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Drug of choice in th 80's

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Postby middlesexnj » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:56 am

My High School was all about cocaine. It was an area with a lot of rich kids, and we are on the corridor between NY and Philly/Washington, so there was plenty available back just when it was getting to be a big drug in this country.

And there's that G
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Postby J.C. » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:27 pm

"C" was overrated. Organic stuff: shrooms,pot and hash. Chemical: MDA Just sample pot and hash nowadays. Too old to do MDA. Thinking of checking out viagra though....[:D]
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Postby toddrighteous » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:37 am

"if you wanna ride,
ride the white horse!"
haha, i love that song. (any one remember the gap band?)
i personally despise drugs though. i dont touch them these days, but in my youth, i used just about anything i could get my hands on. i wasted a
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Postby Ollie Stench » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:41 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by toddrighteous[/i]
<br>"if you wanna ride,
ride the white horse!"
haha, i love that song. (any one remembe
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Postby toddrighteous » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:57 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
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Postby bruiser » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:11 am

[quote]
so how come the mp3 i downloaded of that song has it tagged as "the gap band"??

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Postby ben_at_work » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:12 am

Loved to get high. I owe my A in creative writing to Mary Jane. I still blaze every now and then but not even close to how much i did in the 80's. I new a guy who always had thai stick. mmmmmmmm thai stick. I pretty much stopped all together when my son w
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Postby DearGod » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:29 am

The most popular drug of choice for me was....

Coke!!! we'd snort it, smoke it ....

I also loved whip-its!
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Postby 2Nu » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:14 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by ben_at_work[/i]
<br>Loved to get high. I owe my A in creative writing to Mary Jane. I still blaze every now
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Postby middlesexnj » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:57 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by DearGod[/i]
<br>I also loved whip-its!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="q
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Postby dearly beloved » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:37 pm

morbid self-absorbtion
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Postby djren12 » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:07 am

For me it was coke, but i had to have the djarum clove cigarettes to smoke with it.
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Postby red x red » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:54 am

My drugs of choice:

1) pretty girls,
2) great concerts,
3) music on the radio and vinyl,
4) hanging out with my buddies,
5) the Wasatch Mountains,
6) science fiction (still seems to be the case); and
7) did I mention pretty girls.
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Postby ben_at_work » Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:48 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by red x red[/i]
<br>My drugs of choice:

1) pretty girls,
2) great concerts,
3) music on the radio and v
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Postby KYYX4ever » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:01 am

I was a straight kid back then. My drug was "silliness" and giddiness from goofing around.

It wasn't until college that I ever drank...I wasn't a fish about it, but it was good times. Didn't even smoke maryjane until a few years into college!

never
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