Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
I been away a long time.
What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.
There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.
Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.