Heroin is beautiful

I'm a total believer in the truth. Let kids know the truth, and they're generally well equipped to survive the assutlt of drugs which they will encounter during highschool & college age.

Understanding why people do drugs is part of that truth.

For example, why, if it's so miserable, do people choose a life of heroin addiction?

Jim Morrison has the answer, encoded as a poem within The Crystal Ship.

Before you slip into unconsciousness, I'd like to have another kiss.

As we look deeper we find that heroin has a truly beautiful era; the song builds to the crescendo:

The crystal ship is being filled, a thousand girls, a thousand thrills, a million ways to spend your time...

(Recall that in the 1960s the rig, the syringe, was made of glass, crystal).

It's this era of beauty that heroin addicts bit on so long ago. An era which devolves into powerful rushes which last only a few seconds but are absolutely required to stave off tremendous pain. But an era, lasting 2-3 weeks, with uncompromised beauty.

We don't have to experience this for ourselves; Morrison has explained it with intensity.

Further, the girl's not going to rescue the impetuous boy this time. She's going to die too.