Aaron and Cal on weed and gods

How much pot do you smoke a week?

Cal: "None."

Aaron: "Nothing anymore. I've been clean for about a month. I stopped before school started because, like, if I didn't I'd be stoned in class and at home. I wouldn't be able to focus."

Cal: "Yeah, and when you're stoned you just wanna eat more and sleep all day. It's not healthy. I mean, I used to smoke all day, and it was awesome. But I just kind of needed to put a limit to it somewhere."

Aaron: "And like, after a while you just want to be done. It gets old. I mean, tripping for 10 hours, you just want to be done. And then there's sleeping; it's so annoying when you're trying to sleep and you're tripping. It's just physically impossible."

Cal: And the crashes and shit suck."

Aaron: "But when you're tripping, it's awesome. Crashing sucks but tripping is great. You cannot be bored when you're on something. Like, I can be bored when I'm not stoned, but I'm never bored when I am. I mean, I'm not always bored when I'm not stoned, but that's the only time I am."

Cal: "Sometimes people just need to do drugs. It makes things fun."

First timers?

Kreig: "Don't you need to smoke twice before you actually get high?"

Cal: "Not really. The first time you smoke you're probably just doing it wrong. 

Aaron: "Yeah, like, the first time I smoked I got completely fucked up."

Cal, are you a vegetarian?

Cal: I was a vegetarian for like a month. I just felt the need to not eat meat. The human species isn't dependent on meat, we're herbivores by nature. Just look at our teeth." 

What do you think about religion?

Cal: "World views and religion shouldn't connect at all. There's some religions where that's just part of it, though, like christianity. Some religions just take over your whole life. I myself am an agnostic, believing in the fact that there could be something out there. But I certainly don't believe that there is one God that created the earth in the span of seven days. That's just not realistic...

...There are too many contradictions in Christianity. Like, why would a loving god who has all this power just let us suffer? Why create a world and let it be filled with problems? Just to fuck with us? It's like playing the Sims...

...Every person is like a god in their own way. We're the gods. We control it. We do it. But we don't take responsiblity for our own actions? We use God as a way to hide our mistakes."

Krieg: "What's he writing this for?"

Cal: "I don't know, but he's giving me a reason to rant and I like it. I should be a lawyer."

Throughout Cal's spiel about religion the kids sitting nearby turn and listen. They nod their heads and discuss the topic amongst themselves, agreeing on a stance between agnosticism and atheism.