To Humboldt County, to take up farming, he said. I imagined him in midlife crisis, fleeing corporate clonehood in suburbia for hard work and independence. And maybe he was, but I later heard that Humboldt County is the cannabis capital of northern California. He may back up his independence with booby-traps, firearms, and a distributor connected to organized crime. It can get ugly.
Nobody hikes unmarked trails in Humboldt County, they say.
I don't doubt that statistic. I suspect not. And I suspect that the pot-hard drug connection is more complex than the numbers suggest. Such imbalances blunt reward feelings, or even convert them to discomfort, anger, or anxiety. A pathological, RDS person, on the other hand, may engage in compulsive thrill-seeking, or may tinker with illegal drugs in an amateur attempt to adjust his or her neurochemistry to something he or she can live with.