How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the war on drugs

Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by hluska on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:23PM (#27552677)

Years ago, a friend and I started a street paper in our city. A lot of our vendors had really serious addictions. The perception you would get about homeless/near homeless addicts from copaganda and the truth is remarkably far apart.

My biggest take from a lot of those interactions was how much they're like tech founders. I swear that if one particular vendor had discovered a IIc instead of LSD in the mid-80s, every one of us on this site would know his name.

Experiences like that really chip away at the "Thin Blue Line" narrative where these flawed people are our last line of defense against the degeneracy of drugs.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by tengbretson on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:34PM (#27552782)

> I swear that if one particular vendor had discovered a IIc instead of LSD in the mid-80s, every one of us on this site would know his name.

I don't know if I'm missing the point here, but if this is true, then wouldn't it follow that drugs are something that society should be fighting against?

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by ksjdmddl on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:42PM (#27552861)

There are ways for society to fight against things besides criminalizing them

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by pope_meat on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:46PM (#27552904)

I would have preferred Zuckerberg doing LSD instead creating Facebook. Less harm would have come to society.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by hluska on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:23PM (#27555193)

That’s actually pretty close to the point, just warped slightly. What if we stopped fighting because part of fighting a war on drugs means turning some pretty cool people into enemies?

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by astrange on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:26PM (#27553312)

Assuming IIc is an Apple reference, I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs asked people if they did LSD during the interview and didn't hire them if they were squares.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by hluska on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:26PM (#27555211)

That’s pretty close to what I was getting at. Without violating too much confidence, the guy I’m talking about had a bit of a breakdown in the mid-80s, around when the IIc was released. With just a couple of small changes, I can’t even guess what he could accomplish.

Unfortunately, we fight a war on drugs and make people like that into enemies. I don’t think fighting is the solution and if it is, I’m still waiting for results.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by renewiltord on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:28PM (#27553347)

It's a confusing one for sure. I thought he meant "a 2c" as in "one of the 2c class of drugs" which are similar to LSD.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by hluska on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:21PM (#27555174)

That’s a neat coincidence. The guy I’m talking about started having problems in the mid-80s around when the Apple IIc was released.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by cooldrcool2 on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:47PM (#27553543)

LLC, limited liability Corp. I'm pretty sure that is what they are referring to.

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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the... by cooldrcool2 on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:46PM (#27553531)

If I had to choose between unlimited lsd vs unlimited facebook I would take the lsd.

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