My friend forwarded me this fascinating Vice article yesterday about drugs that do the opposite effects of some well-known drugs. The writer went through and experienced drugs that do the opposite effect of marijuana, psychodelics and heroin.

 I didn't realize some of these things existed, nor did I realize someone would actually desire to experience them in large doses and in a recreational way like the writer did. But he makes a good point about it all at the end of the article. After a week of doing things that made him feel terrible, he feels awesome.

Most recreational drugs make you feel pretty good and they're hard to turn away from. But when you lose track your initial state of reference, i.e. sobriety, that's when problems start. You need to know what feeling shitty is like in order to feel good. Or you need to know what feeling normal is like to know what it's like to be high.