Tried 'em all (except the intravenous ones). The only ones I still indulge in from time to time are tobacco and alcohol (and we didn't even consider those drugs in the 80s!) The only one I ever really think about is psilicybin mushrooms, but I'd never act on it now because I am a Good Example.

exactly, that's why you gotta show 'em the right way to take them...

unfortunately as a teacher, I have been bitten by the 'good example' bug as well. Self-imposed but strong nonetheless.

There is a war, on, uh, some drugs.

Yeah, I'm a Law Abiding Citizen now in addition to being a Good Example.

I'm sorry...

yeah. that sucks. you got DOUBLE responsibility. whoa. heavy. think i need a smoke, this is hurtin' my brain.

Do a few hits for me, OK?

my first experience with drugs was aged (i think) seventeen (yup, i'm sure now), when a friend and I decided to go and get stoned. it was comically funny, since neither of us knew how to skin up. total abortion - it didn't happen. then, once he'd learned how (I never did...), we sat down and did it...it was fun. i remember one time doing about two or three *big* joints in a row, and being absolutely and totally stuffed afterwards...i wandered around like a zombie. i thought it was pretty funny at the time! then i started to get bored of it, and i saw how it was really wasting some of the people i was with. so i stopped. haven't smoked any since, except passively. i'm not a big fan...can't be good for you.

Some of my "burnout" friends have really turned out strangely, Mike, you're smart to go the passive route!

there is certainly a limit to what a body can take before substances begin altering the mind on a permanent basis, but i believe every adult should be free to do what he/she pleases with the one body he/she has been given. (he/she... i made the population sound hermaphroditic !)

That could be fun...

There's probably a drug for it!

Can you smoke it? (and, if so, what are the negative side effects?)

lung cancer.

bite your tongue...

sorry.

(damn! I was hoping that I could bite it for you...)

my only drug is chocolate.....thank God!!

good thing we got three topics for it in food, huh?

you know it.... Hi wer!

heyhey hey

(it's Fat Albert!)

well, actually, that was Duane from What's Happening? Fat Albert would be hey hey hey (and typed, of course, with more soul)

my bad. I thought I read some soul in there.

Didn't say there wasn't any, just not enough...

*laugh* okay, okay, I'll listen more carefully next time!

Where I grew up there were no drugs. But when I was twelve, I asked the boys on the farm to teach me how to smoke, because I thought it was cool. What I didn't know was that 'smoking' to them, was a piece of paper in which you rolled a mixture of tobacco and cow crap. So they rolled me one, and I took a LONG suck at it. It was the most disgusting experience of my entire life. I was sick for three days (the memory of that taste LITERALLY made me sick), and I've never touched a thing since, I never ever ever ever want to smoke again either. As far as alcohol is concerned, hell, who hasn't ever got drunk? It's fun, but I HATE the hangover afterwards, so I only do it when I'm feeling really courageous.

I must be getting old as I'm starting to get hangovers :-)

What is the drinking age where you two live?

18

Probalby same here, but I often see much younger kids stoned on the streets at night. I find it rather sad. Mike, so you think I'm old, huh? I've always had hangovers, even when I don't get drunk, but just a bit tipsy.

Damn! Probably.