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This week, an Amsterdam style "coffee shop" opened in the US. It's the first of it's kind to test the Obama administration's relaxing of policing medical use of marijuana.

I'm all for it - and I don't even smoke pot. I'm hoping this marks the beginning of us Americans relaxing restrictions on things that help us to feel good.

The reality is that people like drugs. They always have. They always will. But, superstitious thinking has wrestled the naturalness of pleasure away from us.

In America, doing things that feel good is held up as evidence of our moral depravity. So, yes for now, you can finally go into the one cannabis cafe in America and smoke freely- but you probably can't have sex there. That's morally wrong and illegal.

The paradox is that being high offers us some relief from the relentless pressure-cooker of morality versus desire.

What's really crazy is that sometimes I'll be working with a client, and at one point in the session, she'll express feeling really badly about feeling so good in her body- as if she's waiting for "the other shoe to drop".

I don't think there's even one shoe much less the other shoe.

For the sake of argument, let's say there really is an ill tempered invisible man monitoring my genitals, my money, and my happiness - just waiting for an opportunity to "drop the other shoe" on me. Doesn't that seem like a an odd use of time when you consider the major problems facing the human population as a whole? "Uh, let's see. Lawrence's cock? Global starvation? I'll go with Lawrence's cock." To me, it makes no sense, so I don't buy it.

Personally, I stay away from drugs only because I've found cheaper alternatives; meditation, hypnosis, and sex. Often they are free, and for the moment at least one, meditation, remains unregulated.

Let's save our tax payer dollars and stop fighting the phantom moral enemies "drugs and sex." If we legalize both pot, and sex, create standards and practices, and tax them a bit, we'll zero out the national debt in no time.

I say, if people want to smoke and fuck, let them. Now if only I can find one of those cafe's in my neighborhood, I'm golden.