They might be drugs that alter the states of consciousness, or they might be states of transcendence reached in meditation. They might be moments of orgasm, or fugue states, or day-dreams that take you momentarily to a rewarding fantasy and escape from responsibility. All of these are treasures of the spirit or psyche that allow exploration along paths which are undefined and completely individual.
New Rule: Stop pretending your drugs are morally superior to my drugs because you get yours at a store. This week, they released the autopsy report on Anna Nicole Smith, and the cause of death was what I always thought it was: mad cow. No, it turns out she had nine different prescription drugs in her__hich, in the medical field, is known as the __ull Limbaugh._ They opened her up, and a Walgreens jumped out. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, sleeping pills, sedatives, Valium, methadone__his woman was killed by her doctor, who is a glorified bartender. I__ not going to say his name, but only because (a) I don__ want to get sued, and (b) my back is killing me.This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of a famous government report. I was sixteen in 1972, and I remember how excited we were when Nixon__ much ballyhooed National Commission on Drug Abuse came out and said pot should be legalized. It was a moment of great hope for common sense__nd then, just like Bush did with the Iraq Study Group, Nixon took the report and threw it in the garbage, and from there the _70s went right into disco and colored underpants.This week in American Scientist, a magazine George Bush wouldn__ read if he got food poisoning in Mexico and it was the only thing he could reach from the toilet, described a study done in England that measured the lethality of various drugs, and found tobacco and alcohol far worse than pot, LSD, or Ecstasy__hich pretty much mirrors my own experiments in this same area. The Beatles took LSD and wrote Sgt. Pepper__nna Nicole Smith took legal drugs and couldn__ remember the number for nine-one-one.I wish I had more time to go into the fact that the drug war has always been about keeping black men from voting by finding out what they__e addicted to and making it illegal__t__ a miracle our government hasn__ outlawed fat white women yet__ut I leave with one request: Would someone please just make a bumper sticker that says, ____ a stoner, and I vote.
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New Rule: Stop pretending your drugs are morally superior to my drugs because you get yours at a store. This week, they released the autopsy report on Anna Nicole Smith, and the cause of death was what I always thought it was: mad cow. No, it turns out she had nine different prescription drugs in her__hich, in the medical field, is known as the __ull Limbaugh._ They opened her up, and a Walgreens jumped out. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, sleeping pills, sedatives, Valium, methadone__his woman was killed by her doctor, who is a glorified bartender. I__ not going to say his name, but only because (a) I don__ want to get sued, and (b) my back is killing me.This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of a famous government report. I was sixteen in 1972, and I remember how excited we were when Nixon__ much ballyhooed National Commission on Drug Abuse came out and said pot should be legalized. It was a moment of great hope for common sense__nd then, just like Bush did with the Iraq Study Group, Nixon took the report and threw it in the garbage, and from there the _70s went right into disco and colored underpants.This week in American Scientist, a magazine George Bush wouldn__ read if he got food poisoning in Mexico and it was the only thing he could reach from the toilet, described a study done in England that measured the lethality of various drugs, and found tobacco and alcohol far worse than pot, LSD, or Ecstasy__hich pretty much mirrors my own experiments in this same area. The Beatles took LSD and wrote Sgt. Pepper__nna Nicole Smith took legal drugs and couldn__ remember the number for nine-one-one.I wish I had more time to go into the fact that the drug war has always been about keeping black men from voting by finding out what they__e addicted to and making it illegal__t__ a miracle our government hasn__ outlawed fat white women yet__ut I leave with one request: Would someone please just make a bumper sticker that says, ____ a stoner, and I vote.
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