Anybody celebrate 420 day yesterday?

[Freypower]

Or one of my avatars:



This is for a limited time as I don't want to change my current av.

[sodascouts]

There's a photo c. 1976 of Glenn doing cocaine, too, included in a freaking tourbook. They really had no shame back in the day!

[bernie's bender]

There's a photo c. 1976 of Glenn doing cocaine, too, included in a freaking tourbook. They really had no shame back in the day!

my memory of those days (spotty at best) is that most people kind of laughed about it. Cheech and Chong had come along and made it funny...

I was never a drug person, but I also never thought they were 'bad' unless people became violent or got into selling etc. I knew several people who became drug dealers and that kind of stuff... definitely not funny....

but for the average college kid or guy working in a factory or in carpentry... it was passe. When cocaine really got affordable, things got way out of hand...

I think Glenn's "monster" period, nobody ever even tried to stop them and while LA might be a desert... it was snowed in for 7 or 8 years.

I think the stigma about that stuff is very different than it was back then.

[TimothyBFan]

There's a photo c. 1976 of Glenn doing cocaine, too, included in a freaking tourbook. They really had no shame back in the day!

Now if it's the one I think you are referring to, let's be honest, he isn't actually "doing cocaine". Just, shall we say, preparing it! I always thought that was pretty ballsy to include in a tourbook.

[Brooke]

I know! With all the pictures of them looking stoned floating around. But back then it just wasn't such a big deal. Most everybody "did it". I was never in to it, but I knew lots of kids that were.

I wonder what they tell their kids? It would be quite embarrassing to try to explain some of those pictures where they are obviously having such a great time. I guess you just have to say that you didn't know what it could do to you back then.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I agree that it was an entirely different time. Back in the '70's, the lifestyle that these guys were living was considered very cool. Like many of you, I wasn't into the drug thing either, but I knew lots of people who were. And I think you're right Brooke - I guess the only thing they can do for their children now is to try to enlighten them about their experiences with the bad side of drug use.

[TimothyBFan]

I was never into drugs (alcohol-different story) at all--NONE of them but we have never made it a secret to our kids that it happened and that we weren't above all of that etc.... Enlightening them to it I believe is a good thing, why keep it a big secret because later if they find out...well we know how they can react to something like that. It's the whole "been there, done that, but don't want you to make the same mistakes" thing. Who knows if it works but so far so good I guess.

And FP---you're gonna love this smiley.....

[bernie's bender]

this, of course, reminds me of the Jackson Browne recording "Cocaine"

whereupon there is an eagle in the dialogue at the end of the song...

it takes a clear mind.