Rick Perry
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I mean, I grew up in the 60s.
Timothy O'Leary, using LSD, marijuana, any of that kind of stuff.
I mean, it was anathema to me.
Absolutely and totally.
I don't have anything to do with it.
This is crazy stuff.
You get in trouble.
They'll throw you in jail.
You'll jump off of buildings.
I mean, every story that you can imagine that people โ and then think about โ
From the 60s forward, how, you know, I went into the Air Force.
They, you know, we took drug tests at least monthly.
So the idea of being involved with a drug was just totally and absolutely not on my radar screen.
These are bad things.
And we're reinforced in the 80s with Mrs. Reagan.
Just say no to drugs.
Here's your brain on drugs.
I mean, we have been browbeat as a society for 60 years.
And when you add to it what Nixon did, President Nixon did in the late 60s, early 70s, with his
War on drugs.