American Drug Culture - Late 60s / Early 70s

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Posted Aug 6, 08 by soho
I'm sort of sad to hear about all of this. It seems that people cannot be trusted with stuff that might give them immediate gratification,, even if there are health hazards.

Posted Jul 23, 08 by StormyShea
Hi CaveMan, I'm glad you brought this topic up. I haven't seen you on my bulletin lately and I miss you, so I dropped by to make sure you still have me as a subscriber. Anyway, I am 55years old, and I hated anyone who drank. I was 13 when love-ins, psychodillic more...posters, concerts in the parks, and blacklights and strobe-lights became popular. I would've graduated in 71 ... had I graduated back then. I tried drinking once with a "redneck" or "greaser" as my generation emerged while the hippie look was just popping up here and there. Smoking pot was the first drug I did, and the only one, except for coke, that I ever liked very much. I'm very much an advocate of legalizing weed. Since I saw so many greasers who had been violent change into peacefull hippies (most of them anyway) eventually, I know for a fact that alcohol is one of the worst drugs there are. And it is a liquid DRUG. Yeah, a good topic. I had a problem with Coke in the late 70's because it was so prevalent with the upper class around the early 70's when I occasionally did some with lawyers, doctors, stock brokers, advertisers, etc. who came to the clubs where I danced and lured me to their house to part that way. I didn't have a problem until I was 32 years old. For about a year and a half, after my daughter turned 18 and joined the Marines with her husband to be). At 33 years old, I joined NA and learned that I was addicted to it -- and that it wasn't a weakness in my character that prevented me from stopping until it was all gone. It was the stories the other addicts told in my first meeting that made me realize that I wasn't the only one who lost a lot of things because of coke. I've been off of it now for roughly 22 years and went to meetings for most of them. I don't even think about coke anymore. Well, enough from me, but yeah. Everyone needs to stop acting like it didn't happen and get real about the 60's and 70's. Since the 80's there have been millions of people addicted to some kind of drug, especially alcohol coming into NA or AA talking about the drugs I never heard of or ever tried. The only thing I would like to see happen is for marijuana to be legalized for socializing and smoking in nightclubs, etc just like alcohol is! Alcohol causes so many more problems with your health, your attitude, and the prisons are full of innocent pot smokers who never hurt anyone while the same prisons house lots of people who hurt or killed someone while drunk. Or delegalize booze! less

Posted Jul 19, 08 by DaringDaver
I'm exactly your age and year of H.S. graduation. I think the "government" theory is a little far fetched, at least in terms of any organized, concerted effort. To say things were "hushed" I think, at times, it's pretty reasonable to assume those motivations more...

Posted Jul 19, 08 by OneSmallVoice
I graduated from high school in 1966; back then the drug of choice was beer. While I think our government had something to do with the wildfire spread of drugs, I think it was unintentional. I really think telling the public that pot was as dangerous more...

Posted Jul 19, 08 by lmosack
I think you are correct about the government thing,Now they can not get it to stop,& i remember about the measuring with your fingers,My mom used to do that.I also remember it used to be pretty cheap back then too,not now.

Posted Jul 19, 08 by happyyoda121
I have to say I never really experienced the drug culture.Sounds like all hell was breaking loose back in the early days.There were plenty of drugs around when I was in school...mostly herb, alcohol and pharmaceuticals.It was fairly underground... even more...

Posted Jul 19, 08 by JDProductions
I graduated High School in 1970, on the east coast. There were still three groups; Greasers, Jocks and Heads. 1969 saw Woodstock and the Vietnam protests. I think kids latched onto the drug movement as it was centered around music and anti-war sentiments. more...

Posted Jul 19, 08 by B4Salk
I graduated in 1963 and my graduating class had 450. The drug of choice was alcohol. I became a mom in 1971, so I did not come across the drug culture personally.

Peace is Love
Judith

Posted Jul 19, 08 by photo2010
My recollection of it all was a rebellion against conformity, to a different conformity. Basically, our parents generation had booze, ours had drugs. It didn't quiet student unrest as far as I recall.

Posted Jul 18, 08 by eagle2850
Hey cave ,,, i would like to comment on this one ,,,
i'm 43 ,,, and in my time here too it was such a mess ,,, 400 students in the cafeteria ,,, 3 gards ,,,
2 3 table ,,, in the midle ,,, a pound of pot ,,, and a lot of ash ,,, i would have to make a vid more...

Posted Jul 18, 08 by CaveMan

Thanks for the comment, I hope you get around to making a vlog about your experiences. I do agree with your comment about the freedom of the times, but everything happened so fast........

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