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« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2005, 07:28:00 PM »
I can somewhat remember the prevailing hysteria regarding drug use at the time, the "how to spot a drug abuser ads in TV guide (aviator shades, blue jeans, ...half the kids in America), a special presentation at the Elks Club (Dad was a member) teaching parents about how to spot their kids on drugs, including burning some brown pellet thing that supposedly smelled like pot.

Higher up the thread someone mentioned Skipper Chuck/Chuck Zink (how I stumbled upon this board BTW). I remember him hosting a show on WTVJ-4, a real scare job that reinforced the gateway theory. Some kid smokes pot, then does acid hallucinates different color straws spinning (great special effects), then swims out into the ocean to drown himself... .
I wouldn't be surprised if that show was underwritten by the Seed.

I remember when I was older and got busted with half a joint at age 16 going to the Broward County Courthouse. The mediator, or whatever he was, saying to me and my Dad: "you know, pot does lead to heroin.."
Fortunately, I wasn't sent to any program. Perhaps my Mom, who was a nurse, knew better than to over-react. I'm sure my Dad would have gone for sending me to The Seed if it was there at the time.
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« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2005, 11:01:00 PM »
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I wouldn't be surprised if that show was underwritten by the Seed.


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« Reply #32 on: May 11, 2005, 09:14:00 PM »
I remember after I had been an oldtimer for a while (maybe 74') that I was taken to a couple of either Optimist club (in Sarasota I think) or Elks club meetings to stand up and "tell my story" about myself at a luncheon in front of groups of maybe 40-50 men. It was just like standing up at open meeting and telling in a general 10- 15 minutes what you were like, what you did, how you felt, how you've changed and what the Seed meant to you. It is funny I had not thought of this in years. I do remember that it was dead silence during my story and alot of enthusiam when I was done. I cannot even remember who it was that took me? Was there an older gentlemen a "Claude" that was a Seed supporter? I am really stretching on that one, anyway, thanks for letting me throw my 2 cents in occasionally, Love you guys!

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« Reply #33 on: May 14, 2005, 11:05:00 AM »
Yes, Claude Greene was a local activist Seed supporter, and also a seed parent. He arranged many of these meetings and also was widely quoted in the press during the almost daily articles on the seed in either The St pete times or St Pete Independent.

Good memory!

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« Reply #34 on: May 16, 2005, 12:43:00 AM »
:wstupid:  :smokin:  :flame:  :???:
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« Reply #35 on: May 16, 2005, 02:52:00 PM »
I remember Earl- He was a decent guy.  He also Had another brother If my memory serves me correctly.
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« Reply #36 on: June 07, 2005, 10:23:00 PM »
You guts ever heard of this one??


SYNANON (65) aka Get Off My Back. Gritty, fact based B&W melodrama about desperate dope fiends trying to shake that monkey at the title establishment, a controversial and now defunct rehab center that specialized in soul stripping "tough love" encounter sessions. Alex Cord stars as the new junkie on the block, a shifty pretty boy who quickly makes a play for ex-hooker Stella Stevens running afoul of brooding, torch carrying ex-convict Chuck Conners in the process. With Richard Conte, Eartha Kitt, Edmond O?Brien and a boppin? jazz soundtrack.
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« Reply #37 on: June 08, 2005, 08:13:00 AM »
Ben - was the other brother
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