Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

On Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:36:30 -0800, Norbert wrote:

I assume Paul still smokes it. I remember reading, after McCartney
married Heather Mills, that she did not approve of the drug -- and that
he had promised to quit it. My gut reaction was: "That marriage is not
long for the world."
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Some people can function on marijuana. The Beatles exemplified this (it

I thought they didn't use any drug when they were
recording music.

was LSD and smack that took Lennon out). Pete Townshend was a heavy
user of pot until 1969 or so, and he later stated that: "The problem
with marijuana is that in te long-term it turns you into a softball."
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Other people become literally insane on the stuff, and develop
schizophrenia-like symptoms; they believe in *nothing but* paranoid
delusions. This applies to the Trump/Alt-Right-Q-Anon freaks who hang
out around the dispensaries in my area.

That seems strange. Are you trying to say that marijuana
is only bad if right wingers take it? So you have to
determine someone's political leanings to tell whether
a drug is good or bad?