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- From: ahelmers@umiami.ir.miami.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.222144.14377@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:21:44 EST
- References: <1jfaiqINNa1e@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan19.210640.4653@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <day_kevran-190193144434@130.252.108.182> <1993Jan22.020602.531435@locus.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.020602.531435@locus.com>, judy@locus.com (Judy Tryer) writes:
- > I've thought about this issue long and hard and I think the answer I have
- > applies to both those parents who have and those who have not used or abused
- > drugs.
- >
- > People have different body chemistries and what is enjoyable to one person
- > may be completely unpleasant to another. However, I believe that there is
- > some drug that will be pleasant to each person, so pleasant that having once
- > experienced the drug, that person will have a problem with craving that
- > drug for the rest of his or her life. For some it is alcohol, for others
- > barbiturates. Some are perscription drugs, some are legal drugs, and some are
- > on the forbidden list. But I don't think that matters as much as what will
- > happen if you sample a drug which is the right chemical balance for your
- > system.
-
-
- I know you mean well, but this is so stupid! Are you saying that for each and
- every one of us there is some chemical substance somewhere--could be pot, could
- be a camel dung/qat mixture from Saudi Arabia--that will turn each and every
- one of us into something out of a Hogarth lithograph??? (As in lying in the
- middle of the street drooling) Or that if we cannot get this substance we will
- spend the rest of our lives twitching at our desks, snapping pencils and
- sweating???
-
- Sorry, but I'd have to give this JLT-theory the big *BRRZZZ* [WRONG!]
-
- Ann Helmers
-