Tools III; Tools III: To everyone, a reason; No. 4; 4

They like shine through my world. They like shine through my world. They like shine through my world. Music Tools Radio programs about factors that influence people in their decision-making. Today with comments from a variety of students, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and pharmacologists, we bring you a program entitled to everyone a reason. A human being can learn many ways of responding to his problems and expressing his feelings. To an extent, his learning depends on the society in which he lives and the groups to which he belongs. In our society, we have developed an ethic for using drugs to solve problems and deal with feelings.

In this program, several people discuss their own and other people's reasons for using a wide variety of drugs. Their reasons don't reveal much about drugs, or indicate whether drugs are a successful, legal, or safe way of solving problems or dealing with feelings, but their reasons do tell us something about our society and something about our own needs as human beings. I want to get it all together and live forever, live forever. Drugs have been used to control tuberculosis, heart disease, epilepsy, diabetes, and a host of other illnesses. Drugs like penicillin, sulfonilamides, and antibiotics have been used to prevent the spread of infection. Drugs in the form of vaccines and serums have been used to prevent smallpox, polio, diphtheria, and tetanus.

Drugs like vitamin pills have been used to maintain balance and functioning in the human body. In general, drugs of all kinds are among the great discoveries of medical science. And for centuries, they've been prescribed by doctors to fight and control disease, to relieve pain, and to help maintain the body's functioning. I think a lot of adults go around pretending that the only kind of drugs we have in our society and the only legitimate uses of them are for the maintenance of some kind of a physiological function. They use the term for disease control, but there are a lot of other reasons why people use drugs. At home, at school, on radio, on television, and at the newspaper, you see and hear about people using drugs that are not prescription drugs or medicines. You see and hear about people using drugs that range from coffee, cigarettes, and alcohol to marijuana, LSD, and heroin. There are more drugs available now, more different kinds than they ever were before.

We are indeed in the midst of a chemical revolution, and the drugs are available which will do things that they could never do before. Drugs are being used with the frequency that they're being used, I think, in large part because of their availability. Everybody's into it, you know, and then one way or another practically, and I don't think it's really fair to look at any kid or any adult for that matter that's using drugs and say, there's this disturbed person because he's using drugs. You know, that's what's out on the street, that's what's available, that's what people are into. But I'm wondering about this world that I live in, wondering about this world. People are curious because it's so much in the public concern right now. It's the balance of generate curiosity on a part of young people who are curious anyway. People who are experimentally inclined to experiment with new behaviors, that might be a reason for drug use.

I took acid, at least I assume it was acid, the first time mostly out of curiosity. I was living in Berkeley and everybody was always talking about it. I didn't have very many contacts with people who took drugs and took a long time to get it so my expectations kept building. I would be sort of curious to try it. I mean, if it doesn't hurt, if I found out that marijuana could not hurt anyone, you know, any kind of person, I think I like to take it, you know, just to see what it would do. If I can't smell no flowers, and I can't have no friends, what pleasures are left in this world that I live in, what pleasures are left in this world. One of the reasons that I think is overlooked the most is that drugs are pleasurable, that to smoke marijuana feels good, that sometimes the kinds of experiences that you hear about kids having on drugs that are bad are relatively infrequent.

And I think a very important reason for kids using drugs is because they feel good. It's the simple reason that it feels good, they like it, they enjoy it, it just makes them feel nice. Sometimes people take drugs to help them feel good, and feeling good sometimes means feeling accepted by other people. I can remember one time where I got into a particular drug for a while, which, you know, part of the reason that I got into it was social pressure. Well, a good friend, a good friend, suggesting that it was a good idea, and wow, you'll really like this, and why not try it? I think a number of young people sort of feel out of it if they can't talk a little bit about at least what it was like when they tried grass.

Their friends might be doing it, and they want to do it too, you know, to be in with it, you know, to be in with everyone else. Kids are really blowing pot and stuff, and I thought, man, what a bunch of dummies, you know, I didn't dig it at all. Then later on, it's great. I don't know, I don't know what changed my mind. It's just that everyone was doing it, and I hated it. I kept on seeing as if stupid stuff, and later on, everyone else turned, do I start seeing, well, it's okay, I suppose. And finally, I tried it myself. What pleasures are left in this world that I live in? What pleasures are left in this world? Sometimes feeling good means feeling comfortable in social situations. And if there's one thing adults have shown kids, it's how to use drugs to feel good in social situations. Look at an adult, a normal adult cocktail party where people have to have a few martinis so they can loosen up and talk to each other, you know, and stop being so uptight.

Some research by David Smith and Hayd Ashbury has suggested that youthful, recreational marijuana use, you know, serves much the same function as, you know, the cocktail and the adult cocktail party. You know, there's a ritual of sharing the passing of this thing about, and there's a mild euphoria and relaxing of inhibitions, and people feel like they're getting closer to each other through this. We use words like socializing to help people socialize. Our whole institutionalized way of consuming alcohol is built around this, the neighborhood tabern, the cocktail lounge, the use of alcoholic beverages at any kind of an adult get together. All of this is based around a way of having fun to aid us in socializing, to loosen us up, to help us have fun. When I was in college, I would use getting drunk as a social tool.

That was the way I could meet girls at a party. I'd get drunk and I could meet more girls at a party, and that girls at a party would keep me in dates for a long period of time. That was my only way of relating to women was when I was really drunk. I know this one guy who is very shy and very withdrawn, and when he does drugs, he sits around and beams happily at everybody all night, and thinks he's conveying all the deep meaning in the world. Every now and then he'll just stop and chuckle and say, you see what I mean? When he hasn't said anything. And this is his way of being sociable, a tool, if you like. His way of relating. I'm wondering about this world I live in, with all kinds of people, just running and running, or running and running. Another category is to sedate, or to slow us down, sedation. If you're not enjoying being all up on a high, you use some kind of a drug to bring you down.

I guess that can cover a span all the way from perhaps dad having a busy hectic day at the office, or mother having a particularly hard day at home, and having a drink before dinner to help them relax, and to help fight some of the tension and the worries that they've had during the day, all the way to people who may be having psychotic symptoms, and are taking huge doses of illicit drugs to try to control, acting out or try to control the thought process. Every night about time I get stoned, I'd be able to forget the day, and relax. A world of all kinds of people tired from running, so tired from running. You know, some grown-ups say, take coffee to get awake, and I don't understand that.

My mother has a cup or two each morning to have it, and just stay awake and just to drink. A cup of coffee in the morning may be sort of a social ritual, but it also has a stimulant effect to help you wake up. One of the takes wake me up pills in the morning, and one day I don't know if even go somewhere, I think you're going to go to the zoo in Chicago. It's so funny, you have to take it, she fell asleep on me. Tired from running, running to nowhere, nowhere. A lot of people use drugs just because they are bored, they want something to occupy their time. Well, it seems like in the time I came from the city, there's nothing else to do. Like, if you had long hair, something half-time you couldn't come into a dance.

If you were blue jeans, you couldn't go to a dance. Like, there's only one, two dances a week, you know, and sometimes it wasn't even any at all. So we could go to someone's house and get all wrecked and be stormed all night, fast at time. Does anybody know that I'm here in this world? Does anybody know that I'm here? People focus on the fact that they've assumed a drug and never take the time to go back and explore why that might have occurred. I might be in attempt to gain attention from people who, from parents, possibly who's attention cannot be gotten in any other way, but then to do something dramatic. I know what you mean, I used to go out and get drunk and get arrested and better make the bastards fair attention because they had to come down and bail you out. Will anybody dare let me live in this world? Will anybody dare let me live?

There was a rebellion part. They've been preached at it and preached at it about drugs and they finally fed up with it and will automatically do precisely the opposite of what they're told. Just asserting their independence, they protest against the family. If you want to assert your independence, they can often do things that they know the family would not approve of. Okay, one is drugs. I think that's a lot of what happens. They kept me very well go out and just blow dope to prove that he's not anybody's slave. You know, that could be a motivation. What answers are there in this world that I live in? What answers are there in this world? To feel physically attractive, some people use drugs. To find self-understanding, mind expansion, mystical and religious experiences, some people use drugs. To celebrate important events, some people use drugs. To imitate people they admire, some people use drugs.

And even to control the behavior of hyperactive school children, patients in mental hospitals, old people, and even militants in ghetto communities, some people use drugs. What joy is there here in this world that I live in? What joy is there here in this world? Well, you could take the area of relief. And relief comes in a lot of ways. It can be physical or mental. It can be relief from fatigue, from physical pain, from anxiety, from boredom, from frustration. And take the housewife who is highly bored and who uses her endphetamines as a kind of a pick me up, as a kind of a drift me off into a never-never land. Call it escape if you want to. When we go out into high schools to do rap sessions, usually we introduce ourselves and we say we're from the drug center and the kids kind of go on, not more drug education.

No, we've had it up to here. So we say, okay, that's cool. What would you like to talk about? And very often it's school and how I hate it and how repressive it is and how I get stoned because if a class is going to be boring, it's at least more interesting if I go in there stoned. And I ask them for a reason why people use drugs. There's one boy that I think was very honest. He said that he didn't have an opportunity to express himself the way he wanted to. And he was a good student and he always did things well. He was successful in school and he, but he really never had a chance to express himself other than parroting what he'd been taught. Even when he was supposed to have the opportunity, he said that he would write something that he thought was saying what he really wanted to say but by the time he handed it in, he had revised it so many times that it really didn't say that.

And so he did it so that he could do some of the stuff on his own that he wasn't handing in for school. And that's why he said so he could again to express what he felt. Well, I think one of the very real reasons why we elect chemical ways of changing the way we feel about ourselves or allowing us to act on our feelings is because we've never learned other ways of dealing with those feelings, of acting out those feelings. When we use chemical substances, we can say it's not really us, it's the chemical that's acting. I guess a good example of that is the person who goes out and has a few drinks and then acts crazy. People excuse it any minute, they don't call it him, they say that's the alcohol that's doing that. Basically, the problem I contend is really mistreatment of people by other people or isolation of people within a ghetto area or within their own families or within a school or within a community so that people feel alienated and they feel lonely.

And now suddenly they have an answer, they don't have to take it anymore, they can smoke or they can take a pill or they can inject a drug and they don't have to feel bad at least for a while. They have a chemical correction now. I don't see that much as an escapeist who most people seem to think. I thought this was the medium they used to let fly. To reject the rejection of their ideas and their feelings that there's something wrong. Well, at the time when it was happening, I didn't realize that was what I was doing dope. But now I look back and it's playing as a date of me now. That was because of my surroundings, the things that were happening to me and everything. And I just wanted to get away. I wanted to have my own world.

I'm wondering about this world I live in. What kind of world has no flowers or friends? What kind of world has no answers or joy? What kind of world has no joy? In this program, several people discussed their own and other people's reasons for using a wide variety of drugs. Their reasons don't reveal much about drugs or indicate whether drugs are as successful, legal or a safe way of solving problems and dealing with feelings. But their reasons do tell us something about our society and something about our own needs as human beings. Tell me what kind of world is this world that I live in? What kind of home is this world? They like shine through my world. They like shine through my world. They like shine through my world.

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