just_say_no birdmad the joke of the century god knows how high nancy_reagan probably was when she said that. funny that many of the people who voted Reagan were huge cocaine abusers since the snow was as much a status symbol asa nice new Beemer or Benz in the driveway everyone in the trade wanted to make their way up to being a big-time dealer becsause the laws punished the small pushers harder you get caught with a couple of grams, you're up shit creek get caught with a couple of Kilos and the cops want the names of your suppliers and the chain of upward and ever cushier plea bargains begins but a lot of cops were in the game too and if you knew who had been bought or who could be bought, then you knew where when and how to avoid the obligatory stings that fueled the media's need to sensationalize the "war on drugs" "just say no" the organized anal_retentive mentality of affluent suburbia met the grand guignol of "Scarface" there were profits to be made and, after all, the "just say no" years were all about making a profit. it doesn't matter what drug you might have been pushing, the money was too hard to resist in an era where it was even more obvious than ever that money is god but especially the coke...didn't anyone notice how quick it started falling out of fashion after the '87 stock market crash? Yeah, sure, there was crack, but to people spoiled on Dom Perignon it was like offering up a mason jar of Night_Train by the early 90's the thrill was gone, some moved on to opiates, some died, some just got sick, some people got clean, some people got clean and got religion too, a few got sloppy and got caught and a few of us walked away as best we could and even if we weren't always addicted to the product, we were addicted to the life. it was mostly easy money and how are you gonna "just say no" to that in a consumerist society those who say it's easy to do mostly didn't experience the temptation firsthand i only quit because i knew i wouldn't be lucky forever 020124 ... grendel a couple of years later, i had more fun being a junkie anyway 020124 ... good people NO! 020124 ... little wishes and he looked me in the eyes and said 'why didn't i meet you 4 years ago?' and star once said 'but for me it gets harder and harder to resist...' ahh, damnnation and fucking hell 020124 ... Arwyn no you can't come up.... go to your fucking room for once... i stayed up all night waiting for you and I don't get to sleep until 5:30pm today. You can go sleep and then go to work... I don't care... I'm barely home a week and you run off with your friends... I guess you didn't miss me half as much as you proclaimed you did. It's not right. Why must I always be waiting for you? If I could bring myself to do it, I would go to the pubs all hours of the night and let you try to figure out where I am... let you worry... let you be stuck awake knowing that it won't happen because you can't sleep without me there... I'd love to see you try it. So NO! you can't come up... go to your own bed... 020125 ... misstree it makes the chase almost worth it. 020129 ... falling_alone i wear this t-shirt to bed. 070205 ... nom thankyou 070205 what's it to you? who go blather from