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Then the saying was "I want my MTV".... I lived out in the country in Northern CA, so I'd travel to southern CA and stay with my brother......there was a Licorice Pizza I'd buy one or two albums it's all I could afford after babysitting all winter Transistor radio anyone!
Yes, my friends and I would go to the college library and use this computer that played music and we could watch all the new songs. Imagine 5 girls gathered around one screen about 12 inches wide, watching Robert Plant with tight jeans and his shirt open
Our high times were gathering in parking lots or the park..... one person with the cool car and speakers they'd put them on top of the vehicle and played our favorite songs until 4 in the morning or the cops ran us off.
I was in my mid 20s, out of college and working in 81, and we were still transfixed by MTV.
Cocaine was the drug of choice in the late 1970s, and the worst part is that it was sold to kids as being perfectly safe and not addictive.
I think Cocaine has been illegal since the 1920's.
Usage exploded in the late 70's-80's. Sellers of illegal substances are not required to label their product.
I don't think most people understood the consequences, back then.
I can thank my mom for yelling at me as a kid to stop sniffing back snot for my aversion to putting anything up my nose.
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I think Cocaine has been illegal since the 1920's.
Last I saw in the '70s working in a lab that got a weekly trade paper it was a recognized pharmaceutical ingredient and traded as such. Just to get a little swoon from those of the white powder persuasion I believe at the time an ounce of 100% pure pharmaceutical grade was well under $100.
By the mid-70's I was drinking and smoking pot every day. It was part of the culture. No one thought anything was really 'wrong' with it, it was just the way it was. Your teacher might mention the party he was at over the weekend, your priest might puff a time or two, maybe even your parents if you were a cool kid. No one really thought it was bad. Cocaine was an expensive, once-in-a-while occasion you relished and slobbered over . . . Acid ?!?!? oo0000OOFfff
I dont smoke pot, or drink alcohol at all anymore. I watched that era/mindset wreck a lot of people over time. I guess one area where the shift in thought process provided a positive outcome
Last I saw in the '70s working in a lab that got a weekly trade paper it was a recognized pharmaceutical ingredient and traded as such. Just to get a little swoon from those of the white powder persuasion I believe at the time an ounce of 100% pure pharmaceutical grade was well under $100.
We got JUGS of Black Beauty's
Ate them like M&M's.
And people worry about Phen Phen now ?
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We got JUGS of Black Beauty's
Ate them like M&M's.
And people worry about Phen Phen now ?
Crazy times
What irks me these days is when I see ads for Big Pharma drugs meant to make you sleep or just relax a bit, when I hear the list of possible side affects I think I'd rather suffer the affliction they're trying cure and think they have a lot of nerve telling me I can't have a legal doobie for the same afflictions.
Did you talk to any protesters? It seems like you were spoonfed your hate directly from the shills on Corporate Media.
Occupy camps were WAY too diverse for sooo many people to have the exact same opinions as you.
I actually went to the OWS in Wall Street one day because I was back home for 2 weeks. It was a surreal experience, both in a bad way and a good way. I wasn't protesting, I just observed. I spoke to some really plugged in people and some real idiots.
It was still a mob of misguided souls. They should have marched down to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and handled business. Would have done them much more good.
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I was only playing tit for tat in the generation generalization game. My own Boomer parents and some friends/colleagues are nothing like the Boomer stereotype.
We got JUGS of Black Beauty's
Ate them like M&M's.
And people worry about Phen Phen now ?
Black beauties and MD 20/20, didn't know if we were coming, or going, lol.
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Transistor radio anyone!
I was only playing tit for tat in the generation generalization game. My own Boomer parents and some friends/colleagues are nothing like the Boomer stereotype.
