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Subject: Re: Mescaline (Re: The War on Drugs-1 year old today)
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 00:23:30 EST
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In article <1202@puff.wisc.edu> mading@puff.wisc.edu (Eric Mading) writes:
>In article <3344@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, I wrote:
>> 
>>     Do all the people who write that people who use drugs have no life
>> listen to rock music?  Some of the best music ever written was created when
>> the composer was using drugs, such as LSD.  For instance, take the Beatles.
>> These musicians freely admit to using illegal substances.  Yet, I think
>> that many of these people would mourn the death of another of the Beatles.  
>
>And even better music was created when the composer was not on drugs.  I don't
>like any of the music on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band album, which
>I'm sure you are talking about.  Also, John Lennon had stopped doing drugs when
>Sean was born, and was drug-free when he died.
>

Sorry, Eric.  You're dodging.  You made the statements that "people who
use drugs have no life", and that "no one mourns when a drug user dies".
My point is that yes some drugs are very, very, very bad.  (Just ask a
reformed user of these "bad drugs", like David Crosby, or Jerry Garcia).
There are some drugs that _enhance_ certain experiences.  According to
people who have everything to lose, and nothing to gain, (for instance
George Harrison) have publically stated that certain drugs help them to
open up themselves in new ways.  And no, I was not specifically pointing
to Sgt. Pepper's album.  Take a listen to any of the 60's and 70's really
significant music, and you will see a lot of drug use.  I guess that I
feel that regardless of side effects of _some_ drugs, the positive
things outweight the negative things.  (I emphasize that this applies
to _some_ drugs only -- not things like heroin.)  

Comments anyone?

Chris.