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opinionista:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 15, 2006, 06:05:51 pm ---To be honest, I don't like this part. And not because I disapprove of marijuana (believe me, I really, really don't disapprove of it ::) ;)).
But it just never struck me as realistic. Back in '83, I was much younger than Jack and Ennis are in that scene, and I knew lots of people who smoked pot. Pretty much everyone I knew did, in fact (most did much more than that). But I knew very few people in their late 30s who did. And I lived in a big, liberal city.
Now, admittedly, at that point in my life I knew very few people in their late 30s, period. But it always seemed to me that pot never particularly caught on among pre-baby boomers (and Jack and Ennis are just out of baby-boomer range). Of course, there are tons of exceptions. But would those exceptions be people who lived in conservative small towns, who socialize with pretty conservative folks, and who to all appearances have no younger or hipper friends?
I'm not saying it's impossible. It just seems unlikely. So that scene has always made me kind of uncomfortable (as does the line in the story). It seems a little, I don't know, gratuitous or something.
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I thought it was realistic. They're from 1960's generation after all (I know they weren't born then, but you know what I mean, I think). I don't think liberal city people were the only ones who smoked pot then, it was pretty widespread, especially during the 1980's. Ennis and Jack weren't city boys, but Jack travelled some because of his job, and Ennis probably met other ranch hands who knew about pot and stuff. So, I think it's possible and realistic they had a joint or two.
delalluvia:
I think Jack picked up more than men in his travels to Mexico. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 15, 2006, 06:52:00 pm ---I think Jack picked up more than men in his travels to Mexico. ;D
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Now, there's a thought! I like that. To me, it seems a more realistic possibility than being turned onto it by a combine customer.
nakymaton:
"You been to Mexico, Jack Twist?"
"Hell yes, I've been to Mexico. Where the hell do you think that weed came from?"
Shakesthecoffecan:
Wow, these are some insiteful observations, I'm amazed.
I think those born in the years just after WWII would be more likely to smoke pot than those slightly older. I do know people Jack and Ennis's age who partake, but it was never a big thing in their lives. I think many who were in the war in Vietnam were exposed to it there and brought it back with them, so contemporaries of theirs could have turned them on to it.
This makes me think about the draft, knowing Jack was too busted up to be drafted, I wonder about Ennis. Perhaps he got a deferment for being married, then one when each daughter was born, but by 1967 it seems like he would have been vunerable. O-well, it's a story now, ain't it? But imagine Ennis in Vietnam. He may have been read for Texas when he got back.
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