to manage, work out, solve unpleasant and tiresome duties, such as raising money to live or walking to the store while stoned: cf. San Francisco street-crossing signs embedded in the gravel : PED XING
The opposite of hallucinating (to hallucinate: to have fun, feel free, be easy, be in tune with life, enjoy and understand, opposite of PED-X

A character in the TV show "Max Headroom," the CEO of the Zik-Zak corporation that peddled, among other things, a fast-food called "Zik-Zak burger packs" that, in one episode, contained an addictive simstim