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CSPAN3 Reel America Distant Drummer A Movable Scene - 1970 July 13, 2024

Impressive laws. But all at once mrs. Murphys kid from the suburbs who is attending a promine university gets busted for a mijuana. I could tell you from personal experience, law students, kids going to scientific institutions on National Science grants, i have all kinds of people who have been arrested for marijuana. When this happened, suddenly our society starts to become aware of a problem. The entire uestion of drug use, is that complex coming across the boundaries of the law. The source of the problem is a simple flower, a hearty plant, beautiful in their natural habitat as they are dangerous. Often lethal when abused by man in his advisor meant. After 60 centuries of abuse, with only now societies attitude beginning to change and bring enlightenment and why people use them. Theyre beginning also to realize the fact that there is no signal return for an addict to society, there is many drug addicts and there is the bringing them back home would require many bridges, many different approaches, each designed to reach one segment of the drug dendent society. Where the solutions are found, you had therapeutic community, a narcotic antagonist, one thing is certain, the we the must bridges back into society, as many bridges as possible. Lets call them bridges from no place. This is the Straight Society. The orderly well mattered well disciplined establishment. It is made possible by the protestant ethic. Work is noble, world is a sign of gods favor. But not everyone embraces these hallmarks of success, there ist and other culture whos very philosophy in way of f life dismisses the material rewards. And refutes the order and discipline of the establishment. The hippies, perhaps more than any other social phenomenon, brought the drug issue to the surface, most of them are children of middle and upper class homes. But i but thousands of snapshots aare the only link between many of americas most affluent families and the children that extends expectations nearly everyone in the Hippie Community smokes marijuana, they call it pots, grass, hemp, gge, joint, or mary jane. Marijuana is the basic background for the shared drug experience. It is shared to such an extent that roach pipes are always in demand. A roach is a marijuana but. The new generation, whether they are runaways, rebels, or residents use this drug as a sign of their discontent, for some this its existence socicial imperative rather than flaunting societies rules. These mind expanding drugs open a window to a whole new frontier. And energy of life. And energy of love. The energy that isnt every ving thing. The energy that we can know about before we are born. We know about the energy before us, man and woman and child. Not killing animals. Dont kill a fly. If we have all that energy, we will never die, because you will be so sure that you are part of god. Part of that light and energy. That universal poetry. With lst, you can discover inner truthh, a pilgrimage to the sole. He is achieved unity with the universe. The use are often feels he is both in music and it visual arts, in the book togetherer by the discotheque, and acid rock. The use of lst on a College Campus is on the down swing, linking the drug to severe psychotic reactionsns and serios birth defects is of a sobering effect. A runaway colony forsake lst, and they seem to move in one of two directions, meditation, first the meditators. Usually thhey have a guru or swell me and they banned together in communes attempting to live their own existence. They are relatively harmless, soldiers of peace in a gentle revolution. The second group finds their hotcakes liquefy in on a hot spoon. Methadone, at is the fastest jolt in the amphetamines and can be complete counted on to give a six hour surge of euphoria. It is accompaniedby psychological dependent switch withdrawal can be severe. And then from there, i had a few suicide tempts, real ones. Well the attention i got, they taught me how to play chess, what inaudible ,. , . I called them and said i wasas addicted and i want to come home. He we have perfect models of everything, but he said no and sent me off to oregon. N. I was there five days on a cold turkey on a greyhound bus. Methadone, lst, heroin are the exceptions of the drug community. Marijuana is a common denominator. Universities, hippie colts, ghettos and high schools at every social and economic lel. A rough estimate would say, that at least 10 of students would have used or are using marijuana. Its pretty difficult to estimate. Also its very significant thing, acceptance is gaining steadily. And it is increasing very very rapidly. But with marijuana, comes confrontation with the law. Even though many authorities, nsider less harmful than alcohol, its mere possession, in the eyes of the federal statutes, brings a minimum of two years, and selling a maximumf 40. I want to Say Something about what happens, barry maguire, wasnt doing anything hehe got blasted. As and he is on his way down to the malibu jail now. Were trying to get him out. As theyve been known to plot things on you, if you are the place th will plant something in your pocket if they want you. And they dont even have to find something, they can find an empty matchbox, and theyll say its full of grass as norm and his friends,time new orleans is the pad. But the complaint against the establishment is the same. Why should the aduults pull us down. They have their own kind of drugs, coff, cigarettes and host of synthetic crututches at but mainly booze. Marna laws math nationally, its a thing by the alcohol alcohol companies. You know they wouldnt drink if they had grass men. As i feel that marijuana, is a beautiful drug. As its a lot safer than alcohol. Lst. Heroin. Smack. , theyre all no good anne thhey could wrec a persons physical composition. That couldnt be allowed. A lot of our members of our are tired of a lot of societies rules. They want to go out and get high, and do what we want to do because its a symbol, of unconfirmed see. San francisco, new orleans and new york we each city has his own legion of disenchanted youth. The bouts may be written, marijuana, and dream of motorcycles but in each case, they are putting us down. And the boat is an international one. The britain, traditionally at the very seat of the establishment, is ironic that after nine centuries of greatness, this conservative kingdom and her maturity, should give birth to the hippie. Its very hard to live, and sometimes you have to sleep on the street, because you have no place to go. There is no place to sleep. No money i first started taking drugs in great britain. Drugs became popular. Among the youth, the worlds youth. Because of the different pop groups, because of the young bloods, the kinks, the beatles. The phenomenon throughout europe, middle east and many parts of asia, is a constant migration of young people and International Beat mix that were permanently drifting. In rome the Gathering Spot is the spanish steps. For the migrant, surplus drugs in his backpack, is ample we i dont want to make money out of it, whips if i bring it from morocco or northern africa, it is cheap to get it there. You can get a whole kilo, with not more than ten dollars and you can sell it here in italy its very expensive. Like the spanish steps, we essential its another beat nick place. A Clearing House for drug use. A place for the whos who of wayfarers. And even an effective post office. Nearly all of the rules, and the use places are not listed in the travel guides. But can be engaged in a thriving business its a very interesting little thing here. Its becoming very very wellknown not sweeping lee wellknown, but known in a great number of places, in the european americas. And a lot of people live around here, this hotel is a mantra before, and the name of the tel, is on the lips of the people who are getting off the boats in europe from america. People come to this place, and ask where such and such a hotel is theyve heard from people in america, and it interesting, for such a small little place in the back street, that its become so wellknown these gathering places, are virtuallyy the unitednations n miniature young travelers governments trail yet, london, stockholm and recently increasingly numbers from pennsylvania, indiana, oregon. They pass an endless progression, through the city of the whole rule holy land. They come from the island of cre from caves there, and they wander. For some undoubtedly it is the adventure of youth, aa healthfully restltlessness, anda chance to participate in this once in a lifetime odyssey. For many others, is a pilgrimage to the depositories of wisdom and truth these intellectuals, and spiritual objectives, or what often passes for them, become apparent when youre in the heavily is, and particularly when the company is good and the roach pipe is lit the time and space becomes distorted, and the walls spring of energy. People are coming for pilgrimages for centuries, from all parts of the worlds. As they are deposing a great deal of f their energy here they find this energy, simply by meeting so many beautiful people. If their aim is a suddenly guys excuse to avoid responsibility, they have not escaped at all. For even at the shangrila, they have become a focal point of world concern ironically concern from that part of the world as they have a, Straight Society many of them claim they have found some new insight and religious experience. I would like to point out, that these and i have known between 1200 and 1500 alex in the last ten years of my life, that i have not found one of them who can claim that they have taken a new position on values, and been able to move out into the world, and find a more comfortable existence they have changed things, and made a life a bit more meaningful for somebody else i find more and more its a selfish existence. More self centered. Less and less concerned about the problems of the world, and more more concerned about the escape from the problems of the world. But even the Straight Society, often makes hasty judgments. Instead of strengngthening communication between parents and their young, they actually drive a wedge in deeper. We cannot equate Something Like long hair, which parents dont like, because we cant tell if its boy or girl, but to quite long hair, with the danger of taking a drug like lsd, is really tragedy. For the youngster, and when we equate the two, they are liable to turn out and stop listening to us, and then take e other drugs. Annes over the last severalyears, places of drug abuse, and addiction an random use of drugs, have given rise progressively to increasing numbers to second after castles, like this one here at bellevue psychiatric hospital. They have been large numbers of mixed type of drugs taken, by populations including for the first time in the last few years, young people, middle class young people. They have given rise to psychiatric hospital, with chief psychiatric manifestation you see speed freaks and methods. Theres a difference. Most people i know are not speed freaks their methods. I almost came close to being one, when i was young i think about the only one that has any sense left of all the friends. The harsh reality of the bunch alex ward, is not easy. As bellevue, as well as hundreds of other psychiatric hospitals, off the road back to responsibility. But some cannot be reached. At least not with the methods and the answers encourage currently use. And all this is not only in the conspicuous Hippie Community. I know many people think were junkie,s addicts they won around the world dressed as hippies, with beads and flowers, in their hair but it isnt true of all of them. As i know boy who like to wear nice clothes, was always clean. Perhaps those painful experiences, is having a son or daughter who outwardly conform, but still seeks the high, and through the very secrecy, and at the same timeas it needs possible help. The only thing dependable about being home a night, which wasnt late, but during all this period we found later on that our son was on drugs. After the first two years, when he had been picked up in

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