"Asked if they had suffered any effects from their remarkable drug histories, they laughed. ''You mean negative effects?'' "
I've rarely seen the Times go off on such an unmitigated love fest like this. It reads like something written in the 1970's. Some baby boomers apparently are still deluded enough to believe this nonsense. The above quote sounds like something I heard from friends who are now either dead or brain damaged.
That was exactly my reaction. I picture the Spew Yuck Times author as somebody with a pot gut and a gray pony tail and Birkenstocks and a tie-dye t-shirt and etc. ad nauseum...