Some Baby Boomers Still Getting High

Newsmax ^ | August 19, 2009 | Associated Press

[Eaker]

At least boozers won’t eat an orange couch cushion thinking it was a Cheeto.

[andy58-in-nh]

I wholeheartedly agree about the Scotch and Cigars!!!

My tastes have changed somewhat, over the years.

[numberonepal]

I think there’s something in the water in Nashville. I don’t have a problem with it, but I was surprised.

[windcliff]

ping

[LomanBill]

Dependent Subjects are Odedient Subjects, and less likely to be able to resist the effects of the “guests” referenced in your tagline...

Will the pot smokers enjoy having their daughters forced to wear burkas?

Stupid is as Stupid does.

[HerrBlucher]

I don’t do dope anymore but I sure do a lot of acid....ahem...reflux that is.

Used to be you could get heroin and cocaine at the local drug store, and all the marijuana you could stand, maybe we should go back to those good old days of the early 20th century. What could go wrong?

My favorite drug is Jack Daniels, or any good bourbon for that matter, matched with a good cigar......no other drug I have ever done is as good as that combo and I am so happy they are still legal.......for now.

[CrazyIvan]

Is that the new logo for the BATF?

[andy58-in-nh]

Is that the new logo for the BATF?

No, but it damned well ought to be.

[brytlea]

LOL it may well be an issue of where one is.

[dmz]

Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but I see no benefit to illicit drugs. I have made 59 years without them. Yes, I do enjoy my scotch, wine or beer.
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Exactly, my friend. You say potayto, I say patahto. 6 of one, half dozen of the other. The primary difference, the 6 is legal, the half dozen not.

[dmz]

LOL. As opposed to the wedding I went to a weekend ago, with the xers and the ys.

More puking per capita than I ever saw from a group of tokers.

But drinking is a rite of passage, while smoking reefer is the stuff of outlaws and criminals, eh?

[dmz]

At least boozers won’t eat an orange couch cushion thinking it was a Cheeto.
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Right. The boozers, with a blood alcohol level 3 times over the limit, just drive the wrong way down the Taconic Parkway. Vodka, anyone?

[Eaker]

Mine was a joke, yours sounds like personal experience.

Too close to home?

[chrisser]

But drinking is a rite of passage, while smoking reefer is the stuff of outlaws and criminals, eh?

Not saying that at all. Substance abuse is pathetic, regardless of the age at which it occurs.

The difference appears to be, that most Xers and Yers will grow up and grow out of it, where Boomers, as a group (yes, I'm generalizing) continue to embrace it into their geriatric years.

It's none of my (nor the governments) business what you put into your body, as long as you don't harm others. That doesn't mean it isn't stupid. Since Boomers, as a group, appear to be one of the most screwed up generations in history, largely of their own making, perhaps their collective treatment of pot has "harmless" requires a bit of revision?

[dmz]

You did not, given your post, give up drugs. You gave up illegal drugs and went to the legal variety. You just switched from one poison to another.

[onedoug]

“’Guess I’ll have to wait till to tomorrow to stop sniffing glue.”

[RockinRight]

I think there is one who lives behind us who does...but he also plays guitar and isn’t fond of Obama so I’m OK with him...

[dmz]

Hard to tell in black and white what’s a joke and what’s not. There are more than a few freepers who make such a comment and not be joking.

Read the thread. There are still a ton of folks out there who really believe that marijuana is a drug and scotch is not.

My reference to the Taconic Parkway was a reference to the lady that drove down said parkway the wrong way and killed 8 people in the process. With a blood alcohol level 3 times the limit.

My apologies for misreading your intent. Hopefully no lasting harm was done.

[andy58-in-nh]

You did not, given your post, give up drugs. You gave up illegal drugs and went to the legal variety.

That's true, in a sense. But I can function normally on the legal variety, and not on the other. After I have my evening cocktail (or two), its effects are gone after two hours or so. When I go to work the next day, there is no residual effect whatsoever. The same goes for cigars, which cause no mental impairment (they sharpen my thought process, if anything) and which cause no craving.

By way of contrast, I found that marijuana had powerful residual effects long after the primary effects wore off, including mental confusion and addictive craving. Consequently, I discovered that moderation was quite practical (in my case, at least) for the consumption of both alcohol and cigars, and in fact made their use more enjoyable. Marijuana cannot be used moderately because its primary purpose is to impair and its effects last not for hours but for days and weeks afterward.

[dmz]

So, according to the article, 90.6 percent of boomers don’t use illicit drugs, but you feel confident suggesting that the actions of 9.4% color the rest of the generation as one of the most screwed up ever because of their (the 9.4%) substance abuse?

My parent’s generation are in their 70s and 80s now. Do you have any idea of the number of alcoholics/substance abusers in that generation? Can you compare it meaningfully to the boomers?