Which do you prefer as a leisure pursuit — taking ecstasy or riding on a horse? I have done both and am slightly inclined towards the former, although not by much.
Which do you prefer as a leisure pursuit — taking ecstasy or riding on a horse? I have done both and am slightly inclined towards the former, although not by much. Ecstasy rendered me an immobilised sap with a rictus grin and a vocabulary of about 19 words — like a slightly sinister CBeebies presenter who had not been adequately CRB checked. Riding a horse simply transposed my testicles from their more usual berth and left them instead hanging from the ends of my ears. Both activities imparted psychological or social or physical discomforts which easily outweighed any fleeting pleasures. Both are also risky activities — hell, call me Bear Grylls — but one, the horse riding, is far more dangerous than the other.
Dr David Nutt, the last government’s chief adviser on drugs, was sacked for pointing out this last fact.
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