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...there, space cadets, we at FlyBy just thought we'd wish you a happy 4/20 (4:20). While Harvard has a devastating lack of smoker solidarity, we still love walking by certain finals clubs on Mt. Auburn, where members apparently let skunks loose all over the place to mark this occasion, or stopping to appreciate the glorious smell of dirty laundry as we saunter along the river. What we're trying to tell you here, is that we salute you, you little stoners...
...spread the love around. 4:20 is all about smoker unity and whatnot. Like, get together with new people, share some love, etc. Actually,on second thought, it's not really about anything. But come on, branch out, meet new people. We feel like your mom over here...
...help you make friends that summer? No, I'm a terrible pot smoker, but I thought James needed something in his sad little world that would help open up some doors...
...nicotine receptors in the brain. The drug affects how your brain releases dopamine, the key neurotransmitter that plies the brain's reward pathways and lays down roots of addiction. Typically, your brain gets a shot of dopamine every time you have a drink or - if you're a regular smoker - every time you drag on a cigarette. (Or, for that matter, every time you do anything pleasurable, like win at a craps table or snort a bump of coke or crystal meth...
...acting on dopamine receptors, varenicline also may change the way some people experience joy. Last year, the writer Derek de Koff (who was a longtime smoker and also - full disclosure - an acquaintance of mine) wrote a harrowing New York magazine account of his experience with varenicline. He experienced awful hallucinations while taking the drug - he wrote about speaking to a man in a bar who turned out to be a shadow cast by a potted plant. De Koff also became despondent. "I wondered whether [varenicline] was zapping my brain's pleasure-delivery system to such a degree that not only...