This is an aging rock star... This is an aging rock star on drugs... *sizzle* Any questions?

[richaarde]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=406075&in_page_id=1773

According to Keith Richards, drugs just don't buzz him like they used to. (Odd, because from what I've heard illegal drugs are more potent than they ever were)

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They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind

[cheesegimp.livejournal.com]

Two things to consider...

1.) As you use drugs more and more, you build up a tolerance. It takes higher and higher doses to give you the same high you once had. It's very possible that Richards has, through decades of not-quite-lethal drug usage, made himself immune.

2.) While modern drugs might be more potent, they're simply not manufactured with the same intentions in mind. People used to use drugs to expand their consciousness. Now they just take use as a means of escape. I hate to sound like an old hippie, but kids today don't want answers to the big questions; they just want something more "extreme" than what you get from Starbucks, Budweiser, or a can of Mountain Dew. I guarantee you that the LSD being sold nowadays isn't the same LSD that the Beatles used.

Re: They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

2.) It's all in how they're marketed by culture of the day. After decades of scientists developing LSD and offering it as a mind-expanding drug, culture followed suit. It seemed that everybody wanted to expand their minds in new and different ways. Maybe ten years ago, rave culture got big, and people started taking ecstasy to enhance sexual feelings. It seems that of late, getting high means either staying awake to all hours of the night or getting as buzzed as possible.