Pope plans to chew coca leaves in Bolivia: minister

[Joe Chi Minh]

23. I'd love to have seen Francis make a guest appearance in The Big Lebowski. Apparently,

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coca also used to counter the effects of altitude or some such, as well as for recreational purposes.

I've never taken recreational drugs, other than nicotine and occasionally alcohol in my younger days, but I love the associated ethos, as depicted in the Big Lebowski, before the economic right-wing had not yet managed to screw any and everything creative down, and reduced it to a shadow of itself as it was in the past.

When I think of the range of exuberant pop songs, often with crazy titles, and singers and groups with with crazy names, and the musak that's turned out today, it's very sad. Also, the words told a little story. They meant something to the listeners. But people had a disposable income in those days, and life seemed to full of possibilities. Who could have imagined that one day septuagenarian groups from the sixties would still be on the go today, people are so desperate for an echo of those days.


Now, I also see the darker side of drugs, and suspect that only mescalin and LSD would be beneficial, and that, only if properly regulated for purity and dosage. I believe for some, the effect is nightmarish, anyway.