[AnotherUnixGeek]

although he writes a lot about drugs, he HATES them and isn't shy about it.

Philip K. Dick (who is dead) wrote a lot about drugs because he used them a lot. He might have hated drugs, but only in the way that addicts do. Very fine author, though the work is uneven.

[pjd]

This thread was supoposed to have an anti-abortion theme, but it apparently has gotten hyjacked by drugs.

In his notes regarding A Scanner Darkly, Dick had this to say about drugs:

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.