Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hysterically antimarijuana film Reefer Madness was a camp classic to be mocked by stoned viewers at the midnight show in the local art house. The Zeitgeist of that generation is now wildly reversed. Public figures who used pot at that time express regret for the transgression. Political survival demands that they not offend the new cultural norm. Marijuana use now carries a moral taint...
This is not to imply, as pot propagandists do, that marijuana should be legalized. If you were inventing a new society, perhaps. You might prefer the intoxicant of choice to be marijuana, since alcohol can be more physically damaging and addicting. But such considerations are irrelevant to deciding what society ought to do about marijuana today. We are not inventing a new society. There is such a thing as history. We have millenniums of experience with alcohol. It is ineradicably part of our culture. The question today is not Will it be alcohol or marijuana? The only relevant question...
...implication is that it's the wife's job to serve her husband--have his pot roast ready, bring him his newspaper and his slippers, ask him how the day went, and all before putting Wally and the Beaver to bed before...
...nevertheless flagrantly ignores the very laws it has passed to control drugs. While they hold the rest of the population to a "Just Say No" standard, well-off adults and their children follow different rules. Stockbrokers and jet-setters snort coke at home while their sons and daughters smoke pot at parties. They know they are breaking the law, but they just don't care beyond their fear of getting caught...
...Rather than focusing on drug use a decade ago, perhaps we should have investigated Ginsburg's respect for law as manifested in his private life during the past year, while he was a federal judge. It certainly would have given us a better picture of this new-fangled, post-pot, law'n'order Ginsburg...