The first FREEDOM the FED stole from Americans was the RIGHT to enjoy narcotics.This country was SOLD to the FED in 1913 and in less than a year later in 1914 the Harrison Narcotics TAX act was passed...before 1914 you could buy HEROIN or COCAINE at the grocery store...why have somthing cheap on a store shelf when you can have a CIRCUS of police,courts&incarceration and a NEVER-ENDING WAR on drugs making BILLIONS while are our troops guarding poppies in AFGANISTAN while everyones on oxy?
Poor Hispanics? How about poor white trash? You should see them go at it over a can of beer, let alone food. One huge flaw with the beats (besides being overrated) is how fucking bigoted many of them could be, if not downright racist. yet they romanticized Blacks, disparaged Latinos, yet used Jazz for inspiration.
And no, I don;t hate the beats, I actually like much of their stuff.
Hmm, sounds like society in general today--consumerism is junk, nobody has any real interest in anyone else except so far as it profits them, the old are abandoned to loneliness and death, and when scarcity really sets in everyone turns on each other.
this describes a specific type of junkie and in that case it is pretty acurate, but germany was smart enough to figure out that in the end after all the treatments the best cure is heroine as long as it is not abused. addicts should only use enough to feel normal so the body can physically function. and sum junkies love their famiily and freinds and partners just as everyone else does they just have trouble expressing it
@wavesoffractals and 99% of them just end up getting tired of it and quit on thier own, never to go back to it afterwards... it runs its course and is over.
@wavesoffractals You are onto it, waves. I was in the Methodone Program and at 130mg. a day I was back in the flow of life again. My wife and adult daughter said it was the "old me"(a character I sadly no longer remembered) but no matter- all was well. Then I was given drastic taper and was kicked out at 50 mg. for, as WSB puts it "For the non-payment". They went from a clinic to coming on like hard assed connection. Stick to weed, kids-being a junkie puts your life on ice only it ain't cool.
America imprisons more citizens than any other nation, but this wasn't true before the "war on drugs" began in about 1974. Legalize it all or stop calling this the land of the free. That just isn't true.
man show me an american political exec that didnt make a mill of the distrabution and production of opiates world wide. opium is the biggest money bank you got next to oil not only that but the illegal drug tradce makes america billions un taxed in walstreet speak before you say your shit last words C.I.A. motha fuckas
True.......but the drug laws in america are crazy marijuana is classified as a narcotic.....it is a victimles crime so why come down on the junky,hes only hurting himself..legalize it..its a moral objection like prostitution......
Burroughs might have been the expert on his own habit, on his own relationship with junk and other people. But I knew an addict who never lost his humanity, his interest in other people, his soul. The drug took over his body and eventually took his life. But he remained to his dying day the most incredible person I ever met and had the priviledge to know.
@TheMeemeister the clip should be perhaps taken with a grain of salt. Burroughs' own story somewhat contradicts his statement. He maintained lifelong friendships and was known to lavish attention on his pets. Re. antipathy between dope addicts, I'd noticed that myself. In the clip he puts it down to scarcity. I don't think that scarcity explains it sufficiently.
@TheMeemeister we always took care of eachother.some of us died,some defected to a totally different life and act like they didnt know us even though we werent the ones who turned them on.there were only 15 of us.7 arent with us anymore the rest of us all but one are all clean and have been for 13 years.the one is on a low dose of meth wich he has been doing what he is supposed to and got his life together and talks about regrets.not all junkies were bad.not in our cases we used to treat...
@ShereKhan77 the bad junkies real bad if they gave us or people in the area problems.let me also say out of 15 people (the crew) i never used heroin iv just coke 3 times.eeeww...i had strict rules unlike the other half of the group.the half that defected to another life and act like they dont know us had similiar strict rules of use.i understand burroughs and i miss the old crew and that bond we all had.i never had that bond with anyone to this day.there was a culture behind it.
The first FREEDOM the FED stole from Americans was the RIGHT to enjoy narcotics.This country was SOLD to the FED in 1913 and in less than a year later in 1914 the Harrison Narcotics TAX act was passed...before 1914 you could buy HEROIN or COCAINE at the grocery store...why have somthing cheap on a store shelf when you can have a CIRCUS of police,courts&incarceration and a NEVER-ENDING WAR on drugs making BILLIONS while are our troops guarding poppies in AFGANISTAN while everyones on oxy?
anuangelseyes 2 weeks ago
Poor Hispanics? How about poor white trash? You should see them go at it over a can of beer, let alone food. One huge flaw with the beats (besides being overrated) is how fucking bigoted many of them could be, if not downright racist. yet they romanticized Blacks, disparaged Latinos, yet used Jazz for inspiration.
And no, I don;t hate the beats, I actually like much of their stuff.
iiwatcher 3 weeks ago
That is so fucking true
spggpm 1 month ago
Hmm, sounds like society in general today--consumerism is junk, nobody has any real interest in anyone else except so far as it profits them, the old are abandoned to loneliness and death, and when scarcity really sets in everyone turns on each other.
MrVoulezvous 2 months ago 4
@MrVoulezvous That is Ayn Rands paradise for you.
vudu8ball 2 months ago
this describes a specific type of junkie and in that case it is pretty acurate, but germany was smart enough to figure out that in the end after all the treatments the best cure is heroine as long as it is not abused. addicts should only use enough to feel normal so the body can physically function. and sum junkies love their famiily and freinds and partners just as everyone else does they just have trouble expressing it
wavesoffractals 4 months ago 2
@wavesoffractals and 99% of them just end up getting tired of it and quit on thier own, never to go back to it afterwards... it runs its course and is over.
wistoncap 4 months ago
@wavesoffractals You are onto it, waves. I was in the Methodone Program and at 130mg. a day I was back in the flow of life again. My wife and adult daughter said it was the "old me"(a character I sadly no longer remembered) but no matter- all was well. Then I was given drastic taper and was kicked out at 50 mg. for, as WSB puts it "For the non-payment". They went from a clinic to coming on like hard assed connection. Stick to weed, kids-being a junkie puts your life on ice only it ain't cool.
fritzquarar 3 months ago 3
America imprisons more citizens than any other nation, but this wasn't true before the "war on drugs" began in about 1974. Legalize it all or stop calling this the land of the free. That just isn't true.
TheRamblinjim 5 months ago
man show me an american political exec that didnt make a mill of the distrabution and production of opiates world wide. opium is the biggest money bank you got next to oil not only that but the illegal drug tradce makes america billions un taxed in walstreet speak before you say your shit last words C.I.A. motha fuckas
lokidionysian 6 months ago
True.......but the drug laws in america are crazy marijuana is classified as a narcotic.....it is a victimles crime so why come down on the junky,hes only hurting himself..legalize it..its a moral objection like prostitution......
MrCrispian 6 months ago
True.......
MrCrispian 6 months ago
Burroughs might have been the expert on his own habit, on his own relationship with junk and other people. But I knew an addict who never lost his humanity, his interest in other people, his soul. The drug took over his body and eventually took his life. But he remained to his dying day the most incredible person I ever met and had the priviledge to know.
TheMeemeister 1 year ago
@TheMeemeister me 2. i need medicine. i am a good person. i am not a junky.
quarknimble 1 year ago
@TheMeemeister the clip should be perhaps taken with a grain of salt. Burroughs' own story somewhat contradicts his statement. He maintained lifelong friendships and was known to lavish attention on his pets. Re. antipathy between dope addicts, I'd noticed that myself. In the clip he puts it down to scarcity. I don't think that scarcity explains it sufficiently.
zxxxy 1 year ago
@TheMeemeister we always took care of eachother.some of us died,some defected to a totally different life and act like they didnt know us even though we werent the ones who turned them on.there were only 15 of us.7 arent with us anymore the rest of us all but one are all clean and have been for 13 years.the one is on a low dose of meth wich he has been doing what he is supposed to and got his life together and talks about regrets.not all junkies were bad.not in our cases we used to treat...
ShereKhan77 6 months ago
@ShereKhan77 the bad junkies real bad if they gave us or people in the area problems.let me also say out of 15 people (the crew) i never used heroin iv just coke 3 times.eeeww...i had strict rules unlike the other half of the group.the half that defected to another life and act like they dont know us had similiar strict rules of use.i understand burroughs and i miss the old crew and that bond we all had.i never had that bond with anyone to this day.there was a culture behind it.
ShereKhan77 6 months ago