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I know for a fact that a large percentage of even the most traditionally responsible students got involved with the magic molecule back in the 70s. Some addicted to a point where they were walking around with marijuana cigarette the size of a French baguette, smoke trailing behind them like a muscle car be revved. How many cockroaches in the university dorms now have irreversible genetic damage so severe that they actually eat insecticide, and are like crunchy black Volkswagens...

Enough! What became of the Cannabis bohemians, with their black-light posters and copies of "High Times" scattered recklessly over their sex-soiled beds? You know what happened? An unprecedented expansion of the economy; an unprecedented acceleration of technical innovation, which has led to the increasing erosion of the family unit and made morally depraved entertainment as easy to access as a light switch. Since marijuana intoxication and intoxication with technology synergistic-ally augment each other-they are flip sides of the same Utopian dream of "mind expansion" with "bodily capability", we were likely to see huge moral reactionary backlash...

Just as the liquid Caligula of alcohol led to prohibition; so the peaceful hippie consciousness fueled by the mellowing effects of marijuana, led to a violent backlash, as people feared the complete breakdown of the defense department and reliance on the hyper-intellectual State Department, whose preference for peaceful solutions and treaty arrangements over carpet bombing, might be easily assimilated by the Utopian induced fantasies of chronic marijuana smokers.

So, the hedonistic 70s led to the "War on Drugs" backlash; and the militarization of foreign policy follows the militarization of domestic policy (If you're willing to give up your own rights, its doubtful your protest too much when others have theirs trampled on).

Both Reagan and Bush are the fleshly incarnations of moral flagellation that an essentially puritanical society imposes on itself after a prolonged bout of enjoying life

Bong tips led to the tipping over of Saddam.

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