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Anonymous:
LOL-it wasn't just at St. Pete!  I had really curly, long hair when I was dragged into Ft. Pierce.   By the time my old-comer was done with the scissors, you could have called me Fifi or Buckwheat.  

I remember sitting on the front row at the next open meeting and seeing the horrified look on the face of my parents-that is a bad haircut.  My sister, of course, was snickering.

Someone tell me again why chicks had to get their hair cut?

Anonymous:
The stated purpose as I recall was to remove the druggie image associated with long hair, short hair, curly hair, afro hair, shag hair cuts, whatever.  If you had a hair cut, it had to be changed.

The effect, REGARLDESS of INTENTION, because we all know and accept that the seed was only based on good intentions.... was to remove and alter self-image and self-identity.  HIHO and welcome to the cult.

Antigen:

--- Quote ---The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
Commissioned by President Richard M. Nixon, March, 1972 [summarily discarded like last years campaign promises, April 1972]

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lib ... c/mis2.htm

SYMBOLISM

The symbolic aspects of marihuana are the, most intangible of the items to which the Commission must address itself, and yet they may be at the heart of the marihuana problem. Use of marihuana was, and still is, age-specific. It was youth-related at a time in American history when the adult society was alarmed by the implications of the youth " movement": defiance of the established order, the adoption of new life styles, the emergence of "street people," campus unrest, drug use, communal living, protest politics, and even political radicalism. In an age characterized by the so-called generation gap, marihuana symbolizes the cultural divide.

For youth, marihuana became a convenient symbol of disaffection with traditional society, an allure which supplemented its recreational attraction. Smoking marihuana may have appealed to large numbers of youth who opposed certain policies or trends, but who maintained faith in the American system as a whole. In ;a time when symbolic speech is often preferred to the literal form, marihuana was a convenient instrument of mini-protest. It was also an agent of group solidarity, as the widely-publicized rock concerts so well illustrate.

For the adult society, the decade of the sixties was a distressing time. The net effect of racial unrest, campus disruption, political assassination, economic woes and an unpopular war was widespread uneasiness. Attending a general fear that the nation was witnessing its own disintegration was a desire to shore up our institutions and hold the line. That line was easy to define where drugs, particularly marihuana, were concerned.

Use of drugs, including marihuana, is against the law. For many, marihuana symbolized disorder in a society frustrated by increasing lawlessness. Insistence on application of the law tended also to harden views, thereby escalating still further the use of marihuana as a symbolic issue.

The social conflicts underlying the drug's symbolic status have dissipated somewhat in the past few years; and in some ways, the Commission has similarly noted a partial deflation of the marihuana problem and of the emotionalism surrounding it. We are hopeful that our attempt to clarify the scientific and normative dimensions of marihuana use will further deemphasize, the problem orientation and facilitate rational decision-making.


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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
--Arthur C. Clarke, author
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Anonymous:

--- Quote ---The effect, REGARLDESS of INTENTION, because we all know and accept that the seed was only based on good intentions.... was to remove and alter self-image and self-identity.
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EXACTLY!! I had this "slutty shag" which NEEDED major altering.  It was the first step in altering the f****d up self-image I was putting out to everyone...I was "just too cool" ya know? It worked, and I considered it a good thing.  My mom happened to like the change...as did I.

Antigen:
Good intentions. I suppose it depends on how you define the term. Certainly, they all thought it seemed like a good idea at the time. But don't you think it's just a tad evil to intentionally convince little girls that having (or wanting) the fad haircut somehow made them morally flawed? Just for example. There are many examples.

At the bottom of it, the Program is all about squashing dissent and forcing conformity. Never mind whether the haircut or the friends or the music or any other detail were actually worthwhile or not. It made mom nervous, and so young one, as much as it pains me, I must squash your free spirit and independent mind and install a nice, simple, clean new set that won't vex your mother.

I remember how that all seemed perfectly fittin and proper at the time. But looking back, what kind of monsters were we to even think of it?
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former

--Horace Mann
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