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Hello Earth Natives,

After my recent travels, I decided to take a day off from my duties and do what humans typically do on what they call a “Lazy day”. After sleeping an excessive amount (which for the record, us Jainkoa only do for the purpose of meditation but is in no way a necessity), binge watching a series on Netflix (that i am too embarrassed to tell you the name of), and indulging in toffee candy, I stumbled across a blog created by a cloud. It was quite interesting, as, in all of my years here overseeing the activities and daily lives of humans, I had never stumbled upon the perspective of a cloud! I had never even stopped to wonder whether my people had created clouds to even have perspectives! While reading the Cloud’s blog it occurred to me that being up in the sky all day definitely is a vantage point in the daily observations of humans. Sure, it’s pretty neat getting to travel everywhere thanks to having light speed but imagine how sick it would be to watch it all from above.

I never thought that I would find a cloud to be similar to myself, but I can’t help but see the comparison as we both oversee the daily lives of humans and watch them regularly. Watching you humans on a daily basis, observing your actions are what the cloud and I share. And it is the reason we care so much about you. The cloud, who calls itself DrizzyK had an interesting opinion or two about the legalization of mushrooms in Santa Cruz. Being on the other side of the world for travel purposes recently, I had no idea they were even legalizing mushrooms in Santa Cruz. Upon hearing of this and returning to the beloved city, I spoke to a couple residents who were opposed to it, and it wasn’t until now that I found someone who shared such similar views to mine. Upon stumbling across the title of his post, I had mentally prepared myself for another blog attacking the legalization of mushrooms, and was satisfied to see that that was not the case. I loved the example DrizzyK provided of Portugal and how decriminalizing drugs and investing money in other efforts to help the community ended up reducing the use of drugs by a huge amount. In fact, I remember what Portugal used to be like pretty clearly before they decriminalized drugs, and I, Huck, can definitely certify that Portugal was a very different place than what it is now. A lot of it, as DrizzyK said, has to do with the fact that feeling like you are a criminal creates a disconnect between oneself and society. And I completely agreed with the cloud’s assertion that the positive side effects of mushrooms have been overlooked not because there’s hard data supporting it, but because of the fear of the unknown.

Huck.