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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: sargentodiaz on March 18, 2015, 10:50:49 AM
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At last! An article that speaks to what I've been thinking for years. Having lived in San Francisco in the 70s, I cannot believe that the Flower Power crowd has changed as they matured. Queen Pelosi and Senator Feinstein are examples – along with our current Ruler-in-Chief. Pot-smoking, LSD-dropping youth just don't change their ways that easy and are in open display in the liberal ranks of the Democrat Party.
Read more @ http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/aging-baby-boomers-bring-drug-habits.html with a link to the WSJ piece.
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I have a drug problem....coffee, cigarettes and an aspirin a day.....I'm doomed.
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They idolized people like Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary.
Turn on, tune in and drop out.
They never matured past that mindset.
And they certainly would not admit that they were either wrong or that they wasted their lives.
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I was eligible to vote in the 1972 election, and my drug habits haven't changed: didn't use recreational chemicals then; don't use recreational chemicals now.
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A personal "thank you" for posting this.
With the death of my last remaining sibling, I finally got to close the book on what had been about the most exasperating, futile endeavor in my whole life; that of trying to get along with older brothers and sisters who became hippieized when I was still a little kid.....including their adoption of this notion that drugs were a cure-all.
None of them ever got into illicit drugs--I was the one who did that, marijuana for about six months while I was in college--just medically prescribed pharmaceuticals, but the idea was the same; drugs could cure all. And they took plenty of them.
The multiple side-effects caused them bouts of irrationality, arrogant insensitivity towards others, and grotesque distortions in their personalities.
Don't get me wrong; drugs have their uses.
But instead of chomping them down in fistfuls, as if popcorn, better that one treat them as gingerly as dynamite, being wary of how their use might change one.....and not for the better.
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^A lot of times all a drug does is exchange on problem with another.