Hey, that reminds me. I personally haven't impibed in anything I didn't have a prescription for since 1986, which people confuse with me being against marijuana use. I'm not; it was just no longer right for me. Respiratory problems, and I was just plain doing it too much. But figure, I'm 41 now, and I've been exposed to "don't smoke dope" messages from well-meaning souls for about 30 years now, from TV ads to policemen that came in the schools to print ads.

Saw one that, for the first time ever, made me think, "whoa! Now THAT might convince me not to." It was the tv commercial stating that one joint has the amount of cancer-causing tar as 4 cigarettes. Now THAT I had never heard before, and frankly if I did still do it, that would make me seriously consider whether I wanted to or not.

And how it ties in to music for me, other than spending a lot of time getting stoned and listening to music in high school, is shortly after I stopped getting high I started writing songs. Don't think the two had any correlation, but that was how it happened!

jim