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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: koan who wrote (331784)10/17/2020 10:15:13 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist  Read Replies (1) of 361214
 
While most marijuana was benign and did no harm, it was slightly different in urban America after the sixties.

There was a time in while I was in High School (especially 1970-71 my senior year) when the pot in Oakland was rarely just mellow weed. The days of Panama Red and "thai sticks" were gone.

The good shit was becoming laced with PCP and other usually-stimulant drugs. People were going nuts while on PCP. It was the Altamont (coincidently not that far away) of the pot scene here.

I did lose friends to the drug scene as it careened into crack, meth and heroin with hard booze in the 70's-80's.

In a couple cases, related to owing money for drugs, or robbery to sustain a habit.

I also knew beautiful young women who turned to street-level sex work and crime to pay for addictions -- and fucked up their families to nightmares and themselves to disability and even death. Me, the codependent, used to try to get them into rehab and community college. I bailed friends out of jail. I was not successful against the addictions.

Cocaine Cowboys 2 was a truthful film that shows Oakland though in later years.

I also have plenty of white suburban friends/family and more wealthy city kids who were able to use pot every day for as much as 60 years and it was all good. They even enjoyed the paranoia and black market aspects before it was legalized. Also, pot was a healthy alternative to booze and hard drugs including pain pills, for many. That must be factored in along with the "gateway" theory attributing causality to what I think is correlation.
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