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- From: elise@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com (Elise Wade)
- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182845.1958@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments
- References: <1993Jan15.152217.2804@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <1993Jan15.192145.20417@cs.ucla.edu> <765360d7367365t269@witsend.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:28:45 GMT
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- In article <765360d7367365t269@witsend.uucp> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com> writes:
- >In <1993Jan15.192145.20417@cs.ucla.edu>, geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) wrote:
- >#
- ># In article <1993Jan15.152217.2804@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
- >#
- ># > And that's too damn bad, as well. If those same parents would be
- ># > open and honest with their kids and tell them some of the horror
- ># > stories and experiences they may have had while stoned or tripping
- ># > or whatever, or while watching others do same, their kids might not
- ># > be as eager to experiment.
- >#
- ># Horror stories? You're joking, right? If drugs reliably produced
- ># horrible experiences, people wouldn't use them. And trying to keep
- ># kids from experimenting, while otherwise denying the parameters of the
- ># responsible use of intoxicants, is a good way to get them to hide
- ># their experimentation and go way off the deep end.
- >
- > Ever noticed that drugs go in and out of fashion? It's because kids
- > don't believe second-hand wisdom. One generation does a fairly
-
- Well, then perhaps you could talk about how tobacco fits into the
- picture. Its a highly addicting drug (nicotine) which has always
- been legal. As the evidence has accumulated (hard evidence) that
- it is really a very hazardous thing to do, more and more folks
- have quit. Its not socially gamorous anymore, in fact, its not
- really socially acceptable in most circles. The use pattern
- doesn't follow the generational pattern. Interesting, no?
-
- Elise.
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