The war on drugs was lost in 1967.

[James D Hill]

The horse has escaped the corral from 1967 to 1970. This country got a taste of the forbidden fruit and they loved it. That is when the war on drugs was lost and all the money and damage to our personal freedoms has not changed a thing other that the fact that now they a hip hop fans instead of rockers.

The time to act was when Bob Dylan smoked pot with the Beatles and drugs became mainstream because the Beatles put their stamp of approval on them. This would have been the time to react not in the 1980's. It is time to admit defeat and suck it up all you moral crusaders and law and order rednecks. The war is lost.

 

[Fisher]

The horse has escaped the corral from 1967 to 1970. This country got a taste of the forbidden fruit and they loved it. That is when the war on drugs was lost and all the money and damage to our personal freedoms has not changed a thing other that the fact that now they a hip hop fans instead of rockers.

The time to act was when Bob Dylan smoked pot with the Beatles and drugs became mainstream because the Beatles put their stamp of approval on them. This would have been the time to react not in the 1980's. It is time to admit defeat and suck it up all you moral crusaders and law and order rednecks. The war is lost.

Hard to take someone seriously if they think rednecks don't smoke pot.....

 

[Dittohead not!]

1967 would be about right.
Is anyone else here old enough to remember the changes that took place from 1964 to 66? American society underwent a profound change. In high school, (late '50s) we had a drug unit in health class. None of us had any experience whatsoever with anything but alcohol and tobacco, none, it seemed like a kind of bizarro world. Even in college, (early '60s) drugs included alcohol and tobacco, period. By 1966 everything was hippies, pot, LSD, free love, and counterculture. Soon, the soldiers started coming home from Vietnam. The war on drugs had been a losing battle ever since.

Unfortunately, the main casualty in this "war" has been individual freedom.

 

[Peter Grimm]

1967 would be about right.
Is anyone else here old enough to remember the changes that took place from 1964 to 66? American society underwent a profound change. In high school, (late '50s) we had a drug unit in health class. None of us had any experience whatsoever with anything but alcohol and tobacco, none, it seemed like a kind of bizarro world. Even in college, (early '60s) drugs included alcohol and tobacco, period. By 1966 everything was hippies, pot, LSD, free love, and counterculture. Soon, the soldiers started coming home from Vietnam. The war on drugs had been a losing battle ever since.

Unfortunately, the main casualty in this "war" has been individual freedom.

Unfortunately, I wasn't alive before 1966, but it seems like the country was a far better place. It's not surprising that this was America's heyday... beginning after WW2 and ending around the mid 60's. Everything seems to have been safer, more prosperous, more wholesome. A better place to live all around.

I used to blame my parent's generation for being a bunch of jackoffs who screwed over the greatest country on earth. Your parents were heros who defeated the Nazi's, you guys were a bunch of pot-smoking, nudist hippies with too much armpit hair.

As soon as you all are dead, though, we will return to conservatism. eace

 

[Dittohead not!]

Unfortunately, I wasn't alive before 1966, but it seems like the country was a far better place. It's not surprising that this was America's heyday... beginning after WW2 and ending around the mid 60's. Everything seems to have been safer, more prosperous, more wholesome. A better place to live all around.

I used to blame my parent's generation for being a bunch of jackoffs who screwed over the greatest country on earth. Your parents were heros who defeated the Nazi's, you guys were a bunch of pot-smoking, nudist hippies with too much armpit hair.

As soon as you all are dead, though, we will return to conservatism. eace

Better hurry. Washington conservatives are as rare as California Condors.
Maybe if you start a captive breeding program now.

 

[James D Hill]

Hard to take someone seriously if they think rednecks don't smoke pot.....

They do smoke pot. When I went to SE Oklahoma from Washington state to visit in 1978 I had all the cool albums like Yes Close to the Edge,Led Zep 4,Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and Emerson,Lake and Palmer's Brian salad Surgery. Along with that freaky music I had a half oz of Thai weed that was around the Puget sound area in the late 70's. The marijuana that they smoked in OK was way weaker and I was the most piopular guy in Holdenvil Oklahoma. They never had pot that good and heard music so freaky so rednecks party too they just don't admit to it like us hippies do.

 

[James D Hill]

1967 would be about right.
Is anyone else here old enough to remember the changes that took place from 1964 to 66? American society underwent a profound change. In high school, (late '50s) we had a drug unit in health class. None of us had any experience whatsoever with anything but alcohol and tobacco, none, it seemed like a kind of bizarro world. Even in college, (early '60s) drugs included alcohol and tobacco, period. By 1966 everything was hippies, pot, LSD, free love, and counterculture. Soon, the soldiers started coming home from Vietnam. The war on drugs had been a losing battle ever since.

Unfortunately, the main casualty in this "war" has been individual freedom.

Guys like Nixon and Reagan where Cal conservatives and hated what the counter culture did to the bay area and basically led to Cal being a blue state. The war on drugs was revenge from the right for hippies and the anti war movement. The horse was clearly out of the pen by the time the war on drugs started.