Read this and tell me why alcohol and tobacco are legal but weed is not.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
You give me a break. It's a well known fact that Harry Anslinger ran a campaign of racism in order scare white people into supporting marijuania laws.GitFiddler said:Blatant Racism???? Give me a fvcking breaK!
Originally, it was because of paper. Dow Jones was patenting their wood pulp paper making machines, while someone else was developing the hemp paper making machines, so they played the drug card, and financed the movie Reefer Madness, to brainwash to whole country into thinking marijuana was "evil."
It stayed illegal, because hemp is the most useful plant on the planet, and can be used for everything from cheaper, higher quality food, paper, fabrics, and cheaper, higher quality less addictive medicines (you cant patent a natural plant) , as well as a cheaper, better, more efficient and renewable replacement for petroleum, among MANY other things, which would save the planet, our country, our wallets, and basically make life better for everyone.
This would put a lot of corporations out of business, so they pay the politicians LOTS of money to make sure it stays illegal.
That's the gist of it, coming from a non pot smoker.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
FYI, Hemp and smokable cannabis are two different things completely. Read a book.GitFiddler said:Blatant Racism???? Give me a fvcking breaK!
That's the gist of it, coming from a non pot smoker.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Again, the amount of fuel required daily to power California alone, would take up all the farm land used for food.GitFiddler said:
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.