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Kid Berwyn

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8. I remember. Nixon on tape...

Reply to moniss (Reply #7)

Sun Sep 15, 2024, 04:11 PM

Sep 2024

From “Just What Was He Smoking?,” WaPo 2002:

The excerpts begin with the Nixon doctrine on why marijuana is much worse than alcohol: It is because people drink "to have fun" but they smoke marijuana "to get high." This distinction was evidently enormously significant to Nixon, because he repeats it twice.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/03/21/just-what-was-he-smoking/e984a758-94fc-482f-a9d7-890c30a41b5e/

High School friends had a Frisbee beach bluff party night the bastard resigned. We couldn’t imagine how much worse things would become.

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At the time they were doing it many of us knew moniss Sep 2024 #7

I remember. Nixon on tape... Kid Berwyn Sep 2024 #8

Yes and that distinction for alcohol was all moniss Sep 2024 #9

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