is an outlaw. The drug culture is a revolutionary threat to plasticwasp9-Samerica. wrote Jerry Rubin recently, the yippie leader who led the demonstrations at the Chicago Democratic convention. The idea that pot is a vital binding element in the revolutionary movement is catching in America and is CYCHE beginning to put down some grassy roots here.
Sex and pot
There are might not have much to do with the revolution more and more revolutionaries are turning to OOL. know one dedicated hardworking comrade who politically will only trust fellow smokers. This is a common, and I think quite mistaken, part of the habit. Pot is now as freely available as brandy in many grand drawing rooms; a groovy girl in the corner is de rigeur at many of the trendier upper-class parties but it. doesn't seem to have made the slightest dent on their solid notions of power and society and although our comrade might find them friendly enough I doubt whether his arguments would impress them either.
Hundreds of underground American newspapers are all built around the same three themes of student power, sex and pot. These papers are a wild whoop of joy and anybod who smokes will recognise and remember that teeling of Eureka the first time they got high without fear. it's like falling in love. You want to rush out and tell everybody; which is exactly what these papers are doing Busts are reported with all the gravity of serious political events. Pot is lauded as the great unifier: 30 thousand joints were sent message seems to be that if you could only turn all the world on all our troubles will be over. Oh yeah. Well, tell that to that half of the world (N.Africa, Pakistan, India, the Middle East, and most of S. America) which is already turned on and suffers under the most vicious and repressive governments imaginable and they'll argument cant end there. is a lot less simple cannabis But the than that. Pot is new to Western Europe and its signs that although pot effects will be different from places where it has always been used.
Politically correct?
To. pot is all or anie the title is NO. activity and serves simply as a diversion away from the main task of building the revolution. Qu: And how do you do that? Ans: By sorcaume consciousness. Qu: Can't pot help? Ans: Certainly not. Pot is just an opiate; all it Cdil spread unconsciousness. End of discussion because any smoker can tell you that the last answer just isn't true.
One of the largest claims for pot is that it heightens perception, that it is reality-seeking drug not one of escape. The trouble with saying anything about pot is tha it is very difficult to say anything for certain. But we'll try. It certainly won't help you to wrong. And for them I am. Most smokers I have talked to agree with me that it doesn't help any form of concentrated mental work. But pot can relax you enough to help your mind reach out around corners where it wouldn't normally go. euphoric state of being high a lot of barriers fall away and a zenlike thought can come winging Festivals of the oppressed One curious effect of the drug is the wawit cam amplity the slightest hint pomposity. Banal film dialogue becomes ridiculously funny broadcast can send a group, of (even) apolitical going to have any of either. and a political heads into hysterics. These effects do seem to undermine the status quo. They are certainly contributing to the generation gap.
Take a young suburban dwelling boy or girl of eighteen. He's strapped into his carefully inculcated inferiority. discovers pot, can be a small revolution for him. Lenin wrote that "Revolutions are festivals of the oppressed and the exploited. at such times the people are capable of performing miracles". Something like this elation spreads through his mind & body, shyness and tension begin to crumble. They would have gone anyway, in time, but pot does seem to be able to speed up maturity and, some claim, dissolve prejudice.
Does Rubin have point? Can read Marx, although there are bound to be pot=Crime=Revolution? There is no doubt that irritating exceptions who will write and say I'm early confrontation with authority can have a politicising effect. Being put up against a wall and searched is a symbolic setpiece for the way power works in this country. The dangerously polite request to hold up your arms. The supercilious expression on the copper's face just get under way before pot becomes one. two inches away from yours.
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