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Xtrafresh · 15th July 2008, 18:25

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Originally Posted by kingdomcome

Interesting! "Big Time" drug user. Bigger than GWB's escapades with blow? Did you get that from one of those reputable news sources, like Newsmax or Fox Noise? Don't want to deny you your right to post, XtraFoolish, but try to make what you post remotely factual. Otherwise, you'll lose what little credibilty you have left.

Fair enough....will the pen of Barack Hussien Obama suffice?

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I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man,Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ... You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection

sounds pretty big time to me...