We were partners for 8 1/2 years having met in the bay area in California and then moved to New York about 9 years ago together. We remained partners for another 5 years after getting here and then ended that part of our relationship due to certain irreconcilable differences but have remained very close since the awkward phase of that ended. We still share the same "family plan" for our mobile phones 4 years after splitting up and while lately we've been on very different paths, we still keep updated on each other's activities via text messages on our mobile phones, often several times a day. I think a lot of it has to do with us being the same age, having hooked up when we were 20 and then spending the majority of our 20s together. I've known him a bit longer than ( ... )