Word: bummer
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Author and researcher H. L. Humes asserted that mass experimentation with cannabis and the psychedelics, though undertaken with no clear research objective, has answered the major remaining question about them. "One person may have an ecstatic experience with a psychoactive substance whereas another person may have a "bummer". Why? The answer is that the person who is having the "bummer" is dumping repressed traumatic material from childhood or infancy, or even the birth trauma. The "bummer" is not in the drug it is in the person taking the drug; In microdosages," he emphasized, "cannabis will surface repressed material; it functions...
...that sounds like a real bummer." I said, giving the red elephant a poke with my tow. It had started to rain, and he looked a bit soggy. "What's going to happen to Lenny, there--uh, are you going to change him back...
...some reason a wondrous curator of the lingo. He ascends his pulpit. "God doesn't want you on a guilt trip" he begins, inspired. "God's not into guilt. Bad vibes! He knows where you're coming from. God says, 'Guilt, that's a bummer.,' The Lord can be pretty far out about these things, you know." He goes into a wild fugue of nostalgia: "Sock it to me! Outasight! Right...
...real bummer, like a bad dream," J. Gordon Anderson'83, an Henry resident, said yesterday...
...Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late Tommy Dorsey's band, dreamed up the project shortly after the imposition of martial law. He rejects suggestions that a television spectacular, however heartfelt, was an inappropriate response to military repression. Says Wick: "To remain passive is a bummer...