--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > 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.
This approach seems to have worked in Portugal, and in the Netherlands. Their incidence of hard drug usage is almost nil compared to the US and its "War On Drugs" mentality. > 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 think a lot of it involves the realities of touring. You drive in a bus to a gig, wait around while the roadies set everything up, play your hearts out for the audience, and then the audience goes home and goes to sleep. The musicians, wired to the gills from the high of playing, can't sleep. They wait for the roadies to load up again, pile into the bus, and head for the next town. And they *still* can't sleep. So a lot of them turn to downers. And then they need uppers the next day to get up and do the same thing in the next town. As Robbie Robertson said at the end of the film The Last Waltz, "It's an unlivable lifestyle." Because I promoted rock 'n roll in college, I got to know a few musicians because we hired them for our shows. Plus, we got to party with them after the shows, so I got to see the down side of their unlivable lifestyles close up. Many of the people I met went the same way -- Janis, Jimi, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia. They paid their money and they took their chance. Sadly, they lost.
