I don' t lead my dear gentleman friend, I get behind him with a steam roller and just slowly inch forward. He has no choice. (hi bro!

Of course he has a choice ! "Surrender" is not always appropriate.
When one feels a genuine love and respect from somebody surrender is always appropriate.

IMO what you say is old fashioned Hippy speak. I am talking from my own experience and my many observations of others.I am not suggesting it always has this effect,( the mean and nasty one ) I am saying it does sometimes. Dope smoking is more and more renowned for causing some people serious mental health problems. IMO "dope" smoking always makes people " dopey" while still under it's effect.I do have a puff very occasionally but I don't inhale ( joke). dope is dope, people are people-vive la difference.

Don't confuse smart with nasty. You can't see the smile on a face and there are no mean words to you on this page.

It's true that there are no mean words.Mostly you sound a friendly guy. " smart" ?  I'm not convinced Doc. Are you the kind of guy who would say " I used to be big-headed but now I'm absolutely perfect" ? No, I'm the guy who says I used to be perfect but now I am fully realised in that perfection.

" mature and healthy drug use "...A contradiction in terms? Not in the least. Look at your own example, you only smoke once in a while. That is healthy drug use.

I'm not going to Paris for sex.

....You gave the impression that you were in your " mile long" post probably because you were stoned.Na, it's just a sexy city to visit in the spring...and those four poster beds in the old fashioned hotels are quite alluring I must say.

Time to grow up and live sensibly
...or our maturing years will force it upon us !
Indeed they do!

P.S. Had a brill. time in London.Concert great. London lovelier and lovelier.( of course I haven't lived and worked there for a long time ! )
Excellent. Morrisey is marvellous. So is Londonia.Good onya!

I visited the areas in South London where I used to live and hang out in my earlier premie days as I was staying with a friend there. Used to be a scruffy area but now really cleaned up and almost posh,even round where the Palace of  Peace used to be.The centre of town is beautiful with all the buildings cleaned up too. The vast renovated Docklands area is absolutely fantastic and very futuristic. It used to be a derelict , desolate area of miles of abandoned warehouses and mud. Now it's totally incredible and well worth a visit . Maybe not as untouched and romantic as Paris ( which wasn't blitzed in WW2 ) but London has so much more space, not all claustrophobic like Paris is ,( hemmed in by the peripherique) the people are far more polite than in Paris. IMO in the last few years London has improved unbelievably and is at least on a par with its French equivalent.Really..and I never thought I would say that ! Also, I drove around town ( no congestion charge at the weekend) and the other drivers were patient and courteous UNLIKE Paris!!