Yeah, dope played way too big a role in everything back then. It just got downright silly at times. I remember one guy who seemed to be quite incapable of discussing ANYTHING except different varieties of dope, the stone you got from them, where they came from, what they cost, yadda, yadda, yadda. He would go on for hours about it. He had a girlfriend who never spoke at all. She was like an animated figure from Madame Tussaud's. Perhaps she was contemplating suicide...or maybe her synapses had fused...from one too many foreign substances...who knows?

I love Joan Baez's comment on dope to the press back in 1965 or '66...she said "It's silly to make marijuana illegal...but of course, it's silly to smoke it too." This remark infuriated both the hippies AND the estabishment. Way to go, Joan!

No offense to those of you who like to toke up. I have no objection to it, I just don't choose to myself most of the time. Can't be bothered.