Is there anyone that didn't use drugs in the 60's and 70s? (Mexico, 80s)
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I had a young female co-worker in the 1980s ask me if sex was really free in the 1960s. I didn't have a reply but I knew where she derived that goofy idea.
I was a teenager in the 1960s and I've never done any type of illegal drugs. My friends back then did not either. The first time I encountered marijuana was in the barracks of the Air Force (late 1960s-early 1970s) where it was occasionally smelled in the hallway. However, smoking marijuana in the military service then could still get you a "general discharge" so most stayed away from it.
Neither my wife of 45 years or my 40-year old daughter have ever done illegal drugs. Count it to our Christian beliefs or just good sense but we're happy with our decisions.
Smoked pot once in college in the 70s. Hated it.
Turned down a charming offer at a college party to "snort some coke and get laid". What a gentleman that guy was. LOL
Took a Quaalude or two in the 80s. Did nothing for me.
i guess alcohol is my drug of choice. It certainly is cheaper.
It seems the whole world was on a drug binge from the summer of love to the end of the disco era. Anyone here that lived back then that didn't do drugs or came from a family that didn't? What were your thoughts back then and how has it played into your life now?
I didn't. My much-older siblings didn't. I grew up in the late '70s, they grew up in the mid-'60s.
My viewpoint when I was young: mind-altering substances are stupid and unnecessary.
Every suicide I've ever known- and there were plenty- was due to either illegal drugs or alcohol abuse.
Plus one friend died in a drug-related accident, another overdosed, and another is doing a life-sentence for killing somebody while under-the-influence.
How it played into my life now? Well, I've found individuals who wrecked their lives with substance abuse deeply resent those of us who didn't.
And another difference: when I was young, I never experienced 'peer pressure,' I've only been up against it since moving into an environment filled with addicts and alcoholics who want to bring everyone down to their level.
DH & I are 69 this year. We both came from conservative families in conservative areas and went to conservative colleges.
Only the most radical students did drugs when we were in college. Then we graduated and though we knew people who smoked pot, it was ILLEGAL and we both felt we had too much to lose if we got caught. So it was just never part of our life. I smoked cigarettes for 30 years and we've both been known to have a cocktail or several, and maybe a bottle of wine with dinner. So, as I've thought about it over the years, it's entirely the LEGALITY that influenced our decision.
But here's the thing. . . Oddly enough, we're catching a plane in just about 12 hours to fly to Denver, where our main purpose is to see what we've been missing all these years! Stopping on the way to the hotel for edibles (because you can't smoke in most hotels). Then next day we're taking a tour that includes smoking in the vehicle plus visits to private clubs where you can smoke.
Next day, we're off to explore other parts of the West, and our wifty time will be over. But I'm getting pretty excited about it! I've read the Maureen O'Dowd article and we'll be super-cautious. But once, just once, I'd like to know what so many other people were talking about all those years.
I grew up in the '70s. Started stealing Valium and Darvon from my parents in small amounts at 15. Never bought pot in my life but smoked it occasionally. Never did like it because I felt out of control, stupid, and hungry. Wanted to do heroin (still do) but knew I would get addicted. Never did coke. Tried speed once or twice, but it made me crazy, too hyper, and the crash was absolute hell. Just did downers to take the edge off.
Used to get pills from a girl in boarding school whose father was a pharmacist. Quaaludes and all kinds of junk like Seconal, Dilaudid. Some days I don't even remember. Whole slices of days were just gone the next day. It was a mess of a time.
no drugs, no alcohol, no pills, no pot, no smoking
i figured i needed all the brain cells i had without destroying any of them
i was a very quiet timid person also and just did not want to do anything remotely dangerous
(the fooling around in my boyfriend's car was fun though)
in university i caused quite a stir because in the co-ed dormitory at a fancy university there was a "house dues" monthly fee that went to paying for booze and parties. I simply did not pay it, reasoning that I did not go to the parties so I would not contribute. I got into all kinds of trouble. I was called into the assistant dean's office, and the head of residential housing. Apparently no one had ever declined to pay it. They tried every possible method of coercion, including shaming and ridicule and belittling and insults. I was basically shunned.
Anyway a decade or two later with student deaths from alcohol this university boasted of being progressive and on the cutting edge forefront of policy setting by "looking into limiting the overuse of liquor on campus. " I had to laugh, they sure changed their tune
I came of age in the 1960's. I had a by-the-book cop for a father. If I even thought about imbibing in alcohol, smoking anything legal or illegal, or taking drugs, he would have beaten me within an inch of my life. Lesson learned.
I graduated from high school in 1969. Never even once took illegal drugs, smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol...even cussed. Nothing. Was a member of the high school track team and doing stuff like that was stupid. It would affect performance negatively. After high school was four years in the Navy. Nothing then either. Then came college, establishing a career and a family.
How did it turn out? Well, I have a six-figure income getting paid for what I don't consider a "job", own my own house overlooking the golf course, drive a fancy car, and when I retire next year, I'll be well situated for an enjoyable and comfortable retirement.
Parents were alcoholics, but it just didn't rub off on me. Never understood the desire to junk up my body with crap.
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