/lit/ - Literature

No, soma is an offering from the social domain, whereas cannabis is an offering from the natural. The two domains directly compete with each other for dominance and use a variety of "propagandizing" elements to achieve this (e.g., pharmaceuticals, public schools, consumerism, in the case of society, and natural beauty, psychedelics, arguably some forms of insanity, on nature's side).

So it makes more sense to align soma with any form of social deluding mechanism, which cannabis, in itself, arguably is not (actually, quite the opposite). Now, certain socially encouraged forms of cannabis use *are*, especially in recent times, beginning to fall into this category, which is where the confusion comes from: "Use weed in a recreational, irreverent, lazy fashion!" yells the social mouthpiece, as it begins to realize that it can't suppress this element for much longer and must instead try to make it ineffective by destroying the "proper" (i.e., naturally intended) context of its use.

This is not to say that nature is inherently good and society is inherently bad. That is not at all what I'm getting at.

t. lives in the woods