European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 16 the stars and stripes wednesday May 11, 1977 George  drugs of dependency versus drugs of belief Mississippi not known or restless modernity has  growing list of states that have liberalized marijuana Laws. As a legislator explains when your friends get caught with this stuff or you relatives or their children Well. Most lawmakers Are Middle class parents and most marijuana users Are Young members of the Middle class. Entrepreneurs supplying America s 13 million regu Lar users Are engaged in organized crime on behalf of the Middle class. Laws Are no match for powerful appetites arid Laws in convenient to the Middle class Are doomed. Marijuana is ubiquitous and eventually will be  legalizing posses Sion for use but not for Sale obviously will be just a step toward full legalization then full commercialization through the Ameri  p. Roche Young s behaviour no longer amusing for a while it was kind of amusing but the time has come to blow the whistle. The unfortunate truth is that if ambassador Andrew Young did t exist a White racist would have to invent him. Young after All. Is a senior official of the govern ment of the United states not a caricature rum Amos and  and by every Standard his behaviour has been outrageous. I spent too Many years in the trenches fighting for Equality to appreciate the spectacle of a Black court Jester. Make no mistake about it this is what Young has become. If he were not Black he would Long since have been shipped to Jibu. Or named counsel general in the Falkland islands. But protected by his pigmentation he remains in place making a shambles out of what foreign policy we have. I respect Jimmy Carter for standing by a Friend but regrettably the president of the United states Carnot be afforded this luxury in policy matters. At Issue is the principle of responsibility or. Carter was elected to determine with Congress our position in the world not to support the wild shots of his . Ambassador. Let us look at the major Points in the indictment. First As i noted Here some time ago the american ambassador to the United nations can have no favorite Brand of racism. It May be ego fulfilling to be called brother by the Black delegates but if Young is brother to Aram s Man he can hardly escape a fraternal relationship with the South african. Yet his latest by blow was to agree that the government of the Republic of South Africa is  Why he did t go into details but there Are two Basic options 1 because it is a dictatorship or 2 because it is a White dictatorship. There is a Good Deal to be said for option 1 i con Sider All dictatorships morally illegitimate. But such a Bull of democratic excommunication is hardly a diplomatic instrument. The . Representatives of free nations could caucus in the Cabinet  is nothing to be said in favor of option 2 it is a racist proposition leaving aside the genetic nonsense involved in determining  if Young espoused this View he should be summarily fired. The Constitution of the United states is. At last color Blind and Young took his oath to that document not the charter of the Organiza Tion of african  there Are those stabilizing  for a time. Young appeared chastened by general reaction to this bizarre formulation. But then he apparently decided to vindicate himself. Enter the stabilizing cubans protecting american Oil companies Iti the angolan enclave of cab Inda from destabilizing guerrillas this must have Given both Castro the protector of capitalism and the  executives who recall his grabbing their cuban assets a big laugh. / " while they were laughing Over their cigars. President Carter solemnly gave this lunacy i Blessing. Finally there was the Wonky affair of British racism. A number of my ancestors took a very dim View of British attitudes towards the Irish but even they would never accuse the brits of inventing racism. The ancient chinese and egyptians had the concept patented when the anglos and saxons were living in caves. It was. In sum a stupid thing to say. But Young made it worse by his obsequious apology to Ivor Richard the British Dele Gate to the . All he had to say was sorry about  he asked Richard to be his matter and feel free to chide him if he mis behaved i would t give Richard the time until he apologizes for bushwhacking Pat Moynihan during the latter s . Tenure but Young wants a British Tutor. This Bill of particulars could continue but the Point is simple Andrew Young is irresponsible and it would be irresponsible for the president of the United states to retain him in a position where his words May be considered the policies of our government and people. C King features the opinions expressed in the column end cartoons on wits Page represent Thowrot in authors and Aro in no Way to be considered As representing lit views Otth stars Ana stripes or Ine United states government. Can Genius for mass production Advertis ing and marketing. And the attitudes tend arguments bringing this about could also bring about the commercialization of co  Advance of such recreational drugs is irresistible meaning that society lacks Strong convictions that would cause it to resist. The counterculture is no longer  s advocates who assert its harmlessness speak with More certainty that certitude. It took Many decades to establish the indictment of tobacco and a decade ago next to nothing was known about marijuana still marijuana May indeed be less physiologically damaging than alcohol and  the other hand the Inadequacy of the ethic of individualism is apparent in the fact that people tend to worry about recreational drugs Only in terms of damage to. Users phys ologies rather than damage to the Community s character. The Assumption is that unless marijuana use involves dramatic pathologies then alcohol and marijuana Are comparable ways of satisfying comparable  Samuel Mccracken a professor of humanities has argued that alcohol like tobacco and Coffee is not comparable to marijuana in one crucial respect use of marijuana is Apt to be part of a Strong self definition by True  difference is Between drugs of de Pendency and drugs of  drugs of dependency Are supposed to restore Normal human attributes. Drugs of belief Are supposed to Confer extraordinary at  of alcohol or tobacco or Toffee depend on it for help in acquiring attrib utes such As Tranquility poise alertness that ideally people possess without chem ical assistance. Users of marijuana be Lieve in its ability to Confer capacities special sensitivity creativity under standing impossible for  marijuana user s distinctive phrase turning on expresses the Assumption that human beings Are mechanical de vices which need chemical additives in order to attain full life. For them recreational drugs of belief Are instrument of moral taxidermy filling users with sense in drug,.involve , of no leu Etc Mere � special ,.passive absorption of such sensations. Marijuana is the recreational drug of a generation bom into postwar abundance and raised by parents who believed vaguely in  the marijuana generation arrived at universities in the 1960s, and embraced the idea that Stan Dards external to the individual grades tests required curricula were repressive  self realization marijuana was an Emblem of the anti institutional sensibility of the 1960s, part of the cult of the expansive ego. The 1980s preferred music loud the rolling Stone lyrics More elemental than grammatical i can t get no satisfaction Heater adolescent Hai Cinema shocking Mash Bonnie and Clyde. The 1960s celebrated senses Over mind believing in sensitivity training and consciousness  the big Book was the greening of America a. Hymn to consciousness Iii. It was As historian Richard Hofstadter said an age of intellectual rubbish including the beliefs that came with recreational drugs of  of such drugs will express society s indifference to the drug culture baggage of beliefs. Inevitably the progressive person will paraphrase Jef Ferson to justify indifference. He will say that no belief or drug picks my pocket or Breaks me  such words express indifference to All but physical and property  self government presupposes cer Tain character traits including Modera Tion reasonableness discipline and other attributes of mind. Any democratic government that neglects to nurture such traits and is indifferent to the weakening of them fails to maintain its cultural pre requisites. In the end it will be no More durable than smoke. Let Washington Post the russians Are gain.wc-. The russians Are to american am 1.mn&. Twe airican8 ape 3alnh4g-/