Re: weird news indeed

Kirk McElhearn (kirk@LENET.FR)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:09:27 +0100

>Duh, and don't forget caffeine, Taylor. The point that Kirk is
>making is not physiological, but sociological. Pot, hash, LSD,
>etc. don't lead to "hard" drug use (coke, heroin, meth, etc.,
>IMO) because of some physiological need to graduate from a reefer
>high to a coke high, but because immersion in the "soft drug"
>culture is more likely to put you in contact with people who use
>and provide "hard drugs" thus increasing the opportunity and
>chance for hard drug use.
>
>All in all, it's a fairly good argument for legalization of drugs
>like marijuana and LSD. But, since I'm self-righteously clean and
>sober these days, I'm required to add that life is a hell of a
>lot better without ANY drugs and alcohol.

You could not have said it better. In a way, I feel that I wasted away
years of my life being wasted. Now I do not need to get high; I
appreciate the world around me. While I may have been hiding from
something then, by being high all the time (and only on soft chemicals),
now I feel better about life.

I don't mind a drink, every now and then, but I do not want to get high.

I remember an interview with Bob Wier a few years ago. The reporter
asked if he was still taking acid, and he said "Hell, no. Who's gonna
take care of the kids?"

Kirk

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