Ex-Drug User Not High On The Future |
Posted by FoM on June 15, 2001 at 21:42:14 PT By Thom Marshall Source: Houston Chronicle A man who has what he considers an average circle of 15 close friends said that eight -- more than half -- of them are users or former users of marijuana. He said among those eight are a couple of bankers, a lawyer, a marketing executive, a nurse, a priest and a psychiatrist. While this man said he has "for the most part, put pot-using behind me," he does not chastise any of his user friends nor does he consider them to be criminals. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
Comment #4 posted by J.R. Bob Dobbs on June 16, 2001 at 12:27:16 PT |
Don't forget the people who are addicted to recovery and twelve-step programs... [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #3 posted by Doug on June 16, 2001 at 11:00:30 PT |
I have mixed feelings about this one. I believe, and I think there is much evidence for this, that altering your consciousness is a basic need for human (and other) beings. It has been done for millenia, and is done by "lesser" animals. The problem now is that this basic need is repressed, big-time, and so it comes out in all kinds of morbid and damaging ways. Some of these toxic responses to this repression of basic needs are mentioned in the article above; I agree that we are going the way of Rome, but not because "teachers go to class high" but because of the War on Drugs. On the other hand, the article doesn't mentioned the main, over-reaching addiction-like reponse that Americans show: conspicuous consumption. America is all about consumption, the more the better. It is our birth right. This addiction to stuff and more stuff -- retail therapy -- is the behavior that dug use is a scapegoat for: we can't even talk about this addiction to more and more, even though it is destroying the planet, and so we arrest more and more drug users, hoping to avoid the real problem. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #2 posted by aocp on June 16, 2001 at 05:36:48 PT |
"Americans are unhappy or bored with their lives," he wrote. "We're a society of users, be it drugs, alcohol, petroleum, 180-plus TV channels, or whatever." Anyone ever heard Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's Right on. The "blood" here represents (to me) every [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #1 posted by Dave in Florida on June 16, 2001 at 05:11:00 PT |
A man who has what he considers an average circle of 15 close friends said that eight -- more than half -- of them are users or former users of marijuana. That sounds about right for me as well. At least that I am aware of, that about half of my friends smoke. Actually, several of us will play cards (wizard) on saturday nights and smoke a few. After smoking for 32 years I enjoy it as much today as the first time I tried it. I am sure there are many more small circles of people who do the same. [ Post Comment ] |
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