‘Welcome to Afghanistan’
For the past two weeks, the ignominious departure of the 20-year-old US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan has dominated the news headlines. …
I received an email from a person who has met a man with unresolved alcohol issues. She asked me what approach to take towards this person and his situation. This is a common situation.
Here is my response: …
A woman meets a man with issues around alcohol. What is a wise approach?Read More »
Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar in 1998 as best actress of the year, said this month (May 2021) she had gone “totally off the rails” during the pandemic drinking whisky to get through quarantine.
“I was drinking seven nights a week and making pasta and eating bread,” she told the press. …
I first smoked weed (marijuana) in a cave on the Matala beach in Crete with some other hippies in the Summer of Love in 1967. I never looked back from those weeks on that Greek island. I smoked marijuana and hashish from time to time in Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos and the rest of south east Asia. Ancient India regarded marijuana as a sacred plant owing to its medicinal properties. Hippies also adopted the tradition of thanking God (Siva) after inhaling smoke from a joint. Boom Shankar (The Sound of Siva).. …
Legalise marijuana. For occasional recreational use and as a health treatmentRead More »
