alt Hacker NewsDefinitely over-simplified for the drug landscape, but I still think that users roughly sort into these two categories.
I also think its incorrect to define this sort of escapism as escaping to something. IME people escape from something — the “to” doesn’t matter as long as the “from” ain’t there.
I’d further agree that it has nothing to do with interracial marriage — not sure where this point came from?
The “War on Drugs” as Nixon named it isn’t the beginning of the story.
it's not the beginning nor is it the end. To go back to the story, you said
> If I had to guess, I’d bet my money on the people in power liking and using the hard charging stuff while loathing the touchy feely stuff.
that some people liked the hard charging stuff and were white, and that some people liked the touchy feely stuff and who just so coincidentally some of them happened to be dark skinned, in an era that was racist to the point of having anti-miscegenation laws, isn't some minor coincidence.
> the “to” doesn’t matter as long as the “from” ain’t there.
The "to" matters because after you've gotten high you're there, but where's there? it's that the one where your kids are listening to you? where your wife never left, where your boyfriend wasn't beating you? In that "to", how is life?