--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 07/23/2011 11:23 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > We really have to get this drug-synapse connection handled. I am sick of > > losing people to this shit. > > > > At her best: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBoXtxD0Rs&playnext=1&list=PL2D4F755C610950CA > > Legalize all recreational drugs. Use taxes from it to help educate > people from grade school on up as to how these work and why people take > them.
Bhairi - I work in a school. Kids at all grade levels have been educated for many many years now, ad nauseum, about drug use, alcohol, smoking, what it all does to the brain and body and not to start. Things is, some kids just do it all anyway and need some way to alleviate their anxiety/stress/whatever. Maybe it would help a bit if some rock stars come out and do some ads suggesting never starting. And also promote starting to meditate, do yoga etc, as you suggest below. But lack of knowledge is not the problem any more. Musicians often get into downers because they were high strung to > begin with and therefore very bright to understand the art and sciences > of music and master them. But they were often too high strung to pull > off good performances. They turn to drugs. I was also high strung and > meditation solved the problem. I had high strung music students. They > would come in an play for me and blow the piece but I could tell they > had practiced and mentally understood the point of the lesson. But I > couldn't exactly suggest they do meditation. > > I did have a band teacher when I was in the 5th grade who had the whole > band do a visualization technique where we closed our eyes and imagined > a handkerchief slowly falling to the ground. Mind you this was the 1950s! > > The "war on drugs" is just a political thing. It is really just a "war > on the underclass" to keep the "great unwashed" in their "proper > place." In the US drug laws are very unpopular but they sure roll out > the propaganda when we try to legalize drugs just as they did here in > California last year with the pot legalization proposition. The only > thing we could figure out was the that vote got rigged or the dopers > were too stoned to remember to vote. >
