Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FINAL AWAKENING came when I "snorted" a good sized pinch of heroin. Up to that point, I had, at one time or another, smoked pot, tried LSD, Psylocybin, Mescaline, Dexadrine, Alcohol, and so on ad infinitum. Being head of a drug education group and of reasonable sound mind and body, my motivation was curiousity of a most unmorbid sort--but each new experience left me with the same anti-climax. They were all interesting in one way or another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time...
...first reaction was to call up the mass media and send the news over the wires: EXTRA EXTRA HEROIN RELATIVELY HARMLESS TO IMMENSE MAJORITY OF POPULATION. And then the full irony of it hit. Here I was, a nationally reputable drug expert, praised by physicians and adolescents alike for accuracy and honesty, with a company due for a half-million in sales of drug education to the Army, Navy and schools throughout the country, waking up to the fact that I too, like hundreds of millions of Americans, had been shamelessly duped by a few hundred thousand very vocal...
...having a "real drug addict" talk about his tribulations, I add that, to be fair, they really ought to have a child molester along to give a paean on the desirability of five-year-old girls. The grand majority of the physicians are literally too frightened to try heroin, and the total majority of the addicts have a terribly real stock in the maintenance of the myth of the killer drug. After all, we're spending a couple of billion dollars to maintain, support, job--train and half--way house a tiny minority of individuals whose main occupation...
...Norman Zinberg came back from Vietnam last year after looking over the problem. He, may he be blessed for his bravery, actually tried heroin while he was there. "I was surprised," he remarked "at how fast four hours went by." A great boredome cure, for sure...
...understandable if they had done something serious. You know, you expect a cop to go crooked." But is there not a little room for rejoicing that, at least in Des Moines, when a few policemen stray off the line, it is balloons and slingshots they play with instead of heroin and the Mafia...