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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 04:20:41 +0000
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 11:36:30 +0000, 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."
>
> Some people can function on marijuana.  The Beatles exemplified this (it
> 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."
>
> 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.

I had to give weed up a decade or so ago. The new stuff is just way too
powerful for me.