Drug use up for boomers, down for teens

AP via Yahoo ^ | 9/7/2006 | KEVIN FREKING

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

My mother the boomer:

1. Did drugs
2. Married multiple times
3. still has mental problems

I am so thankful that she was a mess otherwise I might have turned out to be a liberal.

[Hi Heels]

YAH! What a great idea! We could buy drugs with the insurance money!!! Hang out at Big Sur.... Sing Dylan songs.... Have sex all day with whoever... Smoke pot... Have a music festival....

This is all easily explained. Boomers know where to GET the drugs. And we ain't telling those little punk brats. More for us.

[Protagoras]

I am from Gen X.....we are trying to pick up the pieces.

That line is in need of a laugh track.

[Hi Heels]

My niece and nephew, the NEW generation (ages 24-26)

1. Heroine addicts
2. Two children by age 17
3. Married multiple times
4. Still has mental problems

I'm so thankful their mother the nurse was so upright. Otherwise they may have become republicans.

[Moonman62]

I think it's counter productive to compare generations. There are great people within every generation, and bad people too. What changes is the institutions and ideas that people live by.

[Protagoras]

Right. The decency, common sense and morality of the 20th century prior to them. Like WWI, WWII, Jim Crow, and the like.

Good point.

[Jim Noble]

Far out, Catherwood!

[Wolfie]

It's an unfair comparison. This generation gets is drugs nice and legal from Big Pharma.

[yellowdoghunter]

A baby boomer would think that....not surprising.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Thats really sad but I have to ask what are their parents like??

[Protagoras]

A baby boomer would think that....not surprising.

At least they think. Gen X should be called Gen why?

[kittymyrib]

Sheesh...what a depressing prospect: a bunch of old pot heads sitting in nursing homes spouting left-wing political drivel and agitating for free health care so they can torment the country till they're 100.

[JmyBryan]

It's an unfair comparison. This generation gets is drugs nice and legal from Big Pharma.

Exactly!!!

[Wolfie]

Nonsense. No such thing as an old pothead. The stuff Kills!, doncha know?

[CDHart]

"They couldn't have been that great. They must have been terrible parents."

LOL! You're right, or the kids wouldn't have grown up so strange.

Carolyn

[yellowdoghunter]

Like I said, Baby boomers are leaving this country is worse shape than when they inherited it. That includes financial, spirtually, morally, etc....The baby boomers will be the very FIRST generation in American history to leave the country in worse shape.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677110/posts?page=4#4

Second paragraph. This is coming from a baby boomer.

[Protagoras]

This generation gets is drugs nice and legal from Big Pharma.

Except meth and a few hundred others of course.

This whole idea of generational warfare is past absurd.

The generation before mine was made up of heroes and villains. The one after is as well. And the beat goes on.

[Protagoras]

Like I said, Absurd nonsensical drivel.

[npg]

I didn't realize Baby Boomers changed that.

I credit leaders like Ronald Reagan & MLK

You've only pointed out the stains

[ansel12]

In recent years, now that the boomers have finally gotten old enough to take the reins of power from the previous generations they have led the country to the right.

The great destructive acts that brought down America like the 60s legislation and the immigration act of 1965, etc, etc, etc, and the years from the 30s to the 90s were not the boomers.

A generation doesn't start running a country until they start hitting their 50s.

In 1996 the oldest boomer turned 50, the youngest one turned 32.

In 1970 when the sixties were over the boomers ranged in age from from 6 to 24, think about it folks, then ask yourselves why you bought this bill of goods.