Singer Ney Matogrosso, 82, is not afraid to talk about drugs and criticizes the hypocrisy of current society in relation to substance use. According to him, in an interview with Breeza magazine, when he is dying, he wants to be drugged.
“I already talked to a doctor friend of mine [e disse]: ‘Look, if I’m dying, put the best quality acid in my mouth and let me die. Don’t try to keep me alive artificially and give me some good acid and that’s it, let me go’. I live very calmly with this idea,” she says.
Iconic figure who influenced the psychedelia of Secos e Molhados, Matogrosso defends the use of substances for self-knowledge. According to him, his spiritual experiences with ayahuasca and LSD, for example, helped him better understand life and personal relationships.
“I’ve used many things, but I’ve never used them for parties. I use them for my own self-understanding. It was like that with acid. I took more than 20 acids, but all with a focus on self-knowledge. And marijuana is also to increase my perception But I don’t use it regularly. I use marijuana when I have a problem and I don’t understand what the solution is,” he says.
He reveals that the “20 trips” were also spiritual and not just psychedelic. “I took ayahuasca for a year and a half, but just looking for the inside, nothing outside, you know? I didn’t want to have a vision, I wanted to understand who I was, and I understood a lot,” he says.
A friend of Cazuza (1958-1990), Matogrosso remembers the time the musician noticed that he looked different. That was when Ney took him to the middle of a forest and offered him Santo Daime tea.
“He [Cazuza] He carried a little bottle that he wouldn’t let anyone get close to, because he traveled with that little bottle of daime, and only he drank it. Cazuza’s final stretch, as far as I know, was when he took daime. But he took two sips, not one glass,” he recalls. “You know what I like to drink these days? A spoon. I don’t want to go crazy, I want a spoon just to stay in tune”, he adds.
Ney tells the publication that he never considered himself abusive in his drug use and that he stopped using marijuana when he realized that he no longer understood everything that people said to him in conversation.
“I started to think I was becoming paranoid, so I spent many years without smoking. I never became addicted, dependent, because the moment I saw that it wasn’t working, I stopped. I couldn’t live with that feeling that you were saying something and I understood something else.”
The full interview with Ney Matogrosso is in the 11th edition of Breeza. It is also available in a podcast version.
Source: Folha
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