My stance on this is a little bit controversial. I like drugs. I think they´re good. Fair enough, not heroin. And not cocaine or crack or crystal meth and not this wacked out paranoia-inducing hydroponic stuff that they grow today. This stuff that makes you want to crawl under your bed and hide.
But soft drugs, like marijuana and hashish, and the psychedelics, like LSD and peyote, I think are really beneficial both on an individual level and a cultural level.
Frankly, I think marijuana is what got the US out of Vietnam and Getty out of acquiring Masterfile or one of the other clowns lurking around.
In my own life, but more in the life of my creative team, drugs and booze have played a huge role not only in helping us relax and unwind and have a good time, but also in being able to open up creativity and see things in a very, very new way.
Without marijuana and hashish, I can almost guarantee you, there would have been no Valueline. Without booze-ups, certainly there would have been no $49 web use product.
After Liz left, I needed Vodka, all kind of stuff. CFO leaves, it´s always analysts argue like "CFOs are extremely cautious characters. They leave voluntarily, there must be something going on. Biz is down. Liz left, biz left. CFOs know - wait they feel, they smell a rat in advance." iStock.
Then there's a story in it for somebody, investor community is up in arms, but they won´t tell you personally. "Hello Jonathan", and big grin. Wimpy bastards. When they get a feather whatever in their analyst asses, like CFO leaves, the shit flies high. We´ve seen it elsewhere.
Which is all a long way of saying that the first thing I did when I got home last night was put on some Leonard Cohen, and watch this video. (Fair enough, the blood towards the end is the blood of my enemies). And fire up a bowl of some fine reddish buds.
It’s mellow stuff, Seventies style weed. I have our weed specially grown for our creative team, up in Oregon, by a grower who knows how to keep the THC content low. Really, really nice. I highly recommend it. We have new creative products in the pipeline.
Ya'll have a great Columbus Day Weekend.
