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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (5192)	9/11/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I clicked on your name and see your profile says you're a coach. I wonder if that means a coach of young people and whether you ever talk about drugs to them? Is this "no big deal", "nobody gets sent to jail for just using cocaine recreationally" crap what you say to young people? I know everybody thinks that a majority of the baby boom generation were heavy and active drug users. I know I never did, my wife never did, and I know plenty of other people who never used. I'll bet if us "never-users" aren't a majority, we're probably a very sizeable minority - say 30% or 40% or so. And I expect that a large majority of those who used, only experimented with weed a time or two or three. I figure the never-used's and the barely-used's are probably at least 80% or more of the generation. I think the belief that boomers were largely a bunch of active dopeheads is spread by those who were or are active dopers. Part of the process of denial employed by folks with substance abuse problems is to present drug abuse as common, no big deal, benign if it's done right i.e. "recreationally", etc.