Subject: Re: [drugwar] W.S. Burroughs on pot & driving [was:] FW: The history and effects of Marijuana ... Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:26:16 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:48:50 -0400, Elmer Elevator wrote: >=A0Hiya =A0Drugwartopians! >=A0And now, before I crash, a real odd =A0curiosity. Tami and= Preston bring up the Hot Button Issue of Driving and= =A0Marijuana. .... >=A0Last week I zapped a review of the 50th =A0Anniversary Edition of= William S. Burrough's "Junky." From beginning =A0to end the= gentleman spoke his mind and described the world as he saw it.= And =A0here's a sample, >=A0[page 16] >=A0One thing about weed. A man under the =A0influence of weed is= completely unfit to drive a car. Weed disturbs your sense =A0of= time and consequently your sense of spatial relations. Burroughs used to be an attraction at Baird Jones' parties in= the late `80s & early `90s . The old guy would sit there arranged , I think by= Baird , between a couple of good to choice looking half century younger women .= Sort of a set piece who would shake your hand when Baird brought you over= . I think driving is another area that shows great individual= differences in reactions to various drugs . While back in those neophyte= days at NU , there were times I chose not to drive but instead sit a few= hours in the computing center stringing a handful of APL symbols into lines= of impenetrable brilliance , more recently , when my main sport was= getting around to art gallery openings on my "motorboard" ( eg , NY= Press Best of Manhattan : http://cosy.com/art/bom95.htm ,= http://cosy.com/trnsprt/ ) I always found a quick toke or two helped keep me alive at the= end of an evening of comp wine & beer & more . Better drunk & stoned than just drunk . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Return our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/10/04 4:46:54 PM