Let’s talk about drugs! The College Humor gang tunes in, turns on, and drops out to ask if you’re for or against using drugs? If you’re against, remember one man’s drug is another man’s poison, it’s often somewhat difficult to define ‘drugs.’ They’re recreational, spiritual and healing. Can we pass judgement and decide which ones are okay and which drugs aren’t, when it’s really the user who ultimately uses or abuses them?
If you believe that your habit is innocent, you can bet there’s someone looking askance at you whenever you indulge. ‘My habit is legal and safe and I can buy it at Starbucks whenever I want,’ you smugly protest. Lucky you, but here’s news:
you can O.D. on virtually anything including caffeine. Balzac is thought to have met his end due to the physical effects of drinking enough coffee to fuel 48-hour writing marathons.
As with everything else, moderation seems to be the name of the game, whether it’s Pot, Religion or Pepsi that gets you through your day.
Following is a short list of famous drug users who turned out okay…And we haven’t room to list many of the historical artists, writers, scientists, doctors, inventors, actors, musicians, composers and average folks you’re sure to know.
Ben Franklin: Opium, Cannabis
Abe Lincoln: Cannabis
George Washington: ditto
Thomas Jefferson: Cannabis
Grover Cleveland: Cocaine
King George V: Cocaine, Opium
Winston Churchill: Nitrous
Queen Victoria Opium, Cannabis, Coca Wine, Chloroform Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland took Laudanum for migraines Charles Dickens enjoyed a bit of Opium