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Oh yes. Just got back from a five-mile run and I feel like Ginghis Khan riding away from a

burning village filled with the ravaged smoldering corpses of his vanquished foes. You know me,

I'm a big fan of all kinds of drugs, but as far as drugs go, particularly the opiates,

I can think of no high better than that created by the natural pharmacy existing in your brain.

And when you go running for whatever reason, the pharmacist up there decides to start

dispensing to you sweet beautiful endorphins. And God damn it, it's incredible. It's amazing.

It's amazing. Endorphins are the one drug as far as I'm aware that are not obtainable with dough.

You cannot buy natural sweet endorphins. As far as I'm aware, maybe there's you can buy

injectable endorphins, but it's not your endorphins. It's not the endorphins that were whipped up

in the synapses and the synaptic vesicles of your brain. Somebody else is synthetic fucking endorphins.

It's the difference between a perfumery's version of flowers of roses and the actual smell of

a rose. You've got it up there and all these little bubbles in your brain, these synaptic vesicles

have stored up. I don't know where they're stored actually. I just like the term synaptic vesicle.

Just read it because I was looking up why I was depressed from taking MDMA and found out that

your serotonin is stored in these little joy bubbles in your brain called synaptic vesicles.

MDMA goes rampaging through your brain, squeezing the happy juice out of these synaptic vesicles.

That creates the embarrassing conversations you probably have had with someone you didn't even know

when you told them that you love them at a music festival. The problem with that is that shit gets

squeezed out into your brain and then because your brain is like a very efficient factory,

it notices that it has way too much serotonin in stock and it decides not to make it anymore.

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