Earle the first human responce when someone tells you you cannot have something is to have to have it. George is right we do evolve problem is what have we become? when you can electronically turn some mothers son to pink mist on the other side of the planet. Death should be very personal if life has any meaning and in the 60's was a new way of life that scared the crap out of those who want to rule.

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: You know what I really can't stand?The way TV
: network news and the "Man" in
: general always depicted the members of the
: counterculture movement of the 60's as the
: villains in their plight against the
: establishment.What a smear campaign!They
: were out to stop a completely and totally
: unjust and even immoral war and THEY were
: the bad guys?The establishment press also
: had a way of misconstruing the whole LSD
: thing.According to the main stream press at
: the time,the drug was nothing but trouble as
: they would show pictures of those who had
: gone overboard with the drug and wound up
: sleeping on park benches in Golden Gate Park
: as if to say "This is DEFINIELTY what
: will happen to you.Nonsense!The
: psycho-tropic effects of the popular
: psychedelics at the time would differ from
: person to person depending on the mindset of
: the user as well as the environment in which
: it was taken.What was SAC's take on the main
: idiom of the youth of the times which
: obviously was to do their own thing and not
: just fall in line with the establishment and
: how their parents lived their lives at a
: similar age?A great example here would be
: the whole "Free Love
: thing".Suddenly,little or no taboos
: attached to things that if teens and early
: twenties types had done just a generation
: sooner,their parents may have wanted to tar
: and feather them.
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