HAHA... I was going to write how I attended HASH WEDNESDAY at University of Illinois in spring 1977. This was before anyone thought of 4:20... It was a beautiful exercise in civil disobedience. Someone bombed the entire campus with chalk messages indicating that a certain Wednesday was Hash Wednesday. Nobody knew what was up and there was no news coverage. On the Wednesday indicated, about one thousand people spontaneously showed up on the University quad with pipes and bongs and tents and drums and Frisbees and we took over the campus for the afternoon with peaceful loving vibes of a pre-Regan era "smoke out." Marijuana was illegal. 18 year olds could vote, but they couldn't buy beer. There was no AIDS, no Air Controllers Strike, No Tehran Embasy take over, no Ronald Regan, no RAP, no stock market crash, no internet, no ISIS, no George Bush, no sex change operations, no remote control drones, no killer military robot dogs, no 9-1-1, ... nothing but sun and smoke and Frisbee and fun. We still believed we would have a forty hour week job, a house, family and our employer would pay for medical insurance and vacations. The only homeless people were Vietnam veterans and there were no SUV's or cell phones in existence. VHS and Beta did not exist. CD's did not exist. People did not own camcorders and cable TV did not exist. Enjoy the day.
In 1977 there was no Saddam Hussein, no Moamar Kaddhafi. Tectonic plates and continental drift was just started to be taken seriously in the general public. There was no talk of Global Warming. There was no child autism, and young boys were not regularly given powerful psychoactive drugs by their doctors and parents to sedate them and destroy their minds.
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William Schaeffer
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