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Sweetly innocent movie between 2 raging drug epidemics


An all they're doing is pot?

I feel like I'm watching a Walt Disney fable. This isn't real in any way. Especially in our 'Just say No' society with abortion deliberately way awayfrom any normal person. and especially not for the poor: we're such a hate-filled society.

"He who swaps his liberty for the promise of 'security' deserves neither." Ben Franklin

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Explain it again.

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Read the book if you can get your hands on an affordable copy - or try your library - there are more drugs in the book. They cleaned up the movie quite a bit. The book really is excellent...I read a library copy, and I'd love to own one but not for $60 for MM Paperback. Wish they'd do a new edition.

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In the December 1994 issue of Movieline, cast member Eric Stoltz talked about the drug use on set...

Interviewer: “Wasn’t there a lot of real cocaine use in the industry when you started?”

ES: “Oh yeah, in the ’80s. Fast Times at Ridgemont High was one giant party movie. I remember people going to certain crew trucks to indulge. That doesn’t happen anymore. On movie sets.”

“Because of the times? Or the budgets?”

“I think it’s the times. You know, in the early ’80s everyone was indulging in everything.”

“So who was indulging in Fast Times? Cast or crew?”

“No comment.”

Source: https://lebeauleblog.com/2021/04/30/eric-stoltz-shhh-dont-say-anything/

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People in their early 20s caused about 200 pounds of damage.

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Both of the statements you seem to be trying to make are incorrect.

I was in high school in southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which was a golden age of drug use, but very few kids did drugs. Those who did occupied a conspicuous group known as "stoners", and only indulged in marijuana.

In the early 1980s, when "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was made, I was involved with a young woman who became pregnant. We had very little money. We went to a nearby clinic, where she got an abortion, no questions asked, for $150.00.

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