Drugs are bad, mmmkay...?

["Wyatt Brake" <wyattbrake@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just had to change the subject line of the email...

I agree whole-heartedly with Tim D's sentiments here about the
so-called war on drugs, a waste of time if there ever was one.

I'll just refer all of you to Bill Hicks, the late, great
satirist/social commentator/comedian, with whom I'm sure many of you
are already familiar.

To bring it back around to Zeppelin... do you think Robert dropped
this sort of thing completely after Karac died (or later?).  Any
evidence that he's done anything but grass and alcohol since the Zep
days?  I know Jimmy was busted for cocaine possession in the early 80s
(right?).  Was there ever a problem after say 1985 or so with the hard
stuff?  Jonesy has seemed to imply over the years that he indulged as
much as any of the rest, but he never seemed like he lost control.

Thoughts on Zep members and hard drug use after 1980?


-wyatt


On Nov 10, 2007 4:22 PM, Tim Druck <tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> What I'm trying to say is that the War on Drugs is a joke.  It's not about
> your safety, or the good of society, or anything other than THE MONEY.  They
> want you to do *their* drugs so the old-money families stay rich and
> therefore stay in charge.  They want you to buy *their* products so they
> keep them legal - guns and cigarettes and single-packaged cigars that cause
> brain tumors in the grape flavor and lots and lots of cheap, fatty foods -
> ever wonder why it's more expensive to eat healthy?
>
> The rich stay rich and therefore powerful, and use their money to allow
> their kids to escape the piss-poor public school systems that they keep
> intact to keep the rest of us poorly-educated and unable to upheave the
> system that provides them with perpetual wealth.  Their kids get smart while
> our kids get dumb, and then the cycle is locked in for the next generation.
>
>
> Well I say Damn The Man.  And to hell with their "War on Drugs."  Just like
> Iraq, it's really a war on poor people.  I do whatever it takes to educate
> my child.  I never lie, never hide it from her that there are people out
> there who want to keep her in her place, in the blue-collar broke-ass South
> End just like her daddy.
>