================================================================= This file is a part of the 1999 Hyperreal Drug Archives Snapshot. This snapshot is hosted by Erowid and will not be updated after October 1999. The information in these files may be out of date. See Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults for more current info. ================================================================= From: Christopher B Reeve Newsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: Polticians using drugs Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 11:42:26 -0500 Message-ID: Excerpts from netnews.alt.drugs: 19-Mar-94 Re: -*-*-*- What would be t.. by Don K Harrison@um.cc.umi > used pot, I was voting democratic for sure. Has anyone seen literature that > shows MJ users make better politicians? And another thing, I'd rather have I know very little about the issue, but there's definitely incentive to look into how much drugs JFK did in his time. Take a look at this quote in Timothy Leary's _Flashbacks_. Mary Meyer met with Kennedy about 30 times, the majority of which we can safely assume that he 1) had sex with her and/or 2) had an LSD session, overlooked by Meyer; the latter is known to have happened quite a few times, because she frequently reported to Leri himself of having great success at "turning on" some guys up top in the govt. After trying acid for the first time - yes acid (sounds unheard of these days, eh? I bet most of the normalized hippies alive today have forgotten this.) - the president made an interesting comment: "Mary Meyer told Truitt that JFK had remarked: 'This isn't like cocaine. I'll get you some of that.'" (366) Note that "In interviews with the _National Enquirer_, Associated Press, and _Washington Post_ Truitt revealed that a woman named Mary Pinchot Meyer had conducted a two-year love affair with President John Kennedy and had smoked marijuana with him in a White House bedroom." (366) Mary Meyer served as Leri's temporary contact for LSD and/or psilocybin in Europe when he was unable to produce his own. Her assassination is known (... oh sorry, believed ) to be firmly connected to JFK's. She was supposedly mugged, but she was shot something like twice in the head, and once in the heart. I guess she was just really really strong and had to be shot 3 times in strategic places before the purse could be wrestled from her, eh? Hopefully I got someone interested enough to start reading about it. The more we all know, the better. But how times have changed, eh? I wonder if Clinton ever sneaks a bud or two into the White House bedroom these days? ....................................................Christopher B. Reeve "Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry D. Thoreau, _Walden_