Drug Stories! Narcotic Nightmares and Hallucinogenic Hellrides

Hyperbolic and an indictment on the war on drugs

Amy Sedaris in Strangers with Candy (2005)

I now know that I can't smoke one stick of pot! I can't take one snort of horse! I can't take one needle of cocaine because I am an addictive personality! And that's all I need is one of anything. Ya know I need one dress. If I happen to like this dress in tan, I buy the same dress in green and black and pink. This is the type of personality I am!

Florrie Fisher

Joe Given

A former drug addict tells her story to some high school kids.

Ralph Weisinger

The Trip Back

I don&apos;t doubt Florrie Fisher&apos;s life experience, and her 2+ decades in various jails and prisons. Maybe she really had a severely addictive metabolism, but that doesn&apos;t mean everybody does

I was a couple of years younger then the kids in this video. But by 1972, I was exposed to all the same influences. I smoked pot fairly regularly during the 70s, did a few hard drugs, but not too much.

Guess what? I never became addicted to any of them. Neither did most of my friends. We all went to college and had careers. I recently retired after working steadily for over 45 years.

Not to say her experiences aren&apos;t relevant. I have one friend who had a similar downward spiral that was horrific. Even after his wife divorced him, she would come home to find he had broken in and stolen everything in the house. He died of a severe infection. But his experience occurred in less than 1% of the people I know who got high.

Even so, the dangers of addiction are worth heeding, but in Ms. Fisher&apos;s case, I would cite the draconian drug laws as the cause of most of her problems. During the 1940s, if she could have received treatment instead of incarceration, her story would definitely been much different.

And I have to call BS on the claim that she knew 6 people who were executed after committing murders while high on pot. Unless the victims got between the pot smoker and a bag of Cheetos (just kidding), there is no way that it happened once, much less 6 times.

I don't doubt Florrie Fisher's life experience, and her 2+ decades in various jails and prisons. Maybe she really had a severely addictive metabolism, but that doesn't mean everybody does

I was a couple of years younger then the kids in this video. But by 1972, I was exposed to all the same influences. I smoked pot fairly regularly during the 70s, did a few hard drugs, but not too much.

Guess what? I never became addicted to any of them. Neither did most of my friends. We all went to college and had careers. I recently retired after working steadily for over 45 years.

Not to say her experiences aren't relevant. I have one friend who had a similar downward spiral that was horrific. Even after his wife divorced him, she would come home to find he had broken in and stolen everything in the house. He died of a severe infection. But his experience occurred in less than 1% of the people I know who got high.

Even so, the dangers of addiction are worth heeding, but in Ms. Fisher's case, I would cite the draconian drug laws as the cause of most of her problems. During the 1940s, if she could have received treatment instead of incarceration, her story would definitely been much different.

And I have to call BS on the claim that she knew 6 people who were executed after committing murders while high on pot. Unless the victims got between the pot smoker and a bag of Cheetos (just kidding), there is no way that it happened once, much less 6 times.

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