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paid a high price for his use of recreational drugs
yeah, but...
every society has recreational drugs that are acceptable, and others that aren't. Alcohol is OK, weed is not.
LSD is taboo, but giving pregnant mothers, about to give birth scopilame,(not sure of the spelling-i'll look it up in a few) (a close cousin to LSD) is OK. it causes halucinations too.. but its OK 'cause doctors prescibe it. (or did for many, many years.)
opium and cocaine were legal OTC drugs once. tylonol might not be addictive, but an accidental overdose can be as deadly.
through out the ages, people have found all sorts of drugs that are psychotropic, and societies have accepted them, or rejected them.. as they see fit, with no clear cut 'rules' as to why one is acceptable and another isn't.
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one is acceptable and another isn't
perhaps it depends on what "kind" of people adopt said drug?
formerly known as etaoin...
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one is acceptable and another isn't
perhaps it depends on what "kind" of people adopt said drug?
definately. there are subsystems in any society. many religious groups frown on alcohol, (even wine) and some, prohibit caffine, (no cola, coffee or tea) and others employ drugs as part of their religious cerimonies.
teen agers, and others who want to test societal mores often experiment with proscribed 'drugs'.
and then there are people like rush limbaugh!
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Dear of troy: Of course, my problem is that I had to take
care of the losers.
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I allus figgered if you were strong enough to handle acid you didn't need it.
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It was Huxley's Doors of Perception. And Albert Hofmann's LSD, My Problem Child is a good read by the inventor of acid.
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Jheem, thanks for the correction, I got the author's name right in a subsequent post, but failed to edit the first. I read Storming Heaven and Doors of Perception at about the same time... or I was on blotter when I posted, heh heh!
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